Bob has served under Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli as a Deputy Comptroller and CIO at the Office of the State Comptroller since July 2013. In the agency responsible for fiscal oversight of state finances, he provides enterprise IT services and solutions. OSC IT systems include NYS Payroll, the NY State & Local Retirement Systems, and hosting of the State Financial System, each of which processes billions of dollars in payments annually to a variety of constituents.
Bob has worked for more than 25 years in IT positions within OSC, supporting a variety of functions across the spectrum of technology services. He has also served on the board, and is an active participant in the NYS Forum, a public/private partnership dedicated to increasing public sector awareness of technology.

Dan Thurmon is the founder and President of Motivation Works, a company that helps leaders and their organizations move confidently through change and transformation so that they achieve and contribute MORE. Dan is an expert speaker and performer. He has delivered thousands of presentations across six continents for audiences including world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, educators, and even troops on the front lines of battle. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame. Dan recently served as the President of the National Speakers Association. During his tenure, he led the Board of Directors and the 3,000+ member organization through a critical transformation, which included new governance, a new mission, higher member value, and greater financial accountability. He’s authored two books: Success in Action and Off Balance On Purpose. Dan produces an ongoing weekly video coaching series and podcast in which he shares leadership principles and life-enhancement strategies in under three minutes. He is a health and fitness advocate. In his 50s, Dan continues to train and perform advanced acrobatics, and enjoys hobbies such as golf, mountain unicycling and the flying trapeze.

Teri Takai is the Co-Director 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. She is a member of several industry advisory boards. Teri 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.

Phil Bertolini is the Co-Director 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.

Dustin Haisler is the Chief Innovation Officer for e.Republic. As Chief Innovation Officer, he has a strategic role to help shape the company’s products, services, and future direction. Primarily, he leads e.Republic Labs, a market connector created as an ecosystem to educate, accelerate, and ultimately scale technology innovation within the public sector. Dustin began he career at a very young age as the finance director and later CIO for Manor, TX, a small city outside Austin. He quickly built a track record and national reputation as an early innovator in civic tech, for which he was named a Government Technology Top 25 Doer, Dreamer and Driver in 2009. A member of Code for America’s original steering committee, Dustin pioneered government use of commercial technologies not before used in the public sector – including Quick-Response (QR) barcodes, crowdsourcing, and gamification. Dustin went on to the private sector to help broaden the adoption of these and other civic innovations. His work has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Inc., and the Today Show on NBC. An in-demand speaker, he has given two TEDx speeches – one on Disrupting Government (TEDxAustin) and the other on Disrupting Education (TEDxLivermore).

Prior to Governor Kelly’s appointment as Secretary of Administration, Dr. DeAngela Burns-Wallace served as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Kansas. Dr. Burns-Wallace started her career as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) with the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Burns-Wallace has been selected for various leadership opportunities, awards and honors throughout her higher ed and government career, including the 2018 White House Champions of Change College Opportunity, and earning a Superior Honor and three Meritorious Honor awards from the U.S. State Department. Dr. Burns-Wallace serves as a national trainer and curriculum developer for various national professional development organizations, non-profits, and higher ed institutions on issues ranging including micro-aggressions, multigenerational workplace differences, diversity and inclusion, change management, professional development pathways, and strategic planning. Service is also a cornerstone of her journey. Dr. Burns-Wallace currently serves on Stanford University’s Board of Governors, and has previously held board roles in numerous local, regional, and national organizations, and international selection committees including Gates Millennium Scholars, Dell Foundation Scholars, and Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright fellowships. Dr. Burns-Wallace holds a dual bachelor’s degree in International Relations and African American studies from Stanford University, a Master in Public Affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Anthony Huey is a highly popular international speaker and communications consultant who offers session attendees pragmatic communications tools, tips and techniques they can use immediately in their professional and personal lives. His career includes tenures as a news reporter, magazine senior editor, crisis management specialist, media relations consultant and executive speech coach. Anthony heads Reputation Management, LLC, one of the nation’s leading communications training and crisis consulting companies. He has presented nearly 2,700 keynote speeches, workshops and seminars. His direct client work includes a wide variety of advertising, public relations and communications initiatives for hundreds of trade associations, municipalities and companies.

Deep joined CDW in 2014 as a Field Solution Architect at CDW with over 19 years of experience in architecting and supporting multi-disciplinary technologies in order to address complex aspects of network and security infrastructures. He strives to provide outstanding customer service and aim to maintain a reputation for being able to define and implement enterprise security solutions which help clients define IT as a business enabler. Deep covers the Philadelphia and New York Metro regions.

As Director of Senate Technology Services, Jim oversees the New York State Senate's technology initiatives and operations that support 63 legislators and approximately 1,200 staff in one of the largest and busiest state legislatures in the nation. Recent projects include a new citizen-focused public website, a custom constituent management system to manage casework and communications with 19 million citizens, and a free open data feed of state legislative activity for the public. Prior to joining the Senate in 2001, Jim spent more than a decade at the New York State Assembly in various IT roles. He continues to pursue his lifelong interest in technology by speaking, writing, teaching, and volunteering with several outside organizations. A transplanted Arizonan, Jim would support legislation to make upstate New York winters a bit shorter.

As Principal Product Marketing Manager, Lori leads the Enablement for our Customer Success teams @ Adobe in addition to ensuring our Creative Cloud and Document Cloud enterprise customers have the best-in-class materials hosted on Experience League. You'll also see her with her evangelism hat on speaking at conferences and delivering training to Adobe customers.
Prior to her current role, Lori led Adobe Document Cloud Enterprise retention & customer engagement marketing strategy.
Lori has extensive marketing, sales, and training experience and is a frequent speaker at global marketing and technology conferences. Prior to joining Adobe, Lori held numerous marketing roles and worked as an engineer with Agfa. Lori holds an MBA (Global Leadership, Strategy & Marketing) from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, a BSEE from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Wellesley College.

The MS-ISAC has been designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the focal point for cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for the nation's state, local, territorial and tribal (SLTT) governments. Under Andrew, the MS-ISAC has greatly expanded its membership since 2012, and now boasts approximately 10,000 members across the country.

David Egts is the Chief Technologist of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector organization where he directs a global team of technical experts and field product management to help government clients improve service delivery the open source way. The Office of Chief Technologist, which he leads, adds value to flagship Red Hat technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and Linux containers. His team helps Red Hat achieve ideal product-market fit by ensuring current and future government requirements are factored into existing products and R&D efforts with a focus on security, compliance, standards, efficiency, and technological improvements. The government readiness activities performed by his team positively impacts public and private sector organizations in the US and internationally with a particular focus on Australia, Canada, Japan, and the UK.
David’s dynamic outward-facing role as a coalition builder reinforces and expands Red Hat’s relations with key government and open source community stakeholders nationally and internationally. He is a trusted Red Hat media spokesperson whose deep technical dives, C-suite policy discussions, and keynote speaker abilities enhance Red Hat’s technical reputation and positioning.
David received industry-wide recognition as a FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership awardee and a finalist for WashingtonExec’s Chief Officer Awards. He is a Red Hat Chairman's Award recipient and has won multiple highest employee honors from previous employers Silicon Graphics and Concurrent Technologies Corporation. He is a past Co-Chair on the Board of Directors for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Software & Services Division (SSD) and is an active member of the Agile Government Leadership Association and the AFCEA DC Emerging Technologies Working Group. David is a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) and a three-time graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS and MS in Computer Science and an Executive MBA (Katz Graduate School of Business).
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidegts/

As General Manager for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB), Ms. Galeazzi is responsible for all Information Technology (IT) services provided to the Attorney General, the Executive Office of the Governor, the Department of Talent and Economic Development, and the Department of Transportation. She oversees IT strategic planning and governance of IT investments, with a focus on customer service, innovation, and new technologies to achieve Agencies’ strategic business objectives. In her previous role as the DTMB Chief of Staff, she served as liaison between the state Chief Information Officer/DTMB Director and the senior executive team, leading and coordinating efforts to manage consolidated IT services and administrative services for all state agencies. She led the planning and implementation of various strategic IT business initiatives; accomplishments include the implementation of the 2014 State of Michigan Digital Strategy, Mobile-First Strategy and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Program, Michigan Cyber Range, Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps. Prior to joining the CIO office, she held senior IT management and IT program management positions, including president of a start-up web design company. Ms. Galeazzi holds a bachelor's degree in business administration, management of information systems.

Karen Geduldig is the is the Associate Chief Information Officer for the State University System of New York (SUNY) a network of 64 colleges and universities. With disruptive technologies and big data having transformed whole industries, SUNY is undertaking its own transformation. Karen was recruited as a leader in this transformation and is directing the development of modern technologies to unite SUNY’s campuses and create a frictionless online student experience; one that enables personalized learning and student success, supports development of a modern workforce, and optimizes SUNY's overall operations.
Prior to her current role at SUNY, Karen served as Executive Deputy Chief Information Officer for the New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS). She served as ITS’ first General Counsel and Ethics Officer from 2011-2015. In between her roles at ITS, was Director of the Office of Telecommunications in the New York State Department of Public Service, where she oversaw regulation of the telecommunications industry and was charged with establishing a framework that maintained high quality critical communications services while encouraging broadband and wireless deployment, innovation and investment. From 2005-2011 she held various positions in the Internet Bureau in the NYS Attorney General’s Office. Prior to joining State service she was a litigation associate in New York City for an international law firm.

Dr. Charles E. Grindle (Colonel, retired, U.S. Army) is currently the Leader of Digital Government at AWS, taking over the role after serving as an Executive Government Advisor. Chuck is an Information Technologist with a doctorate of philosophy in Information Science. He specializes in Information Security, Policy and Strategy. Prior to accepting a position at AWS, he was the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In addition to holding key military positons in Information Technology at the Installation, Agency and Theater level, he has taught academic courses on Contemporary Security Issues, Cyber Operations, theory of war and strategy, strategy and policy, and United States National security policy.

John Hampton is the Director of AMD Worldwide Customer Filed Support, leading the company’s pre-sales team. John’s technical sales organization supports all of AMD’s commercial solutions including AMD EPYC™ for the datacenter, AMD Ryzen™ PRO for commercial client, and AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper PRO and AMD Radeon™ PRO for workstations.
A veteran at AMD, John has spent 19 years at the company, all in customer interface roles spanning global & regional sales, global & regional business development, regional marketing, and product management. John has acquired a deep understanding of the semiconductor business, and built extensive experience working with different businesses and cultures around the world.
John is responsible for the creation and launch of ‘AMD PRO’, the enterprise-class client solutions AMD delivers to the market, for advancing the expansion of the company’s commercial platform portfolio, and for helping secure many of AMD’s largest customer wins.

Gerard has worked in the telecommunications and technology space for 29 years with 12 years of service to Public Sector/SLED customers. Gerard holds an MBA in Executive Management from Saint John’s University.

Dan Johnson heads State and Local Government customer engineering for Google, a position he has held since January of 2020. Dan and his team are responsible for working with a range of government customers to apply advances in big data and machine learning to their business problems. Prior to his current role, Dan led Financial Services customer engineering for Google working in Global Banking and Financial Markets.
Dan started his career 19 years ago at NLV Financial Corporation as a Systems Programmer. His path leading to Google in 2013 includes leadership and engineering roles at Cisco Systems, ATT and the University of Oregon.
"Through ML and AI, cloud computing will provide both the data storage and the processing power necessary to train new models tackling new problems that were previously incalculable."
Mr. Johnson holds a BA in Economics from the University of Washington and a MS in Organizational Leadership from Colorado State University.

Mr. Montgomery is a Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies. Chris helps public sector organizations align their business objectives with a supporting IT Strategy that enables digital transformation.
Chris is a well-respected advisor, having held CIO, CTO and CISO positions within NYC and NJ government. As former CTO, Chris has developed cloud migration strategies and implemented multiple cloud solutions using in public, private, and hybrid architectures. Chris holds multiple security and risk management certifications, and as a former CISO, he built information security and risk management programs from the ground up in highly regulated environments. During his tenure in NYC Government, Chris led multiple smart city and digital transformation projects modernizing legacy technology, having a positive impact with the way that citizens and businesses interact with City government.
He is recognized in the industry as a thought leader for organizational change management associated with technology modernization.

Nick Psaki is the Principal Engineer, Americas – supporting Public Sector for Pure Storage and based in the Washington, DC area. Nick is Pure Storage's senior technical resource for Government customers, providing deep technical knowledge of flash storage system architectures that enable business and technological transformation for government enterprises.
A 20-year veteran of the United States Army, Nick has extensive experience in designing, developing, deploying and operating large-scale information systems for data analysis, sensor integration and large-scale server virtualization. He was the Intelligence Information Architect for the Army G2 (Intelligence), as well as the Technology and Integration Director for Army Intelligence Futures.

Jim Richberg’s role as a Fortinet CISO leverages his 30+ years’ experience driving innovation in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and cyber strategy & policy. He is currently focused on cyber risk management, election security, and helping organizations maximize their IT efficiency and security post-COVID.
Prior to joining Fortinet, Mr. Richberg served as the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, the senior Federal Executive focused on cyber intelligence within the $80B+/100,000 employee US Intelligence Community (IC). He led cyber strategy for the 17 departments and agencies of the IC, set integrated priorities on cyber threats, and served as Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on cyber issues.
Mr. Richberg’s broad operational experience –including his 20 years at CIA-- gives him practical insight into difficult cyber challenges. He brings a strong focus on strategic problem solving and on framing complex issues in comprehensible terms that facilitate analysis and formulation of solutions.

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 and Smart Cities.

Matt is a Transformation Specialist at Red Hat and a long-time member of the global DevOps community. Back in the day, his license plate actually said “DevOps”.
Matt has over 20 years of experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase to internet firms including Apartments.com. He is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and ITSM focused events, including DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsDays, Interop, PINK, and others worldwide. Matt is the founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, as well as a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Doctor Who. He is currently on a mission to discover the best phở in the world.