ACCELERATE 2025

GOVTECH CONNECTS

ACCELERATE 2025: Driving Innovation, Efficiency, Meaningful Outcomes and Results!

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GOVTECH CONNECTS Summer 2025 Events

From combatting fraud to modernizing the federal health supply chain to accelerating mission outcomes through emerging tech, these GOVTECH CONNECTS events bring together government, DOD, and industry leaders to tackle today’s most urgent challenges.

Join us on August 11, 2025, for ACCELERATE 2025, where AI, data, and innovation accelerate efficiency, streamlined acquisitions, and mission-driven outcomes. This premier event unites top leaders from government and industry to break down barriers, fast-track innovation, and drive high-impact results. Through powerful collaborations, actionable strategies, and cutting-edge insights, experts will share how they are accelerating transformation and delivering real, measurable success.As part of this dynamic event, we will honor recipients of the Accelerate Awards, which recognize the top Federal Government, DoD, and Industry mission-focused programs, solutions, products, and tools that are not only developing but accelerating the application of the latest AI, data, efficiency-driven solutions, streamlined acquisitions, and digital transformation to achieve rapid, impactful mission success. These awards highlight efforts that go beyond innovation, fast-tracking the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, driving operational efficiency, and delivering measurable results that transform operations and drive sustained success.SPEAKERSBarclay Butler, Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Food and Drug AdministrationJesus Caban, Ph.D., Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Defense Health AgencyJennifer Johnson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acquisitions and Senior Procurement Executive, Department of Health and Human ServicesJennifer Layden, MD, Ph.D., Director, Office of Public Health Data, Science and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionKameke Mitchell, Director, Procurement Strategic Operations, NASAJeffrey Neill, Associate Executive Director, Technology Acquisition Center, Department of Veterans AffairsPatrick Newbold, CIO and Director for the Office of Information Technology, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesLisa Rosenmerkel, Chief Data Officer, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans AffairsScott Simpson, Strategic Change Advisor and Coach, General Services AdministrationAlastair Thomson, Acting Chief Data Officer, ARPA-H, Department of Health and Human ServicesChristopher Wallace, Chief of Cybersecurity, PEO Defense Healthcare Management Systems, Defense Health Agency*invited, awaiting confirmationAGENDA<ul><li>COO Fireside Chat: Priorities &amp; Initiatives: Drivers of Efficiency</li><li>Acquisition at the Speed of Innovation</li><li>Disruptive Tech in Action</li><li>Data Driven Impact: Powering Mission Success</li><li>CIO Panel: Driving Transformation through Innovation, AI, Data, Cyber, Next-Gen Tech</li><li>Accelerate Award Recognition</li><li>Networking Reception</li></ul>THIS SUMMIT IS CLOSED TO THE PRESS AND MEDIAInterested in Sponsorship Opportunities for this event? Reach out to Mary.Garcia@govtechconnects.comLink to GTC Privacy Statement: https://www.govtechconnects.com/privacy-policy/

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