Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson appointed Phil Bertolini as Deputy County Executive/CIO for Oakland County in January 2005. Bertolini is a vocal advocate for cloud and enterprise solutions in government, cross-boundary resource sharing, and inter-jurisdictional cooperation. He has overseen the development of unique government technology programs such as the G2G Cloud Solutions Initiative, the G2G Marketplace, the Cyber Security Assessment for Everyone (CySAFE) initiative, the GeoVision Assessment, and the TechDebtCheck Assessment. Bertolini promotes his philosophy of “Build it once, pay for it once, and everybody benefits” to government agencies across the nation and globally. Bertolini received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University. He resides in Oakland County with his wife and two children.

Chris Black is a former mobile carrier executive and entrepreneur with almost twenty-five years of experience creating wireless technology ecosystems. Chris is a wireless data industry pioneer, achieving ground-breaking success in the development, distribution, and monetization of mobile data applications. As a CDW Business Architect, Chris has a unique ability to communicate technical concepts, in a non-technical way, in order to cast a common vision across your organization. His mission is to help clients in the development, and execution, of strategies that build IoT ecosystems which will positively impact the way the public sector serves their citizens.

Chris Christensen serves as a director within Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection Division at the State of Michigan. He is instrumental in helping Michigan to become the first state to consolidate security functions, both cyber and physical, into one organizational unit of government. In this capacity, he is responsible for operational security and emergency management for state government facilities.
Christensen chairs the Capital Regional Security Group, he also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council and the Homeland Security Preparedness Committee. In addition, he oversees the Cyber Disruption Response Plan for the State of Michigan. He specializes in ongoing IT-based physical security, development of cybersecurity risk assessments and optimizing the security posture, policies, procedures and processes for the state. He has a Bachelor Degree in Phycology from the University of Utah and a Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Colley Law School.

Rod Davenport is an I.T. professional with 25 years of experience across a variety of industries including publishing, automotive, health care, and energy with skills developed across a broad array of computer technology disciplines. He is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer for the State of Michigan, responsible for IT Strategy, Vendor Management and Innovation, Infrastructure & Operations and Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design. Prior to joining the State, he was most recently employed with DTE Energy where he focused on innovation and emerging technologies as well as taking a lead role in Department of Energy research grants conducting an analysis of Smart Grid communication protocols.
Rod holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Lawrence Technological University.

Deb Fett has more than 20 years of private-sector, education, and government information technology experience. With a background built on management, strategy, networking, programming, and cybersecurity, she shares her talents not only with Ingham County but also on the boards of several IT organizations including Mi-GMIS, Capital Area IT Council, and the Information Systems Security Association Lansing chapter where she serves as Vice President.

Patrick is currently Deputy CIO for Wayne State University, headquartered in Detroit, MI. In this role, he serves as a liaison and catalyst between central IT, university researchers and the business community with an emphasis on high performance computing, advanced networks and big data.
He also serves as Executive Director of the Community Telecommunications Network (CTN) which manages the EBS licenses and associated services for its six member institutions -- WSU, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit Public Television and the intermediate school districts of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. CTN is a not-for-profit 501 c. (3) organization. It provides grants for basic access to the Internet and for innovative use of technology to improve education, health, and public safety. CTN was a key donor and member of a Detroit consortium which aggregated $5 million in grants and in-kind contributions to train more than 6,500 low-income residents and help them get free or low-cost computers and Internet access. CTN continues to seek ways and partnerships to bridge the digital divide.
Patrick has more than 45 years of experience in computing and networking going back to the days of minicomputers and mainframe computers. He started working at WSU in 1975 as a consultant assisting faculty and staff with statistical analyses on the university’s computer. In subsequent years he helped market the university’s timesharing services (which would now be considered cloud services.) He served in multiple management roles including director of university television where he took on responsibility for the university’s FCC license for instructional television (ITFS). His work in ITFS (now EBS) spectrum began in 1989 and led to his role as chair of the National ITFS Association from 1999 to 2007, a time of tremendous development and change in technology and FCC regulations. He continues to serve on the board of directors for what is now the National EBS Association.
He holds a doctorate in Psychology with minors in Computer Science, Statistics and Measurement.

