Speakers

Peter Aiken is an acknowledged Data Management (DM) authority. As a practicing data consultant, professor, author and researcher, he has studied DM for more than 30 years.  International recognition has come from assisting more than 150 organizations in 30 countries including some of the world's most important.  He is a dynamic presence at events and author of 10 books and multiple publications, including his latest on Data Strategy.  Peter also hosts the longest running and most successful webinar series dedicated to DM (hosted by dataversity.net).  In 1999, he founded Data Blueprint, a consulting firm that helps organizations leverage data for profit, improvement, competitive advantage and operational efficiencies.  He is also Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), past President of the International Data Management Association (DAMA-I) and Associate Director of the MIT International Society of Chief Data Officers.  

Marie Breton joined Alteryx as a Solutions Engineer for its newly formed Public-Sector Division.  She is responsible for proposing data analytics solutions, and she demonstrates the features and capabilities of the Alteryx Platform for business leaders.  Marie trains business analysts to develop and create end-to-end workflows that incorporate data sources, data preparation tasks, data blending, and advanced analytics.

Prior to joining Alteryx, Marie provided support for Dell EMC’s Federal Consulting Services, developing solutions and roadmaps that address clients’ unique challenges and requirements to help advance their technical and business analytical maturity.

Marie obtained her master’s degree in predictive analytics from Northwestern University.

Jeff Butler leads the Data Management Division of the IRS Research, Applied Analytics, and Statistics organization where he is responsible for managing a peta-scale data environment for advanced analytics that he co-founded.  He also spends time helping lead enterprise data and analytics strategy at the IRS.  Previously he was Associate Director, Office of Statistical Computing, Department of Transportation where he created DOT’s largest data warehouse and e-Gov initiative, consisting of over 100 transportation databases used for research by universities, trade associations, state DOTs, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Congress, and the public at large.  His emphasis is on large-scale, enterprise-wide projects that use data, advanced analytics, and cutting-edge computing technology to drive new discovery and innovation.

He has over 25 years of experience in statistical computing, machine learning, and data warehousing.  He has taught multiple courses in these fields and published or presented at numerous academic, government, and industry venues or conferences.  He has a total of seven industry awards for innovation and best practices in data management and data warehousing.  He holds a B.A and M.A. in Economics and has completed M.S. Statistics coursework.

Jason Callaway is a Google Cloud Customer Engineer who specializes in helping national security users take advantage of cloud services. Prior to joining Google, Callaway founded the Fedora Red Team, an open source community that incubates defensive and offensive cybersecurity tooling. Callaway served in technical architect roles at Red Hat, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Callaway frequently blogs about cloud and security topics at https://blog.jasoncallaway.com.

Quinn Chasan leads the Customer Analytics division of Google Cloud US Public Sector. Quinn helps Government agencies integrate their digital tracking programs with their offline data to create a 360 degree view of the citizen, across efforts from opioid treatment & recovery to military recruiting. Previously, Quinn was the senior technical account manager for the media relationship between Google and the Department of Health and Human Services. Across both roles he has worked on optimization tactics and strategy for over 400 unique Government initiatives

Ethan Chen provides overall leadership to CDER in streamlining electronic and traditional submissions and delivering solutions to enable rapid adoption of emerging electronic data standards. Since joining the FDA in 2012, Mr. Chen has led the several critical initiatives as the CDER Informatics Architect, including Data Management and Business Intelligence programs. Ethan has over 20-years’ experience in Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Development and System Integration.

Jim Cochrane recently retired from The United States Postal Service after an over 40 year career with that agency. He was an Officer of the agency for over 10 years and was a member of the Executive Leadership Team for the last six years. His final position at USPS was as the Chief Customer, Sales and Marketing Officer where he directed all Marketing, Sales and Customer Value creation and was responsible for over $70 billion in annual revenue. He developed last mile strategies and shipping solutions that enabled the growth of e-commerce in this country.

Prior to that role he was the Chief Information Officer. In that role he directed one of the largest IT infrastructures in the US. In addition, he directed all engineering and development, payment systems, processing automation and robotics. As CIO he developed a digital strategy that created an Information rich network that leveraged Inteligent Mail barcodes, and billions of tracking events, to track and manage internal operations, and provide increased visibility for customers.

His career background includes extensive knowledge of labor, operations management, logistics, data analytics, digital technology as well as marketing. Jim has keynoted on data and analytics at many industry events, including, Association of National Advertisers, HP Vertica Users Conference, National Postal Forum, Parcel Forum and many other conferences.

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business. He is an independent senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics, Deloitte Consulting LLP. He collaborates with Deloitte thought leaders on all things related to business analytics, from the potential of cognitive technologies to industry-focused explorations and outcomes. Covering topics from emerging technologies to innovative business applications, Tom's Deloitte University Press series reveals leading-edge thinking on analytics and cognitive technology.
 
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Jonathan DeRuiter is a Data Science Manager at the NFA, a regulatory body for the U.S. derivatives markets.  He leads a team of data scientists in charge of model development and quantitative research with a focus on fraud and risk models. He founded the predictive modeling program at the NFA, developing it into a mature data science team. 

Jonathan has over 10 years of experience in financial market regulation, including prior positions conducting examinations and fraud investigations.

Jonathan has a BA in Finance from Michigan State University, an MS in Data Science from Northwestern University, and is doing continued graduate studies in Computer Science at DePaul University.

John Elder chairs America’s most experienced Data Science consultancy. Founded in 1995, Elder Research has offices in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington DC. Dr. Elder co-authored 3 award-winning books on analytics, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular keynote speaker. John is occasionally an Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is a Professor of Law at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law.  Professor Ferguson teaches and writes about the intersection of technology and the criminal justice system.  He is the author of The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (2017) and a national expert on predictive policing and the Fourth Amendment.  His legal commentary has been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Economist, the Washington Post, USA Today, the ABA Journal, The Atlantic (digital), The Huffington Post, and other national and international newspapers, magazines, and media sites.  Professor Ferguson has been voted “Professor of the Year” four times. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (summa cum laude) and has a L.L.M. (Masters in Advocacy) from Georgetown University Law Center.  

Data Scientist Wayne Folta enjoys diving into a new problem space, working with customers to clarify their needs and objectives, and using sophisticated tools and analysis to turn their data into insights. His major technical interests are sequence models and deep neural nets. Previously, Wayne developed software in the intelligence community as a government employee and a contractor, and worked in the non-profit world as a video producer. Wayne volunteers in his community, teaching and providing statistical consulting for the local library and others.

Wayne earned a Master's Degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from George Mason University, and is also an alumnus of the University of Maryland and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Wayne enjoys snowboarding, the ancient game of Go, and learning R packages and other statistical tools.

Steve is a Data Science Solutions Architect on the IBM Analytics team covering State and Local Government. Steve works with clients to understand their big data and analytics goals and helps design data driven solutions to fit their needs. When not engaged with clients, Steve can be found keeping up with all the latest breakthroughs in data science.Steve achieved the "Kaggle Competitions Expert" designation by his high performance in Kaggle Machine Learning Competitions and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University at Albany.

Isaiah Goodall is the program chair of Predictive Analytics World for Government and also leads business development and sales for Elder Research, a leading data science consulting firm. Isaiah's passion is helping clients figure out how they can improve their analytics capability to deliver value to their organization and solve business problems.

In his previous role at Elder Research, Isaiah led business development for five years in the Arlington, VA office and helped secure analytics projects at several Fortune 500 corporations and US Federal government agencies. In 2011, he was the founding program chair of Predictive Analytics World for Government, the leading vendor-neutral predictive analytics conference in Washington, DC.

Prior to his current role Elder Research, Isaiah led business development for Manas Development Group, an emerging market consulting firm in Washington, DC, and was part of the founding team of RelayFoods.com, an online grocery startup company based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Isaiah received his B.S. in Management from Virginia Tech in 2007, summa cum laude, with a focus in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technology. 

Jim is the US chief data scientist of Deloitte Consulting, and a member of Deloitte’s Advanced Analytics and Modeling practice. Jim has extensive experience applying predictive analytics techniques in a variety of public and private sector domains. He has also spearheaded Deloitte’s use of behavioral nudge tactics to more effectively act on model indications and prompt behavior change. Jim is a former professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison business school, and he holds a PhD in the Philosophy of Science from The University of Chicago. Jim is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and on its board of directors.

Robert Han is a Director at Elder Research overseeing the Washington, D.C. office. Over the past six years at Elder Research, he has led innovative data science teams that have tackled some of the industry's most challenging data science and analytics problems for both federal government and private sector clients. Some examples include designing and deploying cutting edge machine learning models to identify and prioritize highly suspicious actors (financial market players, medical providers, unemployment insurance recipients, workers compensation beneficiaries) for investigators and analysts; applying various text mining techniques to deploy models (both supervised and unsupervised) and solutions that ingest large amounts of documents from unstructured text; and leveraging network analysis and graph modeling techniques to detect highly suspicious social network behaviors and potential collusion within high profile domains such as the opioid crisis and federal tax fraud.

Prior to joining Elder Research, Robert worked for a global consulting firm as a technology and management consultant, with most of his experience coming from enterprise and supply chain COTS products implementations. Robert also came from a small software start-up as a technology and professional services practitioner. He worked closely with clients across various industries (technology, software, education, finance, government, human resources) and gained experience in cloud software implementations, enterprise technology architectures, agile software development practices, business intelligence and reporting across multiple platforms, change and risk management, and product and project management.

Robert holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

In June 2015, Mr. Roy W. Harris was selected into the Senior Executive Service to serve as the Director, Aviation Readiness and Resource Analysis Department within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Logistics and Industrial Operations organization.  He manages a workforce of over 1,000 logisticians, engineers and operations research analysts across 8 geographic locations.  He is responsible for analyzing the impacts of logistics elements, characteristics of weapon systems, and operational deployment patterns on naval aviation readiness in support of the Fleet Response Plan (FRP).  The department’s products include readiness & resource assessments, total asset visibility, aviation maintenance information systems and logistics product data.  These activities support Navy-wide efforts led by CNAF, HQMC and OPNAV to ensure resource plans are optimally balanced to produce the most affordable readiness solutions.  Mr. Harris manages an annual budget exceeding $100M and influences a budget of more than $3B.

Prior to his selection, Mr. Harris served as a lead business analyst in the NAVAIR Enterprise Analysis and Planning office.  He reported to the Deputy Commander where he led efforts to transform command business practices such as "cost wise" business execution, increased reliance on analysis-based decision processes, and NAVAIR's operation as part of the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE).  He provided analytical studies and recommendations on the command’s workforce size, composition and internal operations cost.

Mr. Harris began his career in 1991 as an industrial engineer in the NAVAIR Cost Department, where he worked in a variety of cost estimating roles for major aircraft and weapon systems.  He supported major acquisition programs such as the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW), AIM-9 Sidewinder, V-22 Osprey, F/A-18 Hornet, EA-18G Growler and the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.  His last position in the Cost Department was a competency manager, where he had responsibility for all cost-related products supporting strike aircraft programs with annual investments of approximately $5B. 

Mr. Harris earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and his master’s degree in engineering management from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  He is a graduate of the NAVAIR Engineer and Scientist Development Program and the NAVAIR Senior Executive Management Development Program.  In September 2010, he was the recipient of the Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

Wendy Henry is the Blockchain Lead for Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Government and Public Services practice. Wendy works with clients to distill emerging technologies into simple business value discussions. An ever-curious individual, she thrives on understanding how emerging technologies can drive her clients’ business towards newly created value. She is a hands-on technologist with 30 years of large-scale, complex system integration experience across a wide variety of technologies, including blockchain, cloud, digital innovation, and location-based technologies.

Jon Holladay brings a diverse set of skills and experiences to Deloitte’s Federal Strategy and Operations Finance line. Jon was formerly the Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the Chief Financial Officer Act of 1990, he was responsible for overseeing “all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the USDA.” USDA is one of the largest civilian agencies in the federal government with over 100,000 employees and over one-third of the non-taxable debt. The financial organization of the agency accounts for over $150 billion in program level funds and over $100 billion in loans.

Mr. Holladay was instrumental in improving the Department’s financial systems and processes. President’s George W. Bush and Barack Obama recognized his efforts and awarded Mr. Holladay the Meritorious Executive Rank Award and the Distinguished Rank Award in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Hudson Hollister founded HData to help data companies build the relationships, strategies, and understanding they need to deploy their technologies to transform business and governance.

Hudson is a securities lawyer, former regulator, former Congressional investigator, and trade association executive. He has invested his career in applying technological innovations to make regulation, government, and law work better.

Hudson founded the Data Coalition and served as its first executive director. The Data Coalition is the world's largest open data trade association. Its nearly fifty member companies work together to advocate for policy reforms to adopt common data structures across government management and compliance reporting. The Data Coalition has successfully passed multiple data reforms in Congress.

Hudson also founded the Data Foundation, a research nonprofit which works to define an open and standardized future for our society's data. The Data Foundation has published market-leading research in the potential of technology to deliver better government management, create public transparency, and automate compliance tasks. The Foundation also works with government agencies to educate civil servants on how to use government data to solve problems. The Foundation hosts Data Transparency, the largest annual open data conference in the United States.

Hudson has written legislation, testified before Congress, and served as a board member and advisor to diverse startup companies and nonprofit organizations. He received the Federal 100 Award in 2015 and 2019.

Carl Hoover has led dozens of data science projects while working with the leading analytics firm Elder Research. His diverse experience includes work in security, counterintelligence, psychology, fraud, finance, insurance, pharmaceuticals, avionics, manufacturing, and robotics.  Most of his recent technical work involves triage and ranking models for human-centric prioritization tasks.  Over his decade of work with Elder, he's played just about every role in the data science lifecycle including data wrangler, scientist, tech lead, project manager, business manager, executive, and even client.  As Chief Technology Officer, Carl leads long-term technical strategy, manages an R&D portfolio and oversees a technical advisory committee focused on cutting-edge data science research and practice.  Carl is a contractor with the University of Missouri College of Engineering where he teaches graduate-level courses for NGA's Program of Study in Data Science.  Dr. Hoover earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Clarkson University and a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia in Mechanical Engineering.

Bryan Jones, Owner and Principal Consultant of Strategy First Analytics, is a former Elder Research and federal government employee with over 33 years of experience successfully managing and leading programs and people. Bryan’s focus is to translate the value of analytics and develop an analytics business strategy for government agencies and commercial business operations.

Bryan was the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for the US Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General where he developed their first data analytics unit.  This is where he discovered his passion: the combining of business knowledge with the technology and science of data mining to help transform the way government does business.

Under Bryan's leadership the data analytics team grew from 6 employees to 40, from an annual budget of $0 to over $3.5 million, and was elevated from a small support group to directly supporting executive leadership.

With Return on Investment of over 10-fold and with analytics driving strategic planning at USPS OIG, many other government agencies benchmarked Bryan’s work and now use his blueprint to build their own capabilities or to improve their analytics operations in ways that are measurable and transformational.

Bryan’s education is as diverse as his career with his latest studies in leadership and management coming from the Lincoln Leadership Institute and the University of Mary Washington.

Vishal Kapur is a principal in Deloitte's Federal Financial Regulatory practice and has advised clients such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Financial Research in several mission modernization initiatives. Vishal has extensive experience in implementing enabling technologies spanning mobile, digital, analytics and mission specific applications to support his client's mission objectives. As a leader of Deloitte's Federal Analytics practice, Vishal is actively engaged in the industry and with his clients in areas such as advanced analytics, big data, text mining, and large scale data management disciplines. Vishal received a master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, India.

Klon Kitchen leads tech policy at the Heritage Foundation.

As Heritage’s first Senior Fellow for Technology, National Security, and Science Policy, Klon steers an enterprise-wide, interdisciplinary effort to understand and to shape the Nation’s most important technology issues. This is the first effort of its kind at Heritage and it is another example of how the organization is providing innovative ideas and solutions – guided by conservative constitutional principles.

Klon’s personal research focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, with particular interest in artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons systems, Space, and intelligence issues. He is also a frequent commentator on privacy issues, social media, and the tech industry in general.

A popular speaker, Klon gives talks around the world on topics related to technology and national security, international cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and social media. He is also a frequent contributor on television, radio, podcasts, and other media.

Prior to joining Heritage, Klon was National Security Advisor to Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska and also the Staff Director of the National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. In these roles he was the Senator’s primary foreign policy and national security advisor, he managed and mentored the Senator’s foreign policy and defense staff, and guided the execution of key legislative priorities.

Before his time on the Hill, Klon spent more than 15 years in the United States Intelligence Community working on counterterrorism, counterproliferation, covert action, and cyber issues. During this time he deployed to multiple combat zones and was awarded a number of honors, including the civilian combat support medal, the civilian expeditionary medal, and a special commendation from the Commander of Joint Special Operations Command.

Klon and his wife Tracy live in Maryland where they are active members of their church and where they are raising their four children – Ava, Ethan, Olivia, and Norah.

Upon joining SAS in August of 2007, Jon’s primary focus has been working with Federal, State, and Local government customers to understand organizational effectiveness and their performance against stated objectives.  He leverages his past experience to help customers implement industry leading performance management, workforce analytics, costing, and fraud prevention solutions through the integration of technology, processes, people, and methodologies.  Prior to joining SAS, Mr. Lemon was a Budget Director at the Department of Homeland Security where he formulated, executed, and managed over $4.5 billion of appropriated funds annually.  Jon also worked with Booz Allen Hamilton where he honed his skills in performance management and fraud detection and prevention while supporting various Chief Financial and Program Management Offices throughout multiple federal civilian and defense agencies.  He earned his MBA degree from the Florida Institute of Technology and also holds a Finance Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Corey Long is a Manger in Deloitte Consulting’s Government & Public Services Strategy & Analytics practice with over nine years of experience providing financial management services to various civilian agencies in the federal government.  Corey’s areas of expertise include process automation, financial modeling and analytics, data integration, and executive dashboarding.  His blend of financial background and technical expertise provides a unique skillset in providing services to his federal clients and managing project teams.

Andrea is a Senior Consultant in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Government and Public Services Blockchain Practice. She works with Federal clients to design business-focused technology solutions, and is specializing in building blockchain solutions.

Nick is an Applied Analytics Lecturer at Columbia University SPS, an IT consultant and a Geotechnical Engineering & Analytics Research Fellow at NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he is concluding his doctoral studies in Geotechnical Engineering and Computer Science. Through his doctoral research and as an independent consultant, Nick has accumulated several years of experience in advanced analytics, machine learning and database management systems with a focus on processing large, unstructured datasets. Specific to the Government sector, Nick has been spearheading efforts to support the FHWA in producing and distributing modern, high-quality datasets that can lead to safer and more efficient infrastructure design and construction, while being a lead contributor to the national geotechnical engineering committee for the development of new data interchange standards (DIGGS).

Ms. McGlosson is a newly appointed Associate Director in the Enforcement Division’s Whistleblower Office at the CFTC and is directing the Enforcement Division’s data analytics strategy. 

Through December 2017, Ms. McGlosson was Senior Special Counsel to the SEC’s Deputy Chief Economist and the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis’s Deputy Director, providing guidance and counsel on a wide variety of Commission legal and policy matters. She joined the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis in 2013, to advise Senior Division Staff on Enforcement Division investigation and litigation practices, strategies, and programmatic directives, so that these considerations may be integrated into the development of data-driven, risk analytic programs designed to detect federal securities law violations involving fraud and misconduct. She led the development of the Division’s Office of Risk Assessment.  She speaks frequently about the SEC’s and the CFTC’s development and use of data analytics. 

Ms. McGlosson joined the SEC in 1998, and served in a variety of positions in the Division of Enforcement, including Senior Counsel to the Director and Deputy Director of Enforcement, Senior Adviser to the Chief of the Office of Market Intelligence, and Senior Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel. She has also successfully investigated, brought before the Commission, and litigated in U.S. District Court, a number of financial fraud, insider trading, executive compensation, and microcap fraud cases. 

Ms. McGlosson received her J.D. Cum Laude, from The Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, where she received a concentration in Securities Law. She holds an A.B. in Government from Georgetown University, where she graduated with First Honors.

Atash Mehta provides overall leadership to CDER’s Human Drug Review Platform responsible for delivering modernized solutions to the drug review platform. Since joining the FDA in 2013, Mr. Mehta has led several critical initiatives as the CDER Informatics Platform Chief Technology Officer, including Work Management and Business Intelligence programs. Atash has over 20-years’ experience in Data Analysis and Management, System Integration, and Enterprise Architecture.

Qazaleh Mirsharif is an applied researcher currently employed as machine learning scientist at Figure Eight, applying artificial intelligence, in particular computer vision, to a broad range of real-world problems. She earned her PhD in computer science from University of Houston, Texas while focusing on building computer vision models for studying and evaluating the development of visual attention in infants. She received her MSc in artificial intelligence focusing on processing retinal images to help with early detection of eye diseases, in particular diabetic retinopathy. She currently works on a large variety of projects applying computer vision techniques to digitize on-street parking rules, detect and classify objects in drone and satellite imagery, and rate gif images, just to name a few. 

Daniel Morgan is the first Chief Data Officer of the United States

Department of Transportation. As the CDO, he has overall responsibility for
the Departmental data program and data compliance across the Department. He
is responsible for establishing a clear vision of the data managed in DOT
and the application of DOT data for decision-making. He serves as data
strategist and adviser, steward for improving data quality, liaison for data
sharing and developer of new data products.
 
Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Morgan spent 15 years as a management
consultant, providing services to public and private sector clients in a
variety of areas, including: open government, information technology
governance, capital planning and investment control, enterprise
architecture, and human capital planning.
 
Mr. Morgan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Carlos L. Ramos is a Lead Data Analyst at MITRE Corporation since 2010, where he has made many significant operational and research contributions to government sponsors in Defense readiness, healthcare and financial fraud analysis, and patient safety. He has expertise in a wide variety of technical domains including data science, modeling & simulation, signal processing, radio and satellite communications, serving in design, analysis, research, and systems engineering roles. Dr. Ramos received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and Polytechnic Institute of New York, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Computational Electromagnetics from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Christopher Rose is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Analytics practice specializing in the execution of complex strategy, enterprise cost reduction, and service delivery model transformation engagements. Chris currently practices in Robotic and Intelligent Automation offering for Deloitte’s Government and Public Services practice. Chris’ robotics and cognitive automation experience includes program strategy, client process and readiness assessments, and bot development/sustainment in the Federal Government, State Government, and Higher Education sectors.

Chris has served a diverse client base that spans local, state, federal, and higher education sectors over 25 years to include 14 years with Deloitte Consulting. Chris’ goal is to help public sector and higher education institutions find the right balance between mission effectiveness and delivery efficiency. Chris has a Bachelor of Science in Business from Wake Forest University and a Masters of Public Administration from NC State University.

Kris focus’s his energy on understanding the GSA data culture and cultivating and discussing ways to improve information management and data access across the agency.  This includes working with GSA leadership on fostering a data governance model that is driven by a Steering Committee, chaired by Kris, and includes senior executives from across all functional areas. Kris has helped GSA prioritizes resources, identifies enterprise data challenges, and to charter cross functional working groups to address data related issues. The working groups include data stewards and IT data strategy teams.  The data stewards are most closely associated with the Agencies enterprise applications and help address data quality and redundancy issues.  The IT data strategy team is technical engineers and program managers that build and maintain those systems and the data warehouses and data models that transform the data.  Together, these working groups have consolidated previously stovepipe processes and technologies and have created common procedures for sharing data across functional areas.

Senior Vice President and Practice Leader at Environics Analytics, Rupen Seoni leads a practice area that includes the public sector, health care, energy and not-for-profits. He brings to his position over twenty years of experience in marketing analytics, working with organizations of all sizes to unlock the value of information in decision-making and business strategy. He specializes in helping organizations understand population trends, segmentation and performance benchmarking. Rupen earned a master’s degree in urban planning and held positions with Nielsen, Compusearch, Campbell Soup and CIBC prior to joining Environics Analytics. For the last two years, he has appeared on CTV’s Canadian and U.S. federal election coverage as a commentator on voter demographics in key races.

Kevin Stofan is a Customer Facing Data Scientist at DataRobot and an Adjunct Professor at Pennsylvania State University with over 19 years of experience in implementing data analytics solutions. Kevin previously held positions in the DoD and Intel Community and has worked on numerous programs across the government sector. In his role as a Data Scientist with DataRobot he works with commercial and public sector clients throughout the full customer lifecycle to ensure success with implementing machine learning using DataRobot. DataRobot’s customers include organizations within a wide variety of commercial and public sectors including healthcare, banking, insurance, intelligence, and defense.

Robin A Thottungal is the EPA's first chief data scientist focused creating and implementing an agency-wide vision on analytics for effective data-driven decision making. He is also one of the founding members of the US White House Data Cabinet focusing on bringing data leaders across the government to a single platform.   Prior to joining EPA, Robin was at Deloitte Consulting providing strategic advising to client on different aspect of creating a culture of using data within their organization.  Robin has also served as Selection Panelist for the American Academy of Sciences Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy for the past two years and also held Vice-Chair position for the IEEE Washington DC section.

Mike Thurber is the Lead Data Scientist in Elder Research's Commercial Analytics Group working across multiple teams and industries – including finance, retail, energy, and telecom – to deliver information products that drive business value.  Mike’s primary focus is healthcare and insurance, where his projects range from predicting extreme payouts on long-term care claims, and identifying healthcare provider fraud, to measuring the effect of Cesarean delivery on infant health. His expertise in collaboration, data exploration, predictive modeling and rigorous testing, and in remediating the selection bias common to analytic algorithms, creates confidence in the actions recommended by the analytic products of his team.

Mike earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master's degree in Statistics from Virginia Commonwealth University. For the last four years, Mike has been teaching principles and best practices of predictive modeling to a broad audience of emerging data scientists.

Jaya Tripathi is a Principal Scientist and an advanced analytics expert in The MITRE Corporation’s Information Technology Technical Center. 

She is the principal investigator in MITRE's effort to apply health IT concepts to address prescription drug misuse and abuse. She has been working in this domain for many years and has collaborated with law enforcement officials, physicians, policy makers, Board of Pharmacy, academicians and state and Federal partners.

She has been at MITRE for 14 years. Before joining MITRE, Ms. Tripathi worked at several multinational corporations, applying big data analytics on projects such as a customer retention forecasting pilot for a major telecommunications company, and the origin-and-destination revenue management, one of the most significant innovations in the airline industry. She holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the University of Texas.

Dave serves as Director of the Operations Support Division for the Administrative Resource Center in Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a Shared Services Provider (SSP) providing administrative services to more than seventy customers across the Federal Government.  He is currently involved in the starting up the Administrative Resource Center’s Digital Workforce Support Team and Robotics Process Automation (RPA) initiative.  Dave has more than seventeen years of experience with Fiscal Service and has been involved in in various aspects of systems support throughout his federal career, including more than thirty customer implementations into the shared service environment and numerous financial system conversions, upgrades and implementations.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration/Accounting from Fairmont State University and a Master’s in Professional Accountancy from West Virginia University.

David C. Williams was sworn in as the second independent Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Postal Service on August 20, 2003. Williams is responsible for a staff of more than 1,100 employees -- located in major offices nationwide - that conducts independent audits and investigations for the largest civilian federal agency that has $67 billion in annual revenues, a workforce of 671,687 employees and contractors and nearly 32,528 facilities.

The office is under the general supervision of the nine Postal Service governors and is not subject to any other Postal Service supervision.

In his last position, Williams served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Aviation Operations at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from August 2002 until August 2003, where he managed the Aviation Inspection Program at federalized airports.

Williams has served as IG for five federal agencies. He was first appointed by President George Bush to serve as IG for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1989 to 1996. President William Clinton next appointed him IG for the Social Security Administration from 1996 to 1998, and then as IG for of the Department of the Treasury in 1998. In 1999, President Clinton named him as the first IG for Tax Administration of the Department of Treasury, where he directed a staff of 1,050 to detect fraud, waste and abuse. In 2001 President George W. Bush named Williams the Acting IG for HUD, while he was also serving at the Department of the Treasury.

Williams served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence and began his civilian federal career as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service. Moving up the career ladder, he served as Director of Operations in the Office of Labor Racketeering at the Department of Labor; the President's Commission on Organized Crime; and as Director of the Office of Special Investigations at the U.S. General Accounting Office. Williams is the recipient of the U.S. Bronze Star and the Vietnamese Medal of Honor for service in Vietnam.

A native of Illinois, Williams graduated from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Ill., and received his Advanced Degree in Education and a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. He also attended the U.S. Military Intelligence Academy, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the U.S. Secret Service Training Academy.

Ian Williams is the Manager of the Business Intelligence and Analytics Unit within the Chief’s Office at the Toronto Police Service.  Ian provides leadership and management of information through governance, project management and data analytics initiatives throughout the organization.

Ian spent nearly 10 years with Statistics Canada prior to working with the Toronto Police Service where has been involved in Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Human Trafficking projects leading up to his current role.

Ian has Masters Degrees in Public Policy, Administration & Law, as well as in Spatial Analysis.  He also holds a BA in Geographic Analysis as well as a Graduate Diploma’s in Justice System Administration and International & Security Studies. 

Jane Wiseman leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving government performance.  She is also an Innovations in American Government Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.  She has served as an appointed official in government and as a financial advisor and consultant to government. 

Her current consulting, research, and writing focus on government innovation,  data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency in government.  With the Harvard Ash Center, she supports a national network of urban Chief Data Officers to accelerate the use of analytics in local government.  With Harvard Ash Center, she created an open platform for government access to the best examples of government operational efficiency approaches, with case studies showing successful implementation.  She has advised the US cities funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies in their Mayors Challenge competition.  She has written on customer-centric government, data-driven decision-making in government, pretrial justice, and 311 for a variety of audiences.

Her prior consulting work has included organizational strategy, performance management and eGovernment strategy work for Accenture and Price Waterhouse.  Selected clients include the National Governor’s Association, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Criminal Justice Association, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the United States Postal Service, the State of Michigan, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Commerce.

Ms. Wiseman has served as Assistant Secretary, Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and as Assistant to the Director for Strategic Planning, National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice.  Ms. Wiseman represented the Justice Department on detail as a Staff Assistant for the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.  Ms. Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Smith College and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.  

Cal Zemelman serves as a Director at CVP and is in charge of innovation and growth efforts across the firm through a variety of corporate and client engagements. He has designed and developed data science and advanced analytics capabilities in the Cloud for both government and commercial clients. Prior to CVP, he worked with the US Marine Corps leading enterprise business intelligence and analytics teams.

Cal holds an MS in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia, along with a BS in Information Systems and Policy & Management with a Minor in English from Carnegie Mellon University.