Dan Chenok is Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He oversees all of the Center's activities in connecting research to practice to benefit government, and has written and spoken extensively around government technology, cybersecurity, privacy, regulation, budget, acquisition, and Presidential transitions. Mr. Chenok previously led consulting services for Public Sector Technology Strategy, working with IBM government, healthcare, and education clients.

As a career Government executive, Mr. Chenok served as Branch Chief for Information Policy and Technology with the Office of Management and Budget, where he led a staff with oversight of federal information and IT policy, including electronic government, computer security, privacy and IT budgeting. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Branch Chief and Desk Officer for Education, Labor, HHS, and related agencies in OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Chenok began his government service as an analyst with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and left government service at the end of 2003.

In 2008, Mr. Chenok served on President Barack Obama’s transition team as the Government lead for the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform group, and as a member of the OMB Agency Review Team.

Mark Forman is an accomplished Executive with more than 30 years of professional work experience, including a Presidential appointment to be the first U.S. Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology, the Federal Government’s Chief Information Officer. Mr. Forman has a long record of accomplishments in government management reforms, as a government employee, political appointee, and management consultant.

Mark is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Amida Technology Solutions, a software services company, founded in 2013, that solves the most complex challenges in data interoperability, exchange, governance, and security for business intelligence, predictive analytics (including Artificial Intelligence [AI], Machine Learning [ML], Natural Language Processing [NLP]), and downstream transactions. In this role, Mark integrates data management and AI trends into the company’s strategic and go-to-market plans.

Suzette Kent was appointed the Federal CIO in January of 2018.  She joined government from industry where she has been a global leader in large-scale business transformation and has worked with many of the world’s most complex organizations.  Her experiences cover a wide spectrum, which include technology development, product design, customer servicing, merger and acquisition, technology and risk policy and establishing new global industry capabilities.

Before taking the role of Federal CIO, Suzette spent over 29 years in the financial services industry where she served as a principal at EY, partner at Accenture, consulting president at Carreker Corporation, and Managing Director at JPMorgan.   Ms. Kent has served as an enterprise leader for organizational learning, diversity and inclusiveness, and career development at every organization at which she has worked. She has been a frequent speaker in global industry forums, publisher of thought leadership pieces, and holds patents in banking processes.

I'm currently National Managing Principal for Public Policy at Grant Thornton LLP. I've been working to improve government's performance for almost 25 years, first in the Congress (U.S. House/Senate), then the White House (OMB), and now at Grant Thornton. I'm a Fellow & former Chairman of the National Academy of Public Administration. I was appointed to the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, which made important recommendations for better integration of evidence into policymaking. While at the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, I worked with almost every agency on their major management challenges and what they were doing to improve. When President Bush was elected, I joined some of the most talented people in govt @ OMB. And because OMB's at the center of every government initiative, I worked on many of the govt's thorniest issues -- improper payments, competitive sourcing, strategic management of human capital, security clearance reform, IT reform & e-government. My major assignment was improving agency & program performance by assessing & enhancing programs with the PART. Every program got an assessment & developed improvement plans. I also negotiated the Transparency Act (FFATA) & then implemented it (USASpending.gov).

Mia is a solutions driven IT executive, joining Salesforce in 2021 after 11 years as a public servant. She was inducted into the Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2017 and served as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) at USDA/Rural Development and Federal Student Aid (FSA), an office of the Department of Education responsible for securing a loan portfolio of over $1.7 trillion. Most notably, Mia was a part of the Inaugural Class of the Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership Award in 2019, specifically, the “Pathfinder” winner for her leadership in bringing advances and innovation in information technology to government for her vision and leadership in developing the OneRD Portal- focused on improving the employee experience. Also in 2019, Mia was awarded the USDA Secretary Honors award for her leadership in delivering the "ReConnect" system processing over $1B in rural broadband loans.

Mia graduated from the University of Maryland University College with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science with a focus on cybersecurity in 2007 and is the current Industry Chair for ACT-IAC IT Management and Modernization Community of Interest (COI).

George Jackson is VP of events at GovExec – the largest and most-influential media company in the public sector marketplace. He joined the company in 2020 to enhance the scale of their events and audience experiences. In 2021, George launched GovExec TV (streaming video content) and received the company’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, part of their first-annual Icon Awards.

George graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 2006, he earned his master’s in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

George spent the first five years of his journalism career at WJHL-TV in Johnson City Tenn. – beginning as an overnight producer for the station’s 6 a.m. broadcast. He advanced to lead on-air reporter for WJHL’s 11 p.m. newscast.

As a reporter, George examined the earnings of two non-profit hospital systems, felony charges filed against a local sheriff, predatory paving companies, a health benefits backlog for local veterans, and a series of cold-case murder investigations. He received an honorable mention for Best TV Reporter in the 2011 Tennessee AP Broadcast awards and won a Best Investigative Reporting award from Media General in 2010.

George joined DC’s ABC affiliate WJLA-TV in 2012 to produce Capital Insider, which won him an Emmy award. One year later, he developed and recorded the pilot episode of Government Matters – a program about the business of government. It debuted as a weekly show on Sunday, August 4th of 2013. George led Government Matters through September of 2020, expanded its reach to a daily worldwide audience, and produced its first feature-length documentary The Dawn of Generation AI.

George is from Toledo, Ohio. He lives with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of rescue dogs in Northern Virginia.