COVITS 2024 | ERepublic | 11 September 2024 | Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N 3rd St, Richmond, VA 23219, U

This brings together technology focused public-sector professionals with leading industry partners to connect on innovative approaches, get inspired and discover new technologies. Join us and let’s improve the future of government together!

2024 Speakers

HOSTED:

Robert Osmond
Chief Information Officer, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia

KEYNOTE:

Scott Klososky
Technologist, Futurist, Humanist, Author, and Consultant

MODERATOR:

Zach Thorn
Senior National Conference Director, Government Technology

Chris Burroughs
Director of Data Protection and Governance, Office of the Secretary of Administration, Office of Data Governance and Analytics, Commonwealth of Virginia

Sean McSpaden
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Melinda Stewart
Chief Executive of Enterprise Solutions, Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia

Phil Bertolini
Vice President, Government Technology

Josh Jones
Program Lead, Virginia IT Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia

SPEAKERS:

The Honorable Glenn Youngkin
Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia

The Honorable Lyn McDermid
Secretary of Administration, Commonwealth of Virginia

Sanjay Joshi
Automation Architect, IBM

Edward Shahnazarian
IT Services and Portfolio Manager, City of Virginia Beach

Suresh Soundararajan
Chief Information Officer, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia

Peter Wallace
Chief Information Officer, City of Virginia Beach

Raymond Crew
GIS Manager and Architect, Chesterfield County

Jan Day
Executive Education Advisor, Amazon Web Services

Elizabeth Lo
IT Director, Bedford County, Virginia

Manju Naglapur
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud, Applications and Infrastructure Solutions, Unisys Corporation

Marcus Thornton
Deputy Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia

Alison King
Vice President, Government Affairs, Forescout

Jaime Lees
Chief Data Officer, Arlington County

Ken Pfeil
Chief Data Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia

John Barrett
Senior Director, Public Sector Engineering, SailPoint, representing SAIC

Luis Lugo
Identity Access Manager, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia

Matthew Thompson
Chief Revenue Officer, Socure

Dylan Higgs
Senior Account Executive, Public Sector, OPSWAT

Dan Wolf
Director of State Programs, Alliance for Digital Innovation

Russell Accashian
Chief Information Officer, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Commonwealth of Virginia

Lynn Hadden
Chief Information Officer, Department of Transportation, Commonwealth of Virginia

Dr. Matthew McFadden
Vice President, Cyber and GDIT Distinguished Technologist, General Dynamics Information Technology

Jeff Waters
Infrastructure Division Director, Hannover County

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

Johnny Wong
Senior Director, North America PreSales, Veracode

Patrick Farrell
Director, KPMG Cloud, Data and AI Lead, KPMG

Sarjoo Shah
Executive Director, Public Health Services, Oracle

Suzanne Tills
Chief Information Officer, City of Fredericksburg

Stephen Manley
Manager, Application Services, Information Technology Division, Virginia State Police

Timothy Roesch
Project Manager, Virginia Department of Education

Mohan Krishna Seemakurthi
Business Intelligence Senior Developer, Information Technology Division, Virginia State Police

Gurinderpreet Mann
Scrum Master, Information Technology Division, Virginia State Police

Barbara Phillips
Scrum Master, Information Technology Division, Virginia State Police

Michael Vizdos
Managing Director, Vizdos Enterprises, LLC

Carl Ayers
Deputy Commissioner, Department of Social Services, Commonwealth of Virginia

Chris Coleman
eGovernment Services Architect, Information Systems Technology, Chesterfield County

Cameron Groves
Senior Technology Leader and Director for AI and Innovation, Google Cloud

Saby Waraich
Chief Information Officer/Chief Information Security Officer, Clackamas Community College

2024 Sponsors

ROUNDTABLE/ANCHOR SPONSOR:
• IBM

ANCHOR SPONSORS:
• Aws
• Forescout
• GDIT
• Google for Government
• KPMG
• Opswat
• Oracle
• SAIC
• Socure
• Unisys
• Veracode

EXHIBITOR SPONSORS:
• 22nd Century Technologies, Inc
• Akamai
• AMD
• Armis
• AT&T
• Atlassian
• AvePoint Public Sector
• Box Thundercat Technology
• CAS Severn Wiz
• CGI
• Check Point
• Cloudflare
• Cohesity
• Carahsoft
• Cradlepoint
• Daly Extreme
• Dell Technologies
• Dynatrace
• Paloalto
• Fortinet
• GitLab
• ID.me
• Info Tech
• Infoblox
• Informatica
• Insight
• INW Solutions
• Iron Bow
• Keymark
• Nutanix
• Presidio
• Proofpoint
• Qlik
• Red Hat
• RingCentral
• Rubrik
• Schneider Electric
• SentinelOne
• SHI|Public Sector
• Snowflake
• Splunk
• Tanium
• Tyler

CONFERENCE BAG SPONSOR:
• NXT

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Peraton

NOTEBOOK SPONSORS:
• RSM

POWER BANK SPONSOR:
• EY

NETWORKING BREAKS SPONSORS:
• AIS Network
• Appian
• CITI
• DSI Tech
• IM Impactmakers
• Mythics
• Xerox

KEYNOTE SPONSOR:
• Atos

PATRON PLUS SPONSOR:
• Accenture
• Arctic Wolf
• Brooksource
• CAI
• CDW
• Crown Castle
• Guidehouse
• HTC Global Services
• Incapsulate
• Incode
• InsightGlobal
• Island
• NTT Data
• Saleforce
• Servicenow
• Tungsten Automation
• UDig
• Wize
• Workday

PATRON SPONSORS:
• Adobe Carahsoft
• Aspen
• Patron Sponsor
• Iteneris
• MongoDB
• NuHarbor
• Pluralsight
• Pryon
• Shentel
• Skyline
• SteelCloud
• T-Mobile for Government
• Voyatek
• Deloitte