Speakers

Representative Jake Auchincloss is serving his first term in Congress, where he is the Vice-Chair of the Financial Services Committee and a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. His areas of focus include infrastructure, housing, the life sciences, and energy policy.

Jake was born and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of a surgeon and scientist. They taught him to be a lifelong learner. From the moment he could read, he loved American history.

After graduating from Harvard College, Jake joined the Marines. He commanded infantry in Afghanistan and special operations in Panama. He’s now a major in the reserves.

When he returned home, Jake continued service as a three-term city councilor in Newton. His favorite part of being a city councilor was constituent services and communication. While serving in the public sector on nights and weekends, Jake led product development at both a Fortune 100 insurance company and a cybersecurity startup. He has degrees in economics and finance from Harvard College and MIT Sloan.

Jake lives in Newtonville with his wife, Michelle; their son, Teddy; their daughter, Grace; and their Labrador Retriever, Donut.

Adviser to the CIO in planning and coordination of IT vision, strategy and architecture. 25+ years of experience in Information Technology, including Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, IT Transformation, Enterprise Modernization, Cloud Computing, IT Innovation, Emerging Technologies

Mr. Caron is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) / Assistant Inspector General of Information Technology (AIG/IT) for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as of May 2021. Mr. Caron has over 24 years of information technology (IT) experience. He began his career in the US Army working in hands-on technical positions serving for 7 years.

Previously he has served as the Director of Enterprise Network Management (ENM) within the Directorate of Operations in the Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) at the Department of State (DOS) since June 2016.

Mr. Caron then spent 2 years as a contractor with the federal government, where he acquired more refined technical skills and a more detailed understanding of IT operations. He joined the federal government at the Department of State (DOS) in 2003 as a Systems Administrator. He has held multiple positions at the DOS, moving from managing small technical groups leading up to Director for ENM.

One of his most significant accomplishments was acting as the technical liaison during a major cyber security event at the Department. His leadership allowed the Department to resolve the incident as quickly and effectively as possible with minimal impact to the mission.

As the Director of ENM, Mr. Caron was personally responsible for the leadership of the largest office within the IRM bureau. This included managing the financial portfolio of over $200 million and prioritization of work across a wide range of disciplines. In this role he was responsible for the network and authentication infrastructure for the Department, led the re-engineering of the Department’s primary Identity and Access Management solution, formed teams to address key security efforts needed to mitigate future potential cybersecurity attacks through collaborative efforts, led the redesign of the Department’s Active Directory significantly improving security and responsible for the engineering and management of all the Department’s global network infrastructure and perimeter security infrastructure.

Mr. Caron is a co-chair on the CIO’s Innovation Counsel for Zero Trust as well as co-chair for ATARC.org Zero Trust Working Group. He previously chaired ATARC.org Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) 3.0 Working Group which resulted in 8 vendor proof of concepts being delivered to government participants. Mr. Caron received his associate degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Information Systems, Network Administration from the Northern Virginia Community College. At the Department of State, he also has received training in Executive Potential Program from the USDA Graduate School in 2009 and Advanced Leadership Skills in 2014. He received his certification in May 2020 as a Forrester Zero Trust – Strategist (ZTX-S) and received his Federal IT Security Manager Certification (FITSP-M) in 2017. Mr. Caron has received numerous individual awards for his exceptional service since 2004.

Dr. Allan Friedman is a Senior Advisor and Strategist at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He coordinates the global cross-sector community efforts around software bill of materials (SBOM) and related vulnerability initiatives, and works to advance their adoption inside the US government. He was previously the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at NTIA, leading pioneering work on vulnerability disclosure, SBOM, and other security topics. Prior to joining the Federal government, Friedman spent over a decade as a noted information security and technology policy scholar at Harvard’s Computer Science department, the Brookings Institution, and George Washington University’s Engineering School. He is the co-author of the popular text “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know,” has a degree in computer science from Swarthmore College and a PhD in public policy from Harvard University. He is quite friendly for a failed-professor-turned-technocrat.

Joe Gioeli is the Fiscal Service Chief Information Officer and Assistant Commissioner for ISS and is responsible for Fiscal Service's IT and security vision, strategy, and operations, overseeing a diverse technology footprint that supports the annual processing of over $3.7T in federal payments, awarding more than $11.7T in marketable securities, and collecting over $4.26T in federal revenue.

In his role, Joe oversees the execution of the ISS mission, to empower people and organizations to promote the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the federal government through technology enablement while ensuring the security of our people, facilities, and information assets.

In 2020, Joe architected the Bureau's IT Strategic Plan, a transformational strategic framework that includes significant modernization initiatives. He joined the Bureau in November 2017 as the Fiscal Service Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and ISS's Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) for Information Services. He has more than 14 years of experience implementing and supporting strategic IT initiatives and operations.

Geoff Brown joined Recorded Future in January 2022 to accelerate the company’s impact for the missions of global governments. Geoff built the centralized cybersecurity program for the City of New York as NYC’s CISO and the first Head of NYC Cyber Command (between 2016 and December 2021), and has prior experience in financial services and the U.S. Federal Government, including with the 9/11 Commission. Geoff is a graduate of Middlebury College, and teaches intelligence and cybersecurity at the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Department at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, CA.

Jill Aitoro is the Senior Vice President of Content at CyberRisk Alliance, driving efforts to build and engage CRA’s audience of cybersecurity practitioners across all of the company’s signature brands, including SC Media, Security Weekly, Cybersecurity Collaborative, Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum and the CRA Business Intelligence unit. A veteran content leader, Jill has more than 20 years of experience leading editorial teams and editing and reporting on technology, business and policy. She has interviewed executives from Fortune 500 companies and government officials from around the globe and is a regular contributor at conferences and on local and cable news broadcasts, focusing on the intersection of business, technology, and government. Jill was previously executive editor of the Business-to-Government Group at Sightline Media, leading editorial strategy and operations for Defense News, Federal Times, C4ISRNET and cybersecurity brand Fifth Domain. Prior to that she worked at Washington Business Journal and Nextgov, covering federal technology, contracting and policy, as well as CMP Media’s VARBusiness and CRN and Penton Media’s iSeries News. Jill has received multiple award honors for her editorial leadership, reporting, and multimedia editorial projects.

Jay is a strategic leader with 29 years of global leadership experience having served in the US Army. Jay’s passion is leading or advising cross functional teams of people engaged in information security operations; creating layered cyber defense systems and offensive architectures, managed extended detection and response, (MXDR) zero-trust architectures (ZTA) mandate compliance, multi-factor- authentication (MFA), hybrid cloud implementation and security, cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC), FEDRAMP solutions, OT defense, and implementing full suites of custom cyber advisory functions for small to large defense sector companies, start-ups, and policy leaders operating in the Federal marketplace.

Prior to joining OPTIV and while assigned to Army Futures Command he was the Director of a diverse cross-functional operational planning team focused on contributing to the US Army’s Climate Change Strategy. His team developed the strategic plan to reduce Green House Gas Emissions along several lines of effort with goals to achieve carbon-free, sustainable, and resilient operations.

Jay was also the Director of the first cross functional operational planning team designing Project Convergence—the Army’s premier technology demonstration and experimentation activity integrating all Cross-Functional Team signature modernization efforts and select Joint technologies to inform how the Department of Defense will fight and organize in the future.

Jay has commanded at both the Brigade and Battalion level in Afghanistan and is a supply chain expert. He has served in positions of trust throughout his career including on The Joint Staff serving both in the J4 and as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Director of the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. Both a graduate and instructor at the prestigious School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at FT. Leavenworth Kansas, he is an expert campaign architect focused on adversary approach developing the competitive edge with technical tools and applying them as countermeasures thru advanced technology, and operational art.
The approach accounts for multi-domain technology in the Federal ecosystem, which drives optionality for both start-ups that desire to operate in the federal marketplace, and for large Federal organizations that desire to retain decision advantage. Jay consults consistently with multiple federal agencies c-suite executives, and senior leaders in Federal organizations to achieve strategic cyber goals and produce outcomes.

Jay is an experienced communicator, public speaker, author, and accomplished Ironman Triathlete. He likes to talk about the need to design a national cyber defense collective that leverages the cyber industry as the final line of a national cyber defense when in crisis; designing a metaverse defense collaborative that aims to reduce threats to our national security, to include the rise of crypto and understanding the implications in competition, to the consilience of cyber not just as a domain, but something that is evolving past a domain, and how this evolution will impact the future security requirements of the United States now, and in the future.

