Teresa Carlson is the founder and leader of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector, and one of the most accomplished and forwarding-thinking technology leaders in the world today. Through her charismatic leadership, Carlson has helped change mindsets of both individuals and organizations around the world, modernize policies at all levels of government, and cultivate a 21st century global workforce equipped with the skillset necessary to leverage the full potential of cloud to drive innovation.

Carlson founded the AWS Worldwide Public Sector in 2010, and since then has driven the business' growth. Today, tens of thousands of government agencies, education institutions and nonprofit organizations around the world use AWS. Additionally, Carlson advises Amazon Public Policy on global policy issues.

Prior to joining AWS, Carlson served as Vice President of Microsoft Federal Government, where she oversaw the company's US Federal Government business.

Carlson earned her undergraduate and Masters of Science degrees in Communications and Speech and Language Pathology from Western Kentucky University.

Pamela Dyson was named the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Chief Information Officer in February 2015.

Ms. Dyson has held key positions in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) since she came to the Commission in 2010, including Acting CIO and Deputy CIO. As Deputy CIO, Ms. Dyson played a leading role in enhancing the SEC’s technological capabilities and modernizing key service delivery platforms and business applications. Ms. Dyson began her SEC career as Assistant Director for Enterprise Operations. Before joining the SEC staff, she was the Deputy CIO for the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Ms. Dyson received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.

Tom Soderstrom is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He leads a collaborative, practical, and hands-on approach with JPL and industry to investigate and rapidly infuse emerging IT technology trends that are relevant to JPL, NASA, and enterprises.

Mr. Soderstrom has led remote teams championing large-scale IT best practices, tools development, and change efforts in small startups, large commercial companies, international venues, and the U.S. government arena.

Mr. Soderstrom is currently working on defining and actively surfing the next technology waves that will significantly impact our future. He is consulting with researchers, startups, industry, and government leaders on how to quickly benefit from key disrupters, including new organizational structures and technology. These span building innovation labs to benefit from artificial intelligence, intelligent digital assistants, Internet of Things, natural user interfaces, advanced analytics, smart data, crowd sourcing, mixed reality, working from anywhere, Cloud 4.0, agile, and DevOps. In other words: how we will work in the future.

Robert Meyerson has overseen the steady growth of Blue Origin since 2003, evolving a 10-person research-focused organization into the more than 1,000-person organization of today. Under Rob’s leadership, Blue Origin developed the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine, the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine, as well as the manufacturing and test capabilities to enable all the above. As the leader of Blue’s Advanced Development Programs business, Rob oversees the development of the systems and technologies that will enable a future where millions of people are living and working in space.

Prior to joining Blue, Mr. Meyerson was a Senior Manager at Kistler Aerospace, responsible for the landing and thermal protection systems of a two-stage reusable launch vehicle, as well as all technical activities related to Kistler’s Space Launch Initiative contract with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Mr. Meyerson began his career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), where he led the aerodynamic design of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Drag Parachute, as well as the overall design, integration, and flight test of a gliding parachute for the X-38 Crew Rescue Vehicle. He began his career as a cooperative education student at JSC.

Mr. Meyerson earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Houston. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and former member of the Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technical Committee. He is a Trustee at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, a member of the board of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and is an avid supporter of the University of Michigan and the University of Washington.

During his five-year battle with a then-terminal cancer diagnosis, Taylor Carol witnessed the immense impact that video games and entertainment technology had on patients’ lives. Inspired, he resolved to build a nonprofit committed to leveraging gaming, technology, and innovation to empower patients to play, learn, and socialize. Despite missing nearly five years of school, Mr. Carol, now a 23-year old Harvard Graduate, has taken GameChanger Charