The Evolution of Government Cloud: What Comes Next?

Multi cloud and hybrid cloud are changing how the government operates and performs its missions. Cloud services are pushing new capabilities to the tactical edge and helping federal agencies accomplish their missions from anywhere.

Today you’ll hear from a host of government and industry experts on government cloud in a series of discussions around cloud computing including: securing cloud environments, accessing data at the edge, and creating operationally resilient ecosystems. You’ll hear from top government and industry cloud experts.

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Exhibit Hall

Mr. Charlie Armstrong, former CIO, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (moderator)

Charlie departed CBP in 2016 after 8 years as their Assistant Commissioner (AC) and CIO of the Office of Information and Technology (OIT). Charlie’s 32 years of leadership and technology experience began in IT operations and management with the Department of Navy, followed by a career with the U.S. Customs Service and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Charlie was selected to serve as the first CIO of the Border and Transportation Services (BTS) agency during the inception and creation of The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), giving him exceptional institutional ...

Sonny Bhagowalia, Assistant Commissioner and CIO, Office of Information & Technology, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

At the United States (U.S.) Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Mr. Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia currently holds the Senior Executive Service position of Assistant Commissioner (AC), Office of Information and Technology (OIT) and CBP Chief Information Officer (CIO). Mr. Bhagowalia has over 36 years of senior technical, managerial and executive leadership experience in private industry, the U.S. Government, and state government. Mr. Bhagowalia has spent over 21 of those years in senior executive capacity, including over 17 years as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), one year as a ...

Scott Bowman, Deputy CIO, FEMA

Scott Bowman currently serves as the Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer for Disaster Operations within Mission Support’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). Mr. Bowman has more than 20 years of experience with FEMA, supporting various programs within the OCIO. In 2000, he joined the FEMA OCIO as the Application Team Lead for Enterprise Operations. His work there included supporting Enterprise Systems including the National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS), eCAPS, and Active Directory. In 2007, Mr. Bowman served as the OCIO Individual Assistance Branch Chief, where he provided ...

Kevin Fiftal, Managing Director, Cloud Intel Public Sector

Kevin Fiftal is the Managing Director for Intel’s Public Sector Cloud strategy and operations working with cloud solution providers (CSP’s) and partners optimizing cloud workloads with Intel Architecture (IA). This includes building cloud reference architectures, utilizing secure trusted computing initiatives across multi- cloud and building unique scalable solutions with the major CSP’s. Kevin was Intel’s first Principal Investigator (PI) at the NIST National Cyber Center of Excellence (NCCOE) and brought Intel into the center as the first industry partner. His work there included Trusted Geo-Location in the Cloud, NIST IR- ...

J. Matt Gilkeson, Acting Executive Director for Capability Management and Innovation, Transportation Security Administration

J. Matt Gilkeson is the Division Director for the Innovation Task Force Division (ITF) within Requirements and Capabilities Analysis (RCA) at TSA. As Division Director, Mr. Gilkeson fosters innovation by integrating key stakeholders in the identification, demonstration, and characterization of emerging solutions in an effort to increase security effectiveness and improve passenger experience. The ITF is composed of a diverse headquarters staff of program managers who integrate operations activities, develop strategic and tactical plans, and demonstrate innovative private-sector solutions that ensure the freedom of movement throughout the nation’s transportation system ...

Terry Halvorsen, Former DOD CIO

Terry Halvorsen serves as general manager for IBM’s Federal Market organization. Before joining IBM, Halvorsen spent over three decades with the federal government in senior and influential roles including as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Defense (DOD) and CIO for the Navy. Before joining IBM in October 2020, Halvorsen was CIO and executive vice president for IT and mobile for Samsung Electronics. In addition to his civilian government career, Halvorsen also served as an Army intelligence officer during Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert ...

Luke McCormack, Former DHS Chief Information Officer

Mr. Luke McCormack served as CIO for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from December 2013 to January 2017. In that role, he oversaw and coordinated management of the Department’s 22 agencies, and was responsible for always-evolving strategy and execution of enhanced IT management and security initiatives. Mr. McCormack has extensive IT and leadership experience, both inside and outside of DHS, as well as in the public and private sectors. He previously served at the Department of Justice as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Information Resources Management/Chief Information Officer, where ...

