Alan Balutis is Executive Director of The CIO Collective. He recently stepped down as Distinguished Fellow and Managing Partner with Cisco Systems strategy and consulting group. Before joining the networking firm, he served in public service and industry leadership roles. He was a founding member of the Federal CIO Council in several leadership positions. At the Department of Commerce, he headed their Office of Management, Budget and Planning and served as the first CIO of a cabinet-level agency. During that period, he managed Commerce's transition to USDA's National Finance Center for payroll and personnel services -- the first Federal department to do so. For that work, he won one of his three Presidential Rank Awards. He finished his government career as Director of the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology; ATP funded cutting-edge, emerging technologies. He has been selected as a Federal Computer Week (FCW) FED 100 recipient eight times and was voted into membership in both the Government Computer News and FCW IT halls of fame. A strong advocate for government reform, he has authored six books and numerous articles and papers on that topic and spoken at multiple conferences. He's been a Fellow of NAPA since 1998 and also is a Senior Advisor to Government Executives (SAGE) at The Partnership for Public Service. He serves on corporate Government Advisory Boards.

James-Christian Blockwood, Executive Vice President, Partnership for Public Service, helps with overall strategy and management of the organization. He directly oversees its programs dedicated to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the federal government. He is passionate about serving others and his country. He is a former career member of the Senior Executive Service in the U.S. Government and has broad experience in leadership and management, strategic planning, national security and foreign affairs. He has helped transform and build new capabilities at the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs as well as the Government Accountability Office. He has a deep appreciation for the career civil servant—the consummate good steward that works tirelessly and faithfully on behalf of the American people.

Laurent is the Chief Technologist for Worldwide Public Sector Federal Financial Services at Amazon Web Services. He is responsible for the oversight, strategy and definition of AWS field technical activities supporting public sector customers while advocating on their behalf for AWS feature development. In his career, Laurent has assisted government and commercial clients in the application of leading edge data management, analysis and software engineering solutions. In addition to a B.S. in Applied Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Laurent has an executive Master in General Management from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur. He currently oversees AWS worldwide public sector Financial Services efforts in the cloud and emerging technology space, including the deployment and configuration of responsible Artificial Intelligence, resilience, and large-scale Cloud-based DevSecOps implementations across federal and commercial AWS customers.