George Akiyama was appointed as the Chief Information Officer, for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. In this position, he leads and provides oversight for the full range of Information Technology functions throughout Caltrans. Prior to working at Caltrans, Mr. Akiyama started his State career in 1995 and has held various positions including Application development Manager, Enterprise Architect, IT Project Manager, Strategic Planning Manager and Chief Information Officer of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) Project. Mr. Akiyama holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a master of Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento.

A senior consulting subject matter expert in IoT (Internet of Things) Alben supports hundreds of global clientele in advanced solutions design and deployment for business process optimization, advanced communication, machine and facilities management, environment controls, supervisory systems, and other related technologies.
Alben has pioneered edged based systems, control systems for transportation, sensor systems for the Department of Homeland Security, as well as remote medical management and information systems including PACS for the State of California, Remote Access Laboratory Services for Roche Medical, Telemedicine Pilot for the University of Virginia with Sprint Communications, and Telemetry for Cardiac Care for the University of California, Los Angeles in partnership with Cedars Sinai Medical Center. In addition, Alben led the design team for RTLS, RFID, Asset Management and WLAN for the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
Alben has over twenty years of experience, both here and abroad, Alben's organization designed, delivered, and support dozens of network solutions for Enterprise, Metropolitan, Wide Area, and Local Networking, all disciplines, including optical, wireless and high capacity telecommunication circuits.
Career highlights include pre-2008 Olympic Games network design and security networking initiatives for antiterrorism and Chinese Homeland Security including emergency operations center design consultation in Beijing, anticrime technology development for Colombian Government, and domestic security for metropolitan centers in the UK and British Isles, including Trinidad. Notable is Alben’s Security information network design, including CCTV, persistent surveillance, access, and threat detection for six of the top ten US ports and airports for Maritime Domain Awareness and Aviation. These systems include advanced biometrics, intelligent video, and WMD sensors.

Christie Borchin is the Deputy Director over the Office of Professional Development at the CA Department of Technology. Christie oversees several training and education programs focusing on the IT workforce. She oversees the IT Leaders Academy: the award winning Project Academy Series; IT Training, and is an active member of several Advisory Boards for IT conferences that focus on educating the workforce. Christie also oversees the Workforce Planning and Development Unit that is focused on IT succession planning; recruitment, retention and employee engagement. Christie is a subcommittee chair of the Governor’s Cybersecurity Taskforce on Workforce and Education. In 2015, as part of the Cybersecurity Task Force, her subcommittee received a Security Leadership award at Cybersecurity Symposium; and the Project Academy Series was a 2015 NASCIO finalist and also received a Best of California Award for Innovations in Workforce Initiatives. Previously, Christie was the Agency Chief Information Officer at the CA Department of Veterans Affairs. Christie oversaw the operations of IT for the department and managed a budget of over $10 million dollars. From 2008 – 2010, Christie was the CIO at the CA Department of Insurance. Ms. Borchin attended CA State University Sacramento, and the University of California at Davis, where she earned a certificate in Project Management.

Brenda Bridges Cruz is the Assistant Division Chief over the Business Analysis, User Experience and Information Design and Enterprise Test Office at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. She has worked in the state government information technology field as both a consultant and civil servant for the past 19 years and has extensive experience in large systems’ integration projects. Brenda currently oversees the analysis, user experience, design and test aspects of the SDLC related to all system enhancements and defect remediation for the my|CalPERS application. Previously, Brenda held roles as an Application Development manager, Quality Assurance, IV&V, Independent Project Oversight and as a Technical Writer. She is currently a class manager for the IT Leadership Academy (ITLA) working closely with the Deputy Director of the Program and the various executives that make up the ITLA Advisory Board. Brenda received the CIO Academy Leadership Award in 2012 and was a member of the ACES Project Team at EDD which won the Best of California Award in 2011 for Best Application Serving an Agency’s Business Needs. Ms. Bridges Cruz is certified in IT Project Management, Test Management, Web/ebusiness Testing, and ITIL v3. She earned her B.A. degree in Political Science from Valdosta State University, Georgia. She attended McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento as well as California State University, Sacramento for Public Policy and Administration.

