9:00 AM ET Thursday, October 3, 2019 (6 hours)
XBRL US Meeting || Northern Illinois University, Naperville Campus, 1120 E. Diehl Rd, Naperville, IL || Watch the replay

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Listen and watch the replay from this full-day forum on data standardization in municipal financial reporting. Access the slides:

Hear public sector and financial data standards experts discuss how standardizing reported data can improve the efficiency of disclosures by U.S. state and local governments.

Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 AM Registration
9:30 – 10:00 AM Welcome and Introductions

Speakers:

Hudson Hollister, Founder and Principal, HData

Marc Joffe, Senior Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation

Shannon Sohl, Ph.D., CPA, Senior Research Associate at Northern Illinois University’s Center for Governmental Studies

10:00 – 10:30 AM Local Government Fiscal Distress Update

Speaker: Jim Spiotto, Managing Director of Chapman Strategic Advisors LLC 

10:30 – 11:00 AM Monitoring the Finances of Local Governments. The good. The bad. Our future.

Speaker: Rosanna Barbaro-Flores, Illinois Office of the Comptroller (IOC) – Director, Local Government Division

11:00 – 11:15 AM Break
11:15 – Noon Data Driven Solutions for Transforming Illinois’ Costly Structure of Government 

Speakers: 

Dr. Norman Walzer, PhD (Economics), Northern Illinois University Center for Governmental Studies

Adam Slade, Associate, Effective Government, Metropolitan Planning Council

Noon – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 1:30 PM How Transparency Can Further Reduce Risk in the Municipal Market

Speaker: Cate Long, Founder, Puerto Rico Clearinghouse

1:30 – 2:15 PM Muni Data, the Cost of Capital and Market Access

Speakers:

John Hallacy, Contributing Editor, The Bond Buyer

Triet Nguyen, Managing Partner, Axios Advisors LLC

Moderated by Liz Sweeney, Principal, Nutshell Associates, LLC

2:15 – 2:45 PM Transitioning to Digital County CAFRs

Speaker: Duffy Blackburn, Auditor, Will County

2:45 – 3:15 PM The Trials and Tribulations of Collecting Government Data

Speaker: Sheila Weinberg, Founder and CEO, Truth In Accounting

3:15 – 3:30 PM Closing Remarks

Speaker: Hudson Hollister, HData