Mr. Barna was recently appointed to serve as the Executive Director of DriveOhio, where he oversees the state’s strategic planning on the implementation of smart mobility technologies. As Executive Director, Jim is working to advance smart mobility in Ohio by developing partnerships and creating a one-stop shop for those looking to develop, test and deploy advanced mobility solutions in Ohio.
Prior to his appointment to DriveOhio, Mr. Barna served for seven years as Assistant Director & Chief Engineer for the Ohio Department of Transportation where he oversaw all highway divisions including Planning, Engineering, Construction, Legislative Affairs and Innovative Delivery, including Public Private Partnerships Procurement. He also oversaw ODOT’s policy, research and deployment of connected vehicle technology.
He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1990 from The Ohio State University.

Auzzie K. Brown is a senior principal architect with AT&T Public Sector, serving as a technical visionary for cybersecurity services. He is a cybersecurity and information technology (IT) professional with over 30 years of experience.
Mr. Brown previously served as a vice president in the White House Business Unit of L-3 where he was responsible for delivering information technology services to the President of the United States and his National Security staff. He has also served as the Deputy Secretary of Technology and Chief Operations Officer for the State of Alabama, where he planned IT and Cybersecurity support for the historic 2017 U.S. Senate Special Election.
Mr. Brown has held CIO and CISO executive positions with First Tennessee Bank, WestStar (J.G. WENWORTH) and First Guaranty Mortgage Corporations, leading teams to deliver innovative IT and cybersecurity solutions that significantly increased annual revenue for these organizations. He co-founded and served as a Managing Partner of RedWolf Cybersecurity Group, LLC.
Mr. Brown served for nearly 24 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He
was an Aide-De-Camp to Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Deputy Commander, United States Army Information Systems Command. He trained and deployed soldiers and IT assets in support of “Operation Uphold Democracy” to remove the military regime installed by the Haitian coup d’état that overthrew the elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Mr. Brown also served as an assistant to Dr. John P. White, Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was appointed by Deputy White to the committee that developed the strategy for a $1.2B Pentagon renovation. He planned and established a first-of-its-kind U.S. Army Theatre Cyber Security Operations Center in East Asia. General David Petraeus’ cited Mr. Brown for a top performance evaluation for innovative initiatives to modernize the U.S. Army’s, XVIII Airborne Corps’ IT capabilities.

Ryan Burgess was appointed Director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation by Governor John R. Kasich in November, 2015. The Office of Workforce Transformation is committed to identifying the needs of business, connecting businesses and workers, and aligning training to meet the needs of businesses. Burgess leads initiatives to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and accountability of Ohio’s workforce programs.
Before his role as Director, he was the Assistant Director of the Ohio Development Services Agency where he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the agency in its mission to provide transparency and accountability when taxpayer resources are used for economic and community development.
Burgess joined the Ohio Development Services Agency after 20 years at Fifth Third Bank. During his tenure, he held numerous executive leadership positions within the corporate banking and investment advisors divisions. During that time, Burgess was also appointed to the Ohio Banking Commission by Governor Kasich.
His commitment to community service includes service on a number of non-profit boards. A native of Findlay, Ohio, he is a 1993 graduate of The College of Wooster. Ryan lives in suburban Columbus with his wife and daughter.

Michael Carmack is Chief Technology Officer for the Ohio Department of Education, a member of the State Technology Board, and chair of the state’s Cloud Governance Committee. He is an advocate for using cloud platforms as part of a broad effort to modernize and digitalize government processes, aligning citizen experiences with their high expectations.

Randy Cole has served as Executive Director of the Ohio Turnpike since December 2014 and served as a commission member from January 2011 through September 2014. He previously served as Controlling Board President and Policy Advisor to the Ohio Office of Budget and Management, where he also coordinated government reform initiatives for Governor John Kasich’s administration.
In 2013, Government Technology magazine named Randy as one of the nation’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the “Ohio Smart Mobility Initiative,” a collaboration among Universities, Transportation Agencies, and private companies which is focused on bringing advanced transportation technologies to Ohio.
Randy’s private sector experience includes six years as a sales and marketing executive at FirstEnergy Corporation and four years as President of a technology company that developed online applications for government clients.
Randy has a B.S. in Public Policy Management from the University of Akron and completed graduate coursework at The Ohio State University. He and his wife, Cyndra reside in Aurora, Ohio, with their five children.

Prior to this position, Tony served as the Director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Gahanna for 15 years, and as a Director with the Akron Area YMCA for four years. While working for the Gahanna Parks and Recreation Department, the City of Gahanna was recognized as one of Money Magazine’s top 100 cities and Ohio Magazine’s best hometown.
Tony is an active leader with the parks and recreation profession and served as a past Ohio Parks and Recreation Association (OPRA) board member and president. Previously, he was the OPRA Foundation president and is now their vice president along with serving on the Columbus Zoo, After-School All-Stars Ohio and Audubon Stewardship Boards. In addition, Tony is the Chair of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission’s Central Ohio Greenways Board, which is the driving force on creating and increasing the regional trail way system in Central Ohio. He has his bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and an MBA from Franklin University. He is also a Lean Ohio Green Belt, which incorporates Six Sigma methodologies in local government. Tony lives in Dublin with his four children and wife Becky.

Ted Coyle is a Philly based Data Technologist and Solution Architect with Mythics Consulting. His twenty-year technology background spans all aspects of emerging and traditional software and data technology with special interests in open and civic data, security, privacy, and data governance. He is also the founder of the Philly DataJawn conference.

Leo Cronin is VP and Chief Security Officer for Cincinnati Bell/CBTS. Leo is responsible for all aspects of physical and cyber/information security across the company, including governance and security architecture. Prior to his current role, Cronin was CISO and VP of Global Information Security at Reed Elsevier/LexisNexis.
Cronin has over 30 years of experience in information and network security and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Information Systems Security Management Professional.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leocronin

Jeremiah Dunham leads the AWS Solutions Architecture team for State and Local Government in the central US. In addition to building and supporting a top-notch team of Solutions Architects, Jeremiah works with government customers as they transition to the cloud. In his previous role, Jeremiah oversaw the launch of AWS Elemental MediaStore, a storage service optimized for media. Prior to joining AWS, Jeremiah worked in a variety of engineering, consulting and leadership roles at companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Alaska Airlines.

Eric is the former CTO in the State of North Carolina who worked on introducing chatbots to the greater state public sector community. Eric and his team created the Digital Services Group to overhaul digital services in NC State government, improving citizen experience through better and more innovative design thinking.
Under Eric Ellis’ leadership as the Director of the Innovation Center (iCenter), North Carolina made tremendous strides around innovation throughout state government, allowing us to become a national leader in the field. Eric helped create the 10,000 square foot iCenter and he helped foster several collaborative technological relationships with public and private partners and allowed North Carolina to test more than $15 million worth of technology, resulting in more than $10 million of in savings and improved project, success within the first 2 years.

Tasker Generes is the Global Head of ServiceNow’s Connected Universe Strategy in the Chief Innovation Office. Currently authored 12 patents around ConnectedOperations, ConnectedHuman, ConnectedSecurity and ConnectedService. In this role, Tasker crafts ServiceNow’s strategy for the Connected Universe leveraging IoT, BlockChain, and AI while also providing executive level advisory to extend the value of service management across the corporate enterprise to support organizations in their efforts to transform and modernize.
Prior to joining ServiceNow in 2015 Tasker was Chief Technology Officer of Amtrak and ran his own consulting firm Silos to Service Solutions Inc. bringing business and IT together to leapfrog their competition through focused service. As Chief Technology Officer at Amtrak, Tasker was charted to transform the organization through Strategy, Audit, Strategic Vendor Management, Business Intelligence, Service Management, and Enterprise Architecture. Using his years of healthcare, distribution, and global financial services industry experience, he transformed services to provide tremendous value, defined by efficiency, revenue, customer satisfaction and speed of quality delivery while reducing risk.
Additionally as Chief Technologist for Service Management Solutions with IBM, Tasker has a deep depth of knowledge and experience in leading global service management delivery across process, technology, organization and information and also holds patents in Service and IT Financial Management methods.

Sanjay Konar is the Director of Application Development for the Ohio Department of Education, a member of the state’s Cloud Governance Committee and co-chair of the state’s Cloud Architecture Subcommittee. He is leading the department’s cloud migration effort for the last one year. He played a key role in the successful rollout of the Local Report Card application to Microsoft Azure. Currently he is leading another enterprise level cloud migration effort.

Vinko Kucinic is the Chief Information Officer for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Ohio Department of Youth Services where he manages the Ohio Collaborative Services Bureau of Information Technology. He is responsible for statewide information and technology operations for both agencies to include information service center, application development, network / data security, pc support, telecommunications, infrastructure, video conferencing, strategic planning and statewide applications. He has been employed by the State of Ohio for the past 24 years and has held several positions. Vinko is a member of the Ohio Department of Administrative Services Technology Board and serves as the Lead for the Criminal Justice & Public Safety Line of Business. He is a member of the Corrections Technology Association, American Correctional Association and serves as the Chair for the American Correctional Association Database Steering Committee. Vinko is the recipient of the Government Technology’s 2018 Ohio Public State Sector CIO Academy CIO of the Year.

Megan Lawrence is an Accessibility Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Dr. Lawrence builds trusted relationships with customers, NGOs, and Assistive Technology partners to further Microsoft’s mission of empowering every person and organization to achieve more through the lens of inclusion. Megan keeps customers and the disability community up-to-date on the latest at Microsoft Accessibility including how we continue to build a culture of inclusion and how built-in accessibility is the lens of innovation in Microsoft technology.
Megan leads the Accessibility User Research Collective (AURC), a partnership with the Shepherd Center, as a way for users with disabilities to provide feedback to Microsoft and help shape the future technology.

As CIO of the City of Dublin, Ohio, Doug McCollough has embraced the rich community of innovation that is Central Ohio. Through collaborations and partnerships he has worked to connect people to opportunities, remove barriers, and promote change in initiatives ranging from Smart and Connected Cities, IT Workforce Development, expanding broadband access, and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. He has spoken as a Subject Matter Expert and advocate on technical subjects, diversity and inclusion, career advancement, and using technology for economic and community development.
Prior to joining the Dublin team, Doug held positions within the State of Ohio Departments of Public Safety, Commerce, Industrial Commission, and Medicaid. His interests include Futurism, Mobility, IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Bots, and the social implications these technologies bring with them.

Lisa Patt-McDaniel serves as President & CEO of the Workforce Development Board of Central Ohio. Under the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA), the WDBCO partners with the community organizations and education institutions that provide direct services to create innovative workforce solutions. The WDBCO also provides oversight for the operation of the Columbus-Franklin County OhioMeansJobs Center.
Ms. Patt-McDaniel’s career spans over 20 years working in the areas of economic, workforce and community development, for Ohio Department of Development, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing (OCCH) and The Affordable Housing Trust. She has also served on Governor Ted Strickland’s Cabinet. Ms. Patt-McDaniel is a Certified Economic Development Professional (EDP) through the National Development Council. She is a board member of the Franklinton Development Association, Heritage Ohio, Greater Ohio Policy Center, Columbus Next Generation Corporation, United Way of Central Ohio Public Policy Committee and Columbus Women’s Commission Workforce Development Committee. Ms. Patt-McDaniel is a lecturer at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs where she has taught classes on public policy and strategic management and serves as President of the Alumni Association. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from Miami University as well as a Masters of Public Administration from the John Glenn College of Public Policy at The Ohio State University. Ms. Patt-McDaniel is married to Dana McDaniel, City Manager of the City of Dublin, and they are the proud parents of two daughters, Caitlyn and Colleen.

