Shashank Khandelwal (Shuh-shaank Khun-dale-waal) is acting director of cloud.gov. He spends most of his time thinking about how to increase cloud adoption within the federal government.

Earlier at 18F, he co-lead the digital transformation practice and worked on Every Kid in a Park, but not at the same time.

He lives in Rockville, MD with his wife. He likes taking pictures of street art and murals.

Mark Bunn is the program manager for the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) program at DHS. Mark has over 20 years of Information Security consulting experience for Fortune 100 companies in network and system security including: incident management, vulnerability assessment, threat modeling and risk management.

Michael W. Fairless joined the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in February 2013 serving as the Branch Chief for Servers and Storage. Prior to joining the SEC, he was a Program Manager and Assistant Vice President with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from January 2001 until February 2013, Director of Operations with Petra Incorporated from January 1999 until January 2001. Prior to joining Petra, Mike served in the United States Navy as a Master Chief Intelligence Specialist from 1977 to 1999. Highlights of his military service include 6 Operational deployments to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the Arabian Gulf and service as a Master Chief Petty Officer of the Command, Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Systems Officer, and Leading Chief Petty Officer.

Mike is an accomplished and tenacious professional who believes that a true leader empowers others, providing tools and support, while challenging individuals and teams to stretch beyond their comfort zones. Mike has demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, concentrating on building strong teams, developing valuable tools, and sound processes with an emphasis on the identification of best practices. He has facilitated multiple organizational and leadership development events focused on optimizing the enterprise through enhancements to organizational design and developing high performing teams. He has led large and complex system development, system engineering, and logistics management and implementation efforts in support of customers at the United States Navy, Naval Air Systems Command. He has also managing large IT Infrastructure and Service Operations in support of the United States Central Command (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Information Enterprise Systems), U.S. State Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mike’s academic achievements include a Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Bachelors in Management of Technical Operations, and an Associate’s Degree in Technical Education. Mike’s is a Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA), Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. He holds additional certifications in ITIL Service Operations and has spent many years studying and implementing Agile and Lean best practices in a variety of non-traditional environments.

Dr. Michaela Iorga serves as senior security technical lead for cloud computing with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Computer Security division. She also chairs the NIST Cloud Computing Public Security Working Group and co-chairs the NIST Cloud Computing Public Forensic Science Working Group. Having previously served in a wide range of consulting positions in both government and private sector industries before joining NIST, Dr. Iorga, a recognized expert in information security, risk assessment and information assurance for cloud, fog and IoT-based systems, has a deep understanding of cybersecurity, identity and credential management, and cyberspace privacy issues, as well as an extensive knowledge base in the development of complex security architectures. In her role as senior security technical lead at NIST and chair of the NIST Public Security and Forensics Working Groups, Dr. Iorga supports the development and dissemination of cybersecurity standards and guidelines that meet national priorities and promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. Dr. Iorga is particularly focused on working with industrial, academic, and other government stakeholders to develop a high-level, vendor-neutral cloud and fog computing security and forensics guidance under the NIST Strategy for Developing a US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap. A proven leader and expert in problem-solving and analysis, Dr. Iorga is also managing several other NIST efforts that include the development of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language, Cognitive-based IoT fingerprinting, Risk Management for Cloud-based Systems and Fog Computing definition. Past projects focused on development of Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules (Federal Information Processing Standard 140), implementation of a NIST public, secure randomness source; development of security testing requirements for electrical smart meters; ad-hoc network security and smartcards for personal identity verification (PIV). Dr. Iorga received her Ph.D. from Duke University in North Carolina, USA.

Josh Stella is Co-founder and CEO of Fugue, which radically simplifies cloud operations and centralizes cloud control by automating and enforcing infrastructure at scale. Previously, Josh was a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has served as CTO for a prior startup and in numerous other technical and leadership roles over the last 25 years. With the Fugue team, Josh authored Scalable Cloud Ops with Fugue_ published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf and the O’Reilly guide: Immutable Infrastructure: Considerations for the Cloud and Distributed Systems, as well as numerous articles.

Ted Girard is the Vice President of Public Sector at Okta. He defines and drives Okta’s vision and strategy in the Federal, State & Local and Education markets. Ted and his extended team empower Public Sector organizations to recognize the benefits of digital transformation by connecting any employee, vendor, partner, or citizen to anything from anywhere, securely.

Ted has 20+ years experience building and leading highly successful Public Sector focused organizations with leading technology companies such as BladeLogic, BMC, Brocade and Xerox.

Ted holds a BA in Economics from Hobart College and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

As Chief Information Security Officer for Qualys, Mark focuses on driving with industry luminaries and Qualys customers how to improve the security of the current computing environment and build security into digital transformation initiatives.

Previously CISO of Fiserv, and with over 24 years of experience leading enterprise security teams, Mark has built and developed effective information security programs for executive management, IT leadership and legal counsel, plus provided visibility into business threats and how to defend against them.

Prior to Fiserv, Butler held roles in global security consulting, independent technical research and comprehensive assessment services as well as several foundational security roles at H&R Block. Butler attended Baylor University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Business Management from Avila University. He holds active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), PCI Internal Security Assessor (PCI-ISA) and Certified Information Privacy Professional/Information Technology (CIPP-IT) certifications.