Speakers

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Hansang Bae has over 25 years of experience working in the information technology industry.  As Zscaler’s Public Sector Chief Technologist, he is responsible for assisting and educating customers in their Digital Transformation journey.   He is not only well versed but also passionate about his role in advising public sector organizations on best practices and strategies for adopting a Cloud-First security posture.  

During his career, Bae has served in similar roles as an executive member at Netskope and at Riverbed.  Prior to Riverbed, he was a member of the Citi (Citigroup) Architecture and Technology Engineering leadership team.  As one of the six global engineering leads, he was responsible for datacenter, branch and performance engineering, network management (NMS) tools, and capacity planning groups for all of Citi.  

As an avid protocol analyst, Bae collaborates with industry associations in educating public sector organizations and also holds an active role as a board member of Wireshark Foundation, helping steer the open-source project and ensure its continued success.

Adam Hesch is the Lead Architect for Aerospace and Defense (A&D) on the Amazon Web Services Federal Partners team. Adam works with U.S. Federal customers and partners to design and implement solutions to meet mission requirements from the cloud to the tac.  Prior to his A&D position, Adam spent the last 5 years working with Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners to migrate and modernize IT systems in the AWS Cloud. Adam is a veteran of the US Navy, having served as a Surface Warfare Officer, and an alumni of the United States Naval Academy.

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 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.