Speakers
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Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise (IE), DoD CIO Mr. David DeVries is a Senior Executive with broad experience in Information Technology, Information Management, and Command and Control Systems. He retired from the U.S. Army after serving more than 29 years with a variety of leadership and staff officer experience in operational assignments involving command and control communications as well as information management and technology. |
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Chairman of the House Committee On Government Oversight and Reform, United States House of Representatives Congressman Darrell Issa represents the people of California’s 49th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, a seat he has held since 2001. The 49th District includes Camp Pendleton, the largest Marine Corps training facility in the United States, and the northern portions of San Diego County and southwest Riverside County. Congressman Issa and his wife Kathy live in Vista, CA. They have one son, William, and celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in 2010. |
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Chief Information Officer and Administrator, United States Office of Electronic Government Office of Management and Budget Steven was appointed as the second United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama on August 5th, 2011. In this role, he is spearheading a transformation in the Federal Government’s use of technology by “Innovating with Less”. VanRoekel is driving savings and promoting innovation across the Federal IT portfolio by upgrading our nation’s cyber security capabilities, creating new open data policies, fostering delivery of mobile services to citizens, consolidating and optimizing data centers, and promoting the Government’s transition to cloud computing. Wired Magazine recently named VanRoekel as one of the United States’ top 10 cloud influencers and thought leaders and GovInfoSecurity named VanRoekel as one of the top influencers in government IT security. |
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Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Corporation (Federal Sales) Susie Adams is the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Federal’s Civilian business. In her present role she oversees and implements the technical strategy for Microsoft’s Civilian Federal Government business. Prior to joining Microsoft she held numerous leadership positions at Washington DC area consulting organizations including work at McGladery and Pullen, Booz-Allen-Hamilton and Spectrum Technology Group where she was the Director of Web development. Susie is most recently noted for her leadership in standing up Microsoft's Technology and Innovation Center for the Washington DC region and has authored several books on the topics of software integration and web development. Susie is a resident of Washington metropolitan area and holds a BS in Information Systems from George Mason University. |
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President and CEO, kloudtrack Michael P. Binko is president/CEO and a member of the Board of Directors for kloudtrack. Prior to joining kloudtrack, Binko was founder and currently still serves as Managing General Partner of Gemini Venture Partners LLP, an early-stage private equity and venture capital firm concentrating on technology companies in the software, SaaS|Cloud, computing, communications, internet, social networking, enterprise data management, new media and other information technology sectors. |
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Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business of Government | |
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Principal Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration Kathy Conrad was appointed as the Principal Deputy Associate Administrator of the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT) in the General Services Administration on May 9, 2011. The Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies is leading development and implementation of major government-wide shared services and solutions that are increasing citizen engagement and driving innovation across government. |
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Legislative Director , The Office of Representative Darrell Issa Laurent Crenshaw serves as the Legislative Director for Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Laurent’s portfolio focuses on intellectual property (including patents, trademarks and copyrights), telecommunications, information systems and Internet policy. | |
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Group Vice President, Oracle Public Sector Peter Doolan is the GVP for Oracle Public Sector Software. His organization includes the technical and business applications professionals that support Oracle’s sales to Government customers in the United States and Canada. The product and industry experts on his staff help Public Sector organizations exploit information by designing and building comprehensive information management solutions. Many of their innovations have become part of the Oracle product line and are used extensively by Oracle’s customers throughout the world. |
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President & Co-founder, Government Transaction Services, Inc. Mark Forman is an accomplished Executive with more than 30 years of professional work experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government’s Chief Information Officer. Mr. Forman is currently the President and Co-founder of Government Transaction Services, Inc. which was established in 2010. Government Transaction Services provides Internet-based analytic and transactional tools that reduce administrative cost and simplify compliance with government regulations. |
