Texas Virtual Digital Government Summit 2021 | Government Technology | 23 September 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

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

Jim Meskimen
Actor, Voice Artist, Comedian, Impressionist

Russ Anderson
Central Market Leader, Public Sector, Verizon Business

Wendy Barron
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services Division, Department of Motor Vehicles, State of Texas

Phil Bertolini
Vice President, Center for Digital Government

Ricardo Blanco
Chief Information Officer, Health and Human Services, State of Texas

Lauren Burnell
Public Sector Cloud Strategist, FireEye

Kevin Cochrane
Senior Vice President of Product Marketing, Acquia

Alan Cox
Executive Vice President and Publisher, Government Technology magazine

Amanda Crawford
DIR Executive Director, State of Texas Chief Information Officer

Deborah Giles
Executive Government Advisor, Amazon Web Services

Ken Grohe
SVP, Chief Revenue Officer, Taos, an IBM Company

Morey Haber
Chief Security Officer, BeyondTrust

Heather Hall Ph.D. PMP
Chief Information Officer, Texas Workforce Commission, State of Texas

Noel Hara
Public Sector Chief Technology Officer, NTT DATA

Steve Horvath
Chief Architect of Service Management, CDW

John Jacobs, CEH
Field Chief Information Security Officer, Fortinet

Daniele Loffreda
Senior Advisor, Enterprise Solutions, Ciena

Joe Morris
Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Digital Government

Rheda Moseley
Chief Information Officer, Innovation & Technology Division, Alcoholic Beverage Commission, State of Texas

Zach Patton
Chief Editor, Content Studio, Government Technology

Jason Rader
National Director, Network and Cloud Security, Insight

Patrick Robinson
Associate Director, Cybersecurity, Public Sector, AT&T

Sam Segran
CIO and Vice President for IT, Texas Tech University

Deborah A. Snyder
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

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

Brady Vaughn
Director of Budget and Public Affairs, Department of Information, State of Texas

Mark Weatherford
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

2021 Sponsors

CORPORATE PARTNERS:
• Acquia
• Altair
• AWS
• AMD
• AT&T
• AvePoint
• BeyondTrust
• Bitwise Industries
• Cask
• CDWG
• Centrify | SailPoint
• Ciena | Lumen
• Cloudflare
• Commvault | Metallic
• CyberArk Software, Inc.
• Dell Technologies | VMware
• Easy Vote
• Elastic
• ExtraHop
• Fibertown Data Centers
• FireEye
• Fortinet
• Fujitsu America, Inc.
• Gigamon
• Google Cloud
• Granicus
• Hyland
• IBM
• IGEL
• Insight
• Keeper Security
• Logitech, Inc.
• NetDocuments
• NIC
• NICE
• NTT Data
• Nuance
• Okta | Box
• OutSystems, Inc.
• Palo Alto Networks
• PegaSystems, Inc.
• Quorum
• Rackspace Government Solutions
• Red Hat, Inc.
• Rubrik
• ServiceNow
• Software AG
• Spectrum Enterprise
• T-mobile for Education
• Taborda Solutions | Blackboard
• Unqork
• Veritas
• Verizon
• Whyline
• Yubico
• Zoom