Al Muñoz has many years of experience buying technology for the federal Government and has held leadership roles in acquisition and IT for some of the largest federal agencies.  Al currently works on bringing innovative technology and advanced contracting techniques into the Government, working with some of the newest govtech vendors to bring new technology solutions into the federal marketplace.

Al has earned multiple degrees including a Master of Business Administration earned in 2010.  He completed the Senior Executive Fellows Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2014, and is a 2016 winner of the AFCEA InnovateIT award.

Track 5: Govt. Innovation IP, Social Impact
Government Innovation Models
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Anthony (Tony) Holladay is the Division Chief, Law Enforcement Operational Programs, at the Blaine Sector, U.S. Border Patrol in Blaine, Washington. DC Holladay provides leadership and oversight for Blaine Sectors operational and administrative programs.

Tony began his civilian Federal Service on July 29, 1996, with the U.S. Border Patrol in the San Diego Sector at the Temecula, California Border Patrol Station. He has over 26 years of law enforcement experience, and excels at building relationships with other agencies on both sides of the international border. His work in Blaine Sector includes numerous beneficial relationships within the local community and congressional offices.

As an agent in Temecula, he worked checkpoint operations, performed duties as a Field Training Officer and Explorer Advisor. He received numerous accolades, including an Agent of the Year Award from the Temecula Valley Women’s Federated for his work with Explorer Program and a Special Congressional Recognition Award.

DC Holladay accepted a transfer and promotion to Senior Patrol Agent (SPA) in January, 2002, at the Indio Border Patrol Station.  As an SPA, he performed checkpoint duties, was a Field Training Officer, ATV Instructor, and ENFORCE Instructor.  He was also instrumental in starting the Indio Station’s Intelligence Unit.   Tony promoted to Supervisory Border Patrol Agent in September of 2003.  As a first-line supervisor he had oversight over several shifts, the Field Training Program, Intelligence and facilities.  In 2008, he promoted to Assistant Chief at Headquarters, Border Patrol, in Washington, DC.  While at HQ, Tony was assigned to the Strategic Planning, Policy and Analyses Division, Planning Branch.  He had oversight over the Operational Requirement Based Budgeting Program and military planning efforts.  He was assigned to the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) Liaison as a DHS Subject Matter Expert. In July 2010, he was promoted to Assistant Chief Patrol Agent in the Blaine Sector. He is a FEMA certified Master Exercise Practitioner and Use of Force Incident Team Member.

Prior to joining the Border Patrol, he was a Security Police Officer/Law Enforcement Specialist in the United States Air Force for 6 years.  He received 2 Air Force Commendation Medals and 2 Air Force Achievement Medals.  He deployed to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. He focused on community involvement, starting a bike patrol unit geared towards increasing public relations and mentoring young adults.

Tony Holladay is 46-years old and is a native of California.  He and his wife, Michelle, have been married for 25 years, have two children, Nathan, 19 and Rachel, 15, and reside in Bellingham, Washington. His hobbies include fly fishing and hunting. He will graduate in 2017 from the University of Charleston with a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership with a Criminal Justice concentration.

Track 5: Govt. Innovation IP, Social Impact
Collaborate to Innovate for Public Sector Solutions
9:30 am - 10:45 am

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Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Advances in Education Technology
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Mr. David Bither has over 20 years’ leadership experience in business strategy and corporate and technology development within the defense, aerospace and national security industries. He is the Managing Director of ForwardTrace, LLC, a company focused on strategy and portfolio development for the emerging situational awareness and remote sensing market. He co-founded and chaired the Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Technology Consortium (ISRTC), an international group of 84 industry, academic and not-for-profit organizations focused on developing the market for unmanned systems, communications and sensor payloads and data analytics to the defense, national security and commercial market sector.

David was a senior advisor to the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and performed executive portfolio analysis with JIEDDO (Joint IED Defeat Organization). He served as an ISR subject matter expert  and developed future architectures for DoD sponsored studies examining the department’s emerging ISR requirements.

Prior to starting a business career, David was a career Army officer serving in several operational, command, and senior staff positions. David has an MS in Information Systems Technology from The George Washington University. He graduated from Harvard University’s Executive Studies program and the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College and is certified in both Systems Engineering and Program Management.