Cathy develops information technology policy and formulates the department's vision and strategic direction for its use of technology. She represents the department's technology interest to the Government Operations Agency, the state's control agencies, and other departments.
Cathy started her career with FTB in 1983, as a tax auditor. Since that time she has held a variety of positions in the Audit, Collections, and Filing Divisions as well as leading major technology projects for FTB. She was also FTB’s Executive Sponsor of the Department of Child Support Services technology project, Child Support Automation System (CSSAS). She currently is Executive Sponsor of the Enterprise Data to Revenue (EDR) project to modernize FTB’s tax systems.
Cathy is a Certified Public Accountant and Project Management Professional. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with an accounting concentration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a Master's degree in taxation from Golden Gate University and a Certificate from Harvard’s Senior Leaders in Government Program.

Fei Collier is a Program Project Director at the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), where she serves as a liaison for two of the Department’s mission critical projects – California Healthcare Enrollment, Eligibility and Retention System (CalHEERS) and Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System (MEDS) Modernization. She is responsible for understanding DHCS’ business objectives and applying project management rigor to resolve program project issues. In this role, Ms. Collier also focuses on business justifications to deliver outcomes and achieve strategic results, ensures horizontal integration across functional projects and programs, and manages the interdependency between projects and the relationship between business partners and stakeholders.
Ms. Collier is a seasoned professional in State service with more than 25 years of experience ranging from customer relationship management, application development and maintenance, data center management, to database management. In the last 15 years, she has applied her organizational and leadership skills in portfolio, program, and project management of cross-disciplinary teams in various State departments. Currently at DHCS, Fei collaborates with various internal and external entities to plan and execute activities and prepares effective strategies to implement the department’s mission critical projects and initiatives.

Chris Cruz is the Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Technology and the Deputy State Chief Information Officer for the State of California.
Prior to this position, Mr. Cruz served the Department of Technology as the Chief Deputy Director of Operations. In this capacity, Mr. Cruz oversaw the delivery of California data services to over 400 state and local government entities, was responsible of the state’s consolidated email systems, and for operating the largest telecommunications network in the state.
Cruz has served at the CIO at the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) from 2010-2011. At DHCS, Cruz oversaw a $1 billion project portfolio and some of California’s biggest IT initiatives, including a mission-critical Medicaid Management Information System expansion and upgrade. Cruz has spearheaded a cloud readiness assessment of the state’s major health IT systems. Under Cruz’s leadership, the department enacted a voluntary teleworking and virtual desktops plan for IT workers in order to attract and retain top talent.
Cruz has worked for the state government for more than a decade after beginning his career in the private sector as a project manager and consultant. He was CIO at the California Department of Food and Agriculture (2007-2010) and an IT manager at the Department of Health Services (2004-2007).
Cruz earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from California State University at Sacramento and attended the UC Davis Executive Program in Leadership Excellence.

Lea Deesing serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Riverside, California where she manages a team of 60 very talented Information Technology Professionals. She also serves as the Executive Director of SmartRiverside, a nonprofit which aims to narrow the digital divide in her region by empowerment through education and technology.
Lea’s professional experience includes 30 years in the Information Technology field with 20 years specific to local government. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems degree from the University of Redlands. Lea also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Lea belongs to a number of professional organizations and advisory boards and has received national recognition for her articles and speeches on career advice, social media, cybersecurity, project management, and technology use within government.
Prior to moving into her executive leadership role, Lea’s background was in computer programming. Her love for programming originated from her fascination with codes and ciphers, known as cryptology. She cracked the Tiger Beat Magazine’s fan club secret code when she was just nine years old. When she was sixteen, Lea started programming computers. Lea regularly speaks to young students, hoping her story will inspire them to become interested in the computer science field.

James Duckens has had various roles in Information Technology for the State of California for the past 28 years. He has been the project director for California’s Health Benefit Exchange, since 2015. He was deputy secretary for information technology and chief agency information officer at the California State Transportation Agency as well as the project director for the Unemployment Insurance Modernization Project at the California Health and Human Services Agency’s Office of Systems Integration. James has been both a project manager and project oversight manager at California Correctional Health Care Services, the California Department of Finance, and the California Department of Information Technology.

Jeff Funk has more than 28 years of public and private sector experience in information technology including providing IT services leadership. His background includes a blend of technological innovation, architecture, project management, and executive leadership qualities. He is certified in ITIL, Microsoft Operation Foundation (MOF), Project Management Professional (PMP®).
He has served in multiple leadership roles including Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the California Department of General Services (DGS) and CIO for Department of Fish and Game and as well as serving as a member of several advisory boards.
Jeff is currently the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Enterprise Mobile Director. As the sponsor of the Virtual Integrated Mobile Office (VIMO), he addressed critical business operations needs by delivering a new service through collaboration and innovative technologies.

Barney Gomez is the CIO of the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). Gomez started his career in state service in 1999 at the Legislative Data Center. Among his assignments, he served as manager of operations at the California Office of Systems Integration (OSI). More recently, Gomez worked on the CalHEERS project in his role at OSI. He has also worked in the private sector, where he was a systems engineer and network manager. Gomez was named CIO of the FI$Cal project in fall 2011 before joining DHCS. The Department of Health Care Services project portfolio, estimated to be $1 billion, includes the Medicaid Management Information System (CA-MMIS) service contract and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) II compliance project.

James Gnesda is a Director with Accenture based in Sacramento. James has 10 years of experience in Medicaid, SNAP and TANF business processes and another 5 years of experience with State based Healthcare Exchanges. James has experience as the Application Development Manager for C-IV, one of three county based automated integrated eligibility systems in California. He was also the Project Manager for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services Health Exchange planning effort responsible for the execution and oversight of detailed functional and technical requirements. James is currently the Business Architect for Accenture at the CalHEERS project, where he has been architecting and directing the functional implementation of the Covered California and DHCS eligibility and enrollment system for the last 4 years. Outside of the office, James loves spending time with his wife and two daughters, and can be found searching for his ball among the trees on the golf course.

Kenzie Haynes is an Interaction Design Lead at Fjord, previously Chaotic Moon, based in Austin, Texas. She has a background in international education program management and has been a digital product designer since 2012. Kenzie has a zest for complex, mind-boggling projects, and has worked with clients in notoriously complex industries, including Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Digital Technology, and now Government. She is the Interaction Design Lead for the online eligibility application redesign effort, working with Covered California, DHCS, and Accenture to implement solutions from a human-centered approach. When she’s not vetting interaction models with current and potential users, she’s chasing down sunsets for her Instagram account or challenging her friends to a mean game of backgammon.

Scott has been with AT&T for over 18 years having held a number of key roles in the technology field. His primary focus now is serving as one of AT&T’s Security Strategists supporting Public Sector clients in the security space. Other roles have included architecture design, LAN/WAN integration and Consulting.
Scott and his family reside in Northern California where he is part of AT&T’s Managed Security Services team working with Western Region Government and Education clients to enhance their security platforms.
Scott attended both CSU San Diego and CSU Sacramento concentrating on Business Management and Computer Programming. His hobbies include wood working, yacht racing, four-wheeling and flying his drone in “safe zones”.

Dale Jablonsky retired from state service in 2013 after nearly 30 years in state government, serving six years as the CIO of the Employment Development Department before starting as the CIO of CalPERS in August of 2010. At CalPERS, he had a budget of $85 million and 485 staff to help run California’s public pension system that serves 1.6 million current and former public employees. In 2012, he was chosen by Government Technology as one of the top 25 "Doers, Dreamers and Drivers" of technology innovation. Jablonsky began as KPMG’s Public Sector West Advisory Director in July 2014. He is focused on executive IT strategy consulting, working on delivery of existing projects and helping to establish and perfect some new lines of business within KPMG Government Advisory.

