Speakers

Taka is the first Chief Data Scientist and the Director of Innovation Lab appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States for the Government Accountability Office to help GAO adapt to the consequences of web 3.0 technologies and beyond. The mission of the Innovation Lab is to better understand inner workings of machine learning techniques, cloud services, zero trust controls, blockchains, edge devices, and other integrated cyber-physical capabilities. Taka is leading the exploration and experimentation of emerging technologies as a necessary and critical foresight function.

Taka is a current member of the federal Senior Executive Services and has over 23 years of consistent track record on delivering technology innovations sustainably and at scale by combining data science with IT competencies. He is passionate about fostering a data centricity mindset as a catalyst to address complex policy, regulatory, risk, operational, and business intelligence challenges.

Taka is natively fluent in both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. In his spare time, he is also a serious classical chamber musician and a competitive tennis player.

Kirk Haslbeck brings a wealth of data science expertise and nearly two decades of industry experience to his current role as Chief Technology Officer, Field at Collibra. He joined the Collibra team in 2021 after facilitating the acquisition of OwlDQ, a fast growing data quality company that Kirk founded and led as its CEO. A pioneer in his field, Kirk engineered and patented a highly adaptive predictive data analytics system, raising the bar for the industry standard. He is passionate about maximizing clients’ return on investments through automation and machine learning. His experience includes nine years in Trade Surveillance at Morgan Stanley. Kirk is published in the area of K-anonymity for patient re-identification risk, and is in high demand as a keynote speaker at tech conferences nationwide. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Data Mining.

Dominic Delmolino is the Vice President of Field Technology and Engineering for Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector. He is responsible for the oversight, strategy and definition of AWS field technical offerings and activities supporting public sector customers while advocating on their behalf for AWS feature development. In his career, Delmolino has assisted government and commercial clients in the application of leading edge data management, analysis and software engineering solutions. In addition to a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, Delmolino has a Master in Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently oversees AWS public sector efforts in the cloud and emerging technology space, including the deployment and configuration of responsible Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing and large-scale Cloud-based DevOps architectures.

Adam Mazmanian is executive editor of Nextgov/FCW. Before joining the editing team, Mazmanian was an FCW staff writer covering Congress, governmentwide technology policy and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining FCW, Mazmanian was technology correspondent for National Journal and served in a variety of editorial roles at B2B news service SmartBrief. Mazmanian has contributed reviews and articles to the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, Newsday, New York Press, Architect Magazine and other publications.