Phil Bertolini is 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.

David has 20+ years' experience across a broad range of industries in both private and public sectors including retail, construction, technology start-up, internet commerce and transportation. Prior to joining MassDOT in 2016, he held several technology-based positions at Monster Worldwide with the last seven years as Vice President of Global Business Technologies and Operations. David has a background in finance, project management and technology and holds an MBA from Salem State University.

John Capello plays an instrumental role directing Nasuni’s product strategy, and can often be found working with customers and technology partners to understand their requirements and identify new use cases for Nasuni’s global file system.
Before joining Nasuni, John was Vice President of Product at fast growing startups Abuzz (acquired by The New York Times) and Tabblo (acquired by Hewlett-Packard). He also served as a general manager for The New York Times Digital and as a consultant for McKinsey and Company.
Earlier in his career, John worked as an independent consultant for a leading pharmaceutical company, an innovative CAD developer, and a green energy monitoring startup, helping them make greater use of analytics in their respective businesses.
John earned his MBA degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was the recipient of the McKinsey Award. He also graduated from Harvard University with a BA degree in Social Studies and Music.

Ben leads the State & Local Government vertical at Juniper Networks, consulting with governments at all levels to deliver experience first networks. He collaborates with Juniper leadership for vertical alignment, focus and customer satisfaction. Ben strives to be confused at a higher level every day.

The Executive Office of Technology Services & Security provides secure and quality digital information, services, and tools to constituents and service providers when and where they need them.
As a member of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security Senior Leadership Team, Don oversees the Office of Operations and Service Management and lead the agency's efforts in focusing on unifying and enhancing our service delivery and customer support functions in line with our technology modernization efforts.

Paul has devoted his career to helping local governments be on the forefront of using technology to increase value delivered to the public. He has over 30 years in various Information technology roles in both the public and private sectors including 20 years leading Information Technology departments. He now helps local governments get the most value from their significant investment in people, process, and technology.
Some of Paul’s accomplishments include leading two different IT organizations that earned Top-10 Digital Counties Survey awards for a combined 11 times. He has also earned an InformationWeek 500 Government Innovators award.
Paul holds Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Information Systems degrees as well as undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Psychology.

The Executive Office of Technology Services & Security provides secure and quality digital information, services, and tools to constituents and service providers when and where they need them.
As a member of the EOTSS Senior Leadership Team, I provide strategic direction for technology that supports government operations across the Executive Branch including oversight for a number of key initiatives such as the development of the Commonwealth’s Cloud Smart strategy, Enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Secure Managed File Transfer.

Alan is Executive Vice President of e.Republic and Publisher of Government Technology magazine and Techwire. In this role, Alan is involved in the annual production of dozens of events as well as the strategic direction for Governing, Government Technology, Emergency Management, the Center for Digital Government and the Center for Digital Education. Alan is also the senior executive that has overall charge of e.Republic’s research organization which includes, custom research, the Digital Government and Digital Education Navigator tool and the Content Studio (webinars and custom content).
Alan has been a guest lecturer at universities and a frequent speaker for key government and industry organizations. For over 35 years, Alan has worked with industry, education and government officials to help them better understand the importance and use of information technology. Alan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at California State University, Sacramento.

As the Minneapolis CIO for seven-plus years, Otto Doll was responsible for all city IT services. He also served as South Dakota’s CIO for 15 years with responsibility for all state government computing, telecommunications, radio and public broadcasting. While with IT research firms, Otto has advised Fortune 1000, federal, state and local government CIOs on information technology assessment and alignment to business needs. He has served as a director with the United States General Services Administration, developing information technology strategic plans and oversight policy.
Otto received his computer science degree from Virginia Tech and is a senior executive fellow of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a past president of NASCIO – a national organization of state CIOs. He also is a past president of the Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX) – a national organization of city and county CIOs. Otto was named to Government Technology's 2004 Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers.

Jose Escobar is a Managing Partner leading the Education Domain within Verizon’s Public Sector organization. In this role, Jose is responsible for the overall growth of the education business at Verizon. In collaboration with business development, product, marketing and channel partnership teams, he works with Education institutions helping to solve for digital equity, remote and personalized learning, enhancing student experiences and digital transformation.
Jose previously led the national business development efforts for Verizon’s Smart Communities organization, focused on solving challenges associated with Sustainability, Public Safety and Transportation. Jose worked with state, local and education leaders in support to address their increasingly complex business challenges.
With more than 20 years working with technology, Jose has lead strategy and business development efforts in various organizations and within Verizon has led go-to-market efforts within Global Enterprise, System Integration Channels, and most recently within the Public Sector organization. Jose earned a Business Degree from Suffolk University and a Master of Science from Boston College.

Yvonne is a lifelong resident of the Commonwealth with over 30 years’ industry experience and marked success including: Harvard University’s Xplor International 1994 “Innovator of the Year” Award for contributions on the ground-breaking CUPID Project. Yvonne’s volunteer work is extensive and acknowledged: Recipient of the Edwin L. Cooper Award by the Mayor’s Office of Boston in 2007; Judge for FIRST Robotics for six years; Advisory board for 2 vocational graphic communications programs in the Commonwealth; 3-time Mentor for the U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership; Ambassador for Live Green Connecticut for 5 years. In 2019 Yvonne was appointed to the board of the Massachusetts Genealogical Counsel (MGC) a not for profit, all volunteer organization. In 2021 she was inducted into the Evans Society for Horizons at SHU. She proudly serves New England & New York for Xerox.

Jason is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and has over 25 years’ experience in IT. He has worked in every space of IT operations from infrastructure hardware and executive customer support. The last 15 years of his career has been within the IT Enterprise Mobility space. He has led the mobility program for Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a global manufacturer of paper products such as Kleenex and Huggies. Jason came to work for the commonwealth in January of 2021 from American Airlines where he led initiatives which transformed their mobility space while providing support for over 100,000 mobile devices critical to flight operations.
As the Director of Enterprise Mobility for EOHHS, Jason and his team is closely engaged with all the EOHHS departments to offer world class “mobile first” experiences and solutions.
Jason has recently relocated to the New England area with his wife and three German Shepherds. Working for an airline, and being able to travel has made him appreciate new places and cultures and is eager to explore all that Massachusetts and all of New England has to offer.

Ryan is the Vice President of Threat Intelligence for Unit 42, a cybersecurity consulting group that brings together world-class threat researchers and elite incident responders to protect enterprises against the latest cyberthreats. His area of expertise is detecting and identifying actors and groups conducting cyber-crime and cyber-espionage operations. Ryan is a contributing author to the book Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures, and primary author of Cyber Security Essentials.

Andy Powell is the Adobe State/Local Government account executive supporting the State of New Jersey. With over 20 years of State Government account experience, Andy specializes in supporting customers in transforming how government delivers its mission through digital transformation. As the Chair of his town’s Planning and Zoning Commission, and previous Chair of the Board of Education, Andy brings both IT and practical government experience to successful solution deployments.

John Punzak is VMware’s Senior National Director for Business Development for the state & local government and education markets. His team of BD professionals understand the needs of government customers and bring VMware solutions to solve their business challenges. We work hand-in-hand with systems integrators and partners to offer complete solutions for their large, programmatic needs.
Prior to joining VMware, John worked in the public sector vertical market as the National Sales Director at Red Hat for 11 years, as a Regional Sales Manager for Oracle for 10 years, and as a Regional Sales Specialist for Unisys for 4 years.

Deborah is an accomplished C-level influencer, with a broad range of experience in government, policy, cybersecurity, privacy and information technology. She is an experienced and highly respected thought leader who has held executive roles for over two decades. She recently retired from her position as New York state’s chief information security officer (CISO) after over 35 years of public service.
In that role, as part of New York state’s information technology transformation and consolidation initiative, she helped redesign how the state protects its data. As state CISO, she directed the state’s comprehensive cybersecurity governance, risk management and compliance program, providing strategic leadership and vision and assuring business-aligned, risk-based investments that maximized business opportunity and minimized cybersecurity risk. She also directed the NYS Cyber Command Center, hotline, procedures for reporting and response to cyberthreats and digital forensics.
She holds multiple industry certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC); SANS Strategic Planning, Policy and Leadership (GSTRT) Global Information Assurance Certification; and Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Dave Sohigian is Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Workday, and tasked with helping customers to get the most out of Workday. He runs the Global Office of the CTO and his team is responsible for communicating Workday’s strategy to customers and prospects, and informing the development organization about market needs to influence future innovation. Dave joined Workday 11 years ago and most recently served as CTO for EMEA. Prior to joining Workday, he held a number of development and technical consulting roles and joined the organization as Principal Enterprise Architect. Dave holds a BSc degree in Fermentation Science from the University of California, Davis.

Nicholas Speece is the technical leader for the Snowflake Federal team. His vast experience of more than 20 years covers the areas of cyber security, enterprise data center hardware and software, software development, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. He is a ten-year veteran of the United States Air Force and a dedicated technologist.

Thomas Steegmann is a Principal Architect for AT&T Public Sector Solutions supporting the mid-Atlantic region. Tom has been in the telecommunications industry for 20+ years, focused on next generation, enterprise solutions encompassing data communications and complex integration across multiple environments. Tom is currently focused on helping his Government customers modernize their workforce and infrastructure via mobility and cloud technologies, including IOT, Smart Cities, and the Digital Divide.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-steegmann-752b8b2a/

Teri Takai is 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. She worked for Ford Motor Company for 30 years in global application development and information technology strategic planning. From Ford, she moved to EDS in support of General Motors. A long-time interest in public service led her to the government sector, first as CIO of the State of Michigan, then as CIO of the State of California and, subsequently, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense, the first woman appointed to this role. She then served as the CIO for Meridian Health Plan.
Teri is a member of several industry advisory boards. She has won numerous awards including Governing magazine’s Public Official of the Year, CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame, Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers, the Women in Defense Excellence in Leadership Award and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Maria has over 20 years of experience in information technology and cybersecurity. She served 20 years in the United States Marine Corps and retired as the cybersecurity chief. Maria recently departed the North Carolina Department of Information Technology where she held the position as the state’s first Chief Risk and Security Officer.

Feng has over 25 years of experience working in local government IT and holds a M.S degree from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She taught at Umass/Boston for 10 years as an adjunct faculty and served on many professional boards in the New England area.

As Global Head of State, Local, & Regional Government Solutions for ServiceNow, Tom's mission is to connect ServiceNow's rich portfolio of solutions to the most pressing needs of State, Local, & Regional governments around the globe. Relying on his experience as a government CIO and his interactions with hundreds of government customers of ServiceNow, he provides strategies and insights to help solve the challenges government agencies face today.