2026 Speakers
Traci Deshazor
Secretary of Administration, State of Virginia
Robert (Bob) Osmond
Commonwealth Chief Information Officer, Virginia IT Agency
Michael Watson
Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Gerald Lackey
Commissioner, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Paul Corbett Cormal
Chief Technology Officer, Assistant Superintendent – Data, Research, and Technology, Virginia Department of Education
Melinda Stewart
Chief Information Officer, Virginia State Corporation Commission
Zacc Allen
Chief Information Officer, Virginia Department of Corrections
Glenn Schmitz
Chief Information Security Officer, Virginia State Corporation Commission
Marcus Thornton
Deputy Chief Data Officer, Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics
Anthony E. “Tony” McDowell
Executive Director, Opioid Abatement Authority
Russell Accashian
Chief Information Officer, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Paulose Poovathukaran
Chief Data Officer, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Ravi Padma
Chief Technology Officer, Virginia Department of Veterans Services
Wallace Sermons II
Chief Procurement Officer, Office of State Procurement, Department of General Services, Maryland
Robert Branch
Chief Information Security Officer, City of Virginia Beach
Shabeen Vijayan
Director of Enterprise Sourcing & Risk Management, Virginia IT Agency
Milos Manic
Director and Professor, VCU Cybersecurity Center, VCU Enterprise AI Convergence Labs and Virginia Commonwealth University