On the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of the International Academy of CIO

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Join George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC), the Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), the Donald G. Costello College of Business, the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center, and the International Academy of CIO (IAC) on December 9th and 10th in Arlington, Virginia and online / hybrid for the CIOs, AI and the Outlook for IT Modernization Conference.

AI is providing a new foundation and invigoration to IT Modernization initiatives worldwide and correspondingly is having major impacts on workforces and careers.

The conference brings together government and private sector executives and academia to review and discuss the latest IT Modernization possibilities, impacts and challenges and project the outlook for the coming years. The discussions will include CIO and leadership and governance considerations; policy and regulation philosophies, alternatives and ramifications; and society, workforce and career dynamics.

The conference is going to include focus sessions on AI and financial services, AI and government, AI and education and AI and healthcare / medicine. In addition, the conference will have discussion of IACIO's CIO Competency and Body of Knowledge Framework and also AI Maturity Model. The conference will also have a global emerging technology demo and showcase on the second day.

The conference also brings together speakers and participants from U.S., Asia, Europe, Africa and South America on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the International Academy of CIO.

SPEAKERS

AGENDA

TUESDAY, December 9th

8:30 a.m. Registration and Check-in

9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening

• J.P. Auffret, Ph.D. George Mason University 
• Cheryl Druehl, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean, Costello College of Business, George Mason
• Poomporn Thamsatitdej, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Digital and Future Workforce, College of Innovation, Thammasat University, THAILAND

9:45 – 10:10 a.m.

• Jamie Holcombe, Vice President, Commerce, US AI; fmr CIO, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

10:10 – 10:35 a.m.

• Dr. William Hazel, M.D., CEO, Claude Moore Opportunities, fmr Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia

BREAK

10:50 – 11:15 a.m.

• Dr. Sak Segkhoonthod, Senior Advisor, Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, fmr. President and CEO, Thailand, Digital Government Agency, THAILAND

11:15 – 11:40 a.m. IBM Quantum Roadmap and Industry Applications

• Joseph Msays, VP and Global Managing Partner, Enterprise Application Managed Services, IBM

11:25 – 11:50 a.m.

• Milos Manic, Ph.D. President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Director, Virginia Commonwealth AI Convergence Labs; Director, Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Center

11:50 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Strategy and Status on AI and Digital Government in Taiwan

• Cheng-Ming (Ken) Wang, Director General, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Republic of China, TAIWAN

Morning Discussant: Lin Wells, Ph.D., Executive Advisor for the C5I Center, Mason College of Engineering and Computing; fmr CIO, U.S. Department of Defense

12:20 – 1:10 p.m. Lunch

Lunchtime Announcement and Discussion - International Academy of CIOs Core Competencies and Body of Knowledge Framework and AI Maturity Model

• Poomporn Thamsatitdej, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Digital and Future Workforce, College of Innovation, Thammasat University, THAILAND

Tuesday Afternoon

1:10 – 2:10 p.m. AI and Financial Services

• Bob Ledig, Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
• Brian Peretti, CEO, Everstream Advisors, LLC; Former Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (retired), US Dept of the Treasury
• John Carlson, Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Regulation and Resilience, American Bankers Association

2:10 – 3:10 p.m. Commonwealth of Virginia AI Institute - Mission and Future Prospects

• Milos Manic, Ph.D., President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Director, Virginia Commonwealth AI Convergence Labs; Director, Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Center
• Megan A. Barnett, Vice Provost for Pan-University Initiatives, University of Virginia
• Daniel Sui, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech
• Andre Marshall, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Economic Impact, George Mason University

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3:25 – 3:50 p.m. Leading a Multi University Consortium for Innovation, Talent Development and Research in Cybersecurity

• Luiz DaSilva, Ph.D., Executive Director, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative

3:50 – 4:15 p.m.

• Joel Martin, Ph.D., Chief Digital Research Officer and Chief Science Officer, National Research Council of Canada, CANADA

4:15 – 5:05 p.m. Making the Impossible Possible, Application Transformation in the AI Era

• Luis Benavides, Partner, Federal, Hybrid Cloud & Data, IBM
• Marc Jones, Senior Vice President, Public Sector, CAST Software

5:05 – 5:55 p.m. U.N. University and Digital Government Transformation

• YoungSik Kim, Senior Associate Expert, UNU-EGOV. Project Manager for Korea International Cooperation Agency / Korea Institute for Development Strategy, Kyrgyzstan Capacity Building Project
• Saleem Zoughbi, Ph.D., Senior Research Consultant, UNU-EGOV, Project Manager, West Africa Digital Government Forum and Central Asia Digital Government Forum

5:55 – 6:00 p.m. Day 1 Closing

• J.P. Auffret, Ph.D.

WEDNESDAY, December 10th

Wednesday Morning

8:30 a.m. Registration and Check-in

8:55 – 9:00 a.m. Welcome

9:00 – 9:20 a.m. AI, Quantum Computing and High Performance Computing Convergence and Outlook

• J.P. Auffret, Ph.D., George Mason University

9:20 – 9:35 a.m. AI Trend of Digital Government ~ 20 Years History of the Waseda International Digital Government Ranking Survey

• Naoko Iwasaki, Ph.D., Professor Waseda University, Tokyo, President, IAC Japan, JAPAN

9:35 – 10:00 a.m. Transformation of Public Workforce Management in the Era of AI

• Professor Dongwook Kim, Ph.D., Director, Center for Intelligent Society and Policy, Seoul National University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

10:00 – 10:25 a.m. AI Ethics and Interoperability Issues in AI Safety Governance

• Professor Hag-Min Kim, Ph.D.,  Department of International Business and Trade/ School of International Commerce, Finance and Investment, College of Politics and Economics; Director, Global Training Education Program, Kyung Hee University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

10:25 – 10:50 a.m. Andrew Beklemishev, Vice President, Commonwealth of Independent States Region, IDC, KAZAKHSTAN


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11:05 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Innovation and Emerging Technology Lightning Talks

11:05 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Session Opening - AI and Quantum Computing and Venture Capital; Mason College of Engineering and Computing

• Lisa Donnan, Founder and CEO, The Donnan Group, Advisory Board Chair, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University 

11:30 – 11:40 a.m. NVIDIA, AMD and Collaboration on AI Platform

• Sherry Sun, Senior Storage Specialist, Data and AI, IBM 

11:40 – 11:50 a.m. The Technology Revolution Needs a Gettysburg Moment

• Pierre El Haddad, Ph.D., Professor of Management, INSEEC Grande Ecole, Paris, FRANCE

11:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Axiological Displacement: How AI Is Transforming What We Can Value

• Caroline Gans Combe, Ph.D., Associate Professor Artificial Intelligence, Data, Econometrics, Ethics;  Director of Structured Research; Head of Omnes Group Research Ethics Board, Omnes Education - INSEEC, FRANCE

12:00 – 12:10 p.m. Explainable and Governed AI

• Beju Rao, Ph.D., President and CEO, Amruta
• Mr. Ravi Ravikoti, Chief Information Officer, Novvum Advisory and Consulting 
• Naresh Kommula, Lead IT Architect, Pharma Distribution & Healthcare Industry, Amruta, Inc.

12:10 – 12:20 p.m. Innovation Through Education - Entrepreneurship and Vocational Education

• Peter Schupp, Ph.D., CEO, SCMT Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology GmbH, GERMANY

12:20 – 12:30 p.m. Introducing Software Intelligence for Safer Modernization at Speed

• Marc Jones, Senior Vice President, Public Sector, CAST Software

12:30 – 12:40 p.m. Digital Innovation in the Central African Republic

• Serge Adouaka, Director, Central African Republic Technology and ICT Leadership Accelerator, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• Bachir Moussa, Founder and President, Marché Banguissois, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

12:40 – 12:50 p.m. Digital Innovation and Combatting Crime Networks

• Abhishek Ray, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Information Systems, Costello College of Business, George Mason University

12:50 – 1:00 p.m. Responsible AI Guardrails Framework

• Rohith Nama, Senior GenAI Software Engineer, Amazon

1:00 – 1:10 p.m. Simulating Quantum Computing Gates

• Sundar Balakrisha, Ph.D. – Special Secretary - Information Technology & Communication, Government of Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

1:10 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
Lunchtime Announcements

“Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, AI and IP Four Part Series

• Gary Rinkerman, Honorary Professor of US Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University School of Law, London; Partner, Pierson Ferdinand

