Tanya Acevedo serves as the Chief Information Officer of Travis County, Texas. Travis County is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation consisting of more than forty elected officials who direct departments that perform various functions such as voting administration, parks and recreation, justice and public safety. Ms. Acevedo has more than 25 years of public and private sector experience, her previous position was with Orange County, California and takes pride in bringing process improvements to life through proper technology strategies and effective collaboration with her business partners. She has her BA from Michigan State University and MBA from Central Michigan University.

Michael Hussey was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Technology Services in October 2015.
In 1995 Michael was hired in the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget working as an integral member of the IT team serving the technology needs of Governor Leavitt.
In 2002, Hussey was part of the team which designed, developed and implemented a critical software application and statewide database for the Lt. Governor’s Office upon congressional mandate. Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which required states to have a centralized voter database
In 2013, Hussey received the Governor’s Award for Excellence for Outstanding Public Service.
Hussey attended Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.

Todd Kimbriel serves as the Deputy Executive Director of the Texas Department of Information Resources and State Chief Information Officer. He previously held the position of Deputy Executive Director at the agency.
Mr. Kimbriel joined the agency in 2008 to serve as the Program Manager for the internal Information Technology division and was promoted to Director eGovernment and Information Resource Manager (IRM) in 2010. As the Director of eGovernment, he absorbed added responsibility for leadership of Texas.gov, the Official Website for the State of Texas. In 2012, he was given the additional responsibility to lead the Data Center Services transformation and program. Through hard work and a dedicated focus on customers, staff and bottom line results, Mr. Kimbriel was promoted to Interim Chief Operations Officer in 2013, and confirmed as Chief Operations Officer in 2014. As Chief Operations Officer, in addition to existing areas of responsibility, he provided leadership to critical programs including the state's voice and data network, technology cooperative contracts program, and technology policy and planning. Mr. Kimbriel was promoted again in 2014 to Deputy Executive Director. On January 1, 2015, he was named Interim Executive Director and Interim Chief Information Officer for the state, and currently oversees all operational aspects of the agency.
Before joining state government, Mr. Kimbriel served more than 25 years in the private sector. He is a lifelong information technology professional, having spent time in all aspects of technology including planning, design, operations, customer service and management. His industry experience outside of public service includes telecommunications, aviation, retail merchandizing, and import/export. He graduated from Syracuse University with an undergraduate degree in Finance.

Peeter Kivestu is Transportation & Logistics Industry Consultant, responsible for Teradata’s solution strategy in public sector transportation. Previously in air transportation, he held positions across finance, marketing, operations and information technology at American, Canadian Airlines International, and Northwest, including roles of VP Advanced Productivity Programs, VP Technical Operations and VP B2B Sales. For many years he directed Teradata's global travel industry marketing.
Peeter has an Engineering degree from Brown University and a Master's degree in Aeronautics from MIT.

As CTO for the state of Georgia, Dr. Nichols advises the leadership of the Georgia Technology Authority and state agencies on technology issues. He has played a key role in important initiatives to modernize state government IT, including the privatization of IT infrastructure services and managed network services in 2009. He oversees Georgia’s state portal and led its award-winning redesign. Government Technology named Dr. Nichols as one of the nation’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers for 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Nick Psaki is the Principal Engineer of the Americas at Pure Storage and is based in the Washington, DC area. Nick is Pure Storage's senior technical resource for Public Sector, 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 information systems for data analysis, sensor integration and large-scale server virtualization. He was the 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.

Steve Reneker has rejoined the County of Riverside as its Chief Information Officer. Most recently, Steve served under Mayor Eric Garcetti as the General Manager for the City of Los Angeles’ Information Technology Agency. Prior to his service to the City of Los Angeles, he took on the position of Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Riverside and as Executive Director of the non-profit organization SmartRiverside. He previously worked as the Business Development Manager for the Dell Corporation in its Public Safety and Criminal Justice group. Steve Reneker served as Riverside County’s first CIO from 1997 to 2003, and has worked in IT for over thirty years, to include senior management roles in the City of Aurora, Colorado and the Eastern Municipal Water District.

Chief Information Officer, County of Pinellas, FL
Mr. Rose was appointed the Chief Information Officer for the Pinellas County Business Technology Services Department in September of 2013. He comes to Pinellas County from Connecticut where he served in the same role with the CT State Department of Education. He has been in the Information Technology field for over thirty years with a diverse range of experience in supporting many different private and public sector business missions.
Mr. Rose started his Information Technology career working for IBM in New York. He worked for IBM in many different roles from Systems Analyst to Project Manager. After ten years, he left IBM to pursue a key technology leadership position in an Internet Business to Business startup called World Merchandising Exchange. Although the technology deployed was highly innovative for the time, the business model did not succeed. He moved on to other key technology leadership positions within the private sector leading the Technology Operations teams for both a large-scale marketing company and a global mid-size semiconductor chemical company.
After many years in the private sector, he sought a position in the public sector and joined the State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology as the leader of Distributive Systems and Application Hosting department. He successfully worked with many state agencies in a business relationship role to direct teams in the delivery of system design and deployment of applications to meet the Governor’s E-Government Initiative. He was reassigned to lead the technology team at the Department of Transportation were he led the modernization of all technology systems while building new online maps and tools. He then took over as the leader of the technology team at the Department of Education where he led the building of technology solutions needed for the Governor’s Education Reform Initiative.
Mr. Rose possesses a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and an M.B.A. in Strategic Management. He is married with five children.

Joe has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise technology solutions. He joined HP in 1999 as an Enterprise Systems Consultant for Investment firms. Joe then joined HP’s Imaging and Printing group where he designed security solutions that streamline document workflows, secure sensitive data and maintain regulatory compliance for HP’s Financial Services customers. Joe currently manages the WW Security and Industry Consulting business, bringing innovative analysis and solutions to enterprise clients.