Marcie Kahbody is the Deputy Secretary and Agency Chief Information Officer for the California State Transportation Agency. Marcie has held Information Technology positions within the State of California for the past 26 years, and most recently was an IT Chief for the Department of Health Care Services. She worked in a similar position for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and spent three years with the California Technology Agency. Marcie spent the bulk of her career – nearly 20 years – at the Department of General Services as an Information Technology manager and network administrator. Marcie has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from California State University Sacramento, and was a participant in the state’s Information Technology Leadership Academy in 2012. She is a Certified Microsoft Engineer and is part of Sac State’s Leadership for the Government Executive program.

Peter Kelly is a fearless servant leader for the newly formed Child Welfare Digital Services. He is a long-time agilist, hacker and supporter of the open-source community; believing strongly that public investments should create public goods. Peter has welcomed the opportunity to lead cultural, technology and procurement changes within the State of California. He is building public sector capacity to deliver new technology to our social workers, who support the most vulnerable population of children in California.

Fred Kessler is the Manager of Data and Government Transparency team at the State Treasurer’s Office. Fred joined the Chiang administration in this capacity, after serving six years for then Controller Chiang at the State Controller’s Office (SCO). While at SCO, Fred had successfully launched several transparency initiatives, including PublicPay, ByTheNumbers, and TrackProp30 for the Controller. Fred’s California civil service career spans more than two decades, and includes IT Support, IT System Solutions, IT application development and IT project management for a variety of projects in multiple departments. Most recently, Fred has been involved in web application projects delivering government data to constituents through various open data solutions.

Peter Paul Liebert V, 38, of Washington DC, has been appointed chief information security officer and director of the office of information security at the California Department of Technology. Liebert has held several positions at FireEye Incorporated, including senior product manager at FireEye Incorporated since 2016 and threat assessment manager from 2015 to 2016. He held several positions at the United States Cyber Command, where he was special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy from 2014 to 2015 and senior cyber policy analyst from 2013 to 2014. Liebert served as cybersecurity and logistics analyst in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 2011 to 2013 and Palestinian logistics mentoring and warehouse information technology program lead at Dyncorp International from 2008 to 2010. He served as an officer in the United States Navy from 2000 to 2008. He earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Master of Science degree in international security from Cranfield University.

Rob Lloyd is CIO for the City of San José, California, directing the City’s diverse civic technology portfolio. San José is an organization of 6,500 employees with a $3 billion total budget serving over one million residents in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Over two decades, Rob has held executive roles in the technology, government, and utilities sectors in California, Arizona, Oregon, and Colorado. He is a Government Technology Magazine Top-25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers; Forty Under 40; and Arizona Top Tech Exec honoree. His teams have earned 16 national awards for customer engagement, use of technologies, and innovative programs.

Gerri is responsible for the support of digital transformation for key CGI clients in the State of California, focusing on customer integration, data transformation and customer cost savings. With over 40 years of experience, she has held many key positions with CGI and the State. For CGI, Gerri has held the position of VP as the State and Local Account Manager and Project Director for major system integration implementations. Recently, the CGI team completed a multi-phased, multi-released project for the Franchise Tax Board with the Enterprise Data to Revenue project. Prior to that project, Gerri was responsible for the CGI Child Support project working in all of the California Counties to implement the new Child Support system. For the State of California, she worked in the Health and Welfare Agency and its Data Center as Chief Deputy Director for over 30 years.

Chris Maio is the 21st Century Project Director at the California State Controller’s Office. He was formerly the Chief Information Officer for the Secretary of State (SOS). With nearly 26 years of state service behind him, Chris joined the SOS in May 2006 and had served as the Help Desk supervisor and Infrastructure Section manager before being appointed to Division Chief in April 2009. Chris succeeded Mary Winkley as the CIO in March 2012. Before joining the SOS, Chris started his career in licensing and enforcement at the Department of Consumer Affairs. He went on to work in all facets of information technology at as a senior technical specialist and in management within the department’s Office of Information Services.

