Speakers

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In December 2020, Dr. Matthew Graviss became the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer of the Department of State. In this role, Dr. Graviss is responsible for making data accessible, interoperable, and actionable across the Department of State. He also serves as the Managing Director for the Office of Management Strategy and Solution’s Center for Analytics (CfA), which aims to imbue the Department with a data focused culture and corresponding talent, advance data governance, expand analytics capability, and modernize data technology solutions. 

Prior to joining the State Department, Dr. Graviss spent 13 years in leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security, as well as time in the private sector. Most recently, Dr. Graviss spent two and a half years as the first Chief Data Officer at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within DHS, where he led data management and analytics services for USCIS’ 20,000 person workforce.  

Graviss holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in systems engineering from George Washington University. He is a Level 3 certified acquisition professional in program management, systems engineering, and test and evaluation. He is also a graduate of American University’s Key Executive Leadership program. 

Steven Hernandez, MBA, CISSP, CISA, CNSS, CSSLP, CDPSE, SSCP, CAP, ITIL

Steven Hernandez is an information assurance executive serving the past twenty years in a variety of contexts and missions. His rich background includes law enforcement, financial, education, healthcare, credentialing, heavy manufacturing, non-profits, and governments at the federal, state, and local levels. Steven’s experience ranges from the board room to leading tactical, day-to-day security operations as well as guiding and leading broad security initiatives such as the US government's Zero Trust Architecture approach across large and complex organizations. Presently he is the Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Information Assurance Services at the U.S. Department of Education. Steven also serves as the co-chair of the US Government Federal CISO Council and Government Chair of the ACT-IAC Cybersecurity Community of Interest. Prior to his position at Education, he held a variety of roles at the Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services including CTO, CIO, CISO, Senior Official for Privacy and Chief Services Engineering Officer. He is an inaugural member of the United States Scholarship of Service Hall of Fame and an ardent supporter of the next generation of cybersecurity professionals through his teaching work as an Honorary Professor, Affiliate Faculty and guest lecturer at over a dozen Institutions of higher education.

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Ms. Lori Wade was appointed as the Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer in May 2022. In this role, Ms. Wade is responsible for leading the Intelligence Community’s strategic initiative to re-imagine the future of the IC’s data landscape in the digital era.

Ms. Wade has a wealth of executive leadership experience, expertise, and passion for solving digital, data, and organizational challenges, driving inclusive change, and delivering results with impact. She has more than 20 years of experience working in and leading diverse technology, data, and AI/ML teams across the IC in both a private and public capacity.

Previously, Ms. Wade served as the CIA’s Deputy Chief Data Officer and Deputy Director of the Agency’s Data Office where she excelled at integrating and negotiating across agency and IC organizational lines to drive inclusive change. She integrated efforts and collaborated across the CIA directorates and mission centers, engaged CDOs, technology and thought leaders across the IC, and with key foreign partners to devise strategic and tactical options to increase the speed of data sharing for mission use. She has embedded data expertise directly with mission to drive end-to-end data management, significantly increasing the speed of data in the intelligence cycle.

Ms. Wade also served as CIA Directorate of Digital Innovation’s Chief for the Global Issues Mission Center and the East Asia and Pacific Mission Center and Korea Mission Center.

In prior roles at ODNI, Ms. Wade served as Chief of the Mission Capabilities Group in the Office of the Deputy DNI for Intelligence Integration. She also served as Chief Operating Officer for the National Counterterrorism Center, as well as Chief of Staff for NCTC’s Directorate of Intelligence.

Prior to joining ODNI in 2008, Ms. Wade worked in private industry for Booz Allen Hamilton where she completed assignments with NRO, FBI, and DHS/CBP.

Ms. Wade earned a M.S. in Organizational Learning/Knowledge Management from George Mason University and a B.S. in Business Administration/Marketing from Western Carolina University.

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Robert Carey is a highly recognized public sector leader in enterprise information technology and cybersecurity. He currently serves as President of Cloudera Government Solutions where he leads sales, engineering, operations, and marketing teams to solve customer data driven digital transformation challenges across Federal, State and Local Governments. Previously, he led all aspects of RSA’s public sector business as General Manager and Vice President, and was Vice President of cybersecurity, cloud, and unified capabilities at General Dynamics Information Technology.

Rob retired from the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2014 after over 30 years of distinguished public service. His last assignment was a 3 1⁄2 year tour as the DoD Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer where worked tirelessly to strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity, while accelerating deployment of mobile solutions for the warfighter. He was recalled to active duty for Operation Desert Shield/Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom where he served with the I Marine Expeditionary Force in 2006. Rob retired from the United States Navy Reserve as a Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps.

Rob was recognized with the Navy’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award (twice) as well as the Superior and Meritorious Civilian Service Award. He also received the prestigious Federal 100 Award multiple times and was named the Defense Executive of the Year by Government Computer News in 2009. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Engineering Management from George Washington University.

Carolyn Duby is an award winning cybersecurity and data stategist who drives some of today’s most important tech topics, including artificial intelligence, hybrid data cloud, big data, privacy, becoming a data-driven organization, and careers in tech. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, she currently serves as Field CTO and Cyber Security Lead at Cloudera. A trusted advisor to dozens of customers, from SMBs to the Fortune 100, she guides companies in banking, insurance, healthcare and more through complex transformations that help them use data as a strategic asset protect their digital footprint and to impact their bottom line.

She regularly contributes blog posts, articles and commentary, including to VentureBeat, eWEEK, and Bank Info Security.

As chief product officer, Dipto Chakravarty leads Cloudera’s overall product and technology direction. Most recently, he served as the head of data engineering in Amazon’s generalized artificial intelligence organization. Prior to that, he led AWS’s cloud practice for four years. Before Amazon, Dipto held executive positions at CA, IBM, Novell, and Thomson-Reuters and founded/led three private equity-backed businesses with exits. He has twelve patents issued to date, has authored two books, and has served on the board of software companies. Dipto holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from the University of Maryland and completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Ben Snively is a Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he specializes in architecting and building analytical, machine learning, and generative AI solutions for public sector customers. His expertise encompasses assisting organizations in the government, education, non-profit, and healthcare sectors. Mr. Snively holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida.