By: Howard Balanoff, Professor & Director, Texas State University’s William P. Hobby Center for Public Service

On Friday November 14, 2025, the CENTEX Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in cooperation, Texas State University’s William P. Hobby Center for Public Service and the Texas Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program conducted a 1-day Symposium featuring an outstanding list of speakers presenting on the topic of “Meeting the Public Administration Challenges of the Next Decade”.

The keynote presentation was delivered by Dustin Haisler, Chief AI Officer & US GM for Darwin AI and former President of e.Republic. His presentation explored the benefits and problems posed by the use of Artificial Intelligence.

In another presentation, noted political analyst Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report gave the audience a timely review of Texas politics, policy & government which included updates from the most recent session of the Texas Legislature.

Additional presentations were given by Alan Bojorquez, Sheila Bojorquez and Austin Ellington. Alan Bojorquez, Attorney, Chief Executive Office of the Bojorquez Law Firm, discussed the establishment of a new local government award for a city or county that exemplified “The Ten Texas Traits of Good Government”.

Sheila Bojorquez, President of City Hall Essentials presented information about the professional development and training services provided to local governments in Texas and Austin Ellington, Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing, City of Round Rock, Texas discussed the value of Social Media for improving communication between local governments and the public.
All of the presentations were live streamed and recorded.

The Symposium was sponsored by CENTEX ASPA, The Texas CPM Program and Texas State University’s William P. Hobby Center for Public Service.

For additional information about CENTEX ASPA please go to the website https://centexaspa.org/ and/or contact Fred Bell, CENTEX ASPA President at fred_bell@sbcglobal.net

For additional information about the Texas Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program please go to the website https://texascpm.com/ and/or contact Dr. Miha Vindis, Director of the Texas CPM Program at mvindis@txstate.edu

For additional information about the William P. Hobby Center for Public Service please contact Dr. Howard Balanoff at hb02@txstate.edu and/or go to the Center’s website which is https://williamphobby.org/

Click here to view a schedule of speakers which includes the recorded links their presentations.

Speakers and Attendees