Robert is a leader in global entrepreneurship and innovation and heads up Cybertize Business System, a consulting firm focusing on global entrepreneurship, innovation, business development executive business coach for CXOs. During a notable 25 years tenure with IBM, Mr. Mayberry led a workforce of 18,000 software developers and technical support associates to grow the revenue of the Software Group from $2 billion to $8 billion in six years. Additional roles with IBM included head of the $29 billion business partners organization; P&L responsibility for the $4 billion IBM WebSphere product portfolio and Z server line; management of the UNIX server line; and responsibility for Asia-Pacific, China, Germany, South Africa and other regional business units. Additionally, he has served as Executive Business Coach positions with Stanford University Graduate School Business SEED program throughout West Africa leading 18 IT companies, legacy as Senior Executive HPE and Interim CEO and board member for Mentor Global. Executive Director for Rancard Inc. representing Peninsula Capital of Menlo Park.

In this role, Bob analyzes, defines and manages the execution of comprehensive, integrated Health and Human Services (HHS) market and sales strategies for the Oracle Public Sales organization. He provides domain expertise in major HHS programs including Medicaid, Child Welfare, Child Support Enforcement and Integrated Eligibility. He develops messaging and content to help Oracle teams educate and inform system integrator partners, advisory firms, and state and local government clients.
Prior to joining Oracle, Bob was a Vice President for CGI, where he provided subject matter expertise for the evolving Health Insurance Exchange and Integrated Eligibility markets. Before joining CGI, Bob spent over 20 years in a variety of senior leadership roles in Massachusetts state government. He was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority (“Health Connector”), which was the quasi-governmental entity created pursuant to the landmark Health Care Reform Law in Massachusetts. Prior to his COO role, he was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) where he oversaw the creation of a web portal that Massachusetts residents to shop and enroll in seal of approval health insurance plans. Other senior roles have included the Director of Mass.gov, where he oversaw the ambitious eGovernment initiative in Massachusetts, and successfully led a team to deliver a uniform web portal for all state government. He also was the Deputy Commissioner for the MA Department of Revenue where he drove new and emerging technologies that streamlined costs and improved customer service for taxpayers. He was also an Associate Deputy Commissioner for the Child Support Enforcement Division, where he oversaw the implementation of automated enforcement measures such as wage attachments and bank levies and tax refund intercepts.
Bob graduated from Stonehill College with a degree in Economics, and resides with his family in Hingham, MA.

Josh joined Deloitte as a Director within State Government Programs in 2014, where he works with state governments across the United States. Prior to coming to Deloitte, he served for 5 years as Vice President in CGI’s State and Local Markets practice and more than a decade in similar roles in public sector at IBM.
Josh has market eminence as a thought leader in the state government industry. He serves as Vice Chair on two national state & local government industry advisory boards dedicated to furthering the enablement of state programs through the use of technology best practices. He also participates regularly with several state government national associations such as NASCIO, NASTO, NASBO, and NASPO.
Josh is an alum of Brigham Young University. He lives in El Dorado Hills, CA with his wife, Lucy, and their three busy children. He serves on several local nonprofit boards promoting foster youth, community health, and youth sports and music programs.

Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan serves as the Chief Technology Officer, responsible for leading the development of RSA’s technology strategy and bringing to market the innovations that help protect RSA customers from the growing number of advanced threats.
Prior to joining RSA, Dr. Ramzan served as Chief Technology Officer of Elastica and,preceding that, as Chief Scientist of Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco in October 2013). Before joining Sourcefire via its acquisition of Immunet in 2010, he was Technical Director of Symantec’s Security Technology and Response division.
He has co-authored over 50 technical articles, and two books including Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008. He also has over 50 granted patents. Dr. Ramzan was selected and served as General Chair of Crypto 2010, the premier conference in the field of Cryptography,
Dr. Ramzan has a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. His doctoral advisor was Professor Ronald L. Rivest, who co-founded RSA Data Security.

Ron Robinette was selected as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Community Services & Development (CSD) on 5/1/2014. Ron oversees technology services that assist in helping low-income families and individuals achieve and maintain self-sufficiency, manage their home energy needs and reside in housing free from the dangers of lead hazards. Ron is a graduate from Sacramento State with a degree in Business, with an emphasis in Management Information Systems. He is an also an alumni of the Health and Human Services Leadership Development Academy, the Information Technology Leadership Academy, and the College of Continuing Education’s Leadership for the Government Executive program. At the CIO Academy in 2016, Ron received the CIO of the Year award for a Small or Medium Department or Agency.

Jan Ross is the Deputy Treasurer, Technology & Innovation, at the State Treasurer’s Office (STO), serving Treasurer John Chiang, all personnel within the STO, and its many constituents. Under Jan’s leadership, STO’s highly talented IT staff and managers bring Treasurer Chiang’s strategic vision and service objectives to reality. The Treasurer and the technology offerings are highly focused on government transparency and accountability. Previously, Jan served the Chiang administration at the State Controller’s Office, where she oversaw the successful implementation of many IT initiatives, including the highly acclaimed government transparency websites: PublicPay.ca.gov, TrackProp30.ca.gov, and ByTheNumbers.sco.ca.gov. Jan joined the Controller’s Office after eleven years with the Franchise Tax Board, where she supported a variety of technology platforms. Her public service career was preceded by sixteen years in private industry supporting technology systems predominantly in the financial industry. She holds a Master’s of Science in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management Information Systems; and, a Bachelor’s of Art in French, both from California State University, Sacramento.

Ms. Ruiz currently serves as the Chief Technology / Information Officer for Covered California. Covered California provides affordable insurance for over nearly 1.5 million Californians, supporting consumers with a network of over 10,000 private insurance agents, and an over 1,000 seat contact center.
Ms. Ruiz previously served as the Project Director for the CalHEERS system project which is a joint venture between Covered California and the Department of Health Care Services. The system will be used by consumers to apply and enroll in new Covered California plans beginning October 1, 2013, and as the Project Director for CalPERS $500 million pension and health system consolidation and modernization project. The system, launched in September, 2011, replaced over 49 legacy systems and serves as the single solution managing pension and health benefits for over a million public employees.
Prior to her appointment at CalPERS, Ms. Ruiz served as the Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer for the Department of Social Services and also served as part of the IT executive management team at the Employment Development Department, overseeing IT Governance, project management, and enterprise architecture.

Michele Scoggins has over 16 years experience providing management consulting services to state and local government organizations, focusing on project management, facilitation, user training, business process reengineering, organizational change management, governance, and implementation readiness planning and assessments. Michele is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), and Prosci-certified change management leader. She brings insight and a breadth of experience, in addition to essential business tools, methodologies, and processes, to accelerate achievement of an organization’s business and IT objectives. Michele has served in key leadership delivery roles on projects such as the State of California's Child Support Automation System and the Franchise Tax Board’s Enterprise Data to Revenue project.

Estella Simoneau is the Chief of Administrative Services for the California Department of Finance. Estella has worked for the State of California for 33 years and has worked for California Department of Parks and Recreation, Board of Equalization, Franchise Tax Board, and Department of Finance. She has spent the majority of her career working in the Administrative Services and Human Resources areas and has been a state manager for the past 21 years. In addition to her role as a HR Manager and Administrative Services Chief, Estella worked as a Section Manager for 7 years in Franchise Tax Board’s Filing Division’s tax program area and managed the Information Validation Section comprised of 450 employees. In this capacity, she partnered with Information Technology staff to identify business requirements and implement system changes to enhance business processes. Outside of the office, Estella enjoys spending time with her husband, three grown children, and three grandchildren.

Rebecca Skarr is Chief Information Officer for the California Department of General Services, delivering technology solutions for the diverse departmental programs with 3,700 staff located in 70 sites across the state.