“Artificial Intelligence: A Primer for State and Local Government”

• Alan Shark, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Schar School of Public Policy, George Mason
  
  

Wednesday Afternoon

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. CIOs, AI and IT Modernization

• Elizabeth Hackenson, Senior Vice President and CIO, Schneider Electric

2:30 – 3:20 p.m. AI, Medicine and Public Health

• James Sullivan, Strategic Advisor, Healthcare Industry Solutions & Services, NTT DATA Services
• Mitchell Goldburgh, BSCS, FSIIM, Senior Director, Industry Solutions, Accelerating AI in Imaging Sciences, NTT DATA Services

3:20 – 3:45 p.m. AI and Public Health in Africa

• Jean-Paul Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D., professor Georgetown Graduate School of Biomedical Education, fmr. Director, Pasteur Institute International Network and the French Institute of Research for Development

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4:00 – 5:20 p.m. AI and Workforce and Education – What Actually is the Outlook?

• Larry Medsker, Ph.D., Chair, ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee; Research Professor, Physics, University of Vermont
• Ambassador (ret.) Richard D. Kauzlarich, Co-director Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP) and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
• Christian Mammen, Ph.D., Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
• Brian Wendroff, CPA, Managing Partner, Wendroff and Associates, CPA
• Nirup Menon, Ph.D., Professor, Academic Co-Director, Chief Data and Analytics Officer Executive Program, Donald G. Costello College of Business
• Beju Rao, Ph.D., Founder and President, Amruta

5:20 p.m. Day 2 Closing

• J.P. Auffret, Ph.D.

George Mason’s Center of Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC) was founded in November 2023. The Center of Excellence serves as a strategic partner in federal, state and local government cybersecurity and IT modernization efforts. CRC translates state-of-the-art research into practice, provides executive education and convenes workshops and conferences on current government cybersecurity and IT modernization challenges, disseminates best practices, and fosters cybersecurity and IT modernization organizational capacity within federal, state and local governments. For more information, please visit crc.gmu.edu

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The College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University hosts the Center for Assurance Research & Engineering (CARE).  CARE’s multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity encompasses the fields of technology, policy, business and leadership. Through partnerships with government and private industry, innovative research is translated into practices and policies used in real-world settings. Research includes security for distributed systems, mobile apps/devices, industrial control systems, and new technologies such as networked medical devices, as well as policies development for securing critical infrastructure and guidance for cybersecurity leadership/governance. For more information, please visit care.gmu.edu

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The Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University is a leading business school located in the dynamic Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. region. The college is dedicated to providing students with a career-focused, experiential education through strong partnerships with public, private, and academic organizations. With AACSB accreditation, the college offers a diverse range of undergraduate and graduate programs, including concentrations in business analytics, finance, and marketing. A major gift from entrepreneur Donald G. Costello has further strengthened its commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship, and preparing a diverse student body to succeed in a global business environment. For more information, please visit business.gmu.edu

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The Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center® is a non-profit organization that brings together financial services professionals, regulators, trade association representatives, consumer group representatives, counsel and advisors to discuss, debate, and advocate in regard to financial technology and cybersecurity issues and their regulation.  It is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. For more information about the Center and to sign up to hear about future events and projects visit fintsc.org

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The IAC or International Academy of CIO was founded in 2006 in Japan by co-founders including Japan, USA, Indonesia, Philippines, Switzerland and Thailand. The IAC members, partnerships and alliances now span all regions with participation from over 50 countries and partners with NGOs and multilateral organizations such as APEC, OECD and ITU.

The IAC promotes and facilitates CIO and IT Executive leadership education and education standards; government CIO and IT governance policies and institution building related to CIOs and CIO Councils; and application and innovation of ICT such as AI, quantum computing, and IoT in areas including ICT and ageing society, smart cities, and ICT and natural disasters.
 
The IAC publishes the annual Waseda University – IAC Digital Government Rankings now in its 19th year! The IAC also partners with IOS Press on a Global E-Governance book series. In education, the IAC accredits CIO master’s degree programs and provides CIO certificates to graduates as well as directly partners in training on topics including CIO, AI, and cybersecurity. The IAC hosts an annual conference and partners on conferences and workshops with governments and NGOs such as APECTEL, OECD and U.N. For more information, please visit iacio.org