Speakers

Dr. Orgeron has extensive information technology experience in the private, federal, and state levels of the public sector. Currently, Dr. Orgeron serves as the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) and Chief Information Officer for the State of Mississippi, a role he held previously for nearly a decade. Dr. Orgeron began his career as a communications-computer systems officer in the United States Air Force. He has served as an Executive Government Advisor with Amazon Web Services (AWS), President of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), and on the Executive Committee of the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). Dr. Orgeron holds a bachelor’s degree in MIS, a master’s degree, and a doctorate in public policy and administration from Mississippi State University and is a graduate of the Harvard University Business Analytics Program (HBAP).

David Pascarella is the Director of the Cloud Center of Excellence with the State of Maine, where he leads cloud digital transformation strategy and modernization of the enterprise architecture program for the Executive Branch.  With over 20 years in both Public and Private sector experience, he thrives in pushing innovation from conceptual strategy to actionable implementation across the organization.

David Robinson is a global technology executive with more than 25 years’ experience in delivering innovation strategy, new product development, go to market, and disruptive and transitional operating business models to technology organizations from startups to the largest enterprises. Appointed to President of Cloud ERP in July 2023, David has been responsible for orchestrating cross company collaboration to drive customers’ transformation journeys to the cloud through adoption of the SAP Business Suite, he is currently serving as Acting Head of SAP US Public Services.

With an IT career spanning more than 40 years, Mr. Ryan has spent the last 20 years leading efforts to transform the way in which our federal government does IT.   His experience provides a uniquely integrated perspective, having led successful initiatives around Cloud, Containerization, Automation, Security, ITSM, Application Lifecycle Management and Networking.