FTA 22nd ANNUAL
TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

August 13-16, 2006Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, NM 87102


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Tuesday
Wednesday

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Monday, August 14, 2006
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

General Session

Keynote: Strategies to Achieve Success in Major IT Initiatives
Lee Mikelson, Functional Design and Testing Manager, Virginia Department of Taxation

11:00 a.m. – Noon

SESSION 1
Benefits of Using Standards to Increase Your e-Program Participation - Julia Ortiz, DISA

SESSION 2
Latest Developments in Internet & IT Security Law
Ben Wright, Attorney At Law

SESSION 3
Tax Compliance: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Tom Heinz, RSI

SESSION 4
FTA-IRS Tactical Advisory Group Update
Tim Blevins, Kansas, and Peter Maser, IRS

SESSION 5
New Tax Discovery Programs
Pam Fair, Louisiana

Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

SESSION 1
XML "101"
Terry Garber, South Carolina

SESSION 2
Decision Analytics and the Future of Taxpayer Compliance Management
John McCalden, RSI

SESSION 3
Challenges and Recommendations for Managing Virtual Teams
Daniel Tuten, Georgia

SESSION 4
TAG’s Security Subcommittee: Cooperative Security Practices
Review Work

Tim Blevins, Kansas

SESSION 5
Sponsor Solution Series #1: Data Driven Performance Management
Karla Pierce, Microsoft

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

SESSION 1
Web Services "101"
David McDonald, Microsoft

SESSION 2
Wisconsin's Path to Integrated Tax Administration
Vicki Siekert and Oscar Anderson, Wisconsin

SESSION 3
Hear from the First Government Agency (in the world) to Achieve ITIL Certification!
Paul Broderick, Victoria, Australia

SESSION 4
NPRC Recommendations for State e-file Systems
Peter Isberg and Anita Gross, National Payroll Reporting Consortium

SESSION 5
Sponsor Solution Series #2: Achieving Higher Compliance Levels
Paul Panariello, Revenue Solutions

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

SESSION 1
Fed-State Modernized E-file Development Update
Joan Barr, IRS, and Terry Garber, South Carolina

SESSION 2
Predictive Tax Compliance
Bill Haffey, SPSS, and John Vranna, CGI-AMS

SESSION 3
Integrating Your Data Warehouse - Beyond Data Mart Consolidation
Alison Torres, Teradata

SESSION 4
Increasing Tax Revenues Without Raising Taxes: How the Latest Authentication Technologies Can Help In Maximizing Tax Collection
Rob Saiter, Authentix

SESSION 5
Sponsor Solution Series #3: MasterCard Convenience Fee Program Overview
Jim Reed, MasterCard

5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Conference Reception
   
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

SESSION 1
Fed-State Modernized E-file Development - An MeF "Level 101 How-To"
Panel :DonnaJean Muccilli, Arizona; Terry Hunt, Kansas; John Dobis and Joyce Curry, New York; Scott Mueller, Wisconsin; Terry Garber, South Carolina; and Joan Barr, IRS

SESSION 2
E-Services and Payroll Industry Reporting
Andrew McDevitt, Intuit

SESSION 3
Successfully Implementing Imaging and Content Management at the Hawaii Tax Department
Robert Tross, CGI-AMS

SESSION 4
Advanced Collections Analytics
Shaun Barry, IBM

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

SESSION 1
Progress on Development of Streamlined Sales Tax
Gary Centlivre, Kansas, David Thompson, Tennessee, and Ed Phillips, Ohio

SESSION 2
New York’s Empire Project and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
James Lieb, New York

SESSION 3
Best Practices of Barcoded Forms and PDF417 Barcodes/Creating Tagged 508 Compliant PDFs
Lee Sutton, Adobe

SESSION 4
Sponsor Solution Series #4: Got Policy? The Role of Policy in Integrated Tax System Implementation
Jake Hoffman, Fast Enterprises

11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Vendor Exhibits
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

SESSION 1
Accurate Tax Jurisdiction Determination
George Rebhan, Proxix Solutions

SESSION 2
Are Service-Oriented Architectures the Future of Tax Agencies?
Hemant Sharma, CGI-AMS

SESSION 3 (GOVT. ONLY)
State Forms Coordinator Session
Mitzi Crump, Missouri, Moderator

SESSION 4
Sponsor Solution Series #5: Addressing the Challenges of the 21st Century Tax and Revenue Administration
Jim Evers, Florida and George Mitchell, Deloitte

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

SESSION 1
The SOA Era: Building the Foundation for High Performance
Melissa Laughlin, Accenture

SESSION 2
The Free Open-Source Tax Software Project
Richard L. Braman Jr., Tax Code Software Foundation

SESSION 3 (GOVT. ONLY)
State Forms Coordinator Session
Mitzi Crump, Missouri, Moderator

SESSION 4
Sponsor Solution Series #6: Lessons Learned: How to Avoid Common Mistakes in Tax Implementations
George Love, SPL

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

SESSION 1
Inside the SC DOR Data Warehouse Project
Terry Garber, South Carolina, and Paul Morris, RSI

SESSION 2
Guest Worker Compliance
Barbara Bostian, Randy Barnes, and Alan Felton, North Carolina

SESSION 3 (GOVT. ONLY)
State Forms Coordinator Session - Mitzi Crump, Missouri, Moderator

SESSION 4
Sponsor Solution Series #7: Representative, Teradata

   
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

SESSION 1
Best Practices to Manage Debt Collections in the Public and Private Sector
Ted London, CGI-AMS

SESSION 2
South Carolina Business One Stop: Architecture of a Cross-Agency Success Story
Dave Friedline, TiBA Solutions

SESSION 3
Commerce Software and Robust Business Intelligence
James Lieb, New York

SESSION 4
Use of Tablet PCs for Field Collections
Peggy Moss and Earl Millet, Louisiana

9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

SESSION 1
Sales Tax Exceptions Processing System
Roger Cohen, New York

SESSION 2
Generating Statistically Sound Random Samples in the Conduct of Transaction-Based Audits
Dawn Baldwin and Krister Hertz, Bull IS

SESSION 3
Streamlining Global Tax Automation
John Beaty, FuelQuest

SESSION 4
Sponsor Solution Series #8: The SOA Era: Building the Foundation for High Performance
Representative, Accenture

11:00 a.m. – Noon

SESSION 1
IRS.Gov and Use of Web Management Tools
Bert Dumars, Director, ETA, IRS

SESSION 2
Implementing a Successful Project Management Office (PMO)
Barbara Bostian, North Carolina

SESSION 3 (GOVT. ONLY-TaxExchange Access Only)
Continued Progress on Modernizing the IRS-State Data Exchange Program
Rod Sterling, IRS

Session 4
Sponsor Solution Series #9: Governmental Revenue Management Solutions - Are they really integrated?
Kevin Fenner and Calvin Tu, Oracle