Track 3: Technology Advances & Challenges
Drones and UAS: Uniquely Innovative Solutions for Today and Tomorrow
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Marni J. Falk, M.D., received her B.S. in Biology graduating Summa cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, as well as M.D. in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society from a combined 7-year program at the George Washington University School of Medicine.  She completed dual specialty training in a 5-year Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics residency program at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Falk is an Associate Professor in the Division of Human Genetics within the Department of Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  She directs the CHOP Mitochondrial Medicine Center to aid in the evaluation and management of individuals of all ages with suspected mitochondrial disease.  She works to improved diagnostic approaches and resources for mitochondrial disease, including organization of a global Mitochondrial Disease Sequence Data Resource (MSeqDR) consortium.

Dr. Falk is PI of a translational research CHOP laboratory that investigates causes and global metabolic consequences of mitochondrial disease, as well as targeted pharmacologic therapies, in C. elegans, zebrafish, mouse, and human cell models of respiratory chain dysfunction, with transition to clinical treatment trials in mitochondrial disease patients.  She has authored over 80 publications in human genetics and mitochondrial disease, and directs the CHOP/UPENN Mitochondria Research Affinity Group.  She is a Scientific and Medical Advisory Board member of The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation; Scientific Advisory Board member of the Genesis Foundation; CHOP-site PI of the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium; and member of the MMS, SPR, SIMD, ASHG, and ACMG.

Track 2: Healthcare Innovation
What's Your Digital Playbook for Aligning Those Facing Change?
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Gail is a fintech executive who has had a long career leading tech teams at global financial services firms. Building and overseeing a broad swath of entrepreneurial groups, she has held decision-making posts at nearly every seat around the financial services table—banking executive, regulator, service provider, and board member—in both for-profit and social-impact markets. Among her many areas of expertise: financial services, portfolio development, financial analysis, and information tech.

Gail most recently served as a C-suite member of The Bancorp Bank, the innovative banking solution provider for the most recognizable names in digital banking. She also filled other executive roles at PNC Bank, Chase and Capital One, and NCO Financial Systems. In addition, Gail headed the Payments Studies Group at the Richmond Fed and served as Board Member and Risk Committee Chair at Kompanion, one of Central Asia’s largest microfinance institutions. She started out at Mellon Bank in corporate development, identifying and leading M&A transactions.

Gail has a BS Economics, Finance and Statistics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (‘79). She is a member of multiple entrepreneurial, venture, and financial interest groups, including Venture Capital Group, On Startups, Innovation in Payments, and Global Financial Markets.

Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Angel Investing Pitch Session
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Greg Cullison is Chief Operating Officer at Big Sky Associates in Washington, D.C., a management consulting firm specialized in process improvement. In this capacity he serves as the company Insider Threat Subject Matter Expert to expand corporate knowledge and advise clients on industry best practices for their own security, suitability and Insider Threat programs using process improvement and performance management methodologies.

Mr. Cullison has 25 years of experience in cross-functional strategy, operational improvement and multinational teams. His particular areas of focus is Insider Threat prevention, detection and remediation. He has worked for both public and private sector organizations, including the U.S. State Department, U.S. Navy, Big 4 consulting firms, and an insider threat software company. He holds degrees from Princeton University and Claremont McKenna College.

Track 2: Healthcare Innovation Bridging Gaps/Getting ROI in Healthcare Cybersecurity 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Joaquin has more than 14 years of experience in infrastructure planning, project management and international development. He served as Director of Operations of the Millennium Villages project (MVP), a global partnership between Millennium Promise, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the United Nations. The projects operate in several countries in sub-Saharan African, partnering with governments in the areas on public health, education, agriculture, business development and infrastructure.

Previously Mr. Aviles Lopez has worked in the Public Sector at the Department of Planning and Transport with the Government of Granada, Spain. He has also experience in the Private Sector where he worked as Project Manager in the execution of several infrastructure projects. He is currently the Director of Planning and Operations at P3 Global Management, a global smart city infrastructure company, delivering innovative solutions to help cities become more sustainable and resilient.

