2024 Speakers
David Chivers
Former President, Publisher, CDO
WSJ, Dow Jones, USA Today, Gannett, Des Moines Register, Meredith Corporation
David Chivers
Former President, Publisher, CDO
WSJ, Dow Jones, USA Today, Gannett, Des Moines Register, Meredith Corporation
David Mathison
Founder and CEO
CAIO Summit/CDAO Summit; CDO Club
David Mathison is the CEO and founder of the world’s 1st-ever CAIO Summit (2023), the 1st-ever Chief Digital Officer Summit (2013), and the CDO Club (2012).
Mathison is the world’s leading authority on Chief AI Officers, Chief Data and Analytics Officers, and Chief Digital Officers. In 2011 he created the first-ever community for CDOs on LinkedIn; the first Talent Map, Summit, and Community for Chief Digital Officers in 2013; and the world’s first-ever Chief AI Officer Talent Map and Chief AI Officer Summit in 2023.
He has been quoted by American Banker, CIO.com, CIO Journal, CIO-UK, CMS Wire, CNBC, Computer Weekly, Computerworld, Deloitte, Diginomica, eMarketer, FedTech Magazine, FierceCIO, Financial Times, Forbes, Guardian, Huffington Post, I-CIO, McKinsey & Company, Media Post, MIT Sloan Management Review, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, and ZDNet, among others.
Brian Peretti
Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Director Domestic and International Cyber Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Brian Peretti
Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Director Domestic and International Cyber Policy
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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 Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and Director, Domestic and International Cybersecurity Policy in the Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP).
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.
Tanya Dua
Technology Editor
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.
Diane Staheli
Assistant Director, AI Applications
Office of Science and Tech Policy, The White House
Diane Staheli
Assistant Director, AI Applications
Office of Science and Tech Policy, The White House
Mark McCreary
Partner, Chief Artificial Intelligence & Information Security Officer
Fox Rothschild
Chair of Fox Rothschild’s Artificial Intelligence Practice and Co-Chair of its Privacy & Data Security Practice, Mark works with businesses to develop, deploy and use new technologies in responsible, ethical and legal manners.
He also serves as the firm’s Chief Artificial Intelligence & Information Security Officer, helping develop and implement the firm’s AI and information security strategy.
Clients seek out Mark to bridge the gap between a company’s C-suite and its information technology professionals.
Mark writes for numerous legal and technology publications and is a frequent media source on artificial intelligence, data privacy and cybersecurity issues.
Jinyoung Englund
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Algorithmic Warfare Directorate
US Department of Defense
Jinyoung Englund
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Algorithmic Warfare Directorate
US Department of Defense
Marc Lavallee
Director of Technology Product and AI Strategy/Journalism
Knight Foundation
Marc Lavallee is the director of technology product and strategy for the journalism program at Knight Foundation. Marc brings more than two decades of experience as a technology executive and software developer to this role.
Prior to Knight, Marc led The New York Times’s Research & Development unit, which explores near-term applications of emerging technologies such as AI and spatial computing.
Previously, he led the Interactive News desk at The Times, and held a variety of technical roles at NPR, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe.
Vivian Schiller
VP and Executive Director
The Aspen Institute
Vivian Schiller joined the Aspen Institute in January 2020 as Executive Director of Aspen Digital, which empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world.
A longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology, Schiller has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organizations in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Officer of NBC News; Chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and Head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.
Schiller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.