Robert A. Martin, Senior Principal Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, has dedicated his career to solving some of the world’s most difficult problems in systems and software engineering. His work focuses on the interplay of risk management, cyber security, and quality assessment and assurance. For 23 years Robert has applied his expertise to international cybersecurity public private partnership initiatives such as CVE, CAPEC, and CWE, which host large active vendor and research communities, and is now working on standardizing the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and the supply chain security System of Trust™.

Robert is frequently invited to speak on security and quality issues pertaining to software-based technology systems and the work of the IIC and has published numerous articles and presentation. He also contributed to or authored over 60 standards within ITU-T, ETSI, OMG, The Open Group, UL, and ISO, including the new ISO/IEC 5055 code quality measurement standard. Robert hosts quarterly meetings on software and supply chain assurance with over 300 participants from international, commercial, academic, and government communities.

Prior to joining MITRE, Robert designed and installed manufacturing control systems in Area 2 of Kodak Park and performed software integration and porting projects for both RPI and General Electric. Robert holds degrees in electrical engineering from RPI and an MBA from Babson.

Sam King is the Chief Executive Officer of Veracode and a recognized expert in cybersecurity, DevSecOps and business management. A founding member of Veracode, Sam has played a significant role in the company’s growth trajectory over the past 15 years, helping to mature it from a small startup to a company with a billion dollar plus valuation. Under her leadership, Veracode has been recognized with several industry distinctions including: a seven-time consecutive leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, leader in the Forrester SAST Wave, and a Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice for Application Security. Her leadership style has been recognized by The Commonwealth Institute and The Boston Globe, which cited Veracode as of the Top 100 Women Led Businesses in Massachusetts, ranking first among all software companies. Sam has been a keynote speaker at events such as Gartner Security Summit, RSA and the Executive Women’s Forum, on topics ranging from cybersecurity to empowering women and creating diverse and resilient corporate cultures. She has been profiled in business publications such as the Huffington Post, CNNMoney, Financial Times, InfoSecurity Magazine and The Boston Globe.

In her previous role as the Chief Strategy Officer at Veracode, Sam was responsible for company strategy, product management, marketing, corporate development and the company’s customer-facing solution architects. Prior to Veracode, Sam held leadership positions in cybersecurity and technology companies including Verisign and Razorfish. Sam received her Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania. She earned her BS in Computer Science from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, where she earned the prestigious Charles Babbage Award, awarded to the student with the highest academic achievement in the graduating class. She currently sits on the board of Progress Software. Sam is also a member of Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, where she was a charter member of the 2030 Challenge; a Tech Compact for Social Justice in efforts to bring more diversity to the local workforce.

Jim is the Global leader for the AWS Marketplace Public Sector team. He is passionate about helping governments attain optimal performance by solving their most challenging cloud issues. At AWS Marketplace, Jim and his team focus on enabling leading ISV’s and channel partners as they engage across the spectrum of government agencies and partners. With over 25 years of experience at both startup and leading software and services organizations, Jim is uniquely poised to assist missions across the public sector, ranging from small city and county governments to complex DOD missions, local non-profits agencies to worldwide healthcare and educational organizations.

Mr. Wysopal is responsible for the strategic direction of Veracode’s technology. Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant since 2010, Veracode offers an automated cloud-based service for securing web, mobile and third-party applications using a combination of technologies including static analysis, dynamic analysis, behavioral analysis and software composition analysis.

Mr. Wysopal is a well-known cybersecurity expert and was named one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs and one of the 100 most influential people in IT by the editorial staffs of eWeek, CIO Insight and Baseline Magazine. He is a member of the Black Hat Conference Review Board. His opinions on cybersecurity are highly sought after and most major print and media outlets have featured stories on Mr. Wysopal and his work. He is the author of “The Art of Software Security Testing: Identifying Security Flaws,” published by Addison Wesley and Symantec Press in December 2006.

Camille Tuutti is a principal writer and author with the Tech Writers Bureau. She is the former executive editor of Nextgov and now a writer for Government Executive Media Group's Studio 2G, where she leverages her 12+ years in the federal IT space to create content for the world's biggest tech companies. Prior to that, Camille was the editor-in-chief of GovernmentCIO Media and also held senior roles at Fedscoop and FCW.

She’s a frequent moderator at tech events and she especially enjoys talking about emerging technologies and their impact on society. Camille began her D.C. journalism career covering government contracting as well as federal policy and cybersecurity.