Dr. Robert Bohn serves as Program for the NIST Cloud Computing Program. In this role, he manages and coordinates the goals and strategy of the program. Through collaborations with industrial, academic and other government stakeholders, NIST published the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap (NIST SP 500-293). The requirements in the roadmap focus on the issues of security, interoperability and portability to ensure a safe & secure adoption of cloud computing for the USG.

Previously, Dr. Bohn served as the Technical Coordinator for the High End Computing Interagency Working Group (HEC-IWG) at National Coordination Office of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) under the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He now serves as a co-chair for the FASTER Community of Practice under the NITRD Program.

He was a recipient of a National Research Council fellowship at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, received Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois.

Jay Huie has spent over 15 years guiding the evolution and adoption of technology within federal and enterprise environments. His expertise includes bringing a multi-discipline approach to help agencies achieve their missions. He currently serves as the director for the GSA Technology Transformation Services (TTS) Secure Cloud Portfolio, which includes the FedRAMP program. Most recently, Jay has been tasked to lead GSA’s Cloud Adoption Center of Excellence supporting the White House Office of American Innovation. In this role, he will build specific capabilities to assist efforts by federal agencies to leverage modern technology and cloud services.

Bill Hunt is a Digital Services Expert in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He has spent over 20 years in the private sector working in software engineering – building solutions for some of the best-known brands in the world. Bill was named the 2016 Legal Hacker of the Year for his government transparency work at Sunlight Foundation.

Mr. Sasala serves as the Director of Operations and Architecture and Chief Data Officer at the Headquarters, Department of the Army, Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO)/G-6.

As the Director, Mr. Sasala reports directly to the Army CIO/G-6. He is responsible for ensuring the interoperability and supportability of the Army’s Information Technology Architectures and leading the planning, development, and implementation of the Army’s Enterprise Architecture. As the Army Chief Data Officer, he is the senior advisor to the Army CIO and the Secretary of the Army on data issues. In this role, he is responsible for implementing the Army Data Strategy and overseeing the Army Data Management Program, including chairing the Army Data Board. He is a Senior Executive with over 28 years of experience in both the public and private sectors spanning hardware and software development, and enterprise architecture supporting the Army, Navy, and Intelligence Community.

He previously served as Director of Architecture and Integration and the Army Architecture Integration Center, Army CIO/G-6; Chief Technology Officer for the Joint Service Provider and the U.S. Army Information Technology Agency (ITA); and Chief Architect for the Analytic Transformation (AT) program for the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). He began his career as an engineer on the staff of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Mr. Sasala holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a Master of Science in Telecommunication and Computers from George Washington University.

In 2014, Mr. Sasala received the Nextgov “Bold Award for Innovation”, recognizing his creative problem-solving, technical acumen, ambition, and persistence. In 2015, he was named a “Fed 100” honoring the top 100 contributors across Federal, state, and local governments.

Ms. Pamela J. Wise-Martinez is a strategic business and technology innovation leader with over 20 years’ experience in public and private sectors.

Today, Ms. Wise-Martinez is Chief Cloud and Enterprise Data Architect for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. She is responsible for the strategic and tactical approach for Cloud deployments and Enterprise Data Architecture. Recently, she developed an approach for Pension Data Standard (Ontology), and a streamline approach for business, IT and cybersecurity, process tools for migration to Cloud and managed services.

Pamela chairs the Government Information Sharing and Services Domain Taskforce at the Object Management Group, collaborating on Interoperability in Threat Modeling, International Cloud Standards. A member and contributor to OMG's Cloud Standards Council, Cloud Security Alliance (IOT) workgroup (s) and American Council on Technology- Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC).

As the Senior Strategic Enterprise Architect for the Office of the Director of Intelligence (ODNI), responsible for delivering the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), Interoperability Framework (I2F) and Integrated Landscape (I2FIL) for Project Interoperability.

Ms. Wise-Martinez holds a patent for a Secure Biometric Identification Process and Financial System. She has a patent(s) pending on other business methods and apparatus for secure mobile communications for financial markets and a separate patent pending on meshed operating services. As the Chief Architect at the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), she delivered the “SmartPath” integrated Enterprise Architecture modernization approach, and responsible for designing NNSA Service Layer Model for virtualization and clouds services. She is contributor and author of the foreword for the Cloud Computing: Technology, Service and Architecture, by T. Erl, et al.

Peter Durand is the Vice President of Acquia Federal Sector. He has over 20 years of technical and leadership experience within enterprise software, distributed computing, telecommunications, information security, and consulting services across the Fortune 500 and Public Sector.

At Acquia, he is responsible for leading efforts across Civilian and DoD clients to transform agency digital strategies utilizing Acquia’s open Platform-as-a-Service, and enterprise support services leveraging the rapid innovation and costs saving driven by Open Source (Drupal), Security, and the Cloud.

Prior to joining Acquia, he was instrumental in establishing Akamai’s government business unit, Homeland Security practice and strategic partnerships. He has held numerous director and senior management positions at Oracle, EDS, MCI Telecommunications, and a DARPA funded security start-up. Peter holds an M.S. in telecommunications policy from Florida State University and a B.S. from the University of Maryland, and operates a hops farm in Bluemont, VA.

Mr. Healy is a Software Sales Executive at IBM, where over the course of his very successful career he has won every Sales award IBM has including the ultimate, ‘Golden Circle’ and “Best of IBM”! Mr. Healy currently leads IBM Federal Hybrid Cloud organization. Responsibilities include sales and support for all Analytics and Cloud software sales to the Federal Government.

Mr. Healy is a dynamic leader who over the past 30 years has lead the start up and turn around of many parts of IBM SW business, including taking the Southwest Business Unit from one of the lowest performing to #1 Worldwide in 2 years. He is known for high energy, motivational Leadership, that focuses on trust and respect for the individual, while delivering the desired results for Clients. Mr. Healy has held numerous leadership positions, including SW Business Executive running Federal and Commercial teams, and both NA & WW businesses. His experience besides sales, includes marketing, communications, product management, development, and event management.

Mr. Healy last year was honored with the selection to participate in IBM CSC (Corporate Services Corps), where he will be part of a small team (10-15) to go on a mission to help solve critical problems in a needy community in a remote part of the world. His assignment will be to Phuket, Thailand in 2H17. This aligns to Mr. Healy’s life principle that ‘the more you give, the more you get’, which is why his goal is to make a positive ‘touch’/impact with all he interacts with.

Mr Healy is a highly sought after mentor, including has done work with individuals in Fortune 100 and US Army. He has spoken across the world, and his work with US Army has won accolades, including earning him in 2013 a ‘Patriot Award’ from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Healy was recently the honored guest of the Command General (CG) of 1st Infantry Division (“Big Red One”), Fort Riley, KS. In addition, to invitation to the Pentagon, Mr. Healy has been asked to do resiliency training by the CG of one the US Army’s largest bases, Fort Hood.

Mr. Healy has B.A. in Business Administration from Saint Michael’s College, where he played Football & Lacrosse, and was Captain of Lacrosse Team his Jr & Sr year. In addition, Tim was a four year member of the Saint Michael’s Fire & Rescue squad, which was the second busiest in the State of Vermont. Recently, he served as Co-Chair of the SMFR Building Campaign, which raised funding to build the new SMFR Station on campus. Mr. Healy has MBA studies at Wharton School of Business and Harvard, and is on the Board of Fore Cure Inc.. He has served on number of charities including Ronald McDonald House (of Greater Washington as well as Baltimore), Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation, Children’s National Medical Center / Children’s Hospital, Washington Home & Hospice, and Troops First Foundation. As Founder of ‘Swing Fore The Cure’ (Fore Cure Inc), this charity has donated over $2M towards research for a cure to breast cancer!

Brett McMillen, Sr. Manager US Federal Civilian, has dedicated most of his career helping Government agencies innovate and improve IT solutions. He is an advocate for open data, and has worked with the Government to make important information such as the 1,000 Genome Project available as public datasets on AWS. He has helped the Government move a wide variety of workloads to AWS, including bio surveillance, grants management, big data research ecosystems, healthcare management systems, and public websites. Brett worked closely with the Government to obtain the FedRAMP certification for AWS.

Daniel B. Prieto is a Strategic Executive for Public Sector Cloud at Google. He is also an adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Before coming to Google, Dan served as an external Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co.

From 2014-2017, Mr. Prieto served in the White House as Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the staff of the National Security Council, where he was responsible for the defense of federal government networks and for privacy and civil liberties protections. In that capacity, he played a lead role in the response to some of the most significant cyberattacks against the United States, including the breach of the Office of Personnel Management. He designed and implemented the first-ever government-wide prioritization of IT “crown jewel” high-value assets, worked closely with the Intelligence Community to evaluate and strengthen insider threat programs, and contributed to a number of Executive Orders and Presidential Directives on IT modernization, enterprise risk management, cybersecurity incident response and information sharing, and the creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. From 2013-2014, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Chief Technology Officer in the office of the DoD CIO, where he led the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity and Information Assurance program and helped lead technology industry outreach and IT cost reduction and modernization initiatives.

From 2006-2013, Mr. Prieto was a Vice President at IBM where he ran a $125 million dollar, 300+ person strategy consulting practice. From 2007-2008, he served as Senior Advisor to the Congressionally-chartered independent Commission on the National Guard and Reserve. In 2003-2004, he helped stand up the Committee on Homeland Security in the U.S. House of Representatives. Previously, he was an investment Banker at J.P. Morgan and an executive at AOL, and in those roles served as a strategist or advisor on over $150 billion in transactions in technology, media and aerospace & defense, including the mergers of America Online and Time Warner, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and the acquisition of Netscape. He has held fellowship appointments at Harvard University, Stanford University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a former trustee of Wesleyan University and a member of the Aspen Homeland Security Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Cosmos Club, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Law and Justice. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and his writing and commentary have appeared widely.

Mr. Prieto received his M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.