Speakers

Ms. Jill Marlowe is the Agency’s Digital Transformation Officer, and leads the Agency to conceive, architect, and accelerate enterprise digital solutions that transform NASA's work, workforce and workplace to achieve bolder missions faster and more affordably than ever before. In this role, she first defined and refines NASA’s digital transformation vision, strategy, and policies to
accelerate NASA’s transformation progress in four target areas: engineering, discovery, program/project management decision making, and business operations. She partners with internal/external organizations to plan, coordinate and integrate implementation activities exercising five high pay-off digital levers to accelerate progress: interoperable architectures, process transformation, maximizing data impact, common tools, and inclusive teaming. 

Prior to this role, Ms. Marlowe was the Associate Center Director, Technical, at NASA’s Langley
Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Ms. Marlowe led strategy and transformation of the center’s technical capabilities to assure NASA’s future mission success. In this role, she focused on accelerating Langley’s internal and external collaborations as well as the infusion of digital technologies critical for the center to thrive as a modern federal laboratory in an ever more digitally-enabled, hyper-connected, fast-paced, and globally-competitive world.

In 2008, Ms. Marlowe was selected to the Senior Executive Service as the Deputy Director for
Engineering at NASA Langley and went on to serve as the center’s Engineering Director and Research Director. With the increasing responsibility and scope of these roles, Ms. Marlowe has a broad range of leadership experiences that include: running large organizations of 500 - 1,000 people to deliver solutions to every one of NASA’s mission directorates; sustaining and morphing a diverse portfolio of technical capabilities spanning aerosciences, structures & materials, intelligent flight systems, space flight instruments, and entry descent & landing systems; assuring safe operation of over two-million square feet of laboratories and major facilities; architecting partnerships with universities, industry and othergovernment agencies to leverage and advance NASA’s goals; project management of technology development and flight test experiments; and throughout all of this, incentivizing innovation in very different organizational cultures spanning foundational research, technology invention, flight design and development engineering, and operations. She began her NASA career in 1990 as a structural analyst developing numerous space flight instruments to characterize Earth’s atmosphere.

Ms. Marlowe’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace and Ocean
Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990, and a Degree of Engineer in Civil and Environmental
Engineering at George Washington University in 1997. She serves on advisory boards for Virginia Tech’s Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Department, the Virginia Tech Center for Research in Aero/Hydrodynamic Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory’s Engineering Sciences Research Foundation, and Cox Communications Digitally Inclusive Communities (regional). She is an AIAA Fellow, and her recognition includes a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, two NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals, election to the Virginia Tech Academy of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering Excellence, and being voted the 2017 NASA Champion of Innovation. She lives in southeastern Virginia with her husband and the youngest of their three children and their energetic labradoodle.

Tim Brown serves as Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President,
Security for SolarWinds, overseeing internal IT security, product security, and
security strategy. As a former Dell Fellow and CTO, Tim deeply understands the
challenges and aspirations of the person responsible for driving digital innovation
and change. Tim has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing
security technology. Nationally, his trusted advisor status has taken him from
meeting with members of Congress and the Senate to the Situation Room in the
White House. He is a member of the advisory board for Clemson University and
holds 18 issued patents on security-related topics.

Chris Riotta is a staff reporter at Nextgov/FCW covering government procurement and technology policy. Chris joined FCW after covering U.S. politics for three years at The Independent. He earned his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served as 2021 class president.