Joe brings over 30 years of experience in providing software solutions. Joe works with OneSpan’s largest clients in the government (Public Sector) as well as in the financial industry and acts as an advocate and liaison between eSignLive and these accounts, to assure their continued success. Having served as both individual contributor as well as a Pre-sales technical Manager throughout his career, Joe’s passion for ensuring an exceptional client experience and his enthusiasm in providing solutions are the hallmark of his work.

Greg is an IT Architect with more than 30 years working with business to evolve IT infrastructures and applications in pursuit of business excellence. Greg engages mostly on cloud and Watson (AI) initiatives.

Dr. Dennis Ong is Distinguished Architect and Managing Principal at Verizon. Previously, he served as Chief Architect and Director at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent, and AT&T. He and his teams have launched many innovative and award-winning solutions combining the strengths of high-tech companies and a multitude of start-up companies. At Verizon, he is working with startups to utilize IoT and Machine Learning to create Smart City solutions to address the most challenging problems facing cities and municipalities. At Nokia, he led a recently acquired start-up to develop the IoT IMPACT platform which received the ""Best IoT Innovation for Mobile Networks"" award at the 2017 Mobile World Congress. At Alcatel-Lucent, he and his team collaborated with three start-ups, based in India, Israel, and Silicon Valley, in creating a highly scalable video optimization and analytics platform that served tens of millions of mobile subscribers worldwide.

Brett Roubinek as TRC’s President and CEO. Roubinek has served as vice president at TRC since 2016.
Roubinek is a seasoned executive with a history of success in growing businesses, leading people, forging relationships and fostering innovation across the automotive ecosystem. A central Ohio native, Roubinek’s diverse experience—from performance driving for multiple OEMs to launching a start-up company—will help guide TRC’s growth and collaborations with Ohio State as well as local and federal government partners. Upon joining TRC in March 2016, Roubinek undertook daily operations, including facility expansion planning and execution.
Prior to joining TRC, Roubinek served as a senior executive with the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, CSM, iRacing.com and the Skip Barber Racing School, among several other industry roles. He has shared his expertise with national and international audiences as a guest commentator on major television networks, as a contributing writer Car & Driver and other publications, and as a speaker at the New York Auto Show and PRI Trade Show. Additionally, Roubinek has over 25 years of on-track experience as a professional racecar driver and driving instructor.
A graduate of Denison University, Roubinek serves on the Board of the Ohio Smart Mobility Initiative and the Smart Belt Coalition.

Michael Stevens was appointed by Mayor Andrew J. Ginther to be the first Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Columbus. In this new role Mike is responsible for the Smart Columbus Initiative, which includes oversight of the $50 million Smart City grant awarded to the City and long term plans and partnerships needed to ensure Columbus is positioned for the future of smart technology and mobility.
Prior to returning to the City of Columbus, Mike served as President and CEO of Lake County Partners, a 501 (c) 3 economic development corporation that works to maintain economic vitality and quality of life in Lake County, Illinois. Mike was responsible for leading efforts to attract and retain jobs, stimulate capital investment, and pursue economic diversity.
From 2007 to 2012, Mike served as the Deputy Development Director for the City of Columbus responsible for the City’s Economic Development and Planning activities. Mike led the City’s Business Attraction and Retention programs; strategic land utilization; international initiatives; and promotion of public sector tools and programs available to help companies expand.
Mike has also worked for Cardinal Health, Inc in its Corporate Real Estate Group, with the City of Dublin as the Director of Economic Development, and for the City of Huron, Ohio as its Assistant Service Director.
Mike is a proud graduate of The Ohio State University where he received degrees from the Fisher College of Business and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs.