Speakers
Programmed at COVITS, in alphabetical order.Agenda
Selected from 17 sessions on the bill.- 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
An audience of 34 companies, parsed from the program.
34 companies in attendance.
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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 on the bill · classified by free-text title
- 01Virginia Information Technologies Agency, Commonwealth of Virginia5V
- 02City of Virginia Beach4V
- 03Virginia State Corporation Commission3V
- 04Office of Data Governance and Analytics, Commonwealth of Virginia2V
- 05AI Leadership Institute1V
- 06Albemarle County1V
- 07Atlassian1V
- 08Botetourt County1V
- 09Broadcom Software Group1V
- 10Center for Digital Government1V
- 11CISA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security1V
- 12City of Charlottesville1V
- 13Cloudera1V
- 14Dell1V
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