Inaugural Billington State and Local Cybersecurity Summit 2024 | Billington CyberSecurity | 19 March 2024 | National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045, USA

State and local governments and the critical infrastructure they support are facing significant cyber attacks. In the last year, the state of Illinois, the city of Dallas, and the Los Angeles Unified School District have experienced cyber attacks that impacted their day-to-day operations over multiple weeks. Yet these same governments are often massively under-resourced to protect themselves.

Join us as we explore what can be done to enhance the cybersecurity of the states, counties, cities, and municipalities that comprise the U.S. and the critical infrastructure sectors in these areas.

2024 Speakers

Colin Ahern
Chief Cyber Officer, State of New York

Frank Briguglio
Federal CTO, SailPoint

Brian Brown
Chief Growth Officer, Flashpoint

John Bruns
Global CISO, Anomali

Michael Carroll
Area Vice President of Sales – US SLED, Commvault

Lance Cleghorn
Director of State Cybersecurity, State of Maryland

Bruce Coffing
CISO, City of Chicago

Jim Corns
Executive Director, Information Technology, Baltimore County Public Schools

Chris DeRusha (invited pending agency approval)
Federal CISO, OMB

Rick Fisher
Executive Director, Flashpoint

Dave Frederick
Assistant Deputy Director for China, National Security Agency (NSA)

Dr. Brian Gardner
Chief Technology & Information Security Officer, City of Dallas

Michael Geraghty
Director, NJCCIC, State of New Jersey

Michael Gregg
CISO, State of North Dakota

Katherine Gronberg
Head of Government Services, NightDragon

Kirk Herath
Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor, State of Ohio

Steven Hernandez
CISO and Director of Information Assurance Services, U.S. Department of Education

Willie Hicks
Public Sector Chief Technologist, Dynatrace

Kenny Holmes
Director US State, Local Government and Education GSSO (Global Cybersecurity Organization), Cisco

Major General Joe Jarrard
Director of Operations, National Guard Bureau J-3/4/7

John Lewington
Founder, President, Darknight Industries (DKI)

Dr. Christina Liaghati
AI Strategy Execution & Operations Manager, AI & Autonomy Innovation Center at MITRE

Dan Lohrmann
Field CISO for Public Sector, Presidio

Leah McGrath
Executive Director, StateRAMP

Bess Mitchell
Chief, Grant Operations, CISA

Lisa Nine
Senior Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal, Emergency Management Agency (DHS/FEMA)

Vitaliy Panych
State CISO, California Department of Technology, Office of Information Security

Helen Patton
Cybersecurity Executive Advisor​, CISCO

James Perry
Senior Director of Consulting Services, CrowdStrike

John Pescatore
Director of Emerging Security Trends, SANS

Josiah Raiche
Director of Artificial Intelligence, State of Vermont

Nancy Rainosek
Texas State CISO, Texas Department of Information Resources

Francisco Ramirez
Chief Architect, State and Local Government, Red Hat

Rita Reynolds
CIO, NACo

Peter Romness
Cybersecurity Principal, CISO Advisor’s Office, Cisco

Clar Rosso
CC CEO, ISC2

Katie Savage
Secretary, CIO, Maryland Department of Information Technology

T.J. Sayers
Director of Intelligence & Incident Response, Center for Internet Security

Andrew Scott
Associate Director for China Operations, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Nishant Shah
Senior Advisor for Responsible AI, State of Maryland

Chris Shank
Consultant, Hogan Strategies

Dr. James Stanger
Chief Technology Evangelist, CompTIA

Chip Stewart
Director, RSM US (former CISO for the State of Maryland)

Maria Thompson
Executive Government Advisor, AWS

Brian Vecci
Field CTO, Varonis

Brigadier General Teri D. Williams
Vice Director of Operations (CYBER), National Guard Bureau

Mike Woodward
Team Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Center for Internet Security (CIS)

Michael Ziegler
Sales Director – SLED East, Commvault

William Zielinski
CIO, City of Dallas

2024 Sponsors and Partners

LEAD UNDERWRITER SPONSOR:
• CISCO

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Carahsoft
• NightDragon

GOLD SPONSORS:
• aws
• Anomali
• CompTIA
• Elastic
• Presidio
• SailPoint

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Crowdstrike
• Rubrik
• Trellix
• Waronis

ROUNDABLE SPONSORS:
• Carnegie Mellon University - SEI
• CohnReznick
• Commvault
• CrowdSec
• Dynatrace
• Flashpoint
• NISC2
• Nucleus
• OpenText
• RedHat
• SANS Institute
• Symantec
• Tenable

PARTNERS:
• CIS
• StateRAMP