Tom Allsup is the Director of Agency Relationship Management and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the State of Louisiana’s Office of Technology Services (OTS). He has 24 Years in IT, 18 years in private sector, 6 years public sector. Tom has served 8 years military tactical warfare and law enforcement.
His past Private Sector IT clients include fortune 100 companies in oil & gas, heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and retail. He has held IT leadership positions in Infrastructure, Project Management, Support Services, and Application Development/Delivery. Tom is the former State of Louisiana Former Enterprise Governance Architect. He is an avid outdoorsman, and also a competition fighter in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Phil Bertolini is senior vice president of the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. Previously, he served as deputy county executive and CIO for Oakland County, Michigan. During his 31-year tenure, Phil built a world-class IT organization in the second-largest county in Michigan, just north of Detroit. As Oakland County CIO, he oversaw more than 150 employees serving over 1.2 million residents. In 2005, he was also promoted to deputy county executive, holding dual positions until his retirement. Phil’s efforts earned the county national attention, winning numerous awards for technology innovation and excellence. He was named Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year and Government Technology Magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers. He was also honored by the President Obama White House as a Champion of Change.

Charles Burton has led technology teams in Louisiana government for 20 years and is currently the Calcasieu Parish Technology Director. Data Center and communication modernization projects along with Cybersecurity programs have been some of his successful accomplishments with disaster recovery being one of the more challenging success stories. He holds a Masters in Cybersecurity and bachelor’s in computer science. His certificates include ITIL, PMP, CGCIO, CISSP, CompTIA as well as Microsoft certificates.
Mr. Burton serves on several boards and committees at the State and Local level, he speaks at conferences and advises on the topics of Cybersecurity & Technology. Mr. Burton is involved in several community organizations where he resides in Lake Charles, LA with his wife and family.

Almost 20 years of professional GIS experience in industries such as environmental, federal, state, and local government, oil and gas, and emergency response all with a strong emphasis in spatial data management and digital visualization as well as large scale map production. Caroline also has extensive experience developing and creating field data collection workflows using various handheld devices, professional surveying equipment and cloud-based apps. Prior to working for the City of New Orleans, Caroline worked as a consultant/ contractor in the oil & gas industry and was the Map & GIS Coordinator in the Emergency Command Center GIS Lab shortly following the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in 2010. She eventually transitioned over to the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization in Houston where much of her work centered around spatial data management and data sharing for both future scientific analysis and litigation because of the disaster. She often jokes that she traded pipelines and oil wells for Mardi Gras Parade Routes and potholes and is approaching her 6th year with the City.

Fadi Fadhil, Palo Alto Networks cybersecurity strategist,is a seasoned thought leader with over 20 years of experience in government and education digital transformation and business strategy. Fadi served as the CIO of the City of Minneapolis as well as the CIO for Minneapolis Public Schools. Fadi also served at the Lead Technology Liaison between the US Army and the new Iraqi government in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom II 2003-2005. Fadi offers a unique combination of strategic vision and wealth of knowledge and experience in IT Operations.

After earning 20 years of technology leadership experience as a member of the C-Suite for several public sector organizations, Greeves now serves as an Industry Advisor for SAP. In his role, he helps state and local governments, school systems and universities modernize complex systems and transform their business operations.

Glen is a seasoned professional, bringing a unique set of professional experience, education and commitment to community with experience in both the private and public sectors. A community banker for nearly a decade, he brings practical experience and demonstrated expertise in team leadership, operational management, business development, community engagement and interpersonal communication. Glen previously served as an advisory board member of the Leadership Excel Program, a leadership development program in Acadia and Jefferson Davis parishes. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Rotary Club of Crowley, assisting in several impactful, community-based philanthropic efforts.
Most recently, Glen served in the administration of East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome where he worked on critical economic development efforts in the wake of the pandemic, including the launch of the Resilient Restart EBR Micro-grant Program. Glen earned both his undergraduate degree in finance and a master’s degree in public administration from LSU. Upon completion of his MPA program, he was selected as the recipient of the David B. Johnson Award for Academic Excellence, highlighting his academic achievement, critical analysis of public policy issues and commitment to improving public management.

Chase Hymel is an Information Security professional currently residing in the State of Louisiana and serves as a Deputy Director of Information Security within the Office of Technology Services (OTS). OTS is the consolidated IT service provider for Executive Branch government agencies statewide. The State of Louisiana Information Security Team continually works toward reduce operational risk for the State of Louisiana through a resilient and effective Defense-In-Depth Strategy, while enabling business needs.

Warren Kron is a certified GIS Professional and the GIS Manager for the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Warren’s efforts in public service have been focused on the development of an Enterprise GIS program which has involved many multi-disciplinary projects to extend the technology and capabilities throughout City-Parish government. Along the way, he has played a key role in the City-Parish's shift to transparency and open data. Warren is a native of Baton Rouge and graduated from the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. He is the member representative for the Louisiana Municipal Association on the Louisiana GIS Council, and currently serves as its Chair.

Kimberly Walker LaGrue is the Chief Information Officer of the City of New Orleans, and head of the Office of Information Technology & Innovation. She and her team deliver stable, IT services to city government and strategies for equitable growth and expansion of technology services throughout New Orleans. As co-lead of the City’s digital equity strategy, she has a responsibility to improve New Orleans’ positioning as a tech-savvy, smart city, able to address challenges with 21st-century technology. A New Orleans native with 25+ years of experience in IT operations, telecommunications and data management, she’s spent most of her career modernizing and advancing technology in local government.
Kimberly is the North American President of the Cities Today Leadership Institute, and an advisory board member of the Internet of Things Consortium. A fierce advocate for citywide broadband, she is personally committed to digital equity, digital literacy and technology opportunities for all New Orleanians.

Michael is a CyberSecurity Strategist for AT&T and has been with AT&T for Fifteen years, evangelizing needs for better CyberSecurity. His prior experiences include nearly a decade of service with IBM, fifteen years as President and CEO of Carolina Business Systems, five years as President, CallWare Technologies and three as President of AlianzaSur, Inc. working in Central America and Northern South America.
Michael is a Vietnam combat veteran, graduated from The Citadel and resides in Charleston, SC with his wife Yalani.

As Director of Operations for NIC Louisiana, Kevin takes pride in the digital experience provided to citizens and businesses through the services he and his team build for their state partners across Louisiana. He is Louisiana’s biggest fan and enjoys seeing NIC Louisiana’s hard work pay off when his home is state recognized as a digital leader.

Nelson P. Moe is a high energy, results-driven executive with proven track record of success and superior leadership in enterprise IT. Nelson recently served as the chief information officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth and led the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). He was appointed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe effective June 8, 2015 and reappointed by Gov. Ralph Northam on March 28, 2018. As CIO, he led a 220-person organization responsible for oversight on the IT infrastructure services as well as governance of the Commonwealth’s IT procurements, cyber security and enterprise architecture.
Nelson recently led the multi-year transformation of the Commonwealth’s IT infrastructure services from a single supplier model to its current multi-supplier model of seven suppliers and an integrator. This transformation has fundamentally improved the Commonwealth’s visibly into IT services and its ability to add new technology services at speed and scale. It is approximately 10% more cost effective from the single suppler contract (~$30M/yr) and allows for much more contract leverage, cost visibility and service flexibility for the Commonwealth.
Nelson’s experience prior to coming to the Commonwealth includes serving 3 years as CIO for the U.S. House of Representatives. In that position, he was responsible for the IT vision, enterprise strategic planning, budget implementation, cybersecurity operations and risk posture, business continuity management, IT services and project management for the members, leadership, committees and staff of the House of Representatives.
Nelson also supported the national level efforts for continuity of government in the wake of 9/11/2001 and the 10/17/2001 anthrax attack on Congress.
Prior to his time at the House of Representatives, Nelson finished a career in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine officer. Nelson spent his time in SSNs deployed in the Pacific theater and qualified as Nuclear Engineer and for Command in Submarines. He is most proud of qualifying as a submerged OOD for Arctic under-ice operations on the USS ASPRO (SSN 648). After the Navy he worked in the private sector for several small companies and an IT startup before shifting to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Seán is responsible for a 23,000+ personnel, $6 Billion+ business. He is responsible for transformation across internal business functions, and advises clients on transitioning to the future of work. Seán’s 2020 testimony on provided insight into the virtualization of work and how organizations can respond, recover, and thrive in the future.

Leveraging his 35 years’ cybersecurity innovation experience, Jim Richberg has served as Fortinet’s Public Sector Field CISO since 2019. Prior to this, he served as the national intelligence manager for cyber, the senior federal executive focused on cyber intelligence in the U.S. intelligence community. Under Presidents Bush and Obama, he implemented the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.

Eric Romero is a 27 year employee with the City of Baton Rouge - Parish of East Baton Rouge, currently serving as the Director of Information Services. During his tenure as director, Romero has seen the Department of Information Services transition from one which was focused solely on traditional internal information technology support to one which now also supports external initiatives, transparency and internal process improvements across the City-Parish government. He has led efforts to consolidate IT services, implement an enterprise resource planning system, launch the Open Data BR program and leads the City’s community approach to cybersecurity.

As a Client Technical Leader, Chris provides overall technology vision, guidance, and strategy for Public Sector clients across the United States. He is a highly talented, forward thinking IT leader with expansive experience in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud solutions, Cloud strategy, infrastructure architecture and design, IT systems transformation and systems integration.

Craig Woolley joined LSU as the new ITS Chief Information Officer in early August 2020. In his current role, Craig oversees the central IT Department, which has 200 full time staff.
Craig has more than 33 years of leadership experience in higher education IT and has been recognized for improving IT organizations using customer service and technological tools to enhance the user experience of students, faculty, and staff. In his previous role as CIO at Wright State University, Craig supervised the Computing and Telecommunications Services Division; chaired the Data Governance, Digital Accessibility, and Program Effectiveness Committees; and participated in the President’s Leadership team and Provost Council. In 2020, the Computing and Telecommunications division had a 99% customer satisfaction rate among the faculty and staff at Wright State.
Prior to WSU, Craig acted as Assistant Vice President for the University of South Florida IT where he oversaw a budget of $25.5 million, was responsible for 135 staff members, and participated in the implementation of a large-scale virtual applications portal that served 60,000 users.
Craig obtained both his BS in Engineering Technology and M. Ed. in Instructional Technology at USF, where he also oversaw IT for the Colleges of Education (1995) and Arts and Sciences (2000).