Speakers

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Justin Marsico is the Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), where he is working to modernize the bureau’s management of data, including data governance and analytics. Justin also oversees the Fiscal Service’s delivery of data to the public, which includes USAspending.gov. In a previous role at Fiscal Service, Justin created the federal spending website called the Data Lab, as well as a new team dedicated to conducting enterprise-wide analytics. Justin also oversees the Fiscal Service’s delivery of data to the public, which includes USAspending.gov and Fiscal Data (fiscaldata.treasury.gov).

Before Justin joined the Fiscal Service, he served as a senior advisor in Inspector General's office at the Department of Commerce, where he investigated ethics matters and employee misconduct. In addition, Justin worked as an analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and previously at Treasury as an international economist. Justin holds master’s degrees from the University of Michigan in applied economics and public policy. He now lives in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Duran is the Senior Advisor on Data Science, Analytics and Systems to the Director of the National Institutes of Minority and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.  She focuses on implicit and explicit biases in data curation, AI designs, algorithm development, and the impacts on communities.   AI and ethics focus her efforts, and she strives to increase underrepresented populations capacity to utilize big data, the cloud and data science resources.

She has developed the ScHARe (Science Collaborative for Health disparities and Artificial intelligence bias Reduction) Research Collaboration Cloud Platform Cloud Platform focusing on social science data, including social determinants of health, to better understand health disparities and health inequities.  ScHARe also provides confidential and private workspaces to conduct research using the cloud.  The ScHARe program hosts a collaboration stage to address AI biases and develop better tools, and to conduct health disparities with a team of experts.  In addition, monthly Think-a-Thons enables cloud instructions for novice users and launches collaborative research on health disparities.

She also focuses on the inclusion of social determinant of health (SDOH) to include in data analytics to better apply diagnostics, treatments, and interventions to reduce health disparities.  Focus is on the standardized measurement and metrics of SDoH.

Prior to this role, she has been the director of science policy, scientific planning and data analytics for over 20 years.  She is an author and received three HHS Secretarial Awards and numerous NIH awards exemplifying her leadership skills and ability to advance science.  Prior to government, she was a principal investigator, researcher for the National Coalition of Hispanic Health, an advocate for healthy equity, a professor, and a high school teacher. 

George Jackson is the VP of events at GovExec Media – the largest and most-influential media company in the public sector marketplace. George joined GovExec in October of 2020 to enhance the scale of their events and audience experiences.

He 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.