COVITS 2019 | Government Technology | 4 September 2019 | Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N 3rd St, Richmond, VA 23219, USA

Government Technology's passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. COVITS is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda that is relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspirational keynotes, leadership discussions, networking breaks, and timely topics discussed in the numerous breakout sessions to help advance the goals of their organizations and their own career paths

Topics Include:
• Innovation and Leadership
• Digital Government Trends
• Emerging Technologies
• Cyber Security
• Data and Analytics
• Citizen Engagement
• Cloud Services
• Collaboration

2019 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kelly Swanson
Strategic Narrative Specialist

Thurl Bailey
Inspirational Speaker & Retired Professional Basketball Player

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Morgan Wright
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

SPEAKERS:

Governor Ralph Northam
Commonwealth of Virginia

Dr. Cedric Alexander
Author, CNN Contributor on Public Safety, Former Chief of Police

Syra Arif
Senior Advisory Security Solutions Architect, Security and Risk Practice, ServiceNow

Dr. Brenda Bannan
Associate Professor, Instructional Technology and Learning Technologies Design Research Program, George Mason University

Rich Barlow
Field Chief Technology Officer and Principal Engineer, Office of the Chief Technology Officer and Divisional Engineering, Dell Technologies

Emily Craig
Partner, Talent & Engagement, Global Business Services, IBM

Robby Demeria
Deputy Secretary of Commerce & Trade for Technology, Commonwealth of Virginia

Leslie A. Egan
Criminal Justice Program Coordinator and Policy Analyst, Adult Services, Division of Programs and Services, Department of Criminal Justice Services, Commonwealth of Virginia

Bridget Giles, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Healthcare and Medical Focus, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC), Old Dominion University

Michele Hovet
Vice President, Experience Management Engineering, SAP

David Ihrie
Chief Technology Officer, Center for Innovative Technology

Jaime Lees
Chief Data Officer, Arlington County Government

Daniele Loffreda
Senior Advisor, Portfolio Solutions, Ciena

Dennis R. Moreau, Ph.D.
Senior Engineering Architect, Cyber Security, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, VMware

Michael Watson
Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia Information Technology Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia

2019 Partners

CORPORATE PARTNERS:
• Accenture
• AchiveOne
• AIS Network
• Akamai
• AWS
• APPTIO
• Arctic Wolf
• Atos
• AT&T
• Avaya
• CA Technologies
• CAI
• Cambridge Computer
• CDW G
• CenturyLink Government Ciena
• CGI
• Check Point
• CheckMarx
• Cisco
• Comcast Business
• Copper River
• Cox Business
• Dell Technologies
• Deloitte
• Dixon Hughes Goodman
• DSI
• DocuSign
• DSA
• Elastic
• Emergent
• Red Hat
• EY
• FireEye
• ForeScout
• Fujitsu
• Gartner
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• HP
• IBM
• Info Tech
• Integris
• INW Solutions
• Iron Bow
• Ivalua
• Keymark
• KPMG
• Lenovo
• Maconit
• Manage Engine
• Microsoft
• Mythics
• NetApp
• NIC
• NTTData Services
• Nutanix
• Pega
• Perspecta
• Proofpoint
• PureStorage
• Qlarion
• RSA
• SAIC
• SAP Intel
• Segra
• Sentinel
• ServiceNow
• Shentel Business
• Shi HP AMD
• Single Stone
• Socrata
• Software Government Solutions
• Splunk BAI
• Strategic Communications
• Tanium Immix Group
• Telos
• Thundercat Technology
• TRIAD Technology Partners
• Troutman Sanders Strategies
• Unisys
• Varions
• Veritas Carahsoft
• Verizon
• VMWare
• Wize Solutions
• World Wide Technology VMware
• Xerox
• ZScaler