CDAO Government
2026 Speakers
Justin Marsico
Chief Data Officer and Assistant Commissioner
US DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Justin Carder
Chief Digital & AI Officer
DEFENSE CONTRACT AUDIT AGENCY
Paul Jojy
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
DOMINO DATA LAB
Meghan Barrett Welch
Chief Data Officer
MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Natalie Evans Harris
State Chief Data Officer
STATE OF MARYLAND
Andrew Patricio
Principal, Data and Analytics
UNIDOSUS
Patrick McLoughlin
Executive Director, MD THINK
STATE OF MARYLAND
Dr. ClarLynda Williams-DeVane, PhD
Chief Deputy Secretary
NC DHHS
Kyle Morton
COO
EDM COUNCIL
Anil Chaudhry
Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Subject to Approval)
Christy Monaco
Chief Operating Officer
OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM
Rob King
3x CDAO
Prachi Mondaiyka
Chief AI Strategy Officer
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Dr Mike Horton
Chair of the Africa Tech Forum
AFRICA ECONOMIC FORUM
Lauren Maffeo
Senior AI/ML Program Manager
STATE OF MARYLAND
Victoria Da Poian
Lead Data Scientist, Quantum Sky
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jing Liu, PhD
Executive Director
MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR DATA AND AI IN SOCIETY
Patrick McGarry
Federal Chief Data Officer
SERVICENOW
Laura Biven, PhD
Chief Data Officer
JEFFERSON LAB
Randal Rodger
Program Manager, Geospatial Analytics, Technology & Solutions (GATS)
CITY OF OTTAWA
Ben Brendle
Staff Product Manager
COLLIBRA
Stephen Caines
Director, New Cities
BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES WH
Jenny Durda
Director, Organizational Performance
Glendale, AZ
Dr. Kelly Williams
Chief Innovation Officer
City of Oklahoma
Abbie Patel-Jones
Director of Management & Budget
City of Dayton, OH