Sean heads up ForeScout Technologies’ Public Sector State & Local government SE practice for the US, has seventeen years of hands-on experience architecting and building security solutions and managing production environments, integrator, and manufacturer, and in leading security teams from all sides of the table. Sean is responsible for articulating and demonstrating how the ForeScout value proposition of “See-Control-Orchestrate” for IOT, SCADA, and critical infrastructure controls fills the gaps between defense-in-depth tools, and lets state, county, and municipal authorities build their own self-defending networks leveraging the tools they have already invested in. Previously, Sean has worked at Symantec, SRA International, and Northrop Grumman, where he has held a variety of roles in Cyber Security Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Security, Network and Infrastructure Security, Systems Management, Network Management. He holds his Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration, and resides in Northern Virginia.

Governor Brown appointed Amy Tong as Director of the Department of Technology on June 30, 2016. She was serving as Interim Director of the California Department of Technology since April 1, 2016. Prior to joining the Department of Technology, Amy Tong served as the Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) and the Agency Information Officer of the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) since August 2014. As the Chief Deputy Director, Amy managed the daily operations of OSI, with the main focus on enterprise service functions, and provided oversight on processes and procedures to ensure the success of major project delivery. Amy’s highest priority was to strengthen OSI’s ability to provide excellent service such as project management and procurement management to customers, and being innovative in utilizing technology as the business enabler. As the Agency Chief Information Officer, Amy worked closely with CHHS and its departments’ key members to establish, promote, and implement a strategic governance body and process to govern the portfolio of technology investments in the CHHS. Prior to her joining OSI, Amy has 20 years of business, technology, and management experience in the public sector. Previously, she served as the Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at California Lottery, Chief Technology Officer at Board of Equalization; Chief of the Data Center at California Public Employees’ Retirement System; and was the acting CIO at the Water Resources Control Board. Amy has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information System (MIS) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from California State University, Sacramento.
In addition to her professional career, Amy also spent the past 15 years serving the community as a volunteer. She is the former national vice-chair of a non-profit organization, with the mission to empower community members in civic engagement, youth leadership development, and community service collaboration. Amy is continuing her community involvement by serving as a member of the Planning Commission for the City of Elk Grove.

Larry White has been an Information Technology Professional for 25 years, driving global operational performance through process improvement and technology optimization, focusing on streamlining operations, resourcing, budgeting and planning, product / service delivery and support, product innovation and business development to cultivate business alliances and expand corporate revenue.
Previously, Mr. White has been CTO, COO, CIO of Global Mobile Cloud based IoT and GIS Software Technology Companies serving Public and Private sectors. Developed, Deployed, Integrated Road & Highway Design Systems

Gretchen Williams is the Deputy Agency Information Officer for the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA). Mrs. Williams is a senior strategic advisor to the CHHSA departments and offices and has been an active member of the State IT community for over sixteen years. Her background includes strategic planning, project/portfolio management, IT governance and enterprise architecture. Application of these disciplines and programs developed to support them at the enterprise level has successfully positioned CHHSA to achieve strategic goals focused on shared services and data management. Mrs. Williams is a sponsor of the CA IT Leadership Academy and sits on multiple Boards and Councils which focus on the strategic evolution of improved service delivery and development of future IT leaders. She is a native Californian and is passionately committed to the successful delivery of services and programs CHHSA provides to its citizens.

Sjon Woodlyn is an Assistant Deputy Director with the Department of Motor Vehicles with responsibility for Infrastructure Operations. Sjon has 29 years’ experience in the information technology industry, with 10 years’ experience with Computer Sciences Corporation in various technical capacities, and 19 years in public service. Prior to his 16-year DMV career, Sjon has held the position of Chief Deputy Court Executive Officer - Technology at Butte County Superior Court and the position of Network Manager for the Sacramento County Superior Court. In addition to his public and private sector experience, Sjon has acted in advisory capacities with the former California Enterprise Architecture Program Office and has sat on various national policy committees addressing issues such as Identity Theft and Fraud, and Electronic Identity.

Rami Zakaria is Sacramento County Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and Director of the County Department of Technology. The Department of Technology has more than 400 employees that support more than 13000 County employees. Rami was appointed by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in November, 2011.