February 27, 2013 · 1:30 pm – 5:45pm
The Hamilton Live · Washington, D.C.Shawn Kingsberry
Assistant Director of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Shawn Kingsberry is the Assistant Director of Technology and the Chief Information Officer for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (Recovery Board). His role as the Recovery Board's CIO includes serving as a senior advisor to senior executives on all information technology matters, including investments and emerging initiatives and to assist in the coordination of all information technology day-to-day operations and activities. He also participates in the planning, coordinating, administering of projects, processes, procedures, standards, and/or service offerings while also ensuring timely and adequate implementation of established Recovery Board goals and objectives.
In February of 2011, Mr. Kingsberry received the prestigious FED 100 Award for his leadership and persistence in implementing four information systems for the Recovery Board, including Federal Reporting.gov and Recovery.gov.
In May of 2010, Mr. Kingsberry was awarded and recognized for leading the migration of Recovery.gov to a public cloud infrastructure. Recovery.gov was the first government-wide information system to be fully migrated to a public cloud. Mr. Kingsberry has over 18 years of experience with the federal government leading organizations and implementing change across numerous federal agencies. His expertise has also led to enhanced operational performance of numerous programs.
Simon Szykman
Chief Information Officer
Simon Szykman was named Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Commerce in May 2010. As the Department's CIO, Szykman is responsible for providing leadership, establishing policy, and maintaining oversight for the information technology investments that support the diverse portfolio of programs across the Commerce Department's dozen bureaus. Szykman most recently served over three years as the CIO of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he began his professional career as part of the agency's technical staff.
Prior to his work at Commerce, Szykman served as the Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), where he was responsible for the coordination of planning, budget, and assessment activities for the Federal NITRD Program. In this role, Szykman reported directly to the National Science and Technology Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) - where he also worked temporarily as a Senior Policy Analyst, focusing on technology-related issues including cyber security and high-end computing.
Ira "Gus" Hunt
Chief Technology Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer Central Intelligence Agency
Gus Hunt currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In this capacity, Mr. Hunt is responsible for setting the strategic technology direction to enable CIA's missions, for driving the rapid insertion and adoption of new capabilities to keep pace with technology change in the commercial sector, and for engaging actively across the IC to share and communicate IT solutions.
Mr. Hunt joined the CIA in 1985 as an analyst and subsequently served in varied technical leadership roles including Director of Applications Services, Director of Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE), Chair of the CIA Architecture Review Board and the Architecture and Systems Engineers Occupational Panel, and Chief of the CIO's Advanced Technology Group within the Directorate of Intelligence (DI). Mr. Hunt also served as Chief of Research and Development for the Director of Central Intelligence's (DCI) Crime and Narcotics Center and Deputy Chief of the Operations Support Group in the DCI's Non-Proliferation Center.
Before joining the Agency in 1985, Mr. Hunt spent seven years in the private sector as an Aerospace Engineer designing advanced manned space flight systems and satellite orbital transfer vehicles. He holds a ME in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University and is married with two grown children.
Michael Howell
Deputy Program Manager, Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
On December 6, 2010, Mr. Michael Howell became the Deputy Program Manager of the Office of the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE). The Program Manager has government-wide authority to plan, oversee the build-out, and manage use of the ISE to implement the President's terrorism-related information sharing priorities. Mr. Howell's work focuses on assisting the Program Manager in the development of policies, procedures, guidelines, rules and standards to foster the development and proper operation of the ISE while assisting, monitoring, and assessing implementation of the ISE by departments and agencies.
Prior to joining PM-ISE, Mr. Howell served as the Deputy Administrator for Electronic Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing information technology (IT) policy, management, and budget for the Federal government's $80 billion a year IT investment portfolio. He supported the 2008 Presidential transition and the implementation of management reforms and new initiatives to improve IT investment management and the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal IT, open the government by enhancing transparency and citizen engagement, and improve cybersecurity.
Mr. Howell was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Interior from May 2007 to September 2008 providing leadership to the Department and its bureaus in all areas of information management and technology. Mr. Howell served as the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 2004 to 2007. Previously, he was the Portfolio Management Division Chief in Interior's CIO's Office, where he was responsible for overseeing management of the Department's $900 million a year IT portfolio. He served two years as the acting CIO and deputy CIO for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and five years in BLM's headquarters budget office.
Mr. Howell spent four years in BLM's Oregon State Office as a branch chief, responsible for software development, Geographic Information Systems, and data and records management programs. Mr. Howell spent seven years in BLM's Eugene District on forest inventory, land use planning, and environmental analysis. He worked five years in a variety of forest management jobs in the Medford District in southwest Oregon. His career began in 1978 with the U.S. Forest Service in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest in Idaho and the Olympic National Forest in Washington.
A native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Mr. Howell graduated in 1977 from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor of science degree in Forest Science with a minor in Wildlife Management. In 2005, he completed the Chief Information Officer certification program at the National Defense University IRM College and in 2008 he obtained the Certified Information System Security Professional certificate.
Bill Franks
Chief Analytics Officer, Teradata
Bill Franks is Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata's global alliance programs, providing insight on trends in the Advanced Analytics space and helping clients understand how Teradata and its analytic partners can support their efforts. In addition, Bill is a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and the author of the book Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April, 2012). He is also an active speaker and blogger. Bill's focus has always been to help translate complex analytics into terms that business users can understand and to then help an organization implement the results effectively within their processes. His work has spanned clients in a variety of industries for companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to small non-profit organizations. You can learn more about Bill at http://www.bill-franks.com.
Kapil Bakshi
Chief Architect, Cisco Public Sector
Kapil Bakshi is the Chief Architect for Cisco Federal's Data Center Practice. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading and driving Data Center, Big Data and Cloud Computing initiatives. Kapil has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting, managing and delivering Data Center solutions to both Federal Agencies and Enterprise customers.
During his career, he has held several architectural, consulting and managerial positions within the industry. Prior to Cisco, Kapil worked for Sun Microsystems, where he spent a decade focusing on the US Federal and Service Provider markets. Prior to Sun, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and several government system integrators in consulting and product development roles.
Kapil is a sought-after Cisco spokesperson and industry thought leader in the area of Big Data. He is the author of many Cloud Computing and Big Data related publications. He also serves a Co-Chair for The Open Group and as a Contributor for NIST.
Kapil holds a dual B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park, a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Maryland College Park. In 2002, he was awarded a patent in the area of Service Provider Data Warehouse Solutions.
Alan Dare
Chief Technology Officer, Special Programs Region NetApp
Mr. Alan Dare is the CTO, for the Special Programs Region at NetApp. Mr. Dare has spent the last 14 years supporting IT projects in the DoD community. Previous to Network Appliance, Mr. Dare was employed with ADIC and spent nine years at Silicon Graphics (SGI) supporting Special Programs requiring storage, graphics, and high performance computing.
Prior to supporting geospatial customers, Mr. Dare worked for Lockheed assisting NASA Langley research into enhanced graphics and helmet mounted displays for U.S. DoD fighter pilots. Before supporting NASA research, Mr. Dare worked at McDonnell Douglas as an engineer designing graphics displays for F-15 avionics and supporting F-15 electronic warfare systems.
Mr. Dare received a BS in Electrical Engineering at SIU Edwardsville, IL in 1987. Alan was born in IL and currently lives with his wife their two children in Herndon, Virginia.
Steve LeSueur
Contributing Editor, 1105 Government Information Group
Steve LeSueur provides Washington area businesses with public relations and communications services. He helps companies develop media strategy, writes press announcements and provides outreach to media. He writes and edits white papers, case studies and reports, and helps business executives write articles for publication. Steve also consults on website redesign and writes Web content.
Steve also serves as a contributing editor for custom media at 1105 Government Information Group, and is a regular moderator of 1105 events.
Before starting LeSueur Communications in August 2005, Steve served more than five years as editor of Washington Technology, a business magazine published by 1105 Media Inc. As editor, Steve directed the magazine's coverage of companies that provide IT services to federal, state and local governments. This included both the Washington Technology website, which publishes daily stories, blogs and other features, and Washington Technology magazine, which provides in-depth coverage of the major business opportunities, events, legislation, policies and emerging technologies in the government IT market.
Before joining Washington Technology, Steve covered national security issues and the defense industry for Defense News.
He holds a master's degree in history from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, and an undergraduate degree in history from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. He wrote the award-winning book, "The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri," published by the University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, and has published numerous articles on Mormon history.
Prem Jadhwani
Senior Technologist and Solutions Architect, GTSI Corp.
Prem Jadhwani is a Senior Technologist & Solutions Architect at GTSI. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading and driving creation of mission-oriented integrated solutions, capabilities, standard operating procedures, and "go-to-market" strategy around Big Data Analytics, Cyber Security and various emerging technologies.
Mr. Jadhwani has extensive experience working in the enterprise IT space with both commercial and Federal customers. He has a strong blend of technology, marketing and product management experience and has held number of consulting and managerial positions with reputable technology and software firms, including TIBCO Software, See Beyond Technology Corporation (acquired by SUN Microsystems), and Infogix Systems Inc. prior to joining GTSI in 2004.
He provides technical and business expertise in enterprise Networking, Cyber Security, Cloud and Big Data Analytics solutions to GTSI customers and is a prominent speaker and thought leader at various tradeshows and industry conferences. Prem has recently served as a Deputy Commissioner on the TechAmerica STLG Cloud Computing Commission and as a Commissioner on the TechAmerica Foundation Big Data Commission. He also teaches various graduate classes in Cyber Security at UMUC and other reputable universities and has authored numerous publications.
Mr. Jadhwani holds a MS degree in computer science and MBA degree in Marketing & Strategy from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and has completed his graduate work towards a Ph.D. degree in Information Security at George Mason University in Virginia. He holds a number of professional certifications including CISSP, CISM, GCIH, CCNP and GSLC
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