Jon Grewe currently serves as the Senior Systems Engineer supporting Government and Education in Michigan for VMware. His 22 years of experience in IT has spanned multiple disciplines, including application development, release management, and data center operations. Prior to joining VMware, Jon served in a senior global operations management role with responsibility for building and managing both teams and facilities in multiple countries. He also was responsible for defining and implementing processes, operational standards, and conducting site consolidation globally. In building a global cloud system Jon also managed budgets, including rate models and forecasting. His work to define and implement managed services that met the needs of customers in multiple industries has given him a broad knowledgebase to draw from to help VMware’s Public Sector customers here in Michigan.

Sam Hall is the State and Local Government Marketing Manager at Laserfiche, a role that perfectly matches an early IT background, degree in economics, and over a decade in public service. Sam developed support for clean technologies as deputy to California’s Senate Transportation Chair and later played a critical role as a city employee in obtaining approvals for developing $3 billion in major infrastructure projects at the Port of Long Beach, America’s second largest seaport. Prior to joining Laserfiche, Sam also managed citywide franchise contracts, services, and public education throughout Southern California for a Fortune 500 company. Inspired by years of bureaucratic bottlenecks, Sam is driven by his passion for leveraging technology to improve constituent services and engages information professionals in governments across the United States to realize the financial and operational benefits of Laserfiche.

Dan Kinsella is an Advisory Partner serving as the Deloitte national Extended Enterprise and Third Party Assurance leader. Dan combines business and technology solutions to help his clients create and optimize their extended enterprise. Dan is also one of the Firm leaders on our Service Delivery Transformation integrated market offering focused on improving client’s efforts in shared services and outsourcing environments.
Dan serves national and international clients and currently focuses designing solutions for risk, control, and cyber management including governance approaches, model design, and transparency through automation and analytics for C-Suite executives. Dan specializes in creating synergies to allow the efficient exchange of risk information in a marketplace. Dan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP).

Mr. Kronick, an accomplished security innovator and security architecture thought leader, serves as Director of Security Services at PCM, Inc., a trusted technology partner for thousands of businesses and government entities in North America and Europe.
Mr. Kronick has over 25 years of professional experience in providing strategic and tactical privacy, security, risk management, transformation and forensics assurance services to healthcare, governmental and commercial entities; prior CISO roles at Gartner, CitiBank, Purdue Pharma and Estee Lauder. Mr. Kronick has significant expertise in public / private law enforcement liaison activities, “Big 4” public auditing (Deloitte), SOX, PCI and security compliance management and global security operations and transformation.
Prior to joining PCM, Mr. Kronick was Vice President at Coalfire Systems, leading the Western Security Practice. Mr. Kronick also served as Senior Manager at Accenture, responsible for delivery of risk and security services to many large commercial healthcare, retail, banking and government clients.

Ken is an Application Sales Manager and a twenty-nine year veteran of AT&T, coming up through the Ameritech & SBC organizations. Ken has managed technical overlay sales teams for the past 15 years, with the last twelve focused on delivering unified communications and collaboration solutions in the Government and Education markets. He spends considerable time in the field with his team talking with state and local government, K-12 and higher education customers throughout his eight state territory. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ken holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bradley University and a Masters in Business Administration from Cleveland State University.

Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala is co-founder and CEO of RiskSense. He has been researching and developing security technologies for over 15 years, working on malware analytics (focuses on medical control systems and non-traditional computing devices), breach exposure management, Web application security, and enterprise risk reduction. Mukkamala was one of the lead researchers for Computational Analysis of Cyber Terrorism against the U.S. (CACTUS). He has been published in over 120 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of information assurance, malware analytics, digital forensics, data mining, and bio-informatics. He has a patent on Intelligent Agents for Distributed Intrusion Detection System and Method of Practicing. Mukkamala received his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras, before obtaining his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech.

Chris Neff leads the marketing, market research, and consumer insights functions for NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV). NIC is the nation’s largest provider of digital services and secure payment processing solutions for federal, state, and local agencies. The company’s user-friendly self-service solutions are used by 28 states and more than 5,500 federal, state, and local agencies nationwide.
Chris is a frequent speaker on understanding the evolving citizen mindset and how to build and market relevant digital services. He is also a professional voiceover artist and occasional radio host for the National Public Radio member station in Park City, Utah. He received an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA from the University of Michigan.
Chris lives in Park City with his wife and two children.

Suzanne Pauley serves as the director of eMichigan, the state office responsible for the vision, development and design of Michigan’s digital imprint. eMichigan brings citizen-centric government to the state’s residents and businesses, providing mobile and web technology resources and ensuring a secure portal to connect residents with a host of online services. She leads development for the MiPage application, Michigan’s mobile portal to government resources. She also oversees the team that earned Michigan placement among the nation’s top 10 state websites in 2015 and 2016 and a top 5 placement in 2017. In 2017, StateScoop editors chose Suzanne as one of the "Top 50 Women in Technology”. Pauley has worked for the State of Michigan since 2000. Over the course of her career, she has been an application developer and project and program manager.

John has been providing technology solutions to organizations for more than 20 years. John joined ivanti through the Shavlik acquisition where he’s spent four years focused on application security. Prior to Shavlik, John has held a variety of roles with VMware, MicroStrategy, and other technology companies.

After Graduating from Michigan State University with a BA in Political Science, Dexter worked as a Community Planner for the City of Lansing’s Planning and Development Department working with residents to acquire, demolish and reuse property in the city’s floodplain. In 2012 Dexter began pursuing a Masters of Urban Planning at Wayne State with a focus of Metropolitan Growth Management. In late 2013 Dexter began leading the data team at LOVELAND Technologies, where he worked on projects like Motor City Mapping and helped develop a national parcel database that covers over 140 million parcels. In November of 2016 Dexter joined the Department of Innovation and Technology’s GIS team. Dexter sits on the Board of Directors in his neighborhood North Rosedale Park Where he lives with his girlfriend Chelsea and dog Agnes.

John is an experienced technology sales and marketing executive with extensive experience in technology, network infrastructure, project management, financial analysis, and operations management. He has key vertical industry experience with financial services, legal, K-12 education, higher education, SLG and non-profit/associations.

20 years of Information Security experience for private and public-sector entities, including CONUS and OCONUS engagements for the U.S Military. Concentrating on Could migration, the security ramifications for next generation protection as customers evolve and shift to new infrastructure environments.
Educating customers on the entire threat landscape. Rapid response and actionable information about emerging threats, empowering customers to maintain their network data security and integrity. With new attacks vectors developing frequently, the resurgence of malware, ease of distribution with IOT devices coupled with expanding BOT Networks, and additional exposure through API layers, it's no longer enough to rely on known vulnerabilities when monitoring networks.

Sean heads up ForeScout Technologies’ Public Sector State & Local government SE practice for the US, has seventeen years of hands-on experience architecting and building security solutions and managing production environments, integrator, and manufacturer, and in leading security teams from all sides of the table. Sean is responsible for articulating and demonstrating how the ForeScout value proposition of “See-Control-Orchestrate” for IOT, SCADA, and critical infrastructure controls fills the gaps between defense-in-depth tools, and lets state, county, and municipal authorities build their own self-defending networks leveraging the tools they have already invested in. Previously, Sean has worked at Symantec, SRA International, and Northrop Grumman, where he has held a variety of roles in Cyber Security Architecture, Cloud Infrastructure and Security, Network and Infrastructure Security, Systems Management, Network Management. He holds his Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration, and resides in Northern Virginia.

Dongxiao Zhu is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan. His current primary research interests are machine learning and data science with applications to learning from big data in health informatics, bioinformatics, natural language processing and multimedia. Dr. Zhu has published over 60 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters and he served on several editorial boards of scientific journals. Dr. Zhu’s research has been supported by NIH, NSF and private agencies and he has served on multiple NIH and NSF grant review panels. Dr. Zhu has advised numerous students and undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels and his teaching interest lies in programming language, data structures and algorithms, machine learning and data science.