Mr Aviles Lopez holds a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Granada in Spain, and a MS on International and Public Affairs with focus on International Development at the New School in New York.

Track 1: Urban Innovation
Energy is society’s lifeblood; affecting how we live, work and play
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Jordan Engel is an innovation expert and a long time drone practitioner.

Jordan joined the DC Drones User Group soon after its founding in 2012. Its 2700 members are a diverse group of engineers, pilots, and policy experts that work to expand UAVs in society, including art, search and rescue, conservation, mapping, and dozens of uses more. We also look at topics like safety, and privacy that give adoption pause.

He bought his first drone soon after, and abandoned the trickier art of RC helicopter flying. This was back when drones looked less like Apple products as they do now, and more like some plumbing equipment ate too many calculators and threw up on themselves. His neighbors are the harbingers of a world in which drones hover over our backyards and outside our windows.

Much of his technology work is in aerospace, defense, and intelligence (DHS S&T, NGA, NASA, Lockheed Martin, DOD) focusing on information exchange, situational awareness, and process improvement. He also works with entrepreneurs, coaching them from good ideas to sustainable businesses. This work is both in defense (DOD Velociter), and with organizations with social and environmental impact (Clean Tech Open, Global Social Benefit Incubator).

Track 3: Technology Advances & Challenges Drones and UAS: Uniquely Innovative Solutions for Today and Tomorrow 9:30 am - 10:45 am

Connecthings is the European leader of the Internet of Public Things. They transform cities of all sizes into world-class smart cities by connecting the physical world with the digital world. When Laetitia started the company in 2007, she had a strong vision and intuition that smartphones would be a promising bridge to connect the passive, physical world of street furniture, bus stops, shop windows, etc. to relevant digital content, delivering that content to a specific individual, at a specific location, at a specific point in time. Put simply, Connecthings facilitates the implementation of a wide range of mobile services through their proprietary networks of intelligent beacons; typically deploying iBeacon, NFC, and QR code technologies as a combined package at points of presence throughout a city. This is how the magic works: they make the invisible, visible, and the unconnected, connected.

Connecthings is based in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Milan, Rio de Janeiro.

Prior to Connecthings, Laetitia worked for mobile operators, solution providers and major device manufacturers. In 1999 she managed the implementation of the first Mobile internet gateway for Orange. In 2001, she founded a consultancy company to provide operational support in mobile value added services implementation. Her vision of the mobile internet and the internet of things took Laetitia to found Connecthings in 2007.

In 2011, Women Business Mentoring Initiative selected Laetitia to enter the WBMI mentoring program. Today, Laetitia is proud to be part of WBMI as a mentor.

Laetitia is an engineer and is member of INRIA board. Public science and technology institution established in 1967, Inria is the only public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, Inria’s 3,449 researchers strive to invent the digital technologies of the future.

Founder and CEO of forMetris, Laurent has been helping his clients to improve their learning performance for 11 years. He works with all types of stakeholders in this industry: Corporate Universities, global or local L&D departments, government entities, and training providers.

forMetris solutions are now used by more than 500 L&D teams across 15 languages, customers include many global 2000 companies including Danone, L’Oréal, Novartis, Total, Société Générale, KLM, Adecco...

Prior to creating forMetris, Laurent was a consultant for McKinsey & Company, and a lean manufacturing expert at Faurecia.

Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Advances in Education Technology
9:30 am - 10:45 am

LEE DUDKA is Senior Adviser at SyTrue, a data-driven-healthcare company providing next-gen analytics across the care continuum. He’s been strategic adviser at pharma and technology companies (BMS, J&J, Pfizer, ABB, Honeywell), a partner in an eyecare drug startup, plus served as NIH Fellow and psychotherapist, and taught (Princeton, SUNY, Rutgers).

As business strategist, he’s served board rooms, campuses and key business units, including healthcare, technology, education and medicine – plus multi-billion-dollar heart, urology, and anti-depression drugs (and the strategy plans behind them).  He’s led IT teams on projects for Fortune 100s and major US universities.

As executive issues coach (C-levels and teams), he’s served F500 and Global 2000 companies, providing board strategy retreats and working with over 200 teams. This includes writing global product plans and C-level speeches (3 appearing in “Vital Speeches,” the publication-of-record for US speeches).  He’s served as communications executive and president, co-led the Princeton Writing Workshop, and was training program leader for NJ state penitentiary honors camp inmates.  He’s received a number of awards, including the annual Alumni Award for Service to Princeton University.

Email: leedudka@verizon.net

Track 2: Healthcare Innovation
Precision Medicine Now + Next
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm

Leslie has over twenty-five years experience building, advising and investing in new companies, products and brands, in the US and across the globe. She is the Founder and CEO of Startup Angels, a platform to inspire and enable new startup investors around the world. Prior to that, she was a Partner in Sawari Ventures, LLC, a Cairo-based early stage venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs across the Middle East/North Africa. She continues as an advisor to Flat6Labs, Sawari Ventures’ dedicated startup accelerator for seed stage investments. She is an alumna of St. Johns College (Annapolis, MD/Santa Fe, NM), and serves on its Board of Visitors and Governors.

Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Angel Investing Pitch Session
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Rick Yost is a serial entrepreneur, attorney, author, investor, and the co-founder of VeteransList.US.  A service disabled veteran himself, Rick brings his military experience as an Army officer (12+ years), extensive education, corporate and startup experience, and his general business experience to bear in consulting, entrepreneurship, and providing support to multiple Veteran-owned businesses. Rick also operates Sector 180, a 9-year old high-end reputation management company. Additionally, Rick volunteers as secretary and board member for the U.S. Army Ranger Association.

Before becoming an Army officer, Rick grew up in a small town in South Dakota and loves to golf, hunt, and ski.  Rick resides in Redwood City, CA, where he enjoys being a supportive husband and father to four children and one Labrador retriever.

Tien is CEO of Tech 2000, Inc. a Northern Virginia based leader in technology training, mobile e-learning, and mobile content management platforms. He is also Chairman of Lore Systems, a provider of IT support, network engineering and cloud computing services. He is an active angel investor and limited partner in several VC funds.

In 1991, Tien co-founded and served as CEO of CyberRep, Inc. until its acquisition in 2003 by Affiliated Computer Services. CyberRep was one of the largest privately held CRM outsourcing companies in the world with over 2,300 employees and $80 million in revenue. Today, the CyberRep/ACS business unit is one of the world’s largest call center operations, with over $2 billion in revenue as a division of Xerox Corp. CyberRep was ranked for 4 consecutive years in Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500” as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US.

Tien is a recognized international expert in CRM, direct marketing, and BPO, having presented at dozens of industry events around the world, and written numerous articles on the CRM and BPO spaces. He has provided industry commentary on the ABC, Fox, NBC, CNBC, Maryland Public Television, and China’s CCTV networks, as well as Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Inc. Magazine, and Success Magazine. He serves on several boards including the CIT GAP Fund’s Investment Advisory Board, the Digital DC Tech Fund Investment Advisory Board, the Potomac Officer’s Club and FounderCorps. He was appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to the 9-member Maryland Venture Fund Authority which allocates and manages $84 million of capital which is invested into top tier venture funds. He is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Angel Investing Pitch Session
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Track 4: Funding Options, EdTech
Venture Capital Trends and Pitch Session
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Scott Kolber is CEO of Roadify Transit, a New York City-based data platform and mobile application for transit arrival times and service conditions. Roadify Transit aggregates and distributes this content for more than 400 cities via API for display on public signage, to its own mobile apps, and to 3^rd party apps Scott’s background is in marketing and business development for content and technology companies including Viacom and Loral Space and Communications. He is a University of Virginia graduate.

William Michael Cunningham received his MBA in Finance and a Masters in Economics from The University of Chicago. He is currently a Capstone student advisor in the Real Estate Program at Georgetown University. A strong advocate for the integration of human values in finance, he involves clients and students in developing new ways to combine social values and investing. His professional interests include environmental, social and governance investing, socially responsible investing and community development investing, and his current projects include writing books on crowdfunding, and writing about the impact of the financial crisis on communities of color. Mr. Cunningham serves as Managing Partner for National Crowdfunding Services, and is owner of Creative Investment Research.

Track 5: Govt. Innovation IP, Social Impact
Social Impact Investing
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm