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7:30 — 8:30

Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:40 — 9:45

 Welcome Remarks & Keynote Presentations

What Happens When Your Life as a Change Agent Hits a Bump in the Road?

_Moderator:
Tom Shoop, Vice President and Editor in Chief, Government Executive

_Panelists:
Richard Spires, CEO, Resilient Network Systems
Martha Johnson, Leadership Author and Speaker, former Administrator of the US General Services Administration

Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor, The Economist, Co-author, Big Data

9:45 — 10:10 

Networking Break & Solutions Showcase

10:10 — 10:50  

10:55 — 11:35

 Underwriter Spotlight Sessions

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Clearing the Hurdles to Agency Innovation:
6 Steps to Success
Change Management. Procurement. Cloud. Security. These are just some of the biggest hurdles your agency faces on a day-to-day basis when trying to meet mission objectives. Add these into the complexities of implementing new digital communications and technology strategies, and your new project can quickly be derailed. Learn how your agency can overcome the biggest hurdles to agency innovation and the six steps you can take to successfully deliver vital information and services to your constituents.
 

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Roopangi Kadakia, Web Services Executive, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mark Pietrasanta, Chief Technology Officer, Aquilent

How healthcare.gov broke down data silos and achieved mission success
When developing healthcare.gov, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) faced issues that nearly all government agencies must overcome: how to manage disparate data sets, combine them with other data, and securely exchange information with other federal agencies, state agencies, the public and insurance companies. Government agencies are collecting more data than ever before. That data is being stored in purpose-built systems – creating data silos that are hard to use for any other purpose. This session highlights how a new Big Data technology called Enterprise NoSQL has been helping healthcare.gov and other public sector programs eliminate data silos to quickly and vastly improve mission effectiveness while reducing the time and cost of implementing Big Data IT projects.

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Jonathan Bakke, Senior Vice President, Global Services, MarkLogic

11:40 — 12:20  

12:40 — 1:10

 Luncheon & General Session

Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights Director, Government Accountability Project

1:20 — 2:00 

 Underwriter Spotlight Sessions

That’s Cool - But How Will It Work in My Environment
Emerging technologies, even present-day technologies show constant promise for positively impacting how government agencies conduct their missions and how citizens can better interact with government services. But all too often, those technology solutions are generic and still require significant investment before they can add value to an agency. Enter Applied Innovation – a call to arms for the tech industry to invest in showing how the art of the possible intersects with the real-world missions of government.
 

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Scott Gaydos, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Public Sector, Enterprise Services, Hewlett-Packard Company

Driving Operations Through Analytics

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Bryan Jones, Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Analytics, U.S. Postal Service

Bob Messier, Senior Business Director, SAS

Dominic Sale, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Information Integrity and Access, Office of Government-wide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration

2:05 — 2:45  

2:45 — 3:00

Networking Break & Solutions Showcase

3:00 — 5:00  

 General Session & Nextgov Bold Awards

Muriel Bowser, Democratic Nominee for 2014  Mayoral Election in Washington, DC

Michele R. Weslander Quaid, Chief Technology Officer (Public Sector), Innovation Evangelist; Google, Inc.

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Nextgov & Young Government Leaders Innovation Town Hall

_Moderators:
Frank Konkel, Events Editor and Technology Reporter, Government Executive Media Group 

Justin Herman, Social Media Manager, Center for Excellence in Digital Government, U.S. General Services Administration

_Speakers:
Dr. David Bray, Chief Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission 
Corina DuBois, Chief New Media, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State
Jenn Gustetic, Prizes and Challenges Program Executive, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hillary Hartley, Presidential Innovation Fellow, 18F, U.S General Services Administration
Isaiah Joo, Chief Information Officer, Young Government Leaders & Program Analyst, Department of State

Bold Awards Ceremony (Finalists recognized & Winners announced)

5:00 — 6:00  

Nextgov Bold Awards Reception

7:15 — 8:00

Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:00 — 9:00

 Dialogue Breakfast 1:

Aligning Federal, State and Local Efforts. How to Maximize Technology’s Impact Across Multiple Levels of Government.

_Moderator: 
Mitch Herckis, Director of Government Affairs, National Association of State Chief Information Officers

_Panelists:
Adrian Gardner, Chief Information Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security 
Jonathan Feldman, Chief Information Officer, City of Asheville, North Carolina 

Rob Mancini, Chief Technology Officer, City of Washington, DC

Dialogue Breakfast 2:
Mobility 2020: Government in a World Gone Mobile

_Moderator: 
Tom Suder, Founder, Advanced Technology Academic Research Center

_Speakers:
Ken Fang, CEO, Mobomo
Dan McCrae, IT Service Delivery, Office of the Chief Information Officer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Rory Schultz, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 

9:10 — 10:30

  Welcome Remarks & General Session

Catching the Trusted Insider: An Insider's Look at the Hanssen Spy Investigation  

Eric O’Neill, Founding Partner, The Georgetown Group

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In the Future, Will Privacy be a Thing of the Past?

_Moderator: 
James Miller, Associate Chief Information Officer, Office of Managing Director, Federal Communications Commission

_Panelists:
Alvaro Bedoya, Executive Director, Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown Law 
Alexander Joel, Civil Liberties Protection Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Dr. Lisa Singh, Computer Science Professor, Georgetown University

10:30 — 10:50  

Networking Break & Solutions Showcase

10:50 — 11:30

11:35 — 12:15

 General Session & Conference Closing

Internet of Things

We are rapidly approaching a world with 1 trillion sensors, where machines and every-day objects like cars, household appliances and wearable devices are filled with sensors that collect data and send it across the Internet. This inevitable convergence of the physical and virtual worlds presents both untold challenges and opportunities for the future government.

_Moderator:
Camille Tuutti, Executive Editor, Nextgov

_Panelists: 
Janna Anderson, Director, ImaginingtheInternet.org 
Dave Bottom, Director, Information Technology Services Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 
Dr. David Bray, Chief Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission
Chris Reed, Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

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Janna Anderson is the lead author of the "Future of the Internet" survey research series, published by Pew Research biennially, and a professor of emerging media at Elon University. She is a co-author of Pew's May 2014 report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive in 2025" which is one of eight reports on "Digital Life in 2025" that Pew will release in 2014. She is the director of Imagining the Internet, Elon University's global-good research project that illuminates people's expectations today, their hopes and fears, for the future of communications networks tomorrow. For more details, see: www.imaginingtheinternet.org. Anderson has been a steering committee member and planner for World Wide Web and Internet Governance Forum-USA conferences, and she is a Global Internet Governance Forum participant. She is the author of six books that reveal people's current hopes and fears for emerging human networks, including the "Future of the Internet" series and the American Library Association's Choice Award-winning "Imagining the Internet." 

Dr. Rebecca Ayers serves as the Manager for Performance Management Solutions (PMS) in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  PMS provides reimbursable solutions to Federal agencies to address individual and organizational performance matters necessary to properly create and sustain a healthy and effective results-oriented culture. Rebecca is also the Program Manager for USA Performance, OPM’s automated performance management system.  She has managed consulting work, performance management, and telework projects for cabinet level and other independent agencies. Prior to this position she served as the Strategic Planning and Performance Manager for HR Solutions, the reimbursable division of OPM, and was responsible for organizational strategic and business planning and execution and performance management and evaluation.

Rebecca has facilitated and worked with both public and nonprofit organizations to identify organizational goals, develop strategic plans, and implement performance management systems. She regularly presents at professional and academic conferences on performance management and strategic planning best practices and latest trends and research. She began her Federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow at OPM where she managed workforce and succession planning projects for other Federal agencies. 

Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Transatlantic Studies from the University of Bath, England. She completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration at North Carolina State University where her research included public management, performance management, and strategic planning.  She is also teaches Public Organizational Behavior and Theory in the Masters of Public Administration program at North Carolina State University.

Rebecca is a fulltime teleworker with OPM and resides just outside of Raleigh, NC.

Thomas Bayer currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Thomas oversees the Commission’s IT program including strategy, application development, infrastructure operations and engineering, user support, IT program management, capital planning, information security, and enterprise architecture. He also is responsible for the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system, which electronically receives, processes, and disseminates more than 500,000 financial statements every year.  He also created the “Working Smarter” program to transform the SEC by using technology to improve core business and operational processes.  The plan supports vital technology initiatives including an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), standardization of an enterprise platform, knowledge management, seamless integration of structured and unstructured data sources, modernization of SEC.gov and the EDGAR filer system, advanced search and discovery capabilities, data management, cloud computing, and a suite of analytical capabilities. 

In addition to his role as CIO, Thomas has been actively involved in policy making to include Regulation Systems, Compliance and Inspections (Reg SCI) and the Automation Review Program (ARP) which provides oversight and inspection of market participants and the Self-regulatory organizations (SROs).  As part of the ARP, Thomas was involved in providing root cause analysis and resolution for major cyber hacking events of exchanges and market moving events including Knight Capital, Facebook IPO, and the NASDAQ and NYSE SIP failure.   He has also helped write the SEC Cyber Disclosure Guidance and provided guidance on several Cyber Security issues.  

Luke Beckman works in Disaster Operations for the American Red Cross serving as the national manager for situational awareness. In his current role, he is responsible for ensuring that all levels of the Red Cross response and leadership workforce have access to the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. He is responsible for training, overseeing, and leading over 3,000 remote and field-based Red Cross rapid assessment and planning personnel. He first began coordinating disaster response operations after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and since has responded to, and led, operations at the local, state, national, federal, and international levels. He graduated with honors in international security from Stanford University.

Alvaro M. Bedoya is the founding Executive Director of the Center on Privacy & Technology.  Prior to joining Georgetown Law, he served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law and to its Chairman, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.). In this capacity, he advised Senator Franken in crafting legislation on mobile location privacy, health data privacy and NSA transparency and worked to improve privacy protections for biometric technology like facial recognition and fingerprint readers. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. 

Ben Berkowitz is co founder and CEO of SeeClickFix.  For his work on SeeClickFix with his three co-founders Jeff Blasius, Kam Lasater and Miles Lasater he was named Huffington Post’s 2010 Technology Game Changer, Inc Magazine’s “Entrepreneurs we love” and Government And Technology Magazine’s Top 25 Innovators for 2011. Ben was also awarded the Citi/FT Urban Ingenuity award for 2013 Ben recently contributed an Essay titled Power To The Community to the book Shift and Reset by Brian Reich.  He has been a featured speaker on civic participation and open government at  SXSW, The World Bank, The US Department of State, The White House, Bif6, Picnic in Amsterdam and many others.  Outside of SeeClickFix he enjoys planting trees with his neighbors, hanging out with his wife Kati, his son Oliver and his puggle and his mutt and cycling and walking around New Haven, CT where he is a proud citizen. His current extracurricular activities include helping a large public mural on a highway underpass, http://www.insideoutnhv.com and starting a local makerspace, makehaven.org

A well-known proponent of open government, data transparency, and utilization, Beth Blauer is a true visionary and the nation’s leading expert in implementing government “stat” programs. She has helped to design and bring Socrata’s GovStat platform to all levels of federal, state, and local governments as well as non-profit organizations and international NGOs. She is also renowned for her leadership of Maryland’s innovative performance management program, StateStat.

Beth currently oversees the development of Socrata’s performance management and collaboration tool, GovStat. She assists customers in the identification of high-value data, the application of data to internal strategic frameworks, and the communication of progress on strategic frameworks to both internal and external stakeholders. Socrata’s GovStat customers include the States of Maryland, Hawaii, and Washington; the Cities of Baltimore, Kansas City, and New York; and San Mateo County.

While working in the office of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Beth acted as the de facto chief operating officer for the state and also developed and implemented a statewide performance management program called StateStat. StateStat is credited with improving across-the-board outcomes, especially in education, health, public safety, and the environment. It is widely recognized as the nation’s leading government performance management initiative and credited with significant achievements, such as a 24.5 percent reduction in violent crime.

Through StateStat, Beth oversaw roughly 85 percent of the State’s budget and a comparable amount of its workforce. She supervised a team of 10 analysts in the alignment of the State’s data to the Governor’s Strategic Goals and convened regular meetings with the Governor’s Cabinet and facilitated data-driven, collaborative discussions focused on both agency performance and agency contributions to the state-wide strategic framework. Additionally, she organized public forums to solicit feedback and contribution from the public to the State’s strategic framework and process.

While working in Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services, Beth served as Chief of Staff, as well as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Case Management Specialist III (Court Liaison). Her numerous positions allowed her to take on many roles and responsibilities. She supervised 50+ employees in the communications, legislative, and community outreach units. She also provided supervisory support to both the operations and programmatic divisions of the agency.

Dave Bottom was appointed to the position of Director, NGA Information Technology Services Directorate in February, 2012. This directorate, stood up in February 2012 was formed by merging all the Agency’s Information Technology (IT) functions into a single organization. As the IT Services Director, he leads a mission-driven organization which designs, builds, tests and operates mission and corporate IT services for the National and Allied Systems for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG/ASG), Department of Defense and Intelligence Community partners worldwide.

Previously, Dave was Acting Director, Enterprise Operations Directorate, where he led a diverse Government and contractor team responsible for engineering, acquiring, operating and securing the Agency’s world-wide IT and information services infrastructure. In this capacity, he ensured continuous systems operations and the exploitation of technology to ensure the operation and sustainment of
the NSG infrastructure around the globe.

Dave has held various senior executive assignments in line organizations and program management. Previous line management positions include Deputy Director, Enterprise Operations, and Director, ISP Core Services Office, where he was the principle executive responsible for the operations and sustainment of the NGA and NSG IT Infrastructure, including a 24x7x365 operations center. His past Program Management assignments include duties as the Agency’s first Assistant CIO for Infrastructure, and NGA IT Infrastructure Program Manager, where he was responsible for developing and executing major IT Infrastructure acquisition, systems engineering and operations programs, including the IT acquisition for NGA Campus East, the Agency’s headquarters in Springfield, VA.

Prior to joining NGA, Dave was an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, where he entered into Federal Service in 1997. At CIA he served as the Program Manager for the NIMA/CIA Network Connectivity Program. Dave also managed large scale network upgrades in several agency campuses, and led the government and contractor team responsible for operations and sustainment of the agency's networks in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Before Dave joined Federal Service, he worked in a professional services firm under contract to the Naval Sea Systems Command's Aegis Program Office, where he was responsible for contract execution and business development.

Dave's education includes a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is also a graduate of the Senior Manager’s in Government Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the DoD’s CAPSTONE Flag Officer’s Program.

Mr. Bottom has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career, including selection to Meritorious Presidential Rank as a Senior Professional in 2010.
 

Muriel Bowser brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to leadership, legislation, oversight, and policy‐making in the District of Columbia. She was first elected Ward 4 Councilmember in a special election in 2007 and re-elected in 2008, and again in 2012.

Each time, voters endorsed Muriel’s ambitious agenda focused on an open and ethical government, rebuilding quality neighborhoods, and transforming our schools and commercial corridors. Councilmember Bowser has also focused her attention to better the lives of residents District-wide.

Most recently, as Chairwoman of the Committee on Economic Development, Muriel continues to press for more economic opportunities for all DC residents. Previously, as Chairwoman of the Committee on Government Operations, Muriel worked with her colleagues to pass comprehensive Ethics Reform in the District of Columbia, improved the safety and efficiency of the Metro system, and increased transparency in government contracting. As Chair of the Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation and the Committee on Public Services and Consumer Affairs, Muriel championed the causes of increasing the revenue generating potential of our public spaces, curbed bullying in our schools and recreation centers, and created consumer protections for homeowners facing foreclosure. Besides representing the District on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Muriel also served as Chair of the regional Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Transportation Planning Board.

Councilmember Bowser, a native Washingtonian, earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Chatham College and a Master's degree in Public Policy from American University.

Muriel began her service in DC elective office as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for her Riggs Park neighborhood, and continues to be an active member of Lamond Riggs Citizens Association.

Dr. David A. Bray serves as Chief Information Officer for the Federal Communications Commission, overseeing the Commission's efforts to modernize legacy systems and transform technology partnerships in telecommunications, broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety, and security. He previously served as Executive Director with the National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the U.S. Intelligence Community and later received the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. The interagency team he directed also received the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation.

Dr. Bray has worked for both the public and private sectors since 1993 providing strategy on crisis response, collaboration, cybersecurity, and civilian IT advances. He served as IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led the technology aspects of the bioterrorism program's response to 9/11, anthrax in 2001, SARS, and other outbreaks. He received the CDC Director's Award for Service to public health in 2004 and later was named as one of 13 individuals across the entire federal workforce to receive the 2012 Arthur S. Flemming Award for Leadership.

Dr. Bray deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a Special Advisor to STRATEGIC EFFECTS for NATO's International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, with the task of helping to "think differently" on critical military and humanitarian efforts. He later chaired initial White House efforts from 2010-2011 focused on improving relations between the information integration, network interoperability, and civil liberties activities of the U.S. government. Per audience votes, he jointly received "Best Cyber Presentation" in a 2010 public talk with the DHHS CIO emphasizing the need to advance shared services that protect civil liberties, individual privacy, public safety, and our national security.

Dr. Bray also was one of two career Senior Executives to receive the Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in 2013. He holds a PhD in information systems, a MSPH in public health informatics, and a BSCI in computer science and biology from Emory University, alongside a visiting associateship from the University of Oxford's Oxford Internet Institute, and two post-doctoral associateships with MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence and the Harvard Kennedy School. He is available on Twitter as @fcc_cio

Diana L. Burley is Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University. She is a nationally recognized cybersecurity workforce expert and also has published extensively on public sector IT use, knowledge management and information sharing. In 2014, Dr. Burley was named the cybersecurity educator of the year by Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) and one of the top ten influencers in information security careers by Careers Info Security magazine.

She has been twice appointed (2012, 2013) to the Virginia General Assembly Joint Commission on Technology & Science Cyber Security Advisory Committee and served as co-Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee “Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce.” She has served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where she managed a multi-million dollar computer science education and research portfolio and led the CyberCorps program. Based on her work at NSF, Dr. Burley was honored by the Federal CIO Council and CISSE for outstanding efforts toward the development of the federal cyber security workforce. She is the recipient of numerous NSF awards including PI of HOLISTiC, the Executive Cyber Corps program and Research CoPI of the $5M National CyberWatch Center. 

Micheline Casey is the Chief Data Officer of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and heads the Office of the Chief Data Officer. As CDO, Ms. Casey leads the OCDO and has responsibility for creating and implementing the Board’s enterprise data strategy, data governance, and data management frameworks. 

The OCDO has responsibility for creating enterprise policies to improve and enhance the Board’s data environment, including data governance, data management, data integration, data dissemination, and open data. Ms. Casey also chairs the Board Data Council, a multi-disciplinary group consisting of senior officials from across the Board, responsible for ensuring the implementation and direction of Board data management and governance strategies and priorities.

Ms. Casey was the first state Chief Data Officer in the country, and part of the Governor’s Office in the State of Colorado. Ms. Casey was responsible for developing and executing the State of Colorado’s enterprise data strategy and data governance and data management frameworks across the State’s Executive Branch agencies. Her private sector experience includes jobs at ChoicePoint Government Services (now LexisNexis Risk Solutions) and IBM Global Services.

She has her Masters in Business Administration from The University of Georgia, and her Bachelors of Science in Marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Casey also sits on the Board of Directors of the Midwest Reliability Organization. 

Daniel Clemons is an Acquisition Officer and Project Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He is the Project Manager for IARPA’s Distribution & Evaluation System (IDEAS); a web-based software tool to enable online submission and evaluation of proposals submitted in response to IARPA research solicitations. He has over thirty four years of intelligence, business, system development and integration, and acquisition and procurement experience in software and system acquisition, information technology, intelligence operations, and command and control.

Prior to coming to IARPA, he supported PEO EIS, Project Manager DoD Biometrics; CE LCMC Software Engineering Center – Belvoir; Technical Management Division, Program Management Office (PMO) Intelligence Fusion; and Product Manager (PdM), Joint Collection Management Tools (JCMT).

He retired from the Army’s Military Intelligence Corps as a Frist Sergeant with 22 years’ experience conducting, leading, or managing tactical and strategic intelligence operations.

Steven I. Cooper was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the U.S. Department of Commerce by Secretary Penny Pritzker on June 16, 2014. As CIO, Cooper serves as the principal adviser to Commerce’s 12 agencies’ CIOs and the Deputy Secretary. He also leads development and implementation of the Department’s enterprise-wide information technology (IT) strategy and operations, oversees the building and operation of a robust enterprise IT security risk program, and serves as an adviser on mission and business IT systems and services. 

Prior to joining Commerce, Cooper served as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Acting Assistant Administrator for Information Services and CIO. Previously, Cooper was the Deputy CIO, as well as IT Director and CIO of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization, where he oversaw a team of 400 professionals working to ensure the operational excellence of mission support and business systems and the underlying technology infrastructure. In February 2003, Cooper was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the first CIO of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where, among other accomplishments, he developed the Department’s first IT Strategic Plan.

Prior to joining DHS, Cooper was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and served as Senior Director for Information Integration in the White House Office of Homeland Security. In this role, he launched the development of the National Enterprise Architecture for Homeland Security to address information integration within the federal government and the sharing of information with state, local, and relevant private-sector entities.

Mika Cross is a seasoned Human Capital Workplace and Policy Strategist specializing in global, strategic workplace initiatives, flexible workplace programs, cultural transformation, mobility management, diversity, and inclusion and employee engagement.  Her 16-year career in public service includes military personnel and federal civilian human resources management throughout the Department of Defense, United States Intelligence Community and across the Federal government.  She is a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving as both an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer. 

Mika is highly regarded as a thought leader for flexible and transformational workplace practices across both public and private sectors and is regularly featured as a speaker for professional conferences and events.  She has keynoted at the Partnership for Public Service ‘Best Places to Work’ event and the 2013 Telework Summit and has served as Executive Sponsor and Mentor for the Partnership’s Excellence in Government Fellowship Program.   She regularly provides policy guidance, shares best practices and innovations with numerous Federal Agencies across the United States Government, as well as in private sector.  In 2014, Mika joined OPM’s Human Resources Solutions (HRS) team as a Senior HR Consultant and Work/Life advisor as part of the President’s Management Council inter-agency fellowship program.   

Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist. Kenn is the coauthor of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. It is the first systematic treatment of this emerging science, which Kenn argues is a revolution on par with the Internet or perhaps even the printing press.

From 2007 to 2012 he was the Japan business and finance correspondent, and before that, the paper’s global technology correspondent based in London, where his work focused on innovation, intellectual property and Internet governance. Previously, he was the technology editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and a regular commentator on CNBC Asia. Earlier still, he was the European Editor of Red Herring and worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris.

From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Cukier was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, working on the Internet and international relations. 

His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Prospect, Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others. He has been a frequent commentator on business and technology matters for CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC and others. 

Kaitlin Devine is an Innovation Specialist for GSA’s new technical consultancy, 18F. At GSA she works as both a full stack web developer and a subject matter expert in procurement data. Her current focus is on building user-centered, data-driven tools for acquisition personnel inside the federal government.

She previously worked at the Sunlight Foundation, an open government advocacy organization. While at Sunlight, she led their research and advocacy in federal spending transparency, particularly in contracting. She was also the project lead for Clearspending.org and the main author on the Procurement Open Data Guidelines.

Dan Doney was assigned as Chief Innovation Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in February 2013. He is pursuing an aggressive strategy to reform agency operation building agility into the core of all DIA activities. This strategy, emphasizing leadership, empowerment, agility, and partnerships, is designed to remove bureaucratic friction through the application of the entrepreneurial method enabling the agency to efficiently convert ideas to action.

Dan has been an innovator in a wide variety of fields (process automation, enterprise architecture and software development, financial modeling, organization theory, robotics, and signal processing) drawing on his background in social systems, control theory, software engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Before rejoining the intelligence community, Dan served in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enterprise Service Delivery Office (ESDO) where he was a central figure in the implementation of the public/private cloud strategy. He helped establish the DHS cloud strategy, architected the migration of legacy systems to Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, and developed enterprise solutions to take advantage of the new agility. Most notably, Dan was the senior architect for USCIS SelfCheck, a hybrid cloud application that won the 2012 Excellence in Government Award for its novel approach to citizen centric government.

Dan started his career as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. After his service in the military, he worked in industry in software development and business process automation. Dan served the bulk of his career in advanced research for the intelligence community - most recently at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as technical lead on the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data (NIMD) and Collaboration and Analyst System Effectiveness (CASE) research programs. These programs investigated the application of network effect and complex adaptive system models to information foraging and collaborative sensemaking in support the intelligence community mission.

While at IARPA, he devised BRIDGE, a technology ecosystem and governance framework that enables government agencies to efficiently leverage innovation in industry and academia. BRIDGE is an open innovation an environment where the best ideas emerge and can be harvested to mission settings quickly. This framework enhanced technology discovery and evaluation while streamlining accreditation and integration - reinvigorating a slow moving government acquisition model that often missed disruptive technologies.

Dan graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1992 with a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering and an additional major in Economics, and received an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1994. Dan and his wife Jodi have 5 lovely children and live near Annapolis, Maryland.

Sagar Doshi currently works at the Federal Communications Commission, where he serves as Special Assistant to Chairman Tom Wheeler. Sagar provides direct substantive support to Chairman Wheeler across all areas of technology and communications policy. He also serves as the Office of the Chairman's operational activities for official Commission activities. Sagar is particularly interested in how the dramatic, exponential advancement of technology can give the FCC a longer-term perspective on markets of the future.

Prior to the FCC, Sagar's interests in tech also brought him to Google, where he was a Product Specialist for emerging products with a particular focus in mobile. He also helped build a business development strategy for Protocol Link, Inc., a firm working in the highly regulated pharma and biotech sectors. Sagar holds a B.A. in Political Science with Honors in International Security from Stanford University. He lives in Washington, DC with his fiancée.

Corina DuBois directs new media outreach and GOV 3.0 initiatives for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. She influences the policy and strategic planning surrounding web products, social, mobile, apps, open data, and crisis communications. She regularly consults Consular sections at Embassies worldwide and manages a team of foreign and civil service professionals. 

Corina's team focuses on innovative processes for online engagement across multiple web, social media, mobile and app platforms for both foreign and domestic audiences. The New Media Unit also manages the worldwide @TravelGov brand across several platforms. Corina acts as the lead for interagency collaboration with social media, crowdmapping, and the use of innovative technology for crisis response.

Jaymie Durnan is the Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (ASD(R&E)). Among other duties, he leads the R&E effort to better align the Independent Research and Development (IR&D) spending with warfighter needs; he serves as the Chief of Operations for the Research Development and Acquisition Task Force, Chair of the Electronic Warfare Technology Task Force, and Co-Chair of the Quadrennial Defense Review Key Mission Area Study Integration Team.

Mr. Durnan’s expertise is growing organizations as well as advising senior management in strategy development and implementation. His private sector career includes: Senior Vice President and Special Counsel to the Chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, a private equity company in New York; Partner for strategic acquisitions in the information technology sector at Radius Capital Partners; Attorney at Marks Murase in New York; Chairman of Woodbury Hill Partners, and, as the Manager of a varied product line at BAE Systems North America.

His government service includes: an officer in the U. S. Navy, including being a Military Assistant to the Director Net Assessment; a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; the Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Deputy Director Strategy in Defense Research & Engineering; Deputy Director Joint Advanced Concepts in the Office of the Under Secretary for Acquisition Technology and Logistics; and an operations research analyst on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations; Aide to the Chief of Naval Operations, and a long-time consultant to the Department of Defense.

He was awarded a Bachelor of Science from the U. S. Naval Academy, a Master of Arts from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctorate from The Georgetown University Law Center. He has been a Director of private and public companies and is currently a Trustee at Antioch New England University, and a Director of Swift Prepaid Solutions.

Karen S. Evans is serving as the National Director for the US Cyber Challenge (USCC). The USCC is the nationwide talent search and skills development program focused specifically on the cyber workforce. She serves as a Voice of Authority for Safegov.org, an on-line forum specifically focused on cloud computing policy issues. She is also an independent consultant in the areas of leadership, management and the strategic use of information technology.

She retired after nearly 28 years of federal government service with responsibilities ranging from a GS-2 to Presidential Appointee as the Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the Executive Office of the President. She oversaw the federal IT budget of nearly $71 billion which included implementation of IT throughout the federal government. 

Aquilent is the recognized leader in Mobile and Digital Strategy, Web Content Management, Cloud Computing and Portals, shaping the next generation of technology for the federal government. We help customers exceed the expectations of the Digital Government initiative by delivering transformative solutions that emphasize efficiency and mobility, and significantly enhance citizen engagement. Our proven approach to helping customers achieve the Cloud First policy combines technology strategy and managed services to create a roadmap for long-term success. Aquilent’s commitment to deliver tangible results that meet mission objectives is underscored by our 4-Point Aquilent AdvantageTM, combining strategic vision and reliable execution.

Dell Software makes it easy to securely manage and protect applications, systems, devices and data to help organizations of all sizes fully deliver on the promise of technology. Our simple yet powerful software – combined with Dell hardware and services – provide scalable, integrated solutions to drive value and accelerate results. Whether it's Windows infrastructure, the cloud and mobile computing, or networks, databases and business intelligence, we dramatically reduce complexity and risk to unlock the power of IT.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. With the broadest technology portfolio spanning services, IT infrastructure, software, personal systems and printing, HP delivers solutions for customers' most complex challenges. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at hp.com/gov/transformation

For more than a decade, MarkLogic has delivered a powerful, agile and trusted Enterprise NoSQL database platform that enables organizations to turn all data into valuable and actionable information. Organizations around the world rely on MarkLogic’s enterprise-grade technology to power the new generation of information applications. MarkLogic is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Washington D.C., New York, London, Frankfurt, Utrecht, and Tokyo.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps government leaders pull together consistent and reliable data from multiple sources and use it to predict what will happen and why. Departments and agencies can better understand their internal operations, constituents and suppliers through business analytics provided by SAS.

SAS® solutions have the power to:

• Address complex problems faced by federal agencies today.
• Work with a variety of IT environments.
• Manage and obtain optimal value from large volumes of data.

Cornerstone OnDemand is a leader in cloud-based applications for unified talent management. The company’s technology and services move Federal organizations beyond just meeting today’s needs, to developing long-term, sustainable, successful and productive workforces. The company’s solutions help organizations recruit, train, manage and engage employees, empower their people and increasing workforce productivity. Based in Santa Monica, California, the company’s solutions are used by over 1,800 clients worldwide, spanning more than 15.5 million users across 191 countries and 42 languages. For more information about Cornerstone, visit csod.com.

Information Builders helps organizations transform data into business value. Our software solutions for business intelligence and analytics, integration, and data integrity empower people to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer relationships, and drive growth. Our dedication to customer success is unmatched in the industry. That’s why tens of thousands of leading organizations rely on Information Builders to be their trusted partner. Founded in 1975, Information Builders is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices around the world, and remains one of the largest independent, privately held companies in the industry. 

Management Concepts is the nation’s premier provider of training and professional development solutions serving the public and private sectors. Founded in 1973, Management Concepts has collaborated with every major agency in the federal government, thousands of state and local government offices, non-profit organizations, universities, and corporations — helping more than one million professionals unleash their potential. At Management Concepts, we are committed to empowering professionals to advance their career and enabling organizations to achieve their mission with our high-impact training courses, professional development solutions, customized consulting services, and award-winning publications. 

Cloudera is revolutionizing data management with the first unified platform for big data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop™. Cloudera offers agencies a secure and cost-efficient place to store and analyze all their data, empowering them to derive new insights and correlation while extending the value of existing investments.

Dell is committed to providing its government customers with the tools they need to solve complex problems with efficient and effective IT solutions giving them the power to do more. Dell has helped thousands of companies and organizations, including 95 percent of federal agencies, use information technology and business process solutions to improve performance and reduce costs, earning a reputation for excellence based on strong performance and expert council. 

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Brocade® networking solutions help federal agencies transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Today, Brocade is extending its proven data center expertise across the entire network with future-proofed solutions built for critical initiatives such as consolidation, virtualization, and cloud computing.

To help agencies achieve their missions, Brocade offers open, virtual, and efficient products for:

• Storage networking
• Data center and Ethernet fabric routing
• Software networking
• Campus networking

To deliver a complete solution, Brocade partners with world-class IT companies and provides comprehensive education, support, and professional services offerings. 

CBT Nuggets provides industry-leading IT training on demand, ensuring that your organization is always at its best. Our constantly growing library covers the most up-to-date skills and technologies in topics including networking, security, virtualization, and much more, all created by trainers who are experts in their fields.  Whether the focus is certification exam preparation or real-world job training, our training videos and tools make sure that your IT team can tackle any project. With the capability to scale and create custom solutions, from a secure on-site server to LMS integration, we can provide enterprise training products to fit any need.

Ixia is a leading provider of network performance solutions that enable organizations to achieve optimized application and service delivery. Ixia's network lifecycle solutions enable customers to assess and validate the scale, performance and security of network infrastructure, devices and services, including resiliency testing and validation with real-world application traffic and attack simulation, and deliver end-to-end visibility across physical and virtual networks by providing access to data from any point in the network. To learn more about why the most trusted names in networking trust Ixia, visit ixaicom.com.

Kofax enables government organizations to improve service and provide transparency by automating the First Mile^TM of citizen interaction. Kofax solutions automate the capture, processing and archiving of documents to help agencies increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve citizen services. Agencies can rapidly implement automated, adaptable work processes that foster collaboration and provide continuous improvement in service quality.

NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is a leading provider of eGovernment services.  Our self-funded model helps reduce costs and increase efficiencies for government entities nationwide, allowing agencies to put in-demand services online without using appropriated funds.  NIC currently provides cost-effective solutions for more than 3,500 U.S. federal, state, and local agencies. 

NuCivic is a civic-focused software-as-a-service company that provides open source solutions to public sector institutions. Key products and projects include the open source, cloud-based open data platform NuCivic Data and DKAN.

Prime Dimensions provides professional consulting services in data management, business intelligence and advanced analytics, with focus on operational aspects and emphasis on Big Data strategy and technology. We assist organizations in transforming data into actionable insights to improve performance, make informed decisions and achieve measurable results. By utilizing a lean-startup approach and agile delivery model, we create interdisciplinary, integrated teams of specialists to guide, build and deploy solutions that provide transformational impacts. We have developed a future state event-driven architecture (EDA) that integrates next-generation solutions for improved workflow automation, business process management, application development, real-time analytics and data visualizations. We partner closely with clients to ensure cost-effective implementations. 

Qlik® (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in data discovery delivering intuitive solutions for self-service data visualization and business intelligence. Qlik built its solutions – Qlik®Sense and QlikView® – on its patented data indexing engine, which helps customers keep asking questions of their data, allowing them to discover new insight without stopping to wait for expert help. Businesses accelerate understanding and make more informed decisions, resulting in improved top-line and bottom-line results. Qlik combines self-service with security and governance capabilities, ensuring consistent reporting and insights across the business without compromising critical data. Over 33,000 customers in more than 100 countries benefit from Qlik solutions.

For more than twenty years, DLT Solutions has been committed to solving public sector IT challenges. As Red Hat’s largest government reseller, DLT Solutions offers the world’s most trusted open source technologies available on a wide variety of contract vehicles. Red Hat solutions create efficiencies, eliminate vendor lock-in, meet mission-critical IT demands, and improve service delivery. Our technical engineers on staff ensure your implementation is fast, efficient, and done right the first time.

