Marty is a PMP and has been with the State for over 10 years, working in DCS, OMPP and currently in FSSA-DST.

Joel Bultmeier is the Cybersecurity Engineer for City of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Joel started in cyber security in 2012 in the Indiana Air National Guard. He worked helpdesk and system administrator full time at the 122d Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne and transitioned from military to civilian work in 2021. Joel still serves in the Air National Guard at the 122d Fighter Wing, part time, filling the Information System Security Manager role and supervising the Cyber Security office.

Angela Chaffee is the Senior Application Developer for the Division of Strategic Technologies Team within Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) for the State of Indiana. She has worked in various development roles over her tenure with the State of Indiana since early 2007. She leads state developers within DST and fills the role of application architect in the current project. She also works to ensure all projects support the larger future goals of the organization of ensuring Low Code/No Code solutions and interoperability with existing and future development.

Greg Crohn is the Chief Technology Officer for Monroe County Government currently living in Bloomington Indiana. His area of focus is the development and maintenance of IT infrastructure for government and public use.
As an IT professional, he has spent twenty years working in partnership with such entities as Indiana University, the City of Bloomington, Monroe County School Corporation, the Indiana State Office of Technology, and multiple other counties and municipalities around the state of Indiana to help devise and implement solutions to improve government operations, educational and governmental partnerships, and public accessibility.
When he isn’t working on system improvements, cyber security or continuing education, Greg enjoys the outdoors with his wife and grandchildren, and playing local venues as an amateur musician!

Recently named a Top 25 Doer, Dreamer & Driver by GovTech, Ted Cotterill serves as Indiana Chief Privacy Officer and as General Counsel for the Indiana Management Performance Hub, where he designed and implemented Indiana’s legal framework for ethical data-driven innovation. Ted’s practice focuses on governance, ethics, compliance, licensing, and privacy issues presented by AI, complex digital infrastructure partnerships, cloud services, and product development across various standards and regulatory frameworks. He serves as a founding officer of StateRAMP, co-chair of the NASCIO Privacy & Data Protection Forum, and in his community as VP of the Greater Allisonville Community Council. Ted earned his JD from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law, is recognized as a Fellow of Information Privacy by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and was honored by the Indiana Lawyer with a Leadership in Law Award in 2022.

Rick Dietz is the City of Bloomington’s Chief Information Officer and Director of its Information & Technology Services Department, serving Bloomington Civil City, Utilities, Transit and Joint Dispatch operations. Rick’s superpower is bureaucracy. Current areas of focus and interest include Bloomington’s citywide fiber deployment, digital equity initiatives, Data&AI, Cybersecurity, and creative partnerships with Google.org, IU-Purdue, IOT, and more.

Jannson joined INDOT as its first Senior Director of Digital Transformation in the Summer of 2023.
As the head of Digital Transformation, Jannson’s teams are responsible for working directly with IT and data experts to meet agency needs through strategic software and technology hardware selection, development, and implementation. The Digital Transformation department includes systems analysts, project managers, tech hardware support specialists, and quality assurance analysts.
Prior to joining INDOT, Jannson spent most of his career in management consulting, serving both the public and private sectors. A skilled program manager, experienced strategic planner, and staunch proponent of design thinking, Jannson has earned the role of trusted advisor to leaders and decision-makers across the nation.
Jannson’s private sector client experience includes advising some of the world’s largest private equity firms, publicly traded enterprises, and rapidly-growing SaaS companies. The focus of his work was how to best leverage technology and intellectual property to meet current and emerging market needs to the end of increased growth, improved efficiency, and deepened customer loyalty.
In the public sector, Jannson has consulted agency leaders of several states, including the State of Indiana, the State of Georgia, and the State of Michigan. Some of Jannson’s most visible successes include leading the launch of first-of-its-kind public portals, developing COVID relief funding strategies and execution plans, and creating tailored plans for state agencies across the nation to close the digital divide.
Prior to his consulting career, Jannson was Product Manager and eventual Director of Business Intelligence and Director of Strategic Planning for a leading third-party logistics firm in Chicago.
Jannson is Hoosier born and raised and is a proud alumnus of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Along with his wife, Marnie, and two kids, Jannson lives in Zionsville, IN. Away from the office, Jannson volunteers with his kids’ activities, serves as a church leader, and enjoys traveling, running, cycling, and attending Hoosiers games.

Jeff is currently the Director of Applications for the City of South Bend. There he leads a team of developers who primarily work to craft home grown web apps; force third party applications that don’t like to socialize and communicate with others, learn to share more about what’s inside them; and try to clean and manipulate data from a variety of sources for our Business Analytics team. Fortunately for Jeff and his team, he’s supported by a very innovative CIO and department that has allowed for the exploration of AI related technologies and use cases. He and his team have been working primarily with Azure AI Services to explore ways to work with prebuilt and customized models to create more comprehensive tools to allow residents to communicate issues and request services.
As a current municipal tech manager, Jeff has a desire to help others in local government determine which AI products are hype, which ones are helpful, and which ones are horrendous. As a former lawyer, Jeff has a deep interest in understanding the issues around data privacy and ethics as it relates to AI.

As the Western Regional Executive for State Government Strategy with T-Mobile, Gary works with elected officials and state agency and department executives to demonstrate T-Mobile’s commitment to serving the public sector. Gary engages with state government leaders to help them understand how T-Mobile’s 5G network – now the nation’s largest and fastest 5G network– can be leveraged for the benefit of their states and constituents.

Kierston is the Executive Lead for Public Sector, Labor for Google where she serves to advance Google's strategy with state Labor programs. Prior to Google, Kierston spent the last 12 years in Colorado state government, most recently with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment serving as the Deputy Director for the Unemployment Insurance Division for five years. During this time, Kierston co-led Colorado's emergency response to the pandemic related spike in unemployment claims, new federal program implementations and fraud management. Throughout her career, Kierston has been a change agent driving organizational transformation through technology innovation and process optimization-ultimately leading to operational efficiencies and improved service delivery for customers.

Brian Kaselak is the Engineering Director for Fortinet and a frequent speaker at cyber security focused events. For the past seventeen years, Brian has worked in the IT security industry in both sales and implementation of solutions ranging from Endpoint to Cloud. His current position brought him back to the technical sale evangelizing the importance of a security fabric in order to protect your environment in an ever-changing world.

Uday Katira is a managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP and serves as an AI & data leader in the State, Local and Higher Education practice, as well as the US Delivery Center leader for the Strategy & Analytics portfolio of offerings. In his role, Uday leads nearly 1,000 personnel and delivers value to clients through technology enabled business solutions in the area of data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence through a variety of offsite/near-shore services across product vendor platforms.
Uday has more than 22 years of technology consulting experience selling and delivering large end-to-end transformational initiatives spanning the entire analytics and artificial intelligence spectrum. His core expertise spans across enterprise data management, advanced analytics, robotics, and intelligent automation implementations delivered on premise and/or as cloud-based solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and Databricks platforms. More recently, he has been active in delivering AI/ML, Computer Vision, and Conversational AI to enable enterprises to harness power of machine learning, NLP/NLG and artificial intelligence.

Graig Lubsen has been the director of communications and external affairs for the Indiana Office of Technology since 2013, where he oversees the creative direction of the IN.gov website, Access Indiana, the state's single sign-on program, external relations and legislative affairs. During his tenure, IN.gov has been recognized as a leader in digital government, earning top 5 distinctions from the Center for Digital Government eight times for either Best State Website or Overall Digital Experience. Graig earned Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Purdue University.

Josh Martin is the Chief Data Officer for the State of Indiana and Director of the Indiana Management Performance Hub, where he leads a dedicated team of problem solvers that provide analytics solutions tailored to address complex management and policy questions enabling improved outcomes for the citizens of Indiana. Josh is a graduate of Purdue University, receiving a B.A. in Political Science and Law and Society, and received his Master of Public Affairs from the Indiana University Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He also has significant experience in international affairs and public safety.

Jon Rogers is the Director of Strategic Workforce Planning for the Indiana Office of Technology (IOT) – the state’s enterprise provider of IT services and resources. Jon has served in a number of roles at the local, state, and federal levels. In his current role, he has the privilege of augmenting IOT’s organization through his passion for hiring, recruiting, and developing public-service talent. Of note, he launched the first agency-based State Earn and Learn (SEAL) IT program -- a work-based learning adult reskilling effort -- in coordination with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. Jon earned his MBA and M.Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, and he earned a BA in Government from the College of William & Mary.

As the Director of Civic Innovation for the City of South Bend, Madi’s portfolio includes strategic broadband expansions, in-demand technology workforce development, university and coalition relationship management, and smart city solutions. Before joining the City, she completed a fellowship at enFocus, Inc, a not-for-profit serving northeast Indiana that engages talent with local organizations, where she worked alongside not-for-profit organizations, healthcare entities, higher education, and local government to develop talent, optimize processes, and design technology solutions. Madi is a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with minors in Engineering Leadership and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and continues to practice engineering principals through human-centered design thinking, team relations management, and project execution and delivery.

Kate Shelby joined INDOT as Chief Legal Counsel and Deputy Commissioner in June 2022.
Kate is responsible for the day-to-day operations of INDOT’s Litigation, Legal Services, Policy, Compliance, Information Technology, Digital Transformation, Audit, Contract Administration departments.
Before joining INDOT, Kate served as the first General Counsel for a tech and data consulting firm that serves government and private industry. Her work to build a legal team, mature contracting and procurement processes, implement an enterprise contract and legal matter management solution, and guide the company through significant regulatory issues earned her recognition from the international Association of Corporate Counsel as one of the 2022 Top 10 In-House Counsel in Their 30s.
Kate also managed a $15 billion contract portfolio for Eli Lilly & Company and has worked as a corporate litigator.
Her government experience includes serving as the Indiana Department of Workforce Development’s Chief Operating Officer for Workforce Programs and Unemployment Insurance, where she led teams to implement key pieces of the Governor’s Next Level Jobs initiative and enterprise-wide unemployment insurance fraud and operations improvements, which led to the United States Department of Labor recognizing Indiana for its program integrity leadership.
Kate has worked as a major felony Deputy Prosecutor in Marion County and a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Litigation Division at the Office of the Indiana Attorney General from 2010 through 2014.
She and her husband, Doug, are Purdue University graduates and have two children. In her free time, Kate enjoys volunteering in Brownsburg as a recreational soccer coach and with various community organizations, hiking, and painting with acrylics.

Jeff is a renowned expert at the intersection of identity verification and fraud prevention, known for his commitment to crafting innovative solutions aligned with industry demands. As the Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Socure, he is tasked with tailoring the identity verification and fraud prevention platform to suit the unique requirements of Government Agencies.
His track record includes leading product initiatives for the General Services Administration and spearheading the inaugural identity platform for the seven largest U.S. banks during his tenure at Early Warning where he also authored 5 patents.
Beyond his corporate achievements, Jeff brings a wealth of experience from his six-year tenure as an Air Force Cyber Warfare Officer, where he led diverse teams on missions critical to our nation's cybersecurity defense. Jeff is an alumnus of Berkeley's Haas School of Business and holds a bachelor's degree from Purdue University.

With a career spanning over two decades in local government IT, Jeremy Stevens has been an integral part of Howard County’s digital evolution, serving as the Information Systems Director for the last five years. His tenure as the past-president of GMIS Indiana reflects his enduring commitment to enhancing the professional development of local government IT professionals.
Outside the professional realm, Jeremy’s enthusiasm for technology extends to being an avid ham radio operator. His community involvement is further highlighted by his active roles on the Indiana State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program Planning Committee, the IT Advisory Board for Ivy Tech Kokomo, and the Howard County Innovation Council, where he continuously advocates for technological advancement and security. A proud Hoosier, Jeremy’s various engagements underscore his dedication to fostering a digitally secure and innovative community both locally and statewide.