2026 Speakers
Traci Deshazor
Secretary of Administration, Commonwealth 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
Priya Saldanha
Deputy CEIS, Director, AI & Cloud, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Anthony E. “Tony” McDowell
Executive Director, Opioid Abatement Authority
Shabeen Vijayan
Director of Enterprise Sourcing & Risk Management, Virginia IT Agency
Russell Accashian
Chief Information Officer, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Mary Lou Bulger
Director, Statewide Sourcing & Category Management, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Jaime Hoyle
Director, Legal & Legislative Services, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Paulose Poovathukaran
Chief Data Officer, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Ravi Padma
Chief Technology Officer, Virginia Department of Veterans Services
Robert Branch
Chief Information Security Officer, City of Virginia Beach
Kayla Anderson
Senior Infrastructure/Enterprise Sourcing Specialist, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Milos Manic
Director and Professor, VCU Cybersecurity Center, VCU Enterprise AI Convergence Labs and Virginia Commonwealth University
Wallace Sermons II
Chief Procurement Officer, Office of State Procurement, Department of General Services, Maryland
Stacey Carswell
Government Engagement Director, GovRAMP
Jeff Crume
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, & Data and AI Security Engineer, IBM