ELC is the premier government IT event connecting senior government and industry executives with innovative opportunities to engage, learn, and collaborate.  It’s an integrated two and half day program offering leadership development, meaningful exchange with peers, and collaboration opportunities.  For more than 20 years, senior executives from government and industry have gathered at ELC, the recognized neutral environment for business dialogue, knowledge exchange, and partnership building.  ELC offers a 1:3 ratio of government to industry attendees and is designed to create a positive, vendor neutral and open-forum environment, all while aligning with ACT-IAC’s overall strategic goals.  ELC attendees will have numerous opportunities to engage, learn, and collaborate on the subject of improving effective and efficient delivery of next generation government services.  Connect with more than 800 senior government and industry executives. 

Speakers:

Adm. Thad Allen, Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
Beth Angerman, USSM Executive Director, General Services Administration 
Chip Block, Vice President, Market Management, Evolver
Mark Bussow, Performance Manager, Office of Management and Budget
Christine Calvosa, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Communications Commission
Scott Cameron, Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy Management and Budget, Department of the Interior
Casey Coleman, Senior Vice President of Global Government Solutions, Salesforce
Kevin R. Cooke, Jr., Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Kevin Cox, CDM Program Manager, DHS
Glenn Davidson, Executive Director, Shared Services, Department of Commerce
Ted Davies, President & CEO, Altamira Technologies Corporation
Chris Dorobek, Dorobek Insider
Kay Ely, FAS Assistant Commissioner, Information Technology Category, General Services Administration

Lesley Field, Acting Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget
Craig Fischer, Program Manager, Department of Treasury
John Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President, Strategic Solutions, E3 Federal Solutions, LLC
Matt Ford, Deputy Chief Customer Officer, General Services Administration
Michael Gale, Author
Dave Grant, Associate Administrator for Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Todd Hager, Vice President, Strategy Innovation and Quality, Macro Solutions
Clyde Halsrud, Senior IT Program Manager, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury
Tiffany Hixson, FAS Assistant Commissioner, Professional Services & Human Capital Categories, General Services Administration
Marcel Jemio, OPM Chief Data Architect and Acting Chief, Data Management Federal Data Solutions, Office of Personnel Management
Trey Kennedy, Senior Advisor, Federal CIO Council, General Services Administration
Alex Kostura, Partnerships Specialist, Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships, Department of State
Steve Kovac, Vice President, Global Government and Compliance, Zscaler
Steve Krauss, Director, Category Management Strategic Execution, General Services Administration
Niki Lane, Acquisition & Requirements Management Section Chief, CDM, Department of Homeland Security
John Marshall, Director, Shared Services Leadership Coalition
Dave McClure, Director, CIO Advisory Services, Accenture
Barbara Morton, Deputy Chief, Veterans Experience Office, Department of Veterans Affairs
Sara Mosley, TIC Lead, Department of Homeland Security
Ross Nodurft, Chief, Cyber and National Security, Office of Management and Budget
Jason Ogden, Information Security Specialist, Department of Homeland Security
Sandra Paul-Blank, Chief Information Security Officer, National Archives and Records Administration
Michael S. Peckham, Director, HHS DATA Act PMO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Crystal Philcox, Federal Acquisition Service, Assistant Commissioner, Operations, Technology Transformation Services, General Services Administration

Maria Roat, Chief Information Officer, Small Business Administration
Francis Rose, Host, Government Matters, WJLA News Channel 8
Donna Roy, Executive Director, Information Sharing and Safeguarding Office, Department of Homeland Security
Trevor Rudolph, Chief Operating Officer, WhiteHawk
Dominic Sale, Deputy Associate Administrator for Information Integrity Access, General Services Administration
Rory Schultz, Client Executive, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Tony Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Tony Scott Group 
Donna Seymour, Director, HR/IT, Department of Homeland Security
Harrison Smith, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, Internal Revenue Service
Neal Smith, Vice President, Digital Service Innovation Center, Salient CRGT
Kathy Spainhower, Innovation Learning Center Director, Defense Acquisition University (DAU)
John Sprague,  Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer for the Technology and Innovation Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Allen Thomas, Federal Acquisition Service, Commissioner, General Services Administration

Christopher Wlaschin, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Health and Human Services
Charles Worthington, Chief, Digital Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
Joanne Woytek, NASA SEWP Program Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Renee Wynn, Chief Information Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dave Zvenyach, FAS Assistant Commissioner (Acting), Systems Management, General Services Administration

ACT-IAC 2017 ELC AWARDS

View this year's award winners!

Each year ACT-IAC is honored to recognize individuals in government and industry who have made significant contributions to improving government and to government-industry collaboration.  ACT-IAC is now seeking nominations for the following awards.

• Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award
• Ginny McCormick New Heights Award
• Individual Contributor of the Year – Industry
• Individual Contributor of the Year – Government
• Rookie of the Year
   

The following awards will be presented at the 2017 Executive Leadership Conference.  The specific criteria and nomination form for each award may be located by clicking on the award name.

Janice K Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award

Recognizes an individual who has been a leader in the government technology community for many years and made significant contributions to government and ACT-IAC.

Awarded to:  An individual from industry or government

Criteria:  Nominees will be selected based on the following criteria (nominee should have demonstrated a majority of the following qualities, capabilities and beliefs in his/her professional career):

• Government or industry professional who has made substantial contributions to the IT community over a significant period of time
• A history of involvement with ACT-IAC and a supporter of the organization and its mission.
• Serves as a mentor via official and non-official programs
• Serves as a coach to fellow teammates and associates
• Strengthens relationships between government and industry
• Embodies a high sense of integrity
• Strong commitment to the government IT community
• Melding understanding of the human side of business with all aspects of business
• Understands the importance of networking, business relationships and allegiances
• Embodies a strong sense of professional vitality
• Is flexible and actively embraces change
• Serves as a highly ethical professional 
• Actively participates in activities that support personal and professional development of themselves and others
• Embodies a selfless attitude in all matters
• Ability to recognize, identify and foster growth in a person who has special talents and gifts
   

Previous winners:

2016 – Andy Robinson - RG
2015 – Herb Strauss, Social Security Administration
2014 – Kay Kapoor, AT&T
2013 - Mark Forman, Government Transaction Services
2012 -- Anne Reed, ASI
2011 – Craig Luigart, Veterans Health Administration
2010 – Deirdre Murray, Qwest Communications
2009 – Robert Woods, Topside Consulting
2008   Deirdre Lee, Compusearch
2007 - Ellen Glover, ICF International
2006 - Renny DiPentima, SRA
2005 - Marcella Banks, GSA
2004 - Kevin Carroll, Army
2003 - Howard Ady, Bearing Point
2002 - Sandra Bates, GSA

Ginny McCormick New Heights Award

Recognizes individuals who have made a key difference in achieving the organization’s mission of improving government in the last year.

Awarded to:  Government and/or Industry

Criteria:

• Active involvement in the organization across multiple activities such as SIG’s, Events, Volunteer Corp, etc. 
• Actively participates in activities that support personal and professional development of themselves and others and shows increased responsibility to the organization.    
• Individual should show the ability and willingness to share his/her input and ideas for the betterment of the organization.
• Individual should have been a key part of a significant achievement in ACT-IAC over the last year.  The achievement should be explicit and demonstrable.
• Embodies a strong sense of professional vitality.
• Is flexible and actively embraces change.   
• Serves as a highly ethical professional. 
Embodies a selfless attitude in all matters.
• Must be mid-level staff or manager.
• Has taken on challenges beyond his/her job description to make a difference in the IT community
• Has been a key part of a significant achievement in ACT-IAC over the last year.
• Must be an ACT-IAC member.

Previous Winners

2016 – Dee Delaney, AT&T
2015 – Steve Krauss (GSA) and Robert Clark (Monster)
2014 – Rabiah Sutton, FWDThink
2013 – Darlene Meskell, General Services Administration

Individual Contributor of the Year

Recognizes individuals who have had significant involvement in ACT-IAC over the past year and have made a difference.

Awarded to:  Government and Industry

Criteria: 

• Sustained contribution to ACT-IAC over the past year
• Significant level of participation in ACT-IAC activities over the past year
• Noteworthy accomplishments demonstrating leadership, innovation and initiative
• Must be an ACT-IAC member.

Previous Winners:  Government Contributor of the Year

2016 – Dan Morgan, Department of Transportation
2015 – Johan Bos-Beijer, General Services Administration
2014 – Charles Santangelo, DHS
2013 -- David Curtis, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
2012 -  Rory Schultz, U.S. Department of Agriculture
2011 – Rick Holgate, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
2010 – Mary Davie, General Services Administration
2009 - Casey Coleman, General Services Administration
2008 - Mike Carleton, Department of Health and Human Services
2007 - Peter Tseronis, Department of Education; and Ed Roback, Department of the Treasury
2006 - Ira Hobbs, Department of the Treasury
2005 - Scott Hastings, US-VISIT Program Management Office at the Department of Homeland Security
2004 - Ed Meagher, Department of Veterans Affairs and Tamie Lyles Santiago, Department of Defense
2003 - Dan Chenok, Office of Management and Budget

Previous Winners: Industry Contributor of the Year:

2016 – Chip Block, Evolver
2015 – Lou Kerestesy (GovInnovators)
2014 – Allen Ashbey, Sapient
2013 – Kavita Kalatur, NetImpact Strategies
2012 – Tom Suder, Mobilegov
2011 – Anne Reed, ASI Government
2010 – Onelia Codrington, Performance Value Corporation
2009 – Dan Chenok, Pragmatics
2008 – Mike Mullen, INDUS
2007 – Faye Farah, SAIC
2006 – John Okay, Topside
2005 – Tricia Iveson, SI International and Anne Altman, IBM
2004 – Venkatapathi Puvvada, Unisys and Rick Slifer, Broadwing
2003 - Leslie Barry, Computer Associates, Joe Draham, GTSI and Chuck Viator, Jr., Cetacean Networks, Inc.

Rookie of the Year Award

Recognizes an individual new to ACT-IAC who has already gotten involved and begun to make a difference

Awarded to:  An individual from government or a new IAC member company who, along with his or her company, has been involved in the organization for less than two years. 

Criteria:

• Individual should have been involved with ACT-IAC for less than two years.  If employed by industry, his/her company must be a new member of IAC.  New member is defined as less than two years.
• Individual should demonstrate active involvement in the organization across a spectrum of activities.
• Individual should show the ability and willingness to share their input and ideas for the betterment of the organization.
• Must be an ACT-IAC member.
   

Previous Winners

2016 – Matt Sexton, Tista Science and Technology, and Zach Buss, Booz Allen Hamilton
2015 – Derry Goberdansingh (E3 Federal Solutions) and Catherine Ives (Citizant)
2014 – Jared Townsend, Deloitte
2013 – Victor Koo, K3 Solutions
2012 – Rabiah Sutton, FWDthink
2011 – Michael Donovan, HP
2010 – Habib Nasibdar, USMAX Corporation
2009 – N/A
2008 - Joel Horwitz, AEGIS.net, Inc.
2007 - Janis Keating, Constellation
2006 - Carey Bandler, fSONA Systems
2005 - Sharon Payne, SPSS

ELC 2017 Mission: Protection - As we transform, we also need to be vigilant in protecting the systems and infrastructure that are critical to our nation.  Technological innovations provide many benefits but we also need to balance privacy constraints, the need for risk management and resiliency with fiscal realities.

With a constant stream of cyber-attacks from OPM to Equifax, we are left to wonder – what are we missing and when will this end?  Join us as we delve into the latest cybersecurity topics like Next Generation Security Operations, Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM), and Voting System Security with an eye toward addressing the crisis of our generation. 

Attendees will explore best practices and the latest approaches to safeguarding and protecting everything from healthcare records to federal agency assets.
 

Mission Protection – Panel:  Next Generation Networking and Security Operations (90 minutes)

Objective:  Explore the future of shared network architecture designs to enhance security, resilience, performance, and reduce costs. 
Who Should Attend:  CIOs, CISOs, Network Engineers and Architects, SOC operators

Mission Protection – ELC Talks (90 minutes)

1. Healthcare Cybersecurity:  Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communication Integration Center (HCCIC) Mission and Early Victories, Christopher Wlaschin, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 
2. Addressing Our Digital Crisis of Quality:  How Market Intervention Could be the Solution to Our Cybersecurity Woes, Trevor Rudolph, New America Cybersecurity Fellow 
3. How to Secure Our Democracy:  Voting System Security
4. The Chief Security Officer:  Why Industry Has Combined Physical and Cyber Security and Why Government Should Take Notice, Chip Block, Vice President, Evolver 
   
   
   Mission Protection – Innovation Zone Workshop:  CDM Phases 2 and 3 Workshop (90 minutes)

Objective:  Understand OMB and DHS priorities, timelines, and requirements for the next two phases of Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) implementation; collaborate with your peers to develop implementation plans that integrate with your current technology stack; understand how future products will be acquired through new procurement vehicles and integrated into existing systems.

Key Questions to Be Answered:

1. What are the capabilities in Phase 3 that are most important to you?

2. What are your barriers to implementation?

3. Overall with CDM, what help do you need from industry that you aren't currently getting?

Who Should Attend:  CIOs, CISOs, Network Engineers and Architects, SOC operators, Agency CDM Leads