Mr. Kent is the Public Sector Chief Technology Officer & Sr. Director of Systems Engineering for Cisco Systems.  In this role, he is responsible for managing the sales engineering team and driving Cisco’s technology strategy in the Public Sector.  Working with partners and customers alike, his team assists government agencies (local, state and federal), and education institutions in leveraging technologies to effectively meet mission/business needs.  Currently, his team is focusing on integrating technologies like virtualization & cloud computing, core networking, cybersecurity and collaboration tools into the Public Sector market.    

Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998, and served as Akamai’s Chief Scientist for 14 years before becoming Chief Executive. Dr. Leighton is Akamai's technology visionary and leads the senior management team in setting the company's strategic direction, while engaging directly with customers and partners from around the globe. He is also a member of the Board of Directors.

Micah Maryn is a Solutions Engineer supporting a variety of Public Sector organizations, including Federal, state, and local governments, as well as higher education. Micah’s role in supporting government organizations includes understanding the organization’s needs, and providing recommendations on how to meet those needs while still meeting the overall mission objective of the organization. In addition to supporting government customers, Micah also participates in the ongoing activities of Akamai’s Security Center of Excellence, which is a corporate wide organization focused on security needs and continuous training,  and Akamai’s Web Experience team, which focuses on challenges and solutions for improving user experiences. This diversity in focus become highly valuable when support government organizations, who require advanced security solutions while providing the best level of service and user experience to all constituents and all devices.

Ken O’Brien joined the Department of Treasury/Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as its Chief Technology Officer in March 2011.  In his role as CTO, Ken sets the IT vision, strategy, and technical direction for FinCEN; directs its $120M IT Modernization program; and, partners with stakeholders to advance FinCEN’s mission to safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering.

Ken is currently focussed on the delivery of FinCEN’s new information processing and analytical systems enabling enhanced data quality, integration, and analytical techniques to detect money laundering and criminal activity.

As the Vice President of Public Sector, Tom is responsible for leading Akamai’s Sales, Marketing and Support initiatives within the Federal, State and Higher Education marketplace. Akamai provides services for accelerating and improving the secured delivery of content and applications over the Internet or an organizations private cloud infrastructure. Akamai offers services and solutions for digital media, software distribution, content and application delivery, IP application performance optimization as well as a suite of security offerings that allow businesses to meet their mission requirements. With more than 30 years of information technology industry experience, Tom has held numerous executive management positions at Fortune 500 companies such as EMC, Lotus Development Corp., Unisys Corp. and PictureTel / Polycom. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Mr. Skudlarek develops and coordinates FCC information technology plans; establishes and administers IT policies; manages IT architecture; leads stakeholder outreach; directs capital planning and budget activities; approves IT acquisitions; and oversees performance management. John works closely with the CIO to implement FCC’s IT Transformation Program to foster innovation, transform business processes, speed delivery, reduce costs, and improve security.  Mr. Skudlarek served as Acting FCC CIO from January to March, 2015.

John leads Akamai’s Web Security services products and is responsible for driving the product roadmap, business planning, revenue growth and profitability of those services. 

Akamai’s Web Security services provide cloud-based web application security and DDoS defense that leverage Akamai’s unique distributed computing platform to provide a globally distributed layer of defense that scales on demand, in real time, protecting customer web sites and data center infrastructure.

Larry Underhill is Director, Custom Government Engineering at Akamai Technologies.  He currently serves as the head of the Engineering and Operations teams for Global Content Delivery Services.  GCDS is the distributed cloud platform deployed inside DoD networks for accelerating and securing mission-critical DoD applications and providing large-scale video streaming.  Larry is an original member of the 3-person engineering team that built the GCDS capabilities from the ground up.  He is a US Air Force veteran and has over 20 years of experience in the fields of telecommunications and Internet infrastructure.

Berk Veral is a Senior Manager on the Akamai Product Marketing team responsible for consumer web performance solutions. Prior to joining Akamai, Berk served as the Principal Product Marketing Manager at RSA, The Security Division of EMC leading product marketing efforts for Threat Intelligence solutions across all business units. Before RSA, Berk held several marketing roles at Sapient and Charles River Development. He has over 15 years of technology marketing experience and holds an MFA from Boston University and an MBA from Texas Tech University.

David M. Wennergren is Senior Vice President, Technology at the Professional Services Council, the principal national trade association of the government technology and professional services industry. He has extensive leadership experience in information technology and change management and has served in a number of senior positions, most recently in the private sector as a Vice President at CACI International Inc., and prior to that, across the Department of Defense (DoD) and federal government, including DoD Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management, Integration and Technology/Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer and Vice Chair of the U.S. Government’s Federal CIO Council.