ATARC Government Advisory Board
Stacie Alboum
Deputy Director, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
Ian Anderson
Lead DevSecOps Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Melvin Brown II
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Strategy & Policy, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Gerald Caron
Chief Information Officer/ Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Amber Chaudhry
Lead Customer Experience Strategist, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Chakib Chraibi, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Chief Data Scientist, National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce
Anil Chaudhry
Director of Technology and Ecosystem Security, Executive Office of the President
Christopher Crist
Chief of Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps), U.S. Transportation Command
Mittal Desai
Chief Information Officer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Lon Gowen
Chief Data Officer/ Excellence in Government Senior Fellow/ Dale Carnegie Senior Fellow, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Bill Hunt
Assistant Director, Cloud Center of Excellence, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Theresa Kinney
Director of Operations and Communications, NASA SEWP, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Major Y. Brian Lee
Enterprise Capabilities Directorate, Office of the Chief Digital and AI Officer (OCDAO), U.S. Army
LT Kenneth Miltenberger
Cyber Red & Blue Team Branch Chief, U.S. Coast Guard
Crystal Philcox
Assistant Commissioner, Enterprise Strategy Management for Federal Acquisition Service, General Services Administration
Robyn Rees
Senior Advisor, Office of Human Capital, U.S. Department of the Interior
LTC Kristin Saling
Deputy Director, People Analytics, U.S. Army
James Saunders
Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Todd Simpson
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
John Sprague
Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Support, Data Control Officer, Co-Lead Cybersecurity, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Renata Spinks
Assistant Director/ Deputy Chief Information Officer IC4, U.S. Marine Corps
Gary Washington
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Mitchell Winans
Senior Advisor, Enterprise Digitalization, Internal Revenue Service
ATARC Industry Advisory Board
Jonathan Alboum
Federal Chief Technology Officer and Principal Digital Strategist, ServiceNow
Gail Azaroff
Regional Sales Director, Pluralsight
David Bray
Founder & Inaugural Director for Global GeoTech Center
Natalie Carey
Senior Director, Public Sector, Appian Corporation
Robert Carey
President, Cloudera Government Solutions Inc.
Ivette Granier-Smith
Vice President, ASRC Federal
Kevin E. Greene
Former Cyber Research and Development Program Manager, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mark Guthrie
Senior Vice President & Chief Growth Officer, Mutualink
Stephen Hoffman
President, Fortinet Federal Inc
Anil Karmel
Co-Founder and CEO, RegScale
Frank Lancaster
Director, Federal Sales & Development, Virsec Systems
Michael Maiorana
Senior Vice President, Persado
Matt Mandrgoc
Head of U.S. Public Sector, Zoom
Monica McEwen
Managing Director, Deloitte
Oki Mek
Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft
Keith Nakasone
Federal Strategist, VMware
Darryl Peek
Head of Federal Strategic Partnerships, Google
Chris Radosh
General Manager and Vice President, Trend Micro Federal
Jim Richberg
Public Sector Field CISO & Vice President of Information Security, Fortinet
Bill Rucker
President, Trustwave Government Solutions
Dominic Sale
Vice President, Enterprise Optimization, Dynamic Integrated Services
Sanjay Sardar
Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation and IT Modernization, SAIC
Dean Scontras
Vice President, SLED, Okta
Chad Sheridan
Chief Innovation Officer, NetImpact Strategies Inc.
Randy Siegel
Founder and CEO, Center Circle Consultants
Simon Szykman
Senior Vice President for Client Growth, Maximus
Tristen Yancey
Vice President, Public Sector, Keeper Security, Inc.
David Yang
Vice President, ICF
John Zangardi
President, Redhorse Corporation
ATARC Emeritus Advisory Board
Denise Hill
Former Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Energy
ATARC Academic Board
Gene Anderson
Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus
Joe Glover
Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Florida
Rayvn Manuel
Senior Application Developer, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Henry Sienkiewicz
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
Hasan Yasar
Technical Director, Adjunct Faculty Member, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
ATARC Influencers
Jorge Alcazar
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, The Unmanned Advantage LLC
Craig Chapman
Chief Executive Officer, Gap Strategies Group LLC
Steve Cooper
Owner, Strategic Information Concepts
Amy Fadida
President & Chief Executive Officer, A.M. Fadida Consulting
Ken Farber
Solutions Architect, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, TekSynap
Daniel Haney
Strategic Business Manager, Secuvy
Simon Hartley
United States Sales & Business Development, Cambridge Quantum
Joel Horwitz
President and Chief Executive Officer, JAH Strategic Consulting, LLC
Jon Johnson
Principal, ConningtonSnow
Robert Merriner
Partner, The Emery Group LLC
Graham Plaster
Founder and CEO, The Intelligence Community Inc.
Suro Sen
President, SENTECH Corporation
Alexa Tsui
Vice President, Capture & Strategic Partnerships, MetaPhase Consulting
The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) and The Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC) announced their merger on May 31, 2018.
The merger brought together two non-profits with similar goals that provide professional development and collaborative forums for Federal government, academia and industry to identify, discuss and resolve emerging technology challenges.
GITEC Board Members who voted to merge with ATARC were: Michelle Barr, HUD; Walter Bigelow, ATF; Adriane Burton, HSRC; Rolando Estrada, DHA; Denise Hill, DOE; Luwanda Jones, VA; Robert Lahmann, SEC; Carlo Lucchesi, FBI; Darryl Peek, DHS; Chad Sheridan, USDA RMA; John Sprague, NASA; and Natasha Varlack, USDA AMS.
GITEC was established in response to a June 28, 1966 White House memorandum to provide a forum through which Senior Level Government and Industry Executives could share and collaborate in an open forum on Information Technology (IT) ideas, challenges and successes.
For over 50 years, GITEC organized and structured an impressive array of initiatives to focus on vital and timely issues affecting the direction and future of IT, including executive seminars, workgroups, summits, committees, and for 25 years, GITEC hosted the annual Information Processing Interagency Conference.
Beginning with its 25th anniversary in 2009, GITEC changed its focus to reflect a new era for IT professionals and a new Administration. In March of 2010, GITEC hosted its first GITEC Summit.
Similar to GITEC, ATARC expanded from its original focus.
Created in September of 2012, the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) was formed in response to the Digital Government Strategy, which was released earlier that year. AMARC founder Tom Suder played a prominent role in the formation of the DGS and created ATARC to continue the dialogue between government, industry and academia.
AMARC hosted a pair of Federal Mobile Computing Summits before being asked by the General Services Administration in 2013 to hold additional events on the topics of Cloud Computing and IT Networks.
As AMARC’s collaborative focus changed from Mobile to Federal IT, so too did its name. In early 2014, Suder renamed AMARC the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center and within the next year, ATARC expanded its portfolio to include Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data & Analytics and Health IT events.
In 2017, ATARC published a 235-page report to the American Technology Council and Federal CIO Council entitled Navigating the Future of Mobile Services. Produced in the spirit of the Digital Government Strategy and in conjunction with the cross-agency Mobile Services Category Team, the report was a collaborative effort between more than 160 people representing 75 agencies, bureaus and companies.
In 2018, ATARC published its 25th White Paper in conjunction with MITRE as outputs from events in the ATARC Federal IT Summit Series.
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