2022 GIPAW Conference

Platinum Sponsor

When every second counts, having the right technology can improve your speed and efficiency. Insight Public Sector understands the unique demands of state and local entities, helping you optimize resources and manage changing IT infrastructure requirements.  We listen and assess your needs. Then, we customize solutions to achieve your mission.

Gold Sponsor

HBS provides complete, local, end-to-end technology solutions. We assist with any technology need, solve problems, and exceed expectations. At every level of the company, we are committed to providing high-quality services to each of our clients.

With multiple locations in the Midwest, HBS serves commercial, public sector and small to medium business with results-driven information technology services.

Everything we do is to help clients achieve their full potential. We are committed to developing long-term trusting relationships with clients large or small, across all industries.

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsor

AVI Systems?creates audiovisual, unified collaboration, and digital media solutions to help people communicate and collaborate. Our technical experts partner with architects, builders, facility, and IT managers to design technology for organizations in every industry and of every size. From 60,000 seat stadiums to small meeting rooms, our goal is to deliver easy to operate, simple to maintain and ROI-focused solutions that result in human impact -- technology that works for people, not the other way around.

Silver Sponsor

Since 1976, Digicorp has been providing IT, telephone, and video solutions for government organizations in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. We work with customers to design, implement and support a technology solution that will fit both need and budget. Digicorp serves thousands of customers with quality engineering from help desk support to complex projects that require highly skilled technical expertise. We align with many manufactures and providers to provide cutting-edge affordable options that are unique to your organizational needs. 

Silver Sponsor

Five Star Telecom has been a trusted local presence for over 45 years. ''We’re your connection'' is more than a slogan, it’s a promise – our promise that we will connect you to the best services in the industry. We provide Hosted VoIP, Video Security, Access Control, Structured Cabling and Carrier Services to business customers. 

Silver Sponsor

The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers a unified approach that is broad, integrated, and automated. Powered by real-time threat intelligence from the leading research team FortiGuard Labs, insights from the latest known and unknown threats are instantly shared throughout the entire Security Fabric for smarter threat prevention. Fortinet’s products and solutions work together to reduce and manage the attack surface through integrated broad visibility, stop advanced threats through integrated AI-driven breach prevention, and reduce complexity through automated operations and orchestration.? Fortinet’s Security Fabric protects the entire attack surface through network, multi-cloud, endpoint, email and web application security, advanced threat protection, analytics, and voice systems. High-performance firewalls and innovative SD-WAN work to protect businesses of all sizes from headquarters to branch. 

Silver Sponsor

From a father-son duo and a $300 investment in 2007 to a managed services provider with a national presence—ITPartners+ has seen a few changes through the years. But through it all, we’ve been dedicated to doing what’s right, no matter how challenging it may be.

Today ITPartners+ is still privately owned by Kevin Damghani along with Noelle Pedersen, Chad McDonald, and Sean Trudeau. Together they have built a thriving company that is looking to redefine the way partners use technology to fuel their growth. 

Silver Sponsor

When every second counts, having the right technology can improve your speed and efficiency. Insight Public Sector understands the unique demands of state and local entities, helping you optimize resources and manage changing IT infrastructure requirements.  We listen and assess your needs. Then, we customize solutions to achieve your mission. 

Silver Sponsor

For more than 35 years PDS, A Converge Company has helped organizations in Healthcare, Corporate, and Public Sectors by engaging in early-stage strategies, leveraging technical expertise to implement a variety of solutions, and providing ongoing support and services. As a trusted advisor with special expertise in digital workspace, enterprise solutions, professional and managed services, PDS provides innovative, client-specific, best-in-class solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation. In a world of accelerating technological change, organizations need reliable, flexible, and innovative technology solutions now more than ever. PDS, A Converge Company offers depth and reach in areas of Digital Infrastructure, End User Computing, Cyber Security, and Managed Services, now with expanded capabilities with more advanced offerings in Analytics and Cloud Solutions. 

Bronze Sponsor

Arctic Wolf® is a global leader in security operations, delivering the first cloud-native security operations platform to end cyber risk. Powered by threat telemetry spanning endpoint, network, and cloud sources, the Arctic Wolf® Security Operations Cloud ingests and analyzes more than 1.9 trillion security events a week across the globe, enabling critical outcomes for most security use cases and optimizing customers’ disparate security solutions. Now deployed to more than 2,300 customers worldwide, the Arctic Wolf® Platform delivers automated threat detection and response at scale, and empowers organizations of any size to establish world-class security operations with the push of a button. 

Bronze Sponsor

BS&A Software has been providing exceptional municipal software to over 2,100 local governments since 1987. Our software solutions make it easy to manage and operate all aspects of municipal budgets, taxes assessments, ordinance, contracts, construction, licenses, and much more. With an intuitive and highly functional platform, unparalleled customer care, and Cloud-Based functionality, our municipal software solutions continue to exceed our customers’ expectations. 

Bronze Sponsor

Complex Security Solutions Inc.??Is a security organization that has a security, electrical, and structure cabling division that manages the installation and integration of Axis Communications and Genetec surveillance and software. As Complex Security, we pride ourselves on the strong relationships we have with our customers and being there for whatever the situation might call for.?

Bronze Sponsor

CT specializes in using technology to help improve organizations and people. We provide a unique Complete Care IT solution that helps companies leverage technology. We also specialize in creating robust ECM solutions to automate manual mundane processes, eliminate paper and create significant efficiency gains.

Bronze Sponsor

OPG-3 is the premier Laserfiche reseller and implementation partner for Laserfiche in the upper Midwest region. We have been helping organizations transform their relationship with content for nearly 20 years. With more than 400 customers we have an enviable track record of successful implementations and a reputation for providing world-class customer service.

Bronze Sponsor

Palo Alto Networks is the global cybersecurity leader, continually delivering innovation to enable secure digital transformation. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 

Bronze Sponsor

Since 1976, Digicorp has been providing IT, telephone, and video solutions for government organizations in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. We work with customers to design, implement and support a technology solution that will fit both need and budget. Digicorp serves thousands of customers with quality engineering from help desk support to complex projects that require highly skilled technical expertise. We align with many manufactures and providers to provide cutting-edge affordable options that are unique to your organizational needs. 

Bronze Sponsor

Bronze Sponsor

Unlike many companies who include backup & disaster recovery and cybersecurity as part of a larger offering, at ThinkGard, protecting your data is our only priority!

IT departments must manage changing and competing priorities and oftentimes data protection gets left behind. We don’t take over IT departments. We help save them!