Hon. Michael A.L. Balboni is the President and Managing Director of RedLand Strategies, which provides expert consultation services in crisis and emergency management, market development, and governmental affairs for technology firms, local municipalities, and Fortune 500 companies. RedLand has consulted for Pure Storage since March 2017. Before founding RedLand Strategies, Balboni served the public in both the legislative and executive branches of New York state government. Following this, Balboni was appointed Deputy Secretary for Public Safety and Homeland Security Advisor to the New York State Governor, where he oversaw all security, law enforcement and emergency management agencies.
Currently, Balboni is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a Trustee for the New York State Trooper Memorial Foundation. He was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and confirmed by the State Senate to the New York Power Authority’s Board of Trustees, where he serves as the Chair of the Cyber and Physical Security Committee.
In addition to his government service as an elected official, Balboni held other leadership positions, including:
Advisor to the Homeland Security Transition team for President Barack Obama
Member of NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Homeland Security and Public Safety Transition team
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security, and Military Affairs, the first-ever appointed in New York State
Security Chair for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Balboni completed his undergraduate studies at Adelphi University and earned his Juris Doctorate degree at St. John’s Law School.
Balboni appears on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC and is often invited to speak at national and international conferences on topics including terrorism, cyber security, crisis communications, politics, technology, media strategy, brand protection, and emergency response. He recently presented at the BCI World Conference in London and the NCT Europe Conference in Germany.

Mike is a Senior Technology professional focused on statewide business solutions and systems integration for public sector clients with 20 years of IT experience. Mike specializes in analyzing functional and non-functional requirements and applying knowledge of middleware, COTS tools, architecture design patterns and use of infrastructure to design statewide business solutions. Mike has 18 years of experience in Public Sector consulting.
Mike has helped a number of clients develop technology roadmaps that align with business strategy by defining incremental architecture improvements over a period of time to achieve the desired future state. In addition to designing new solutions, Mike helps clients maximize technology investments by leveraging reusable building blocks such as middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Process Automation and Business Rules Management products.

Millicent Calinog is a senior vice president and global product management manager with Treasury Management, which offers the industry’s leading treasury solutions on a single global platform. She leads the Treasury Management application program interface (API) and Banking-as-a-Service product strategy.
Millicent’s earlier positions at Wells Fargo include launching the International Product Consulting team and Advisory Council program, as well as product management roles within the Commercial Electronic Office (CEO) portal and Treasury Management teams. Before joining Wells Fargo, she was a senior tax consultant with Arthur Anderson and an attorney.
Millicent received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a juris doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Gauthier Choquet is a System Computer Engineer with 9 years of international experience in the management and administration of complex and secure systems. He serves as the Product Owner for DevOps at Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD). He started working for DYCD in 2015, after working as a Regional IT Manager for the French Embassy based in South Africa. There, he was responsible for managing overall major IT operations that affected both Security and Integrity of IT Systems throughout the African continent.
Gauthier has a strong record of consistently increasing information system management quality and user experience. Possessing analytical qualities, he carries out his duties and achievements with determination and seriousness, despite both technical and functional constraints.

Michael D’Ambrosio is the Agency Chief Contracting Officer (ACCO) in the Bureau of Administration of the New York City Office of the Comptroller. In this role, Michael oversees the coordinating, planning and implementation of the Comptroller’s procurement and contracting activities. The Comptroller’s contracting portfolio includes investment management services, information technology, legal services, auditing services, financial services and other goods and services needed to support the office.
Michael’s past experience includes serving as the ACCO for Capital Projects with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Division Chief for Contract Registration in the Comptroller’s Bureau of Contract Administration and Deputy ACCO with the New York City Emergency Management Department. Michael is a licensed attorney in New York State and holds both a J.D. and B.B.A. from Hofstra University.

Joseph Fiorella is an information security professional with extensive experience in managing and supporting global enterprises. He is a trusted security advisor for many enterprise organizations and assists them with their security initiatives. Joseph has worked with a vast amount of security tools and technologies over the years including: Backtrack, metasploit, malware analysis tools and penetration testing tools. Also, he has worked with industry recognized security technologies from McAfee, Symantec, Cisco, and Trend. His certifications include: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), CompTia Security+, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator

Michael Jackson (MJ) is the Business Leader for Public Health and US Elections at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he leads an agile team that commercializes industry-specific cloud offerings for highly regulated environments and addresses the unique needs of mission-driven stakeholders.
Prior to joining AWS, MJ served as General Manager of Consumer Health at Intel Corporation, providing executive leadership, vision, and go-to-market strategy for growth in consumer healthcare markets worldwide.
Previously, as Director of Digital Government & Public Health at Adobe Systems, MJ led corporate strategy for these industries as he established new lines of business and led the commercialization of digital solutions currently trusted to help power federal, state, and commercial Health Benefits Exchanges in over 30 US states.
MJ earned an MBA and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Baltimore. He is also a proud veteran of the US Coast Guard and serves on the Board of Directors at Health Care for the Homeless, a non-profit organization in Baltimore, MD.

Alex Kapasouris is a Principal Systems Engineer at Symantec, with over 20 years in information technology – the last 8 years focused on security. He currently works with State & Local Government and Education (SLED) customers to address and respond to the pressing cyber security concerns of today. In addition, he works closely with customers to develop best practices in protecting users, systems, and critical data, analyze current security trends, and to identify cyber threats and respond to cyber-attacks.

Born, raised and still living in New York City, Ron came to public service five years ago after three decades in the private sector. As an entrepreneur, an executive, and most recently as Chief Operations Officer for an ecommerce company, Ron brings a unique set of skills and experience to the IT procurement process. In his position as Executive Director for the Office of the Comptroller, Ron manages IT procurements, directs the agency Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plans, and oversees the Central Imaging Facility (CIF), where New York City contracts are submitted for registration.

Thameem Khan works as Field CTO at Dell Boomi. He has been with Boomi for 8+ years. He has been instrumental in providing thought leadership and competitive positioning Boomi. He is an avid blogger and loves to write about Boomi. He is good at two things: manipulating data and connecting clouds.

For the past 12 years, Nancy has been working with government agencies to leverage data to meet compliance requirements, inform decision making and drive program performance. Today this includes aligning emerging advanced analytics capabilities, such as Artificial Intelligence, to government requirements and their ability to consume these capabilities. In her current role she is responsible for Salesforce's Public Sector Analytics business across Fed-Civ, Defense, Canada, State and Local government.

Kimberly Nelson joined Microsoft Corporation in 2006 and now serves as Executive Director of the U.S. Public Sector’s State and Local Government Solutions team. In this capacity, she leads a team of subject matter experts covering Justice and Public Safety, Health and Human Services and Modern Government. Her role also includes serving as the U.S. CityNext Lead and working in collaboration with Microsoft’s vast partner ecosystem to develop repeatable solutions that will ensure the predictable delivery of improved online services while helping to reduce the cost, risk and deployment time associated with sophisticated systems.
Prior to joining Microsoft Ms. Nelson served in management and executive roles at both the state and federal levels of government. Her last two government roles were Assistant Administrator of the Office of Environmental Information, US EPA and Executive Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Ms. Nelson has a Bachelor’s Degree in degree in Political Science (Shippensburg University) and a and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (University of Pennsylvania).

As the Vice President, Technology at Crown Castle Fiber, Philip Olivero oversees the company’s product and market development efforts. He came to Crown Castle with the company’s acquisition of Lightower Fiber Networks where he served as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to this role, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sidera Networks where he was responsible for all aspects of engineering across Sidera’s fiber, optical and IP/Ethernet networks. Mr. Olivero also has served in executive level engineering and operations positions at FiberTower, XO Communications and Fundy Communications (Canada), and held several management positions of increasing responsibility at MCI and Bell Canada. Mr. Olivero holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada). Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and approximately 60,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major US market. This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology, and wireless service—bringing information, ideas, and innovations to the people and businesses that need them. For more information, please email fibermarketing@crowncastle.com or visit http://fiber.crowncastle.com.

Chris Patteson has over 20 years of experience as a leader, practitioner, and innovator within GRC and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) in the manufacturing/logistics, technology and logistics sectors. He is an executive responsible for IRM with a leading global logistics corporation. Chris led data sciences and automation organization in developing new models, methods and architectures in fraud management and cargo security risk. He also led global research and strategy development for emerging global transportation models and led Integrated Risk Management transformation to improve adherence and reporting of compliance gaps.
Chris’ current research lies in security architectures related to risk systems and risk data science. His work led to a patent for Methods, Systems, and Devices for Detecting and Isolating Device Posing Security Threats.
Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Tennessee and an MBA from Christian Brothers University.

Craig Pfister is a Senior Director of Sales Engineering who works with business executives to increase security, governance and transparency of their digital assets. Craig believes that in the digital age, a comprehensive security framework around an organizations digital assets is critical to any businesses overall strategy. After spending nearly a decade working as a VP in Financial Services focusing on Portfolio Analytics, Craig understands that data drives good business and investment decisions.
Craig focuses on financial theory, risk management, security monitoring and secure collaboration as well as innovative security solutions for global corporations.
Craig holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Alabama.

Lorin Price is a Customer Engineer for State and Local Government within Google Cloud. She started her career as a Technology Consultant working with Amazon Web Services and is certified as both an AWS and Google Cloud Platform Architect. Lorin specializes in helping customers transition from hosting applications on-prem to building robust Cloud solutions that exceed customer's needs. She is currently based in New York City.

Nick Psaki is the Principal, Office of the CTO for Pure Storage Public Sector, and joined the company in February 2015. He is the senior technologist for the Federal, State, Local and Higher Education segments.
A 20-year veteran of the United States Army, Nick has extensive experience in designing, developing, deploying and operating information systems for analysis of large sets of varying data types. He was the subject matter expert for the Army's DCGS-A requirements directorate, Intelligence Architectures Chief for the Army G2 (Intelligence), and the Technology and Integration Director for Army G2 Futures directorate. He has served in multiple peacekeeping and combat operations ranging from the Balkans in the 1990's (Operation Able Sentry VI and Operation Joint Endeavor/Joint Guard) to Iraq and Afghanistan in the post-9/11 era. For the past several years, Nick has been focused on ways in which new and emerging technologies can enable more rapid and cost-efficient analysis of ever-growing bodies of data.
Nick is married to Stacy, his lovely wife of 19 years. They have three children, and live in Falls Church, VA.

Rina Sharma is the Deputy CIO at the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development. Her role as Deputy CIO is to lead DYCD IT’s digital transformation by leading Business Relationship Management, IT Architecture, and assisting the CIO in planning and setting the strategic vision of the department, prioritizing projects, and establishing best practices.
She is a results-oriented technology professional with over twenty years of experience in software development, 18 of which has been serving the DYCD user base. She has had experience working in various industries including Textiles, Healthcare, and Health and Human Services, as well as with various technologies. She also has extensive experience in architecting and designing Web and Client / Server applications.
Her passion lies in providing great customer service as well as coming up with solutions that help users accomplish their work in a productive manner.

Jackson works in the Public Sector Sales Consulting organization and leads the Security East S&L, HC and HE LOBs.
Jackson's personal strengths are in the technical management of sales consultants, product expertise in IDM and Database Security, along with architecture and implementation of client use cases. Jackson has over 18 years of experience in the software industry working in roles including development, consulting, sales consulting, and management. Jackson has also worked on an onsite-offshore model and has the experience to lead and work with an offshore team.

Dave Wakeman is a Cloud and Blockchain Evangelist at IBM for clients in US Public Markets. He has spent his career working with clients across North America to help them discover and unlock the value of IBM solutions such as business process management, integration, Watson, Cloud and Blockchain. He has been a developer for more than 25 years and has worked with many of the latest technologies and practices, including node.js, Java, DevOps, Microservices, Enterprise Design Thinking, Docker, Kubernetes, and IBM Cloud. He spends his time educating clients on the value of cloud by leading hands-on workshops that immerse his clients in the development experience for cloud-native applications.

Carl Willis-Ford is a Senior Principal - Solution Architect for General Dynamics Information Technology, a premier provider of IT Services for the Federal Government. He is an ex-Navy Nuclear Reactor Operator on fast attack submarines. Since leaving the Navy, he has 25+ years in project management, security training, technical architecture, and data security. He is involved in numerous activities regarding training and awareness programs and cyber workforce development:
Advisory Board Member for the National Cybersecurity Students Association
Technical Working Group, NIST-sponsored Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association
Working Group, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)
Regular guest lecturer for NASA’s Security Awareness Program
Planning committee for the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE)
Planning committee for the Community College Cyber Summit (3CS)
Mr. Willis-Ford holds a B.S. in Computer Science, an M.S. in Network Security, an M.S. in Technology Management, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate. He is a Senior Member of the Information Systems Security Association.