US Department of Health and Human Services
Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Ms. Allums has more than fifteen years of legal and policy experience as a government and corporate attorney in the areas of domestic and international intellectual property (IP), IP licensing, IP enforcement
Haynes and Boone
Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney at Haynes and Boone. What he does most, though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code
Development Seed
Tom is an engineer at Development Seed, an online communications strategy shop that specializes in building open source tools for international development agencies. His focus is on creating open source mapping tools, and he has been
Acquia (Professional Open Source company, supporting Drupal)
Tim Bertrand recently joined the Drupal community, and now works with various Drupal services providers and early adopters of Drupal in Federal government. He is working with members of the Drupal community in Government and their
SCI Aerospace Inc.
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force/Acquisition Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense/Acting Director Defense Research and Engineering; President – SCI Aerospace Inc.
MITRE
Mr. Battista currently is a Lead Information Security Scientist at MITRE. He has almost 20 years of experience in securing systems, creating architectures, and running development programs.
Office of Management & Budget
Shahid N. Shah is the Chief Architect of OMB's Budget System Branch and the Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business (BFELoB) and a consulting architect at a few other federal agencies. Shahid's an expert at discovering
General Services Administration
Russell ONeill is an IT Project Manager at the General Services Administration where he works on the USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov websites. He is the project manager for the Go.USA.gov URL Shortener. Addiitionally, He manages
VistA and Open Healthcare News
Roger A. Maduro is a leading pioneer and expert in the use of open solutions in the enterprise as well as in the healthcare environment. In 1997, as systems architect for Winstar Telecommunications, he designed and carried out an far
US Navy Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
Rob Wolborsky, a member of the Navy’s Acquisition Professional Community, was selected as PMW 160’s Program Manager in January 2005. Mr. Wolborsky is responsible for tactical C4I systems to include Network Services and
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Rob Vietmeyer is the project manager for Forge.mil: a collaborative environment to accelerate the development and deployment of dependable software and services within the Department of Defense. Forge.mil is a DISA-led activity designed
Alfresco
Richard Im is Alfresco's Channel Solutions Engineer for the Americas. He has over 6 years of Technology experience, and 1.5 years with Alfresco. Responsible to ensure the Alfresco Channels have the capability to manage
Amentra Inc.
Mr. Gudepu is SOA Practice Lead for Amentra Inc, A Red Hat Company. Mr. Gudepu has extensive experience working with clients in both Government (Federal and State) and Commercial organizations where he has served as a SOA Subject Matter
US National Archives and Records Administration
Quyen L. Nguyen is currently working as System Architect in the Systems Engineering Division of the ERA Program Management Office at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
His interests are in the areas of system
U.S. Department of Energy
Peter Tseronis is recognized as a Federal Information Technology (IT) thought leader and among the Federal Government’s top public speakers and communicators on cutting edge information management and technology.
Jaspersoft, Inc.
Jaspersoft is the most widely used Open Source Business Intelligence software on the planet. Mr. Loeffler has 15 years business development expertise in the US and Internationally. Mr. Loeffler is a member of the Advisory Council of the
The Boeing Company
Mr. Paul D. Schoen is the Executive Director for the Infrastructure Software Development group which includes the development and deployment of the System of System Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) as part of the Future Combat
Transportation Security Administration
Neil Bonner works in the information technology field as a manager for applications development at the Transportation Security Administration. His focus is on innovation and collaboration for internal and external audiences.
WorldVista
Nancy is a Graduate of Boston University School of Medicine's 6 year medical program, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She has had varying experience including academic medicine as the former third year
QinetiQ North America
Michael Howard is the Director of Open Systems Architecture for QinetiQ North America. He was formally the Command and Control (C2) Deputy Chief Engineer for SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic (SSC-LANT) where he oversaw system
IBM Global Services
MaryAnn Becker has been in the industry for over 20 years with a strong
focus on server consolidation and migration working for Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Novell and now IBM. She is also the lead engagement
manager for
Red Hat
Martin is responsible for Red Hat's Consulting Practice with various Federal agency's to include the Army and Air Force, as well as State, Local and Educational institutions. While not working directly with his consultants, clients and
Department of State
In addition to this role, Ms. Chaconas serves as Program Manager for the Department's Content Management System, which provides web publishing solutions to embassies and other international programs, and supports over 340 individual
Microsoft Corporation
Mark Ryland is Microsoft’s National Standards Officer in the U.S.. In that role, he coordinates Microsoft’s interaction with the standards and interoperability communities in a number of areas, including cloud
Red Hat
Leo Pleiman leads multiple consultants at a major US Government agency. Focusing Red Hat open source technologies to realize customer goals of server consolidation and utility computing. Leo Pleiman joined
Open Invention Network
Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux.
Tresys Technology
Karl MacMillan is Tresys Technology's Director of Core Technology,
author of "SELinux by Example: Using Security Enhanced Linux," and
frequent speaker at virtualization, security and open source events
Mercury Federal Systems, Inc.
Autonomic Resources
John Keese is the President of Autonomic Resources. Autonomic Resources is a Federal Systems integration firm focusing on information assurance, encryption and protection, and emerging technology insertion, deployment and sustainment.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
John Banghart has spent over 15 years in the IT/IS fields, both in the private and public sectors. Currently, he is
the SCAP Validation Program Manager at
US Environmental Protection Agency
In this role, Dr. Johnston leads EPA’s efforts to coordinate and implement geospatial technology across the Agency to meet a wide range of mission goals. This includes providing a vision for geospatial interoperability
inCommon, INC
Isaac Christoffersen has over ten years of experience in system integration and software solutions development for commercial and government clients. His expertise also encompasses relational database design and development, software
Defense Information Systems Agency
Henry J. Sienkiewicz accepted his appointment to the federal Senior Executive Service in April 2008 when he assumed his current position as the Technical Program Director for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Computing
SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
Heather Burke is the Open Technology Development (OTD) Lead at SPAWAR
Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic where she focuses on development and building of open systems and technologies on behalf of DoD sponsors. She has supported
DatamanUSA, llc
Gyan has over 20 years experience in enterprise architecture, design, development and implementation of large software application in the Health Care industry. He was a key member of the IT team for the implementation of Epic
CollabNet
Guy Martin is an Open Source Community Manager at CollabNet, where he currently serves as one of two community leaders for the Forge.mil system. As part of the original launch team for the site, his primary responsibility is
Red Hat, Inc.
Gunnar is the Lead Architect for Red Hat Government, where he helps systems integrators and government agencies understand the benefits of open-source software and Red Hat solutions. A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE),
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
Gregory brings 24+ years experience in the tech sector, divided between software development and technology business development. He is also a (non practicing) IP lawyer involved in Internet & technology public policy. His technical
Red Hat
Greg Pryzby is a Senior Solutions Architect supporting the business
development team in the Public Sector business unit. Greg works closely
with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman Corporation, MITRE, Raytheon,
Boeing
Red Hat, Inc.
Greg DeKoenigsberg is a senior community catalyst for Red Hat. The community architecture team is responsible for Red Hat's strategy for building vibrant open source communities, and for aligning Red Hat's community policies with its
Development Seed
Over the past six years, Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for some of the largest international development organizations operating around the world, in addition to working with national public health and education
Alaska Department of Corrections
Dwayne Peeples, Deputy Commissioner for Administration and Medical Services, returns to the Department of Corrections after serving as Director of Health Care Services (Department of Health and Social Services) from 2003
IBM Federal
Dave McQueeney is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s US Federal Government unit. Dave’s team works with IBM’s Federal Clients and IBM’s Federal System Integrator partners to provide technical leadership
US Dept of Homeland Security
Dr. David G. Boyd joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) upon its establishment in March 2003. Dr. Boyd serves as the Director of the Command, Control
Central Intelligence Agency
Don Burke is a leading proponent of the Enterprise 2.0 ethos within the
Intelligence Community and is currently the "Intellipedia Doyen", which is a
role he has held since the spring of 2006. In this role he is
Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
In this role Mr. Riley facilitates consensus across a group of 26 federal agencies and institutes to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis. His work resulted in successful demonstrations of health information sharing
US Department of Defense
Mr. David M. Wennergren serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology / Deputy Chief Information Officer, providing top-level advocacy in creating a unified information management and
Institute for Defense Analyses
Mr. David A. Wheeler is a well-known expert in developing secure software and open source software. His works on security include the book “Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO,” his developerWorks column "
National Business Center
Mr. Santosa has over 24 years of experience in the IT industry for establishing corporate technology visions and leading all aspects of the corporate technology deployment and development.
Red Hat
Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 25 years. Dan joined Red Hat in August 2001. He has led the SELinux project, concentrating on the application space and policy development. Previously, Dan worked on Netect
Department of Defense CIO
Dan is a member of the DoD CIO's staff of "net-centric evangelists" advocating the net-centric transformation of the Defense Department for improved information sharing and collaboration. The staff of policy analysts promotes
Office of Management & Budget
Amentra, Inc
Mr. Henley is the Enterprise Data Solutions Practice Lead for Amentra, Inc., a Red Hat Company, focused on delivering enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, and SOA solutions to Federal, State, and Local organizations. Mr.
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Information
Dalroy has worked for years to make information in EPA’s databases easily available to EPA’s staff and directly to the public through web enabled applications such as EPA’s Envirofacts database and web site,
Red Hat, Inc.
Since joining Red Hat in 2000, he has worked with Fortune 500 companies and
government agencies to understand the benefits of Linux and open-source, and
how to best migrate to, deploy, and manage systems running Red Hat
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Bryan Geurts has worked in the Office of Patent Counsel at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) since 2002 and has served as Chief Patent Counsel for GSFC since 2007. As Chief, he is responsible for the identification,
Red Hat
Brian Stevens joined Red Hat's senior management team in 2001 and has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage and virtualization strategies. As CTO and Vice President, Engineering, he manages Red Hat's
Red Hat
Brian Sayrs is a JBoss Solutions Architect at Red Hat and has over twenty-five years of software research, development and consulting experience with commercial and government clients. Brian has been an invited speaker and conference
Red Hat
Bob St. Clair is a Red Hat Solutions Architect with the primary
responsibility of supporting the US Army. Bob has had various roles
supporting Unix and Linux environments with both commercial and federal
customers for
Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.
Bill Vass is the president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. and the chief technology officer of Sun's Global Accounts and Industry organization. Vass focuses on providing the U.S. government and elite global