Mohammed Al Rawi is the Chief Information Officer for the department of Parks and Recreation. He is in charge of leading the development, modernization, assessment and ongoing analysis of information technology, information security governance, data management and reporting systems. He provides vision and leadership in the development and the implementation of technology infrastructure supporting the department’s 2,700 employee workforce. Prior to joining Parks and Recreation, he served at the Board of Supervisors, Second District, as Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas’s Deputy for Technology and Innovation, where he provided oversight and policy analysis for Information Technology projects covering 37 county departments.
At the Board of Supervisors, Mr. Al Rawi established a countywide plan to modernize over one hundred mission-critical application systems that were built on obsolete and outdated platforms, later he led the effort to establish a consolidated, robust and cost efficient countywide data center. The new enterprise data center will consolidate most of the County’s current 47 data centers saving the County over $200 million in construction costs only, and much more in hardware, software and energy costs. Mr. Al Rawi, in coordination with the County Chief Information Security Officer, established Countywide IT security standards to protect health and sensitive data throughout county and third-party contractors’ facilities. Thirty-two county departments’ respective 88,392 desktop computers are now protected with the highest data security and encryption methods. Mr. Al Rawi, in coordination with County Chief Data Officer, made county’s wealth of data open to the public through the data.lacounty.gov portal in a historical shift for fostering innovation, transparency and accountability.
Prior to joining the County of Los Angeles, Mr. Al Rawi worked for eight years as the Technical Director for the Los Angeles Times' news bureau in Baghdad. In that capacity, Mr. Al Rawi oversaw Information Technology operations for dozens of journalists covering the Iraq war and its aftermath, under extremely difficult circumstances. In 2006, Mr. Al Rawi was awarded the Best Staff - Los Angeles Times Editorial Awards.
Since joining the Department of Parks and Recreation, Mr. Al-Rawi have brought many innovative solutions to digitize, automate business processes and to solve complex, life-saving, business challenges. His leadership and advocacy for innovation was recognized by Government Technology, Mr. Al Rawi was named one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.
In addition to his passion for auto racing, Mr. Al Rawi is a computer scientist who enjoys coding and application development on his spare time.

Nitin Badjatia serves as the Head of Business Strategy for ServiceNow’s Customer Service Management product line. He’s a two-decade veteran of enterprise customer service applications, having been at Siebel Systems, RightNow Technologies, and Oracle in various sales and strategy roles. Nitin also led business strategy at knowledge management pioneer Knova Software. In 2012, Nitin was awarded the Consortium for Service Innovation’s Innovator award for his extensive contributions to the industry at large.

Hardik Bhatt is a business leader with tremendous acumen in both strategy and execution for large growth and transformations. He has moved seamlessly between the private and public sectors.
As leader of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Smart Cities and mobility businesses, Hardik is responsible for helping state and local governments become more efficient, effective, accessible, and competitive by optimizing the cloud, data analytics, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.
In 2015, Governor Bruce Rauner recruited Hardik as the Chief Digital Officer for Illinois. In two years, he brought Illinois from the bottom four to the top third in national digital rankings, and pioneered the state’s Smart State and block chain initiatives. In addition to managing Illinois’ $1 billion technology investment, Hardik was responsible for building its digital economy strategy.
As a senior director for Cisco, he led global business development for Cisco’s Smart Cities and IoT businesses, working in 40 global cities in 19 countries. Hardik also served as CIO of the City of Chicago under Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration, and as a consultant with Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services.
An early-stage investor with Hyde Park Angels, Hardik also serves on two IoT company boards. As a civic leader, Hardik is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago’s Young Leaders’ Committee, is a part of the Illinois Treasurer’s Growth and Innovation Fund roundtable of advisors and sits on the board of the Acero charter schools network (formerly known as Uno Charter School Network).