Robert Schumm, Vice President Strategic Programs, Oracle National Security Group

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Megan Mance, Executive Director, Homeland Security & Defense Forum

Megan Mance is the Executive Director of the Homeland Security and Defense Forum (HSDF), a position she has held since September 2012. In this capacity, Megan creates new and effective models for collaboration between the public and private sectors on homeland and national security issues, works closely with HSDF industry members to understand their priorities, and provides strategic guidance in executing the Forum’s programming. In addition to her background collaborating with federal agencies and the contracting community, Megan also has experience internationally and at the state-level through her work in ...

Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering, Red Hat

Chris Wright is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat. He leads a team that guides Red Hat’s technology vision, co-creates technologies, and collaboratively implements change to ensure the success of Red Hat’s ecosystem of associates, customers, communities, and partners. Wright’s organization includes: Office of the CTO, Ecosystem Engineering, Product Security, PnT Experience, Product Engineering, Customer Experience & Engagement, and Technology Strategy & Incubation. During his 25+ years as a software engineer, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry and beyond on high-availability and ...

Lily Zeleke, Acting Deputy CIO for Information Enterprise, Office of the CIO, Department of Defense

Ms. Lily Zeleke is the acting Deputy CIO (DCIO) for the Information Enterprise (IE). In this role, she provides oversight, policy guidance, and digital expertise for DoD enterprise infrastructure initiatives driving toward the objectives of digital modernization. She leads Department-wide execution of strategic guidance aimed at achieving an operationally effective and secure Information Enterprise in a cost-efficient manner. Areas of priority include network optimization, cloud adoption, software modernization, and IT reform. She recently served as the Principal Director (PD) for the DCIO IE. Prior to these roles, Ms. Zeleke served ...

Dell Technologies services the federal government and supports their IT programs from system modernization to cloud integration. We empower countries, communities, customers, and officials to serve the public with effectiveness and efficiency. Carahsoft is a Dell partner, and together we can offer federal, state, and local government solutions on various contract vehicles to give you cost-effective products and services. Customers trust us to deliver technology that helps achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their world.

Around the world, governments and the public sector work to improve quality of life, keep systems and data secure, and comply with regulations. Intel supports your efforts with a range of technologies designed for critical missions, everyday operations, and reliable performance no matter what the task.

Whether for the data center, network, or edge, Intel® technologies make data more accessible—and decisions more intelligent—while helping reduce costs. We work with governments to bring artificial intelligence to more places, maximize the value of cloud and edge computing, and help to enhance cybersecurity at every point. Intel draws on decades of experience helping the public sector worldwide select and deploy technologies. We can help you turn reams of data into better services, fast decisions, and a mission that’s been accomplished.

Oracle provides products and services that address enterprise information technology (IT) environments. Our products and services include applications and infrastructure offerings that are delivered worldwide through a variety of flexible and interoperable IT deployment models. These models include on-premise deployments, cloud-based deployments, and hybrid deployments (an approach that combines both on-premise and cloud-based deployment) such as our Oracle Cloud at Customer offering (an instance of Oracle Cloud in a customer’s own data center). Accordingly, we offer choice and flexibility to our customers and facilitate the product, service and deployment combinations that best suit our customers’ needs. Our customers include businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers that we market and sell to directly through our worldwide sales force and indirectly through the Oracle Partner Network.

Red Hat continues to serve as a trusted partner for government agencies, providing modern practices and technologies that can help your agency innovate while meeting regulatory requirements and reducing risk.

Government agencies need to modernize and transform services to more quickly adapt to evolving mission needs and meet the expectations of their stakeholders. Red Hat brings an open framework and broad solution portfolio to help agencies accelerate innovation by uniting people, processes, and technology. We enable agencies to benefit from the best of open source innovation while mitigating risk.

Red Hat products are tested, certified, and supported, to help your agency securely meet its mission with more efficiency, agility, and speed.

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