IoT and Connectivity in the Federal Context Speakers
Intel Corporation
Tim Abels currently leads the definition of Intel’s earliest IOT Architecture Specifications and Forums and significantly participates on behalf of Intel for IOTWF, TIA ,IIC, OCF and University consortia on Telephony and IOT including Internet v2, 5G, machine automation, semantics and future proof. He was previously the Director of Server Architecture at Intel and Dell (HW, SW & Systems), and similar at MS, CompuServe and Pervasive as CTO. He holds over 50 patents, 30 publications, an Masters of Science in Computer Science from Purdue.
Tim is an entrepreneur with two IPOs, co-founding five Dell server divisions and labs including Dellhost sold to Sprint, and was at the major seminal conferences for: Comdex, JavaOne, Netscape, MS PDC, Linuxworld, VMworld and ARM. While working as CompuServe Chief Architect, he taught 15 CS courses at Ohio State and co-authored KCC, the first certified ANSI C compiler. As part of this special event, Tim will be releasing a foundational communications whitepaper.
Federal Communications Commission & Eisenhower Fellow to Taiwan and Australia
Dr. David A. Bray began work in public service at age 15 at a 4 GeV high-energy electron beam accelerator facility, later serving in the private sector before returning as IT Chief for the CDC’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program during 9/11, SARS, monkeypox, and other outbreaks. He volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan to “think differently” on military and humanitarian issues in 2009. In 2013, he served as the Executive Director for the bipartisan National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the U.S. Intelligence Community. He holds a PhD from Emory University’s business school and two post-docs from MIT and Harvard focused on collective intelligence and improving organizational resilience in turbulent environments. He has received both the Arthur S. Flemming Award and Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership in addition to the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal.
Dr. Bray currently is a Senior Executive and CIO for the Federal Communications Commission and through the efforts of a team of positive “change agents” he led the transformation of the FCC’s legacy IT to award-winning tech in less than two years. This included rolling-out new cloud-based IT that achieved results in 1/2 the time at 1/6 the cost. He was selected to be an Eisenhower Fellow to Taiwan and Australia focused on the impacts of the Internet and Everything and the recipient of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Civilian Government in 2015. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2016. He presently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as a Visiting Associate at the University of Oxford, and as a Visiting Executive at Harvard University focused on issues of transformational leadership and the intersection of technology breakthroughs on foreign policies.
Intel Corporation
Tiffany A. Sargent holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University. She is also a Principle Engineer of Intel and has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Having an engineering education has enabled her to span both technical and business areas at Intel Corporation for the past 22 years nationally and internationally. Tiffany began as a manufacturing systems engineer and rotated through five different business groups taking on various leadership and management roles. She has led multiple complex technical endeavors across different fields most notability in software, enterprise information technology, security, chipset platforms, and Internet of Things. Beyond her technical roles, she has held positions as a business strategist, innovation manager, operations manager, people manager, program manager, and program office manager. Tiffany has received Intel's highest award, the Intel Achievement Award, for innovative cyber-security solutions. Tiffany's primary interest has been to integrate decision science into her technical and leadership roles to accelerate and increase the speed and quality of data driven decisions.
Currently, Tiffany is a senior technical contributor within Intel Sales and Marketing Federal Team focused on designing Internet of Things and Machine to Machine (M2M) Complex Systems, Analytics, and Solution Architectures. She works with multiple federal agencies and business partners to introduce technology opportunities, create solution concepts, and develop technical considerations for policy inclusion that can pave the way to a “Smarter” Government. In 2014, she was named by Connected World Magazine as one of the “Women of M2M.”
AT&T
Chris Smith brings 20 plus years of government and technical experience and a strong background in cloud, mobility, and security to Global Business - Public Sector Solutions where he leads a growing team of 200 plus technologists charged with developing AT&T products and services to meet the unique needs of the federal marketplace. Prior to his current leadership role at AT&T, Mr. Smith was the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer with Accenture Federal Services. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing the technology agenda for Accenture’s federal business portfolio and overseeing the services provided by Accenture to federal clients in strategic areas such as secure cloud computing, big data, logistics and supply chain and cost reduction.
Previously, Mr. Smith served as the Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture where he led one of the largest federal government transitions to cloud computing. His federal government experience also includes senior positions with the General Services Administration and the Internal Revenue Service. During his military service, Smith led multiple missions around the globe as a Joint Tactical Communications Officer in the Air Force, Air National Guard and Army National Guard. Now retired, he also served as a communications officer in the Reserve Air Force.