Speakers
Aneesh Chopra
U.S. CTO, Executive Office of the President
Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland.
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Teri Takai
CIO, DOD
Teri Takai is the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (ASD (NII) / DoD CIO). She serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Information Management/Information Technology and Information Assurance as well as non-intelligence Space systems, critical satellite communications, navigation, and timing programs, spectrum and telecommunications.
Ms. Takai previously served as Chief Information Officer for the State of California. As a member of the Governor’s cabinet, she advised the governor on the strategic management and direction of information technology resources as the state worked to modernize and transform the way California does business with its citizens.
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Diane M. Bryant
VP & CIO, Intel
Diane M. Bryant is corporate vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Intel Corporation. Diane is responsible for the corporate-wide use of Information Technology (IT). Intel’s IT organization delivers leading technology solutions and services that enable Intel’s business strategies for growth and efficiency. The IT organization is comprised of over 6,000 IT professionals worldwide.
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Ben Fried
CIO, Google
Ben Fried is Chief Information Officer at Google, overseeing the company’s global technology systems. His extensive hands-on experience in technology includes stints as a dBASE II programmer, front-line support manager, Macintosh developer, Windows 1.0 programmer, and Unix systems programmer.
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John Berry
Director, United States Office of Personnel Management
John Berry is the Federal Government’s Chief People Person. As the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, he is responsible for recruiting, hiring, and setting benefits policies for 1.9 million Federal civilian employees. Calling this a new day for the civil service, he is reinvigorating the Federal workforce to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
John is working closely with partners both inside and outside of government to fulfill President Obama’s charge to “make government cool again” by developing flexible, results-oriented HR policies and working to change how Americans view their public servants. His goal: build a workforce of dynamic innovators who put serving the American people at the heart of everything they do.
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Gerry Connolly
Congressman, 11th District of Virginia
Congressman Gerald E. “Gerry” Connolly is serving his second term in the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia’s 11th District, which encompasses Fairfax County, Prince William County, and the City of Fairfax in Northern Virginia. He was first elected in 2008 and reelected in 2010.
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Tom Reilly
Tom Reilly has served as Vice President and General Manager of HP Enterprise Security Products. Mr. Reilly previously served as ArcSight Chief Executive Officer since October 2008. He also served as President of ArcSight since August 2007 and as a director since June 2008 until the acquisition of ArcSight by HP in 2010. Previously, Mr. Reilly served as ArcSight Chief Operating Officer from November 2006 to September 2008.
Prior to ArcSight, Mr. Reilly served as Vice President of Business Information Services of IBM, a multinational computer, technology, and IT consulting corporation. In addition, Mr. Reilly served as Chief Executive Officer of Trigo Technologies, Inc., a product information management software company, from November 2000 until its acquisition in April 2004 by IBM.
Mr. Reilly holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard Spires
CIO, DHS
Richard A. Spires was appointed in September 2009 to serve as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this capacity, Mr. Spires is responsible for the department’s $6.4 billion investment in Information Technology (IT). He leads and facilitates the development, implementation, and maintenance of the department’s IT architecture. Mr. Spires is the chairman of the DHS Chief Information Officer Council and the Enterprise Architecture Board. He strongly supports the Secretary’s goal of unifying and maturing DHS–one DHS, one enterprise, a shared vision, with integrated results-based operations. Mr. Spires also serves as vice chairman of the Federal CIO Council, and co-chairs the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
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Pete Tseronis
CTO,DOE
Pete Tseronis is the Department of Energy’s (DOE) first Chief Technology Officer where he applies his 20+ years federal leadership experience to catalyze the rate of technology adoption across the enterprise. He continues to develop inventive programs such as Innovation and Technology Summits, shares information on new technologies and partnership opportunities across the DOE, fosters an agile methodology for technology pilots, and leads enterprise programs focused on citizen engagement.
Recognized as a thought leader and transformation agent, Pete strives to bridge the divide among the public and private sectors in order to ensure that the DOE offers world-class services in support of its mission.
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Terry Kline
Terry Kline joined General Motors in December 2000 and was named Vice President, Information Technology, and Chief Information Officer effective October 1, 2009. In his new role, Kline is responsible for information and technology requirements globally at GM.
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Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist.org
Craig Newmark is the founder of craigslist.org, a site where people can help each other with everyday needs including housing and jobs. He’s also working with a wide range of groups using the Net to help each other out, like Donorschoose.org, the Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, Kiva.org and LendforPeace.org (microfinance), and Consumer Reports.
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Todd Park
CTO, HHS
Todd Park has served as HHS’s Chief Technology Officer since August 2009. In this role, his mission is to be a change agent and “entrepreneur-in-residence,” helping HHS harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health of the nation. Prior to joining HHS, Mr. Park co-founded Athenahealth and co-led its development into one of the most innovative health IT companies in the industry. He also cofounded Castlight, a web-based health care shopping service for consumers.
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Dr. Peter Levin
Senior Advisor to the Secretary & CTO, VA
Peter Levin was appointed Senior Advisor and CTO in June 2009. His primary role is to identify opportunities and implement improvements of Veteran health and benefit services by promoting a deeply collaborative culture, renovating business processes, and leading the development of new technology platforms. He is the executive sponsor of the Blue Button personal health record, of the Fast Track electronic claims processing system, and of the VA’s Open Government initiatives – especially its social media platform – all of which have been institutionalized by the agency as part of its ongoing transformation.
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Dr. David McClure
Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, GSA
David L. McClure was appointed as the Associate Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration Office of Citizen Services and Communications effective August 24, 2009. In 2010, the office was re-established as the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.
As Associate Administrator, McClure advances GSA’s responsibilities in serving the American people through open and transparent government initiatives to provide increased government accessibility to the public. McClure also identifies and applies new technologies to improve government operations and service delivery.
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Robert Stephens
CTO, Best Buy & founder of Geek Squad
A native of Chicago, Robert left a scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 to pursue a degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota. While attending the University, he landed a job fixing computers for the Human Factors Research Laboratory . Over a three year period, he rose to become head engineer of the lab while earning scholarships from the U.S. Navy and the FAA building flight and driving simulators. It was also during this time he started a computer consulting business.
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Rick Jackson
Rick Jackson is the Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. He has previously held chief marketing roles at Borland Software, BEA Systems, and NetGravity, and held executive-level positions in sales, R&D, and business development.
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Sandy Carter
VP Social Business and Collaboration Solutions, IBM
Sandy Carter is Vice President, Social Business and Collaboration Solutions Sales and Evangelism, where she is responsible for setting the direction for IBM’s Social Business initiative, working with companies who are becoming Social Businesses, and being the evangelist for the concept and best practices around Social Business.
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Nigel Ballard
Director, Intel
He is on the Board of Advisors of Fedscoop and is Chairman of their Federal Marketing Executive Board. Nigel is also a Delegate of The Intelligent Cities Project.
Originally from the United Kingdom, he now lives with his family and their dog Bowlie in Portland, Oregon.
He was awarded the Homeland Defense top award for his wireless technology and leadership during the Katrina disaster. When the 2010 Haiti earthquake struck he was asked by The White House to assist in the relief and recovery effort. He is also a Fed 100 winner.
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Christopher Dorobek
Founder, DorobekINSIDER.com
Christopher J. Dorobek is the co-anchor of Federal News Radio’s afternoon drive program, The DorobekINSIDER, managing editor of the DorobekINSIDER, and the founder, publisher, and editor of the DorobekINSIDER, a leading blog for the Federal IT community.
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Gwynne Kostin
Director, Mobile, Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies
GSA
Gwynne Kostin is Director, Mobile in the Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies at the U.S. General Services Administration. She is working with federal agencies to clear a citizen-centric path for mobile access to government.
Gwynne previously was director of GSA’s Center for New Media and Citizen Engagement, where she worked to make it easier for government to engage with citizens and citizens to engage with government through the development of cross agency tools, policies and services. There she launched the government’s free, policy-compliant “build-a-blog” platform apps.gov NOW and the contest platform challenge.gov.
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Dana Simberkoff
Vice President, Public Sector, HiSoftware
Dana Simberkoff is Vice President of Public Sector at HiSoftware Inc., an industry leader in the field of Web governance and digital content compliance. In this role she is responsible for managing HiSoftware’s public sector sales and partner organizations, as well as the company’s government education and outreach programs. Simberkoff is a subject matter expert and solution evangelist for HiSoftware and has been a featured speaker on Web content quality, privacy, metadata and accessibility issues for both government and private sector organizations, presenting to the International Internet Managers Consortium, the XMl.Gov working group, the European Union Ministerial Conference, the New York State Web Managers Working Group, and other executive level forums.
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John Bordwine
CTO, Public Sector, Symantec Corporation
With over a decade of experience in the security industry, John Bordwine is widely recognized as an expert in his field. John is currently the Public Sector Chief Technology Officer at Symantec where he is focusing on the specific requirements and certifications to ensure security solution compliance to the US federal and state/ local agencies.
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Dale Wickizer
CTO, U. S. Public Sector, NetApp, Inc.
Dale Wickizer is the Chief Technology Officer of the U. S. Public Sector at NetApp, Inc. He is also part of the Office of the CTO for all of NetApp, Inc. His responsibilities include setting future technology and product directions for the Public Sector group and managing key customer relationships.
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Roanne Shaddox
Senior Privacy Specialist, Division of Information Technology, FDIC
Roanne joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Privacy Program, as a Senior Privacy Specialist in 2007. The program is located within the FDIC Office of the Chief Information Officer/Chief Privacy Officer. In this capacity, Roanne works on a wide range of strategic planning, policy, privacy risk management and compliance, incident response, and employee awareness initiatives aimed at maintaining a culture of privacy throughout the Corporation.
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Steven Lott
Privacy Program Manager, Division of IT, FDIC
Steven B. Lott serves as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Privacy Program Manager, Washington, DC. His accomplishments at FDIC include establishing a risk-based Privacy Program. As a Senior Privacy Specialist, he advises the Chief Privacy Officer/Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer in the development, daily operation, and management of FDIC’s privacy program. He also represents the FDIC on the Federal CIO Council Privacy Committee.
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