2026 Speakers
Traci Deshazor
Secretary of Administration, Commonwealth of Virginia
Robert (Bob) Osmond
Commonwealth Chief Information Officer, Virginia Information Technologies 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 Information Technologies 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
Larry White
Category Manager – IT Hardware & Public Safety, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
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
Christie M. Glidewell
LMS Administrator, Office of the Executive Secretary, Supreme Court of Virginia
Wallace Sermons II
Chief Procurement Officer, Office of State Procurement, Department of General Services, Maryland
Jeff Crume
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, & Data and AI Security Engineer, IBM
Scott Swanson
Government Application Modernization Practice Lead, CDW Government
William Petrovic
Director, KPMG
Jackson Voeller
Sr. Account Executive. SLED, NinjaOne
Warren Gouws
Senior Director, Solution Engineering, Freshworks
Bill Greeves
Industry Executive Advisor, SAP