Mr. Cruz has over 25 years of experience envisioning and leading large-scale initiatives with significant scope. This includes over 15 years of planning, developing and leading implementation solutions for the second largest school district in the United States. His experience includes supporting school systems and public sector organizations, implementing systems with critical impact to homeless and foster youth, counselors and coordinators, school nurses, immigrant and low-income students and families, special education, food services, transportation, and school operations. He also has extensive experience designing, developing and implementing solutions for school budget departments, HR and payroll departments, Finance and Procurement departments, and business operations.

Jagjit Dhaliwal has recently joined Los Angeles County as a Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Office of CIO and acts as a Technical Advisor to Public Safety Department’s IT divisions. He oversees Cluster IT strategic objectives, enterprise initiatives, board priorities and technology directives. He collaborates with Department CIOs to foster IT transformation which includes, but not limited to, IT organization assessment, IT strategy planning, portfolio rationalization, IT governance, cloud migration and adapting emerging technologies like RPA, IoT & Blockchain.
Before joining the County, Jagjit brought 17+ years of IT consulting experience from the private sector. In his last role as the Director with Cognizant Technology Solutions, he managed P&L of Media and Communication accounts providing professional services like application development/ maintenance, infrastructure, quality assurance and consulting services. He was involved in the business development, delivery and operations of multiple strategic accounts belonging to multiple industry domains spanned across different geographical locations globally. His focus areas included IT strategy and enterprise initiatives including application modernization, cloud re-platforming, operational excellence, cost optimizations, automation and process improvements leading to OPEX & CAPEX savings. Under his leadership, the assigned accounts exceeded their targeted quotas multiple times with increased customer satisfaction index. Due to his excellent performance, Jagjit was also awarded "Engagement Partner Excellence award" at Cognizant. He holds multiple certifications in technical and project management streams as well.

A 13-year veteran of the cybersecurity and digital forensic incident response sector, Anthony Di Bello serves as Senior Director of Market Development for OpenText where he leads strategic planning and direction for cybersecurity solutions. Anthony joined OpenText with the Acquisition of Guidance software where he spent the previous 12 years, including the last several as Sr. Director of Products responsible for the voice of the customer, product roadmaps and go-to-market strategy across Guidance Software forensic security, data risk management and digital investigations products. Previously at Guidance, Anthony was Director of Strategic Partnerships responsible for building and delivering end-to-end solutions around the Guidance product portfolio through partnerships and integrations with adjacent technologies such as Blue Coat, ArcSight, ThreatGRID and DropBox. Before moving to Guidance, Mr. Di Bello spent seven years with Towers Watson, a global professional service firm specializing in risk and financial management.

Irene Dyer is the Director of the Office of Planning and Data Analytics at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS). Prior roles with LACDHS included Acting Director of the Healthy Way LA coverage initiative program for low income uninsured adults, and Chief of Epidemiology at the Sexually Transmitted Disease Program.
Ms. Dyer received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from California State University, Northridge and worked as a licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist, subsequently managing a clinical laboratory for several years. She also holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Sciences from California State University, Dominguez Hills and a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joyce Edson has been a leader and technologist for the City of Los Angeles for the past 28 years. She is an accomplished and experienced manager with extensive experience in application and infrastructure project management – Agile and Lean Six Sigma. Superior strategic-planning, creative leadership, and focused staff management skills. Ability to deliver innovative solutions for the successful completion, of the most challenged and challenging projects.
Joyce is currently the Deputy CIO and Assistant General Manager with the City of L.A.’s Information Technology Agency (ITA). She provides City Departments with Application development.

Sharon Harvey joined the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) in 2007 as a Workforce and Organization Development (W.O.D.) Coordinator in Human Resource Services. Sharon has delivered Leadership Development workshops, supported organization wide strategic planning activities, provided meeting design and facilitation services, and coordinated Alternative Dispute Resolution activities (including Mediation Services) for Labor Relations. In her current role as Employee Development & Project Manager in the Technology Services Department, she designs and implements training plans that integrate purposeful communication and align with overall business objectives. Sharon is skilled in establishing collaborative relationships with business partners, nonprofit organizations, elected or appointed officials, district administrators, and all levels of staff.

Kyle Holland serves as a Director of Customer Experience for TAP Technologies at LA Metro. She began her work in TAP in 2013 and oversees TAP customer education and marketing.
Kyle has 10 years of experience using marketing and communications strategies to support agency and organizational goals in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.

Mr. Johnson was recently appointed to the position of Chief Information Security Officer for Los Angeles County, California. In this position he is responsible for countywide governance of information security including policy, strategy, oversight and incident response.
He held the position of Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer for King County, Washington from 2005 to 2018 in which he oversaw information security and privacy issues for the entire county. In this capacity, he established the information assurance program from policy development, compliance, information risk management, metrics and controls selection, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Mr. Johnson’s has been with King County for 28 years serving in multiple IT and management roles.
Mr. Johnson was an Instructor in the Information Security and Risk Management Continuum Program at the University of Washington and remains on their advisory board for the program. He is also a certified instructor for of the Holistic Information Security Practitioner Institute course and is the curriculum director for this organization updating and maintain the quality and content of the course.
Mr. Johnson also serves on the Executive Committee, Product Review Board for the Trusted Purchasing Alliance and is a co-chair of the Education and Awareness Sub-Committee of the Multi State – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).
Mr. Johnson was an Adjunct Instructor in the Information Systems and Cyber Security Bachelor’s program at ITT Technical Institute in Seattle from December 2014 until September 2016. Teaching courses on Risk Management, Policy Development and Security Issues in a Legal Context.
Mr. Johnson is the recipient of the ISE® West People’s Choice 2014 award and was also a nominee for ISE® North America in 2014.
He held the position of HISPI Governance Board President from April of 2012 to July 2014 and served as Governance Board Secretary for three years prior to assuming the role or President. He continues to serve the institute by maintain and enhancing the training course materials.
Mr. Johnson has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Eastern Oregon University and an Associate’s degree in Mortuary Science form San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.
He holds multiple certifications in information security, information privacy, network administration and project management.

Mary-Sara Jones leads Health and Human Services for IBM in the U.S. State and Local Government segment. She brings more than 20 years of experience in Health and Human Services (HHS), transforming service delivery through the use of technology and leading clients through policy and business challenges. Working with agencies across the U.S. and globally, Mary-Sara guides health and human services organizations in addressing some of today’s most significant social issues such as homelessness, substance use disorder, recidivism and child safety.
Connecting the ecosystem of agencies, providers, and community based organizations with clients and families to address the social determinants of health and focus on improving client outcomes is at the core of Mary-Sara's work. Leveraging innovations such as cognitive, mobility, and consent management along with industry standards such as the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) and the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), she develops strategies with her clients to overcome demanding changes in policy and compliance and provide the multi-disciplinary support necessary to address today's complex HHS environment.

Bill Kehoe has been a public-sector Chief Information Officer (CIO) since 2002 serving as a State Agency CIO at the State of Washington Department of Licensing from 2002 – 2010; at King County Washington from 2010 – 2017; and as Los Angeles County CIO from November 2017 – Present. Bill has provided strategic and operational leadership for key organizational and technology transformations as a CIO including: three mainframe migrations, two IT organization and technology consolidations, multiple data center consolidations, development of multiple online services for state and local government residents, hybrid cloud strategy and deployment, application rationalization and modernization, IT Governance, Innovation, IT Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, and Unified Communication services.
As the CIO for Los Angeles County, Bill and the Office of the CIO have responsibility for enterprise technology strategy, governance, and policy. Bill and the Office of the CIO are also responsible for the enterprise information management, security, and department consulting programs.
Bill is involved in several professional organizations and is the current President of MIX, a national local government CIO consortium. Bill was recognized by Government Technology as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. King County was recognized as the top large county in the 2017 Digital Counties Survey.
Bill graduated from Gonzaga University in 1984 with a degree in electrical engineering and ran cross country for the school where he met his wife, Susan. Bill has run 14 marathons including the 1993 Boston Marathon. His best finish was the 1991 Seattle Marathon where he finished 10th overall with a time of 2:36. Bill also coached high school cross country and track and field for 11 years (1999 – 2010). His boys’ and girls’ teams won seven combined cross country and track state championships and several of his athletes moved on to successful collegiate running careers. Bill was voted into the Washington State Cross Country High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2015.

Lawrence Lee is Vice President of Incubation and Strategy, where he leads incubation of new offerings and technology strategy to ensure that Xerox is investing in the right set of technologies, intellectual property, and partnerships to deliver the existing product portfolio as well as new business opportunities.
Lee was previously Senior Director of Strategy at PARC, a Xerox Company, where he led strategy and portfolio management to create new growth options for Xerox and PARC’s commercial clients. Prior to joining PARC, Lee co-founded Zoundry LLC, one of the first social commerce web services for bloggers, and he was Vice President of Business Development at Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc., which pioneered social information streams in the late 1990s.
He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and joint bachelor degrees from Wharton and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dean C. Logan currently serves as the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. His office is responsible for registering voters, maintaining voter files, administering federal, state, local and special elections and verifying initiatives, referenda and recall petitions for the largest and most complex county election jurisdiction in the country with 5.2 million registered voters. His office also records real property documents; maintains vital records of births, deaths and marriages; issues marriage licenses; oversees countywide records management and archives programs and processes business filings and other documents. Logan has over 25 years experience in elections administration, records management and public service. Prior to moving to Southern California, Logan served as the Director of Records, Elections and Licensing Services for King County, Washington. He holds a degree in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University and an Executive Master of Public Administration from the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.

Mr. Margolis the CISO for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD). As such, he is responsible to oversee the Water District’s cybersecurity program; which entails protecting enterprise systems and critical infrastructure. Prior to joining the MWD, he was the CISO for the County of Orange, CA where the County received the National Association of Counties (NaCo) award recognizing the County’s Cybersecurity program for Driving Innovation in an Evolving Environment. Prior to joining the County, Mr. Margolis was the Information Assurance Manager for the California National Guard and California Military Department, where he oversaw the development and management of the California National Guard’s Cybersecurity program. During his service with the California National Guard, his assignments included Emergency Communications Plans Officer, Signal (Communications) Unit Commanding Officer, Chief Communications Officer for an Infantry Brigade and Network Operations Manager for the California National Guard Network Operations and Security Center.
Mr. Margolis Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), earned a BS degree in Computer Applications and Networks and holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems and Technology Management. Mr. Margolis has been a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army Reserve. He was deployed to New Orleans, LA, as part of the humanitarian relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and served two tours in Afghanistan.

Denny Moore is a User Experience Specialist and Web Developer who manages taptogo.net for TAP, LA County's transit fare card. He began working at TAP in 2015.
Denny has spent over 20 years designing and building digital experiences for audiences in various industries including music, arts, sports and entertainment. He is passionate about technology, usability, and creating beautiful, functional web applications.

As SAS’ National Director of Behavioral Health and Whole Person Care, Dr. Josh Morgan helps public health agencies use data and analytics to support a person-centered approach to improving health outcomes. A licensed psychologist, Dr. Morgan was previously San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health’s Chief of Behavioral Health Informatics. His clinical work includes adolescent self-injury, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs, psychiatric inpatient units and university counseling centers. Dr. Morgan earned his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Family Psychology from Azusa Pacific University, and is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

In 2018, Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Michael Owh as Los Angeles’ first Chief Procurement Officer, a key post that will help transform the City’s process for engaging vendors, including local and minority-owned businesses. Mayor Garcetti created the position of Chief Procurement Officer to maximize the value of City resources, and make sure there’s a level playing field for small and minority-owned businesses that want to share in the opportunities that our city creates. As Chief Procurement Officer, Owh will work to identify cost savings in the City’s spending, increase transparency, and reduce contracting time. A core priority of the Garcetti Administration is delivering inclusive economic growth, and the Chief Procurement Officer will play an important role in advancing this commitment.
Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, Owh served as the New York City’s Chief Procurement Officer and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, responsible for procurement policy and the oversight of more than $21 billion coordinated through 40 city agencies. In this role, Owh led the NYC PASSPort project, which went live on August 1, 2017, replacing a decades-old paper-based process. Future releases will include source to contract functionality.
In New York City, Owh was also instrumental in launching the NYC’s Nonprofit Resiliency Committee and worked in partnership with the Office of M/WBEs and the NYC Department of Small Business Services to support NYC’s Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Program. Previously, Owh was General Counsel at the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development and Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Small Business Services.
Michael received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. from the St. John’s University School of Law.

Jerry Power is the Executive Director of The Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. CTM and its board of corporate leaders are actively engaged in identifying emerging trends driven by the rapid evolution of digital communications technologies and services. Through its research and educational programs, the Institute explores the new opportunities and challenges for the business community in the age of mobility, broadband, and digital content. CTM embraces our increasingly dynamic market and harnesses the thought leadership of the University and our member companies to find new ways to thrive in this evolving business climate.
Jerry is also a founding member of the I3 Consortium. I3 is working to create an opensource Internet-of-Things meta layer that allows communities of independent IOT device owners to work together as active members of the expanding data ecosystem. The consortium recognizes the importance and the personalized nature of privacy, trust, and incentives as key enablers of a sustainable, managed, and networked IOT infrastructure that supports collaborative IOT environments.

Responsible for delivering future technology vision and thought leadership across Government and Public Sector agencies. Specifically, he is responsible for identifying key market opportunities, defining customer requirements, driving development and launch of innovative solutions. Arvin has successfully created and launched Verizon’s own cloud based Digital Signage solution leveraging 4G-LTE. His team is responsible for providing overall wireless technology governance and guidance to enterprise, SMB, government & public sector clients. Arvin began his wireless career in 2000 when he first joined Verizon to start the Tier II Wireless Helpdesk program, and has since moved on to variety of roles with increasing responsibility within Sales, Marketing, Operations, Corporate Technology and Product Management.
Arvin has a Master’s in Business Administration and Management from Pepperdine University.

Jeffery has 20 years of experience designing, securing and implementing solutions for Public and Private Sectors
Following Security best practices for industry standards, as well as coming up with creative solutions to close any gaps.
Current area of focus: Bot Hunter, Web Attack Defender, APT Analysis. API Evangelist.
Global Security Architecture, Design and Implementation for fortune 100, Large Enterprise and Public Sector Customers, ensuring Security, Performance, Availability and Resilience.
Educating customer of the entire threat landscape. Rapid response and actionable information
about emerging threats to enable them to maintain their network data security and integrity.
With new exploits, mute-vector techniques and malware being developed every day, it's no longer enough to rely on known vulnerabilities when monitoring networks. We need to get away from traditional security methodologies ALLOW/DENY and focus on Behavioral tends and Anomalies for
better adversary detection and prevention.

Mr. Sturm has been an administrator for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) for over 20 years, the last ten of which he focused on building partnerships with early care and education providers to increase DCFS-supervised children’s access to high quality education support services. Through these partnerships, he developed the innovative electronic Head Start and Early Education Referral System, which has facilitated thousands of preschool and childcare program enrollments. He also developed the Student Information Tracking System, allowing social workers to see academic progress and history in real time. Mr. Sturm has received awards for his work on these systems from the National Association of Counties, the California State Association of Counties and the LA County Productivity and Quality Commission.

Dan Wesley is Workday’s Chief Technology Officer - North America. In this role Dan is responsible for articulating Workday’s architecture, technology and platform initiatives and has over 30 years of deep system architecture experience that spans database, OLAP, dimensional analysis, capacity/performance planning, network configuration and protection, security, disaster recovery and highly available infrastructure design.
Dan has deep ERP solution experience gained during his time at Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and ATT Global Hosting. Recently he was a Senior Architect and Security Risk Officer for an Andreessen Horowitz start-up (Tidemark) that offered a Multi-tenant SaaS EPM solution that utilized Big Data, Micro-service, Machine Learning and In-memory Grids for a next generation EPM Budgeting and Planning tool. During his time at Workday, Dan supported the Chief Trust Office in conveying Security and Global Data Privacy concerns to prospective customers.