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Senior Fellow, Chief Strategist Cloud Computing, Lockheed Martin, Chief Technology Office Melvin Greer is Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing Lockheed Martin, Chief Technology Office. With over 25 years of systems and software engineering experience, he is a recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. He functions as a principal investigator in advanced research studies. He significantly advances the body of knowledge in basic research and critical, highly advanced engineering and scientific disciplines. Mr. Greer is a Certified Enterprise Architect, the Vice-chair of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), Cloud Computing Working Group and an Advisory Council member of the Cloud Security Alliance. |
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Chief Information Officer, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Kimberly Hancher is a long time member of the Federal Information Technology |
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Chief Technology Strategist, Red Hat, Inc. Gunnar Hellekson is the Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector group, where he works with systems integrators and government agencies to encourage the use of open source software in government. He was recently named co-chair of Open Source for America and one of Federal Computer Week’s Fed 100 for 2010. He is an active member of the Military Open Source working group and a GTO-21 commissioner. He is specifically interested in cross-domain security, edge innovation, and interagency collaboration through the open source model. |
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Director, Public Sector Innovation Group, SIIA | |
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President, Layered Tech Brad brings over 26 years experience working in the IT and networking industry to his role as Layered Tech’s president. His responsibilities include leading our sales and marketing efforts, as well as product management, customer service and business development initiatives. Previously the Chief Marketing Officer at Telx, Brad was responsible for product and solution management, corporate and field marketing, strategic business development and customer support. Before then, he held the position of senior vice president and general manager of the $575M Hosting Business Unit at Savvis, responsible for their co-location, cloud and managed hosting business. Prior to that assignment, he was the senior vice president of sales for the eastern area and federal sales, and began his career at Savvis running the product management and marketing organization. Brad’s first 15 years’ experience was in sales and marketing leadership roles at Sprint in their business division focused on internet and data communications services. | |
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Assistant Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer, Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board Shawn Kingsberry is the Assistant Director of Technology and the Chief Information Officer for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (Recovery Board). His role as the Recovery Board’s CIO includes serving as a senior advisor to senior executives on all information technology matters, including investments and emerging initiatives and to assist in the coordination of all information technology day-to-day operations and activities. He also participates in the planning, coordinating, administering of projects, processes, procedures, standards, and/or service offerings while also ensuring timely and adequate implementation of established Recovery Board goals and objectives | |
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Counsel & Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Jonathan (Jon) Kraden serves as counsel and senior policy advisor to Senator Thomas Carper on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Jon’s portfolio is focused on the federal government’s management of information technology, including the administration’s information technology reform efforts and its cloud computing, data center consolidation, and open government initiatives. | |
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Deputy Chief Information Officer, United States Department of Labor Prior to her appointment to DOL in November 2012, Ms. Leaf served as the Senior Advisor for Cloud Computing in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory. Under her stewardship, NIST achieved internationally recognized milestones in the arena of Cloud Computing. In 2012, Ms. Leaf was honored among the ten gTop Women in Cloudh by the CloudNOW organization. She was also one of the FierceGovernmentIT first annual "Fierce 15," which recognizes some of the hc most innovative projects and forward-thinking people working in government IT.h |
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Chief Marketing Officer, GCE As Chief Marketing Officer, Mare B. Lucas is responsible for extending the GCE brand, educating the market on the business value of Cloud and Big Data technologies, and driving the adoption of new technologies in the public and private sectors. She is involved in everything from meeting with customers, partners, and prospects, evangelizing new technologies on the Hill, and serving as a thought leader in the Big Data space. Her extensive professional experience working in the fields of marketing, sales, product development, and program management enables her to consistently deliver innovative technology solutions to the market. |
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Executive Vice President of Professional Services and FedRAMP Technical Manager , Coalfire Tom McAndrew, CISSP, is the Executive Vice President of Professional Services and FedRAMP Technical Manager at Coalfire and has extensive government experience, working through FedRAMP, FISMA, DITSCAP, and DIACAP processes for over 10 years. Mr. McAndrew is a leading expert of compliance in virtual and cloud computing environments. He presented at VMWorld 2011 and 2012 in the U.S. and Europe on compliance challenges and solutions for virtual environments. He has also presented on a variety of information security topics for the FTC, State Agencies, the FDIC, and other information security and audit organizations such as the IIA, ISACA, and the ISSA. |
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Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Saugatuck Technology Inc. Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging industry trends and disruptive technologies driving change in enterprise IT. Over the past few years, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing. More recently, he has been actively involved in launching the firm’s CIO-targeted Cloud migration / leadership practice. |
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Senior Member Cloud Computing Project, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) John Messina is a senior member of the Cloud Computing (CC) Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He holds a M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Physics and has been working at NIST as computer scientist since 1998. He has a distinguished record of scientific accomplishments, such as publications and industry presentations, and has received several awards, including NIST’s Edward Bennett Rosa Award and the US Department of Commerce’s Bronze Medal. Having spent the last few years helping developing data dictionaries and data exchange standards for the US Electronics Industry, he has been co-leading the NIST CC Reference Architecture working group. His particular focus has been on leading efforts to create Cloud Computing Ontologies and various taxonomies. |
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Head of Google Apps for Government, Google, Inc. David Mihalchik leads Google's Federal Apps Team. He focuses on bringing Google's cloud computing technology to government customers to help them improve performance and reduce cost. David also manages Google compliance with FISMA and other Federal security requirements. Prior to joining Google, he was a Senior Manager in Accenture's Federal Strategy practice. David holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University and BA in Government from Georgetown University. |
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Vice President, Federal Information Solutions, Deltek Information Solutions Kevin Plexico is Vice President of Federal Information Solutions at Deltek where he manages the delivery of Deltek’s industry leading market federal research and information products providing essential information and insights to over 2,800 clients. Mr. Plexico has responsibility for leading the industry’s largest team of analysts focused on the government contracting industry. |
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Executive Editor, FCW, an 1105 Media Publication Troy K. Schneider is Executive Editor of FCW, an 1105 media publication that has covered the business of federal technology since 1987. He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute. |
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Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, IBM US Federal He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal was appointed IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of IBM's Federal Software Architecture team in 2005. Before joining IBM in 1998, he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff within Bell Atlantic’s (Verizon) Federal Division and Broadband Systems. Mr. Szakal is an Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect, IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer and a Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP). Mr. Szakal leads a department of technologists responsible for developing e-Government software architectures using IBM technology and solutions. His team is responsible for designing and deploying solutions to enable smarter government by applying innovative approaches to secure service based computing and mission critical systems. He holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University. Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards as a member of the IBM Software Group Government Standards Strategy Team and the IBM Corporate Security Executive Board focused on secure development and cybersecurity. Mr. Szakal represents the IBM Software Group on the Board of Directors of The Open Group and currently holds the Chair of the IT Architect Profession Certification Standard (ITAC). More recently he was appointed chair of the Open Group Trusted Technology Forum and leads the development of the Open Trusted Technology Provider Framework. | |
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Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce Simon Szykman was named Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Commerce in May 2010. As the Department’s CIO, Szykman is responsible for providing leadership, establishing policy, and maintaining oversight for the information technology investments that support the diverse portfolio of programs across the Commerce Department’s dozen bureaus. Szykman most recently served over three years as the CIO of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to his work at Commerce, Szykman served in two separate assignments at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and worked at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the Department’s first Director of Cyber Security R&D. |
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Executive Director of Enterprise System Development , Department of Homeland Security Keith Trippie is the Executive Director of the Enterprise System Development Office (ESDO) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). |
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Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Energy As Chief Technology Officer, Pete Tseronis supports federal mission objectives by providing strategic direction and vision for IT for the Department of Energy. Pete is establishing a formal, sustainable federal technology deployment program to bring innovative solutions such as cloud computing, wireless, and mobility solutions into the government IT portfolio. To accomplish this, Pete brokers alliances between the public and private sectors to ensure that the DOE has access to the most promising innovations and world class resources. | |























