Speakers

Kevin Cox is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). In this position, Mr. Cox oversees all mission and functional activities required to support the Office of the Chief Information Officer, including service delivery, security, finance and budget, and policy. Prior to his current role, Mr. Cox served as Program Manager for the federal Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the DOJ. Mr. Cox holds M.A. degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Chicago.

: Stephen Ellis serves as Zoom's Government Solutions Lead, supporting market development and strategy across Zoom's Federal, State, Local and Global government market. He is a recognized public sector thought leader and frequent speaker at events and symposia serving this vertical. Stephen comes to Zoom with a robust career history in the government space, most recently with Dell. He has worked at Deloitte, and as a contractor to the Federal Government, Microsoft, and businesses now part of GDIT, Boeing, and Perspecta.

Mr. Zachary G. Goldstein is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Information Officer and Director, High Performance Computing and Communications. In this position, he is responsible for implementing statutory requirements regarding the acquisition, management, and use of NOAA's information and information technology resources, to include NOAA's high performance computing and communications infrastructure. Mr. Goldstein is also responsible for NOAA’s Homeland Security Program to ensure business continuity in event of a terrorist attack, major disaster, or other emergency. He additionally serves as the Senior Executive responsible for the Department's use of the radio frequency spectrum. Mr. Goldstein was named NOAA CIO in January of 2015.

Mr. Goldstein joined NOAA in March 2005 as the CIO for the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, before he was named NOAA Deputy CIO in June 2011. He has over 25 years of experience in information resource management in the federal government and private sectors. He began his career with the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), performing management audits of government operations and leading evaluations of federal information systems management. Mr. Goldstein served in technical management roles with BDM International, Inc., concluding as the Vice President for System Engineering and Product Development. He then returned to the federal government, appointed as Director, Logistics Systems Modernization in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Before he joined NOAA, Mr. Goldstein was self-employed as an information technology management consultant to private and public sector organizations.

Mr. Goldstein received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York.

Mr. Goldstein lives in Virginia with his wife and their son.

Sabih Khan serves as an Industry Leader for Public Safety and Justice for Salesforce within the global public sector. In this role, he serves as an SME for Salesforce and its customers in policing technologies—specifically within the areas of digital transformation, business automation, data analytics, and data management. In addition, he leads Salesforce's go-to-market strategy for innovative solutions for public safety agencies across the globe.

Sabih has spent 15 years working within public safety, and most recently, he served as the Deputy Chief of the Strategic Initiatives Division at the Chicago Police Department. Within this role, he led a vast number of wide-ranging initiatives in the United State's second-largest police department, including developing and managing the department's technology and data analytics strategy. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Finance and a master's degree in Predictive Analytics and Data Mining from DePaul University

Monica Langley was appointed as FEMA’s Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) in January 2020 after serving as Acting Deputy CIO in the months prior. As Deputy CIO, Ms. Langley provides leadership and oversight for Information Technology (IT) Management, including resource planning, strategic and capital investment planning, enterprise IT procurement, customer relationship management, and help desk support. Ms. Langley’s portfolio focus covers budget, governance, and policy to enhance IT management, reduce audit findings, and improve FEMA’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) scorecard.

Ms. Langley has served in multiple federal agencies over her 30 years in government, starting her service in 1988 as a United States Marine where she was the first woman to become a Marine Combat Instructor of Water Survival. Ms. Langley went on to serve as a primary developer for the Corporate Information Management System at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Chief of Information Resources Management for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Public Affairs, before joining FEMA as the Office of Response and Recovery’s Information Technology Management Branch (ITMB) Chief in August 2016.

Ms. Langley holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management. She is also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Harvard Business School for Executive Education, and holds a Chief Technology Officer Certificate from the National Defense University.

Captain Víctor “SALSA” López is an MQ-9 instructor pilot currently stationed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helping to develop and accelerate Artificial Intelligence technology for immediate transfer to military operations. He continues to fly to ensure the latest operational limitations are brought to the forefront of the Accelerator. His main project at MIT focuses on developing intelligent Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) swarms for use in high availability disaster recovery (HADR) and search and rescue operations. 

Ms. Gwendolyn Miller is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the United States Marshals Service overseeing 350 federal and contractor employees. Provides support to 7,500 USMS employees and task force members at 475 sites across the United States. Responsible for improving the effectiveness of USMS core mission areas through modernization of legacy IT systems, delivery of new innovative capabilities, and effective management of the USMS IT application portfolio. Ensures security of all USMS systems through compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. Ms. Miller has served in government civilian in a variety of positions, including developer, programmer analyst, project manager, contracting officer representative, program manager, chief technology officer and portfolio manager.  Prior to joining the U.S. Marshals, she was a program manager for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

George W. Vit is a full time police Sergeant in New Jersey with over 15 years of experience in law enforcement.

Sgt. Vit began his public service in the New Jersey Army National Guard. He earned a B.S. in Management of Telecommunication from New Jersey Institute of Technology before being deployed.  He continued to serve the public by becoming a police officer.  After completing an MBA in Management of Technology, he continued to participate in various committees including a technology committee, awards committee, and training committee.  Sgt Vit is a Field Training Officer (FTO), TASER operator, and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE).  He has also received numerous awards including recognition for having saved a 12 year old boy, a letter of commendation for felony arrests, and outstanding marksmanship awards. Most recently, Sgt. Vit was assigned to the support services bureau to carry out training and technology initiatives.  

Sgt. Vit continues to serve on many committees dedicated to technology in law enforcement in professional organizations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police, IJIS and AFCEA. 

Robert Grower is Slack’s Strategist for the use of technology in police work. With Slack, police departments see a dramatic improvement in response times and arrests. Its ease of use and ease of implementation brings fast time-to-value.  Robert has worked with state and local government over the past 15 years, including law enforcement,  court, HHS,  IT,  public health, transportation and administration and finance. Robert learned about the competitive advantage of technology and the need to operate smarter and faster while growing up in a successful family business. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Marketing and Finance. He received his MBA from Western New England University.

Allen McNaughton is the Director of Pre-Sales Engineering, Public Sector at Infoblox and leads the technical design and support for Federal, State/Local agencies and the Education vertical. He is also responsible for ensuring that Infoblox maintains the highest level of government certifications across product lines.  With over 20 years of experience in developing security solutions for Service Providers, Public Sector and Enterprise customers, Allen helps customers not only understand the technical, but also the business impacts of cyber-attacks and how to help mitigate those threats, specifically with a focus on DNS.