Speakers

Adelaide O'Brien is Research Director for IDC Government Insights responsible for Government Digital Transformation Strategies. Ms. O'Brien assists clients in understanding the full scope of efforts needed for digital transformation, and focuses on technology innovations such as Big Data, AI, cognitive, and cloud in the context of government use cases such as customer experience, data driven benefits and services, and public health protection.  Ms. O'Brien's research also includes a particular emphasis on journey maps that assist clients in understanding the full scope of efforts required to achieve outcomes, and she has benchmarked the maturity of deploying cloud and Big Data and analytics in the federal government. Her research also includes the threats and opportunities now facing government's ecosystems in leveraging agency information as a critical asset, allowing stakeholders to make better decisions, provide better services and experiences for constituents, and react in real time to limit liabilities and manage risks.

As Vice president at SAIC he leads teams focused on developing cyber solutions that protect our nation’s interests by enabling situational awareness, active cyber defense, and threat detection and remediation. 

Kingsberry has more than 30 years of experience in information technology and has a diverse background in federal and state government as well as corporate technology leadership. He has extensive experience leading large-scale secure digital transformation and fostering productive partnerships with internal teams and technology partners. 

Prior to joining SAIC, Kingsberry led Global Advisory Services for Unisys and directed the development and deployment of secure cloud solutions for Engility.  

Before moving to private industry, Kingsberry served as chief information officer for the ederal Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. In that role, he led successful efforts to provide transparency on stimulus spending and oversight of fraud, waste and abuse. He also oversaw the agency’s migration to the public cloud, the first federal-wide system to achieve that milestone. He is a recipient of the prestigious Fed 100 Award, recognizing his leadership at that agency. 

He also held executive positions with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Kingsberry is frequent speaker and panelist who is recognized by senior industry and government leaders, peers and subordinates for his strategic mindset and leadership in the modernization of IT infrastructure to meet increasing security, data and citizen-services requirements.

George Jackson is director 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 4 th 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.