Illinois Virtual Digital Government Summit 2021 | Government Technology | 21 October 2021 | Virtual Event

Government Technology's passion is promoting best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector – more important than ever in challenging times like these. The Virtual Digital Government Summit offers a unique opportunity to explore a variety of technology topics and possibilities. Please join us for a day of powerful sessions that provide inspiration, participation, education, and thought-provocation!

The conference is presented in a virtual format on Zoom for Government, a FedRAMP-certified infrastructure with advanced security controls, that is used for meetings and webinars by the Department of Homeland Security and numerous other federal, state and local agencies. Zoom for Government leverages one of the largest secured networks of government-specific datacenters in the country and meets high standards of security (Including: FedRAMP, CJIS, NIST, FISMA, SRG, FIPS, DFARS, EAR, IRS-1075).

2021 Speakers

Governor JB Pritzker
State of Illinois

Jennifer Ricker
Acting Secretary and Chief Information Officer for Department of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois

James Clear
Habits Expert, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Heather McGowan
Future of Work Strategist, Co-Author of The Adaptation Advantage

Jim Meskimen
Actor, Voice Artist, Comedian, Impressionist

Troy Ament
Field Chief Information Security Officer, Fortinet

Phil Bertolini
Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Paul Clanton
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Deanna Cook
General Manager, NIC Illinois

Alan Cox
Executive Vice President and Publisher, Government Technology magazine

Otto Doll
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

David Egts
Chief Technologist, Public Sector, Red Hat

Melinda Fiscus
Digital Access Coordinator, Learning Technology Center of Illinois

Deborah Giles
Executive Government Advisor, Amazon Web Services

Nicholas Greifer
Director, Economic Development Department, City of Harvey

Dessa Gypalo
Chief Data Officer, Department of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois

Noel Hara
Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, NTT DATA

Michael B. Jackson
AVP, Industry Strategy & Solutions, DocuSign

Jenifer L. Johnson
Chief of Staff, Department of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois

Daniele Loffreda
Senior Advisor, Enterprise Solutions, Cienaonnectivity as a critical foundation of enterprise transformation.

Ryan Olson
Vice President of Threat Intelligence, Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks

Destah Owens
Solutions Architect, Verizon

Adrienne Pickett, Ph.D.
Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois

Mary Reynolds
Education Group CIO, Department of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois

Matt Schmit
Director, Illinois Office of Broadband

Deborah A. Snyder
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bindu Sundaresan
Director, Cybersecurity, AT&T

Teri Takai
Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Herb Thompson
State and Local Government Strategist, VMware

Steve Towns
Deputy Chief Content Officer, Content Studio, e.Republic

Juliana Vida
Global Vice President, Chief Strategy Advisor, Public Sector, Splunk

Joe Zilka
Senior Sales Engineer, Snowflake

2021 Partners

• AWS
• AMD
• Anomali
• AT&T
• Boomi
• CDW.G
• CGI
• Ciena
• Comcast Business
• Commvault
• Dell Technologies
• Deloitte
• DocuSign
• Easy Vote
• Elastic
• Fortinet
• Gigamon
• Google Cloud
• IBM
• Netdocuments
• Niic
• NTT Data
• Paloalto
• Rubrik Sled
• Snowflake
• SoftwareAG
• Splunk
• Tanium
• Telos
• Veritas
• Verizon
• Whyline
• Xerox
• Zoom