2026 Speakers
The Honorable Traci J. Deshazor
Secretary of Administration, Commonwealth of Virginia
Michael Watson
Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Robert (Bob) Osmond
Senior Advisor, 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, Virginia 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
Richard White
Director of Security Products and Services, Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Bill Greeves
Industry Executive Advisor, SAP
Kevin Strickland
Account Executive, Outsystems
Scott Swanson
Government Application Modernization Practice Lead, CDW Government
Michael Ziegler
Director of Sales, SLED and Healthcare, Commvault
Brad Johnson
Solutions Architect, Cisco
Jackson Voeller
Sr. Account Executive. SLED, NinjaOne
Chris Gretchen
Enterprise Account Executive - SLED, NinjaOne
Jeff Crume
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, & Data and AI Security Engineer, IBM
William Petrovic
Director, KPMG
Warren Gouws
Senior Director, Solution Engineering, Freshworks
Suresh Soundararajan
State and Local Leader, SAIC
Andy MacIsaac
Solutions Manager, Public Sector, Laserfiche
Dr. Matt McFadden
Vice President, Cyber, GDIT
Joshua Verville
Director, State and Local Government, GDIT
Brandon Miller
Senior Solutions Architect, NetApp
David Sullivan
Sr. Sales Engineer, Cohesity
Kirk O'Connor
Partner Account Manager, Cisco
Chuck Grinnell
Sr. Director Solution Consulting, Infor
Maria Thompson
Public Sector Executive Strategist, Wiz