Sherry Amos is managing director of industry strategy for education and government at Workday. Sherry brings over 20 years of experience to her role leading industry strategy for the education and government industries, and is responsible for working with customers, partners, and industry influencers to bring high-value, next-generation cloud solutions to market. Prior to joining Workday, Sherry led industry strategy teams for SAP for all regulated industries, and also previously held executive positions with Oracle and Peoplesoft in strategy, product management, and marketing.​

Richard Cletus has more than twenty five years of experience in the IT industry and more than seventeen years in Project Management working in both private and public sectors. Richard Cletus plays a vital role as a Project Manager and Functional & Technical Lead for large complex, multi-phase, conversion projects and web-based projects. Richard’s career at New York State has been with the Department of Taxation and Finance and the Office of Information Technology Services managing long term system modernization projects with the goal of creating an integrated tax system for the Department of Taxation and Finance. He has been instrumental in helping the Department transition from mostly paper tax filings to almost all electronic filings through the creation of web-file applications.
Richard was recently appointed as Project Director for several projects, including the broad redesign of the Real Property Tax Services processing system. Richard was nominated and awarded Outstanding IT Manager and Outstanding IT and Support awards during his tenure at the State and also received an award on behalf of his team for the Best application Serving the Agency’s Purpose for Tax Electronic Payments Solution. Richard Cletus holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering in the field of Electronics and Communication and also taught classes to undergraduate students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an adjunct professor teaching Project management and Information Technology.

Matthew W. Daus, Esq. currently serves as Transportation Technology Chair and Distinguished Lecturer at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Transportation Research Center of The City College of New York. Professor Daus conducts research and is extensively published as an expert on ground transportation regulation and technology. He teaches courses on transportation history, policy, sustainability, for-hire regulation and technology. Mr. Daus also continues to serve as President of the International Association of Transportation Regulators (IATR), a non-profit educational and advocacy peer group of government transportation regulators from around the world promoting best regulatory practices. Mr. Daus is the longest serving Chairman of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), serving for 8 ½ years. Prior to his tenure as Commissioner, Mr. Daus served in executive and other positions in NYC government for almost 20 years at several agencies including as General Counsel to the TLC and the NYC Community Development Agency, as Special Counsel to the TLC and NYC Trade Waste Commission, as a NYC Human Rights Prosecutor, and as Commissioner of the NYC Civil Service Commission. Mr. Daus is a partner and currently chairs the Transportation Practice Group at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP.

Eric is the former CTO in the State of North Carolina who worked on introducing chatbots to the greater state public sector community. Eric and his team created the Digital Services Group to overhaul digital services in NC State government, improving citizen experience through better and more innovative design thinking.
Under Eric Ellis’ leadership as the Director of the Innovation Center (iCenter), North Carolina made tremendous strides around innovation throughout state government, allowing us to become a national leader in the field. Eric helped create the 10,000 square foot iCenter and he helped foster several collaborative technological relationships with public and private partners and allowed North Carolina to test more than $15 million worth of technology, resulting in more than $10 million of in savings and improved project, success within the first 2 years.

Shannon M. Ethier, MSW, is the Deputy Director in the Office of Health Emergency Preparedness at the New York State Department of Health. Shannon has served in this role since 2016. She previously served as the Planning Manager for OHEP. Her work involves supporting public health and healthcare preparedness planning, response and recovery efforts for the Department, including management of federal grant programs and activities designed to support public health and healthcare facilities in developing their capabilities to prepare for and respond to emergency situations impacting New York State.
Shannon began her career in emergency preparedness working at the U. S. Department of Education as a Project Officer for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative. Her interest in local level planning and response led her back to her home state of New York pursuing a career as an Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for the Community Health Care Association of New York State.
Shannon is experienced in emergency planning at response across all levels, continuing her career as the Bioterrorism Coordinator for the Albany County Health Department and moving in to healthcare facility preparedness as the Program Manager of the Regional Training Center at Albany Medical Center (previously known as the Regional Resource Center).
Prior to her work at OHEP, Shannon served as the Life Safety and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Saratoga Hospital. Her work experience included the development of emergency plans for healthcare facilities, county emergency planning, and regional and state level response plans. Her experience has also involved coordinating with local, regional and state partners to support emergency response capabilities and ensuring compliance with state and federal life safety and emergency management requirements.

Michael Frey is Vice President of Strategy, Architecture and Data. In this role, he is a change-agent focused on cloud and digital transformation. Frey also acts as Chief Architect for the Xerox IT organization, driving the shift from legacy, on-premise applications to a modern cloud-based application landscape, creating agility and accelerating the release of business value. He is working to provide improved insights to customers, partners, and business partners through cloud-based, comprehensive data and analytics capabilities and the introduction of API frameworks.
Prior to his current role, Frey held several Executive IT roles spanning Collaboration Technologies, Networking and Data Center Infrastructure, IT Security, Partner\Vendor Management and Innovation.
An expert on IT strategy and architecture, Frey is a member of the Enterprise Architecture and IT Chief of Staff Councils of the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) and is a member of the Technology Infrastructure Research Board (TIRB) Council of The Research Board.

Bob is a Principal Systems Engineer. He has been with Software AG for 22 years. His focus is state and local government and has covered the state of Texas for over 10 years. He has worked with dozens of organizations to modernize and integrate their legacy systems at the federal, state, and local levels.

Joe Landers is a Customer Service Transformation Consultant with ServiceNow. He spent 20 years as a practitioner in a variety of Customer Service roles: Operations, Technology Support, Implementation, and Outsourcing. Over the last six years, he has worked with 60+ clients across multiple industries to develop strategic Service roadmaps. You can view his profile in more depth at www.linkedin.com/in/landersjoe and @jlanders3.

Dr. Robyn Marquis is a Project Manager on the Clean Transportation team at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Robyn oversees a broad portfolio of transportation projects and initiatives that includes policy research, product development and demonstration, and statewide deployment related to electric vehicles, public transportation, mobility management, and freight. She manages a collaborative research program with the New York State Department of Transportation, which emphasizes efficient mobility solutions. Before joining NYSERDA, Robyn completed a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. While at RPI, she researched the impacts of curbside management strategies on driver behavior and congestion.

Staff Sergeant Terence J. McDonnell is a 31-year veteran of the New York State Police assigned in the Traffic Services Section at Headquarters in Albany, where for the past 25 years he has overseen numerous statewide traffic safety programs and initiatives and implemented new technologies to enhance traffic safety. He oversees the Autonomous Vehicle Demonstration and Testing Permit Process for the New York State Police and works with several national and international organizations in the field of Automated Driving Systems and Connected Vehicles, including the Highway Safety Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Autonomous Vehicles Working Group of American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, and the Expert Panel on Autonomous Vehicles of the Governor’s Highway Safety Association.

Kim McKinney serves as the Chief Information Officer for the New York State Thruway Authority. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the past two years and has played an integral role transforming the Authority through the use of technology. From 2014 to 2016, Ms. McKinney was appointed to the role of CIO for Transportation and Economic Development for NYS Information Technology Services. In this role, she was responsible for setting strategic direction, technology vision and IT services that supported the business missions of the Department of Transportation, Department of Homes and Community Renewal, Department of Economic Development and Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery. Prior to her role as the Cluster CIO, she was appointed the Chief Operations Officer (COO) for NYS ITS. Prior to joining the state, Kim served as Chief Information Officer and Commissioner of Information Technology for Orange County, NY and Chief Information Officer for Broome County, NY.
In 2007, Kim was honored with the first ever New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year award. In addition, Kim is an active participant and contributor to the state’s IT community. She is an adjunct professor at SUNY Albany. She serves as an executive board member for the New York State Forum. She also is a new board member of ITS-NY. She earned her MBA from Binghamton University and her undergraduate from Pennsylvania State University.

Kay Meyer is a Senior Manager working with the SAS US Government practice. She brings experience, best practices and strategies to help government successfully implement strategic analytic solutions including establishing Centers for Analytics. Kay has over 25 years of experience in information systems development and implementation across a variety of industries. Prior to joining SAS, Kay spent 18 years in state government and led the efforts in North Carolina to set the strategic vision, definition and implementation for the North Carolina Government Data Analytics Center. Prior to the GDAC, Kay led in the formation of NC’s first enterprise fraud, waste, and improper payment detection program, as well as the implementation of NC’s first integrated criminal justice system. Kay holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University.

Tim is the Program Director for the Board’s enterprise wide Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and system’s modernization program. The WCB BPR program is focused on leveraging innovative, citizen-facing Digital Government solutions to enable true business transformation both within the Board and across the Board’s expansive external stakeholder community. Tim has over 30 years of diverse Information Technology experience architecting software applications and leading large cross functional teams through successful system implementations both within the private and government sectors. Prior to directing the Board’s BPR effort, Tim architected and directed the Board’s eClaims EDI initiative as well as the Board’s Insurance Compliance system implementation.

Jim Sammons is a Lead Business Systems Analyst with the New York State Office of the Attorney General. He has more than ten years’ experience in State government and more than five years focused on enterprise IT applications. Jim is the functional lead for the Attorney General’s enterprise case management system, NYMatters, which helps deliver state-of-the-art legal services across more than twenty-five bureaus. He has been instrumental in helping the agency transition to a single, reliable automated system of record for staff attorneys that will capture all stages of a matter, provide matter management, streamline business processes, be easily accessible to users, and deliver accurate and reliable reporting of current and historical data. Prior to his work with the Attorney General, Jim was the Global System Administrator for New York State’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) system, the Statewide Learning Management System (SLMS). Jim holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University at Albany.

Deborah A. Snyder serves as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for New York State, in the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS). In her role, she oversees the Enterprise Information Security Office, and directs a comprehensive program of governance, risk management and compliance functions, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, cyber incident response, and training and exercise services. She provides strategic leadership and vision, and assuring business-aligned, risk-based investments that maximize business opportunity and minimize information and cyber security risk.
Ms. Snyder has extensive experience in government program administration, information technology and cyber security policy. She actively supports the State’s efforts to engage citizens and enhance the delivery of government services. She is an acknowledged industry thought-leader, and has been recognized for excellence and outstanding contributions in public programs and the field of cyber security.
She serves on the NYS Forum Board of Directors, NY CISO Executive Summit Governing Board, is a State Academy for Public Administration Fellow, and member of the Project Management Institute, InfraGard, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). She teaches graduate-level courses, has published numerous articles, and co-authored “SECURE – Insights From The People Who Keep Information Safe,” which offers industry leadership insights and perspective. She is a highly regarded speaker on topics critical to executive-level business and IT professionals.