REI Systems is a leading provider of web-enabled business solutions for the Federal Government and the commercial sector. Drawing on its mission to deliver solutions and services that empower people and make a difference, REI Systems supports clients with complex issues such as health systems, science and technology, homeland security/public safety, and open government. REI Systems’ support is strengthened by its results-driven approach and commitment to exceeding customer expectations. Since 1989, REI Systems has been serving major corporations and government at all levels. More than 500 employees serve these clients from offices in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Watchitoo, a market leader in video streaming and collaboration solutions, provides government agencies with an affordable, hassle-free video platform where large groups can interact internally as well as communicate with the world. Watchitoo is trusted by the Department of State and other agencies to power video-based communication initiatives.

AudioEye has created an all inclusive platform that addresses the needs of any organization looking to take a practical approach to solving the dynamic puzzle of achieving and maintaining Web Accessibility compliance.

The AudioEye Audio Internet® Platform generates, maintains, and presents the user with an interactive, fully accessible audio-equivalent of your website. The Audio Internet® cloud based platform presents web content in an optimal format that is uniquely tailored to individuals with differing needs.

Securis provides classified hard drive destruction services, both off-site and onsite, which meet the National Security Agency’s (NSA) requirements. This process includes both electronic media degaussing, which removes all data by demagnetizing the unit, and electronic media shredding—a process that meets or exceeds all Federal government regulations, including those of the Department of Defense (DOD).

Government Matters is the only television newscast focused on the business of government.  It reaches nearly 2.4 million households in Metro D.C  on WJLA and NewsChannel 8; and an additional one-million American service men and women, DoD civilians, and their families overseas on the American Forces Network. Every week, Morris Jones recaps the top federal headlines and conducts thought-provoking interviews on tech, security, and management issues. Since its launch in August of 2013, Government Matters has hosted some of the top minds in federal I.T. – from the Obama administration, Congress, Fortune 500 companies, journalism, and the non-profit community. Government Matters is targeted television – with a keen eye on our high-tech future – produced for the decision-makers in and around government.

The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) is a non-profit organization that introduces innovative technology from academic research labs to the Federal government and private industry. ATARC provides a collaborative forum for government, academic and industry thought leaders and subject matter experts to resolve emerging technology challenges. This dialogue is published in the form of a White Paper documenting best practices, lessons learned and recommendations to the government.

CTOvision.com is the resource for enterprise technologists. We feature news, commentary, podcasts, analysis and social media connections in domains of Big Data, Gov2.0, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Business Intelligence, Robotics and other areas of enterprise IT.

Federal News Radio 1500 AM and FederalNewsRadio.com comprise the key source of breaking news, information and analysis for the individuals responsible for carrying out and supporting the missions of federal agencies. Federal News Radio can also be heard on the 107.7 HD2. Federal News Radio and its sister station WTOP are owned and operated by Hubbard Radio, LLC.

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is the premier intelligence and national security organization that brings together the public, private and academic sectors to collaborate on the most challenging policy issues and solutions. As a non-profit, non-partisan, public-private organization, INSA's ultimate goal is to promote and recognize the highest standards within the national security and intelligence communities.

Founded in 1969, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) represents state CIOs and information technology (IT) executives and managers from the states, territories and DC. NASCIO's mission is to foster government excellence through quality business practices, information management and technology policy. NASCIO provides state CIOs and state members with products and services designed to support the challenging role of the state CIO, stimulate the exchange of information and promote the adoption of IT best practices and innovations. From national conferences, peer networking, research, publications, briefings and government affairs, NASCIO is the premier network and resource for state CIOs.

Established in 1978, the National Association of State Technology Directors (NASTD) is a professional organization whose purpose is to advance and promote the effective use of information technology to improve the operation of state government. NASTD public sector members provide and manage IT services and facilities for state agencies and other public entities including hospitals, prisons, colleges and universities. NASTD private sector members provide IT products and services to assist state government in achieving its tactical and strategic goals.

WashingtonExec is an outcome-oriented networking organization that hosts exclusive events and provides news coverage tailored to greater D.C.-area stakeholders including entrepreneurs, executives and thought leaders within the private, public and academic sectors.

Our off-the-record, collaborative and intimate roundtable events aim to enhance the private-public partnership by bringing together high-level government and industry thought leaders.

On the editorial side we publish a daily news blog and weekly e-magazine that spotlights multi-million contract award wins, merger and acquisition activity, in-depth features and interviews, corporate citizenship, market and leadership trends and the leaders behind it all. 

When one woman helps another, amazing things can happen. Professional careers leap forward. That's what Women in Technology is all about. As the premier professional association for women in the technology industry, we understand the unique challenges you face. No matter where you are in your professional development, or what technology-related field you're in, our community offers a broad range of support, programs and resources to advance women in technology from the classroom to the boardroom.

Young Government Leaders (YGL) is committed to providing the authentic voice for our generation of aspiring government leaders. Our membership consists of over 7,000 young federal, state, and local government employees and is growing every day. We are the only 501(c)3 non-profit professional organization founded by, and led by, young government employees. We are actively building a community of leadership for young public servants across the country, through professional development activities, networking opportunities, social events, seminars, fellowships, and scholarships.