Jeff Davis has had a career focused on helping large organization to transform their customer experiences with a focus on improving the quality of an organization’s services. Jeff started his career with Accenture in their CRM practice, designing and building contact centers and has subsequently worked for Avaya, Cisco, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. He uses a consultative approach to provide recommendations to organizations that will fundamentally change and improve their service strategies.

Based in Hartford, CT, Toby is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Cyber Advisory practice, specializing in Identity and Access Management. He has eighteen years’ experience of leading high-performing information security teams with a proven track record of delivering executive-level strategic advisory services, developing security governance frameworks and implementing complex cybersecurity solutions across a wide range of industry verticals. Toby has broad experience in I.T. risk management, data privacy and governance, regulatory compliance, business process optimization, cloud security and framework development. He has deep expertise in security architecture and design methodologies, having led numerous cyber transformation programs around the world.
As the former Chief Security Architect and I.T. Security portfolio lead for a Fortune 50 financial services company, Toby is intimately familiar with the organizational, technical and business challenges associated with delivering security transformation programs within the modern enterprise. Prior to joining KPMG, Toby was VP of Strategy for Qubera Solutions, a leading cybersecurity consulting firm that was acquired by KPMG in 2014.

Peter Gallinari, Chief Data Privacy Officer (State of Tennessee) has held positions in leading financial/banking and health care institutions in the NY & CT area for 39 years prior to coming to the State of Tennessee in 2013. Former positions as: Chief Security Officer (CSO) at GE Capital, Chief Security Officer for Three hospitals in NY. He holds a number of certification in multiple IT fields. Strong working and leadership knowledge of compliance and regulatory controls in the areas of: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Act), PCI (Payment Card Industry), FTI (Federal Tax Information – IRS), FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act), CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services), FERPA (Family Education Rights and Privacy Act), SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Briley Act).

Matt Gibbons has over 25 years of experience in federal government, financial, technology, and travel Industries. During this timeframe, Matt has worked for industry leaders including United Airlines, American Express, Oracle, Northrop Grumman, Dun & Bradstreet and currently leads Concur Technologies Public Sector Team.
Matt’s experience and unique perspective on travel and expense management, credit card systems, financial systems operations and data analytics has enabled him to build numerous close relationships with the federal agencies’ travel, procurement and financial offices, as well as throughout the government contractor community. Specifically, he has worked with multiple governmental organizations, including the DoD, to design and implement industry leading solutions to more effectively manage travel operations and spend.

Jerry Jones is the Chief Systems Architect for the State of Tennessee. Prior to this position, he was the Chief Information Officer for the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.
Mr. Jones has worked in the information technology field for more than 24 years with experience in both the public and private sectors.
Mr. Jones retired with 20 years of service from the Ohio Army National Guard with a rank of Major.

As the Creative Director of User Experience and Design, Paul brings with him 10+ years of experience leading creative solutions for clients throughout the USA, UK and Canada. Paul leads a cross-functional team of UX specialists and designers to build strong, innovative experiences at OnX Enterprise Solutions. His team applies a user-centered methodology to enterprise-level web and mobile projects. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with internationally-recognized clients that include AMEX, RBC, and Aviva as well as expertise in government and academic spaces. Combined with his experience in retail, tourism, and health care, Paul’s strategy and design work spans a wide range of verticals and industries.

Daniele Loffreda is Advisor, State/Local Government, Education and Healthcare market development and consulting. In this role he leads Ciena’s initiatives to apply innovative communications technology and public private partnership models help the public sector ensure broadband access to all constituents, optimize their cloud strategies, deploy solid Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery strategies and improve data security. Daniele has more than 20 years of experience helping the public sector and healthcare industry leverage Information, Communications and Technology solutions provide greater value to their constituents, improve operational efficiencies and generate higher returns on public funds.

Kerri is a Director in KPMG LLP’s Cyber practice in the Philadelphia office and serves as the national leader for Cloud Security Strategy and Governance. Her expertise includes cloud security strategy and transformation, cloud architecture and design, cloud security management and monitoring, privacy and compliance, cyber security and assessments, end to end FISMA and FedRAMP security authorization for cloud service providers, global regulatory standards based risk and security assessments (NIST, CSA, ISO, SOC, etc.), and IT GRC strategy development and implementation for cloud service providers.
Kerri has diverse experience leading and coordinating cloud security and compliance and IT Advisory engagements across several industries, with a focus on cloud service providers in the technology and telecommunications industries, leveraging her understanding of the technical and business aspects of security to streamline security processes, and lead and assist teams in improving security efficiency within their programs. She leads projects around cloud strategy, cloud architecture and design, and cloud monitoring, focusing on key domains in vulnerability and threat management, identity and access management, security and performance monitoring, network, host and application security, change and configuration management, business continuity planning, mobile security, sensitive data ownership and classification, and encryption and digital rights management for cloud.

Ross Palan is a Business Relationship Manager and the key liaison that establishes partnerships with business and technology leaders developing roadmaps, strategies and solutions. As an effective Information Technology Business Partner, Ross interacts and communicates with individuals at all levels in diverse functional areas solving business problems by translating user requirements with IT solutions. Multiple high profile projects relied upon his Program & Project Management expertise to direct the work of matrixed project teams.

Bob is a Certified Master IT Architect and Chief Strategist focused on enterprise data, analytics and the Internet of Things. As a member of HPE’s Strategic Solutions Architecture (SSA) team Bob works with customers, industries, account teams, partners, and pan HPE product and services teams to drive opportunities, activities and initiatives around data analytics and business intelligence.
Bob joined HPE in 2010 as an Enterprise Solution Architect after spending 20 years with IBM as a Systems Engineer, Consultant, IT Specialist, and Certified Senior IT Architect responsible for the design, development, and implementation of global solutions for IBM customers. Within IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) Bob was a member of the GTS Architecture Board responsible for designing reference architectures for server consolidation and virtualization, infrastructure interoperability, and cloud computing. He is currently focused on big data, analytics and IoT and brings a strong background in infrastructure design and enterprise systems management. Bob has two patents in cloud implementation and holds additional certifications in ITIL and HPE’s ExpertOne Planning and Design of Business Critical Systems.
Bob guest lectures for the School of Engineering at Robert Morris University and volunteers for several non-profit organizations. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and MS degrees in Computer Information Systems and Telecommunications from the University of Denver.

Kumar Rachuri joined Adobe as Director of Healthcare Innovation from the State of Ohio, where he served for more than 18 years in executive leadership roles across five different agencies – from central services to mission-focused agencies.
Most recently, Rachuri was CIO for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), an agency with an annual operating budget of more than $20 billion. As a triple-combined agency, ODJFS manages administrative services and support for Medicaid, Welfare, Child Support, Children Services, Child Welfare, Unemployment Compensation, and Workforce Development. Rachuri managed an IT budget exceeding $275 million and oversaw the largest IT organization in a state government agency in the United States. Under Rachuri’s leadership in 2013, the ODJFS technology team was recognized by the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) – IT Solutions Management (ISM) for “Excellence in Human Services Technologies” in the “Collaboration Across Boundaries” category.

Timothy is often described as a Digital Evangelist with a focus on the broader Public Sector in the pursuit of identifying and operationalizing key elements of a Smart and Connected Government which includes Federal, State and Local as well as Education and Public Safety. In addition, he is equally passionate about IOT (Internet of Things) the connection of billions of devices which promises to deliver more meaningful data that can be used to transform how services are delivered. As a leader in the advocacy of Public Sector adoption of Smart Government and IOT, he is a key partner to many municipal and other public sector leaders and is a sitting Board member of MISA- the Municipal Information Systems Association. In addition, through ITAC, a Government Advisory Board he provides direction and in-sight as part of the Smart City Challenge initiated recently by the Canadian Federal Government. Helping customers map technology to Business Outcomes and Business Value is his focus and is a resource to OnX Enterprise customers as part of the OnX value.
Timothy has been in the IT business for over 30 years working with a wide variety of Public and Private sector customers across a number of leading organizations including Cisco Systems, Bell Canada, Stream Intelligent Networks and AT&T. Timothy has an intimate knowledge of the challenges and opportunities faced by many Governments by virtue of his 15 year working relationship with MISA and his extended interactions with many other public sector entities including major police forces like Toronto, Peel and York Police
Timothy’s focus is to work closely as an advisor to government in part to evaluate and vet various manufacturers capabilities as it relates to current and planned objectives as defined by our customers. Provide industry awareness, POC facilitation of potential solutions, and be a resource as needed in the delivery of the vision as set out by the public-sector clients.
Timothy resides in the Toronto area with his wife and two sons, enjoys golf, and is passionate about civic social responsibility including building homes with Habitat for Humanity around the world.

Dr. Alkis Simitsis is a Chief Scientist Cyber Security Analytics with HPE. He has more than 15 years of experience in multiple roles building innovative information and data management solutions in areas like real-time business intelligence, security, massively parallel processing, systems optimization, data warehousing, graph processing, and web services. Alkis holds 21 U.S. patents and has filed over 40 patent applications in the U.S. and worldwide, has published more than 100 papers in refereed international journals and conferences (top publications cited 3800+ times), and frequently serves in various roles in program committees of top-tier international scientific conferences. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

AT&T is focused on building smarter cities through digital infrastructure that can communicate and share data on an open platform that will allow for applications to solve many of the world’s problems. Mobility & Transportation, Public Safety & Security, Energy, Environment & Weather, Maintenance & Operations, Physical Infrastructure, Communications, and Resource Conservation and much more. Now cities can rely on help from 3rd party developers, local businesses and even citizens to use data to help solve problems.
Jamie’s main focus is to help cities to achieve these goals through adoption of new technologies, he has a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University and a MBA with a focus on information systems. Jamie comes to AT&T from GE & Motorola where he spent over 15 years in public sector vertical markets in multiple roles working on mobile solutions, applications and wireless infrastructure for public safety, education and government. Jamie has extensive experience working with government and public safety around solution design and integration using his digital six sigma skills and has sat on state broadband council boards and consulted with top leaders in government.

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.