Vinod Brahmapuram is Senior Director of Security for state and local government and education markets at Lumen Technologies. With more than 25 years of information technology experience, Vinod has held cybersecurity leadership positions in three states, advising governors and legislators on key cyber issues. Before joining Lumen, he served as the State Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Washington.

Craig Brown is the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Westland. As head of the City’s Department of Innovation and Technology, he is responsible for all aspects of Information Technology services for the City of Westland. As he would say, “If it touches electricity, then we are responsible for it.” During the past 8 years with the City of Westland, Craig has capitalized on over 25 years in various customer service driven industries to help facilitate and grow all aspects of technology service to the City’s 85,000 residents and staff from a service-oriented point of view and delivery. Every decision made by his department is geared to maximizing the ability of City staff to work efficiently in delivery of their products to the residents and to provide forward thinking, sustainable solutions based on what the resident’s needs are now and in the future. He is always looking for new opportunities in technology to provide better, smarter, more cost-effective ways to serve the City.
Currently, Craig holds multiple degrees and industry certifications, including a Bachelor’s in Technology Management. Under his leadership, the City of Westland has won numerous technology awards from various organizations, including the MI-GMIS 2023 Organizational Impact Project of the Year and Citizen Impact Project of the Year awards.

Nathan is currently responsible for all IT services for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. He has worked in State Government for 20+ years and happened to move into the HHS role just prior to the biggest public health emergency in a generation. Previously he has led IT for the Michigan Secretary of State, Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Transportation, Department of Insurance and Financial Services and Gaming Control Board. With a background as an Industrial Engineer, he approaches technology from a perspective of being people-centered, and lean and sustainable processes. Nathan is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Christine Burkette the CEO of Promising Integration Consulting Firm, Inc. (PICF Inc.), a black women-owned IT consulting firm, located in Detroit, MI. She is also the CEO and inventor of The 5F’s to Love, LLC., the new relationship compatibility and lifestyle brand.
She is from Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Northwestern High School. Her love for science and music motivated Christine to travel over 30 miles each way, by bus to high school. Her decision was based on attending a high school with a planetarium and a music program. During high school, she traveled the country as a young jazz musician and participated in several science and music competitions. In 1988, Christine won a national Duracell contest building a life-size ostrich, walked powered by Duracell batteries. She attended Delaware State University, in Dover, Delaware, completing her, B.S. degree in Chemistry, her M.S. degree in curriculum and instruction at Capella University, in 2010, and her 2nd M.S. degree in science at Marygrove College, in 2012. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Technology.

Tom Cantrell is the Business Relationship Manager for the Michigan Department of Management and Budget (DTMB) managing the IT support for the Department of Insurance and Financial Services. He has worked for the State of Michigan for nearly 25 years including stints with the Client Service Center, Michigan Business One Stop, Agency Services for Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) and the Secretary of State (MDOS). Tom has worn a variety of different hats for DTMB including help desk manager, quality assurance manager, business analyst and testing manager, development manager and manager of IT support services. Prior to working at DTMB, Tom aspired to be a journalist and sometimes finds himself wondering he went from dreams of covering the Detroit Lions or Michigan State Spartans, to managing technology resources and projects for the State of Michigan. He spends much of his free time writing.

Jayson is a public sector technology subject matter expert with 20 years of city and county government experience. Prior to joining AWS Jayson served as the Chief Information Officer for the City of Cincinnati where he led the city’s enterprise technology department, chaired the city’s IT Governance Board, and managed the city’s capital budget and project approval processes. Jayson also has a background in public safety technology having served as a county 911 and Emergency Communications Director, as well as experience in the private sector as a Business Analysis Manager responsible for technology contracts and procurements totaling $350 million in annually.

Romelia’s industry experiences combined with her unique software development and design expertise make her Global Markets’ most highly sought-after innovator. She has collaborated with leading clients in the design of Electric Vehicle Data Network Platforms, Space Object Analytics Systems, Health & Human Services, App Modernization, Hepatitis C Eradication, and Airports of the Future. She holds 84 US patents and 10 patents pending. In 2023 her point of view on AI was published in the Texas CEO Magazine. In 2021 she received the Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business Award. In 2018, she was the first female ever named to the Dallas Tech Titan Hall of Fame and was the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award winner from Great Minds in STEM. She loves yoga!

As General Manager in the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB), Ms. Galeazzi is accountable for all Information Technology services provided to the Department of Attorney General, the Executive Office of the Governor, the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, and the Department of Transportation. She oversees IT strategic planning and governance of IT investments, while providing exceptional customer service, fostering innovation, and harnessing new technologies to achieve strategic business objectives. With more than 25 years’ experience in IT, Ms. Galeazzi has held several senior executive, IT management and IT program management positions.
Ms. Galeazzi is a mentor with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT) Foundation, and she volunteers as a mentor in DTMB. She is the recipient of the Governor’s Coins for Leadership, Excellence and was also recognized with a State Leadership of the Year award. Under her leadership, Michigan received two national IT Recognition Awards by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). Ms. Galeazzi holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management of Information Systems (MIS).

Dan is the CTO and Global Client Delivery Lead for Accenture Song. Dan has nearly 30 years of consulting experience with first-hand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities related to implementing digital solutions in today's world.
Dan is an inventor with patents in Drones, Quantum Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. He is passionate about people and talent as he sees this focus as core to building high-performing delivery teams in today's world.
Outside of work, Dan’s hobbies include Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, off-roading (with a highly modified Jeep), and a continuous pile of tech projects that clutter his office. Dan is married, has two children and enjoys spending time on Lake Charlevoix in Northern Michigan in the summer.

Paul Groll is a dislodged UPer (Fayette) and a recovering coral reef ecologist with experience in a broad array of computer-related research projects at both the University of Hawaii marine biology lab and Michigan State University. After years of getting wet, he formally moved into computer science, mathematics, and theoretical ecology. Mr. Groll worked as a division director in the State's centralized IT department, supporting about 5,300 users in 83 counties, then his focus shifted to the architecture of complex and large-scale integration. His passion within IT is cybersecurity, Emerging Technology (Post-Quantum Cryptography, AI, and Blockchain) and complex data systems.

Jack Harris is the Chief Technology Officer for the state of Michigan. Harris previously served as the state's director of enterprise architecture and network strategies. Harris has been active in many areas of Information Technology for the State of Michigan since 1976. Over the years he has gained experience in business software design, database design and management, operating system management, transaction processing system design and management, network design and management, telecommunications management, and Enterprise Architecture development.

Brad is the Director of one of three regions in Google Cloud’s SLG and Higher Ed North American business unit. His Team's focus is AI, Analytics, Constituent Experience and Cyber Security. He has been working in enterprise technology for over 25 years with two decades spent at Novell and Oracle in leadership positions respectively. He is based out of Cary, NC where he lives with his wife and two small kids.

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.

Lloyd Levine is a former member of the California State Legislature where he served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce. Currently, Mr. Levine serves as T-Mobile for Government’s National Senior Executive for State Government Strategy and is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy.
As a Legislator, Mr. Levine established himself as one of California’s leading experts in energy, telecommunications, and technology policy. Mr. Levine’s desire to accelerate the deployment of broadband technology led him to author and pass the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act (DIVCA), which changed the way video and telecommunications companies were regulated, bringing statutes into par with the current technologies. He also successfully authored legislation streamlining and expediting the process of siting high-speed communications equipment on state property, and legislation changing the way school districts can procure technology.
Mr. Levine served as a member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Broadband Taskforce and was a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of the California Emerging Technology Fund. Mr. Levine currently serves as a Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, where he and the school’s Dean, Anil Deolalikar, co-founded the Center for Technology, Policy and Society.
Through his work and academic publications, Mr. Levine has earned a reputation as a nationally recognized leader in government technology and policy, including recently being named “one of the 40 most thought-provoking innovators in New York city and state” by the prestigious New York City & State magazine. Mr. Levine has appeared on television and radio programs across the country and has been published and cited widely in print media, with articles published in everything from daily newspapers to legal publications. Mr. Levine has also served as a panelist and keynote speaker at energy, and technology conferences around the world, and been a guest lecturer in many universities and law schools.
As a Senior Policy Fellow, Mr. Levine has multiple peer reviewed articles and book chapters on technology, utiliites, broadband and the digital divide and the intersection with government. Currently, Mr. Levine working on an edited book volume on the intersection of technology and government. Titled, “Technology vs. Government: The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object it will be out later this year.
Mr. Levine currently resides in Sacramento with his wife, Emmy award winning KCRA Anchorwoman Edie Lambert and their two children.

Proud of being considered a "maverick" by my boss, Anthony is self-proclaimed bureaucracy hacker, slayer of technical debt, and vocal proponent of digital services, technology transformation, and modular acquisition in government IT.
With over 30 years in information technology, 25 of them in public service, he continues to provide strategic leadership in all areas of information technology to my fellow executives.
Anthony is a strong advocate for integrating IT industry best practices into government program delivery, to provide human-centered services to residents in a secure and cost-effective way.
After working for Dell and Microsoft in Europe, and a Cisco VAR, Microsoft Solution Partner, and a municipal government in Canada, he has been with the State of Michigan Department of Technology Management and Budget for almost 9 years, where he reports to the Chief Technology Officer as the Director of Technology Transformation Services.

Dane Spencer has been with the State of Michigan since April of 2019, starting as an operations manager in the Center for Shared Solutions, then moving to Service Manager for the State of Michigan’s Single Sign On Solution known as MiLogin. MiLogin provides a secure authentication gateway for over 350 state services, across 16 agencies. MiLogin manages over 10 Million identities including Public , Business, and Internal worker user types. MiLogin was moved under Michigan Cyber Security in October of 2022. MiLogin underwent a branding refresh of its public portal in June this year focusing on improving end user experience. Prior to joining the State of Michigan, Dane held various IT positions in the private sector with Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett Packard, and General Motors spanning 22 years.

Simon is the State Administrative Manager in Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) overseeing practical IT solutions to improve state agency business processes. He has 20-year IT development and management experience in juvenile justice, human services, transportation, education, finance, and healthcare. He also possesses professional knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Enterprise Architecture Framework, Big Data, Security Network, Audit Compliance, SQL/Web/App Server Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity, Security Accreditation Process, and Cloud-based IT Solutions.