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Wole Moses

Wole Moses

Director, Strategy & Innovation - Federal Cloud

Microsoft

Dr. Mari Spina

Dr. Mari Spina

Principal Cyber Security Engineer

MITRE

Shannon Hulbert
Moderator

Shannon Hulbert

CEO

Opus Interactive

Adam Knobloch
Emcee

Adam Knobloch

VP & Head of Data Centers

Bisnow

Katy Warren

Katy Warren

Principal

MITRE

Wole Moses

Director, Strategy & Innovation - Federal Cloud

Microsoft

Wole Moses is Director of Cloud Solutions for Microsoft Federal. In his role, Wole is responsible for digging deep into customer business problems with a view on how AI, IOT and other cloud technologies can help drive transformation.

Wole has 21 years of experience in the technology industry and during this time has worked with both commercial and public sector organizations to help them leverage innovation and best practices across both segments. During his career at Microsoft he has led product management at Microsoft Headquarters, and led technical sales strategy in various field sales roles. He also spent 4 years working for Microsoft Middle East and Africa (while based in Istanbul Turkey and Dubai UAE).

Wole regularly presents at national and international conferences to share the latest Microsoft security, and cloud solutions and best practices.

In his time away from work he enjoys history, travel (pre-pandemic), working out and music.

Dr. Mari Spina

Principal Cyber Security Engineer

MITRE

Dr. Spina joined MITRE in 2014 and has been supporting a multitude of MITRE Federal sponsors including DoD and the IC in the area of Cloud Security. At MITRE, she is a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, leads the Cloud Security Capability Area, and teaches Cloud Security for the MITRE Institute. She has also taught many Information Technology courses for the George Washington University schools of engineering and business. Before joining MITRE, she worked for government engineering firms including Hughes Aircraft, SAIC, ManTech, NJVC, and DMI since 1988 where she provided IT systems engineering to a variety of Federal agency missions including those of the Intelligence Community and the DoD. Mari holds a D.Sc. in Engineering Management from George Washington University, a MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSME from California State University Northridge. She is also PMI PMP and ISC2 CISSP, ISSEP, CCSP certified, and holds a TS/SCI clearance.

Shannon Hulbert

Moderator

Opus Interactive

Ms Hulbert is CEO of Opus Interactive. Shannon has led the strategy and vision for the cloud provider since 2011. Prior to cloud, Shannon was in the utility energy-efficiency sector for 8 years. Opus Interactive is a hybrid and multicloud solutions provider with a dedicated FEDRAMP Moderate Ready IaaS/PaaS environment and can be found on the FedRAMP marketplace under OpusGov (OG). OG is housed inside of FISMA High faciliites, operated by screened US citizens. This environment is restricted to US federal, state, local and tribal governments, and their partners - backed by over 24 years of proven reliability in the commercial sector.

Adam Knobloch

Emcee

Bisnow

Adam Knobloch has been involved in the commercial real estate event and media space since 2010, having held roles in sales, account management, production and coordination. He joined Bisnow Media as the Global Director of Data Centers after having led event sales and strategy efforts in the CRE space for nearly a decade. Since 2012, he has found a significant passion for the data center and technology sectors, while building an international network of active followers across numerous asset classes in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. In his current role, Adam oversees Bisnow Media's event and sponsored media strategy for the data center sector, having expanded its Datacenter Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Series event offerings to more than 15 markets, with an international presence in the UK and Canada.

He previously held a board member role on the Telecom Exchange (TEX) Advisory Board, collaborating on content, speaker recommendations and event strategy. Additionally, he has made a point of promoting local and national organizations with a focus on STEM education and advancing the next generation into the technology sector through support, collaboration and ambassadorship. Notable organizations include the Nomad Futurist Academy, Infrastructure Masons, H5 Data Centers' STEM Fest and local chapters of both 7X24 Exchange and AFCOM.

In his personal life, Adam is a musician, having toured the east coast as the drummer of The Gantry. He was a frequent member of the NYC folk/indie rock music scene and is currently the drummer for A.M. County.

Adam holds a Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration from American University's Kogod School of Business, with a focus on Marketing and Public Relations.

Katy Warren

Principal

MITRE

Ms. Warren has a unique combination of emerging technology engineering and leadership experience within government and technology driven environments. She has extensive experience in developing and acquiring cloud and IT strategic solutions for CIO’s in the US Federal government. She has a proven ability to maximize performance of IT organizations, including standing up and executing Department-level cloud and cyber programs. She is an accomplished technology leader, adept at strategy, building team-work and cooperation, and driving solutions. She has a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with multiple government agencies, customers, executive management, and staff, and promote mutual understanding and problem resolution. Since 2013, she has been leading the IT Modernization, Enterprise Technology Adoption and Cloud Engineering emerging market concentration at MITRE, including research and application of new models, methods, tools and approaches across the Federal Government. She is the author of MITRE’s Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework (ECAF), which has been used successfully by multiple government departments and agencies to strategize, design, plan and adoption cloud on an enterprise scale. Specific areas of expertise include:

• Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy and Leadership

• Information Technology Leadership, Governance and Management

• Strategic Planning

• Integrated Emerging Technology Adoption and Adaptation

• Cross-Government Information Sharing

• IT Management Best Practices

• Cyber Security and Business Continuity certified

• SAFe Agile Certified

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn: What are the challenges with federal agencies migrating to the cloud? How will data center capacity evolve in response to new demand? What strategies will secure success in modernizing federal agencies?

How You'll Do More Business: You'll learn about what technologies federal agencies are utilizing now, which challenges they are facing, what new facility needs are and what they want from data center providers.

Who Attends: Brokers, engineers, architects, owners, providers, investors, IT security, federal agencies, contractors