45Speakers
0Sponsors
17Sessions
34Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at COVITS, in alphabetical order.

Arman Latif
Chief Information Officer, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia · Department of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia
Barry Condrey
Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government · Center for Digital Government
Ben Straub
Head of Public Sector, Atlassian · Atlassian
Bob Branch
Chief Information Security Officer, City of Virginia Beach · City of Virginia Beach
Bojan Duric
Chief Data Officer, City of Virginia Beach · City of Virginia Beach
Brahma Alaparthi
Chief of Enterprise and Intelligent Solutions, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia · Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia
Camille Lake
Senior Solutions Engineer, Snowflake · Snowflake
Carlos Aiken
Chief Technology Officer, Virginia Beach · Virginia Beach
Chris Burroughs
Director of Data Governance, Office of Data Governance and Analytics, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia · Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia
Chris Jenkins
Director of Business Platform Solutions, Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) · Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Daniel Gohl
Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for US SLED, HP · HP
David Wilkinson
Chief Transformation Officer, Virginia Information Technology Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia · Virginia Information Technology Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia
Debi Smith
COV Ramp Security Architecture Manager & Cloud Security Architect, Commonwealth Security and Risk Management, Virginia IT Agency · Virginia IT Agency
Diana Zavala
Analytics & Data Director, Peraton · Peraton
Donnie McCleskey
Director, Strategic Accounts Public Sector, Twilio · Twilio
Grayson Walters
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia · Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia
Jamey Stone
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Virginia State Corporation Commission · Virginia State Corporation Commission
Joe Burke
Strategic Advisor - Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom Software Group · Broadcom Software Group
John Harrison
Cybersecurity Advisor, CISA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security · CISA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Jon Minshew
Chief Technology and Innovation Strategist, State and Local Government, Dell · Dell
Krishna K. Rudravarjula
Acting CIO and Chief Enterprise Architect, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services · Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
Lauren Griffin
Cybersecurity Specialist, Botetourt County · Botetourt County

Agenda

Selected from 17 sessions.

  • Thursday, September 17, 2026, 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

    General Session – The Edge Is Near: How AI at the Edge Will Transform Government Services

    Government agencies have spent decades digitizing services, but the next transformation will come from intelligence embedded directly into the places where work happens. As AI move…

  • Thursday, September 17, 2026, 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM

    Keynote – EMBRACE THE SHAKE: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities

    Success, especially in today’s fast-changing business environment, depends on our ability to make creativity and innovation a continuous process. Leaders want to know how their tea…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

    AI Without the Fear

    Plenty of state and local staff across the Commonwealth still see AI as a threat to their jobs rather than a tool that makes them better. This session meets those employees where t…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

    Data Classification 101

    Many organizations use the words sensitive and confidential interchangeably, and that ambiguity creates real risk. This session defines the terms, walks through a working classific…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

    Enterprise in a Box: The Art of the Possible in Government

    Modern government technology works best when it is integrated rather than stitched together from disconnected point solutions. This session shows what an AI-enabled, modern stack c…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

    Secure by Design in a Third-Party World

    Most breaches still trace back to fundamentals that were skipped, not exotic new attack methods. This session returns to secure-by-design principles: strong access controls, multif…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM

    The Human Experience of Government: Accessibility, Digital Humans, and Feedback Loops

    Government services only matter if the people who need them can actually use them. This session looks at accessibility, translation, and responsive feedback loops that close the ga…

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 1:10 PM - 1:40 PM

    General Session – The Future of Digital Services in Virginia

  • Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM

    General Session – Small Shop, Big Target: Cybersecurity in Virginia's Localities

Company intelligence

An audience of 34 companies, parsed from the program.

34 companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
34Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

71% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite2147%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of1022%
  • Manager / Lead24%
  • Engineer · IC716%
  • Advisor / Investor24%
  • Other roles24%

Of 45 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.