Sree Sreenivasan is a consultant, speaker and trainer for nonprofits, corporations, startups and executives. He is the former Chief Digital Officer for New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University and was a professor of digital media at Columbia Journalism School for 20 years. He was named Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2015 and Poynter Institute’s 35 most influential in social media.
Guy Cavallo was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in July 2021. Before becoming the OPM CIO, Cavallo was named Principal Deputy CIO in September 2020. As OPM CIO he leads the Agency’s enterprise information technology services for both federal employees and retirees. He also is leading its IT modernization program, launching OPM’s migration to the cloud initiative in 2021. OPM is now the third agency that he has led to the cloud.
Mr. Cavallo is a highly desired IT industry speaker and has received many technology recognition awards throughout his career. In his federal career he has been awarded the Federal 100 (three times), and the FedScoop 50 award for Federal IT Leadership (four times), he was named one of the 2022 Best Bosses in Federal IT, and In his private sector experiences, he received seven major customer service awards while at Microsoft Corporation, Before joining OPM, he previously served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Small Business Administration (SBA). He was a key leader in helping SBA leverage the cloud to quickly implement the CARES Act Payroll Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs. Those programs distributed over $450B in a short period of time to America’s small businesses and citizens.
Prior to joining SBA, Mr. Cavallo returned to the federal workforce from the private sector by joining Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as their Executive Director for IT Operations. At TSA he oversaw the worldwide technology and telecommunications infrastructures, operations, and support for more than 65,000 TSA staff. He led TSA’s initial cloud implementation and other modernization efforts. Before joining TSA, Mr. Cavallo served as a Senior Government Advisor at the Microsoft Corporation for over 9 years. At Microsoft he assisted government organizations across the US in leveraging technology to modernize and improve the delivery of citizen services. His largest impact project was as the National Co-Lead on Microsoft’s solution for managing the grant reporting requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). With his knowledge of government operations and processes, he led the development of an ARRA grant tracking solution, which was provided to governments and non-profits at no or minimal licensing costs. Many state, county, and city governments implemented that solution and continue to leverage it today to manage all their grants.
Mr. Cavallo’s career has been almost evenly split between the public and private sectors, always driven by his passion to leverage the latest technologies to improve the delivery of government services to citizens. Mr. Cavallo received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.
With over 25+ years of global leadership experience in technology, government, nonprofits, community-based organizations, education and academia, Dr. Salima Bhimani adeptly synergizes the varied objectives and needs of technology companies and opportunities for inclusive and responsible AI/tech/products/services.
As Alphabet’s (Google) first Chief Strategist and Director on Inclusive Technology, Business, and Leaders since 2017, Salima empowered 11 startup moonshot companies (Waymo, Wing, X, Sidewalk Labs, Intrinsic, etc.) to shape sustainable businesses for Alphabet while improving the world. A trusted partner to tech CEOs, and their emerging businesses of various scale, maturity, and market fit, in fields like AI, venture, robotics, self-driving tech, and biotech, she enabled billion-dollar people, product, and business opportunities into the success of every moonshot. She built the foundational strategies, infrastructure, and operations while influencing an ecosystem of leaders and functions building their capacity and capability to be innovative, while achieving their mission.
Having worked with 1,000+ executives and key stakeholders, she’s expanded the impact that technology, non-profit, government, education/academic, and international sectors have in under leveraged and underinvested areas, increasing the potential of multimillion-dollar outcomes.
Salima advised the United Nations on inclusive innovation and technology.
Nick Elprin is redefining the world of enterprise AI at the world’s most advanced companies across life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications and defense. A visionary in scaling data science, he believes the opportunities are endless for companies that weave AI into the fabric of their businesses. As Co-Founder and CEO of Domino, Nick has had a front-row seat to the transformative impact that Domino’s platform has unleashed for its customers.
Nick started Domino in 2014 after spending nearly a decade building platforms for data scientists at Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund. Since then, Nick has built Domino into an industry leader whose ongoing innovation has continually reshaped the standard for data science and AI platforms. He holds a BA and MS in computer science from Harvard.
As the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zapata AI, Yudong Cao leads the development and deployment of industrial generative AI software that delivers scientific and computational advantages to enterprises around the world. With over a decade of experience in computer science research and development, Yudong has an extensive background in physics, mathematical modeling, and machine learning. His mission is to accelerate the adoption and impact of AI and quantum computing across sectors and society. Yudong has published multiple papers and patents on quantum algorithms, error correction, and machine learning and has received prestigious awards for his work in informatics and computer science. Yudong obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University and then joined Harvard University as a postdoc researcher.
Spence Green is Lilt’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Lilt in 2015, Spence served as a fellow at XSeed Capital, worked in software and research at Google, where he worked on Google Translate and developed a shallow syntactic language model for improving the English to Arabic translation. He was also a technical lead, project manager and software engineer at Northrop Grumman, where he worked on various large projects including a national air defense system and avionics packages for naval aircraft.
Spence graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. He also earned both a master’s degree with a distinction in research and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.
His research area is the intersection of natural language processing and human-computer interaction, and he has published papers on statistical machine translation, statistical language parsing, and mixed-initiative systems and given talks on translator productivity.
Tanya is an experienced reporter, editor and editorial manager with a decade of tech and business coverage under her belt.
She currently lead tech coverage for LinkedIn News, reaching LinkedIn’s 1 billion+ members with relevant and timely news, analysis, insights, and trends focusing on AI, enterprise tech and big tech. Subscribe to her weekly newsletter reaching over 900,000+ people here: lnkd.in/TechStack
Before this, she was the founding reporter on Business Insider’s advertising and media team, where she wrote regular news and feature stories, and led and built flagship editorial products like the ‘Most Innovative Chief Marketing Officers’ and the ‘CMOs to Watch’ lists.
Brian J. Peretti is a career member of the Senior Executive Service at the United States Department of the Treasury. He serves as the Treasury’s Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief AI Officer.
Mr. Peretti oversees the execution of the responsibilities assigned to the Treasury by Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, and the requirements of AI governance directed by the United States Office of Management and Budget. In addition, Mr. Peretti leads the development of domestic and international operational resilience policy, including cyber, as part of Treasury’s Sector Risk Management Agency responsibility for the financial services sector. In this role, he spearheads Treasury’s efforts to increase multi-directional sharing of cyber threat and vulnerability information. He also serves as United States’s designated subject matter expert at the Group of 7 Cyber Expert Group (G-7 CEG).
Mr. Peretti has served at the Treasury for over 22 years with increasing levels of responsibility, including being named the Senior Career Official Executing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions during the transition from the Obama to the Trump Administration. Based on his expertise in critical infrastructure protection and the operational resilience of the financial services sector, during the United States initial response phase to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was detailed to the Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s National Risk Management Center and served as the first Senior Advisor for Security and the Economy, leveraging his extensive background in financial services operational resilience.
A sought-after speaker and presenter, Mr. Peretti has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors throughout his career. Most recently, he received the 12th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Leadership Award at the 2023 Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit.
Prior to joining the Treasury, Mr. Peretti was an associate in Shook, Hardy & Bacon’s Corporate Banking and Finance Section in Washington, D.C., and was the General Counsel for the Wright Patman Congressional Federal Credit Union. He has authored numerous publications related to financial sector operations, including payment systems.
Mr. Peretti received his bachelor’s degree from Rider University (cum laude) in 1989, and his law degree from American University, Washington College of Law (cum laude) in 1992. He lives in Potomac, MD with his wife, Kimberly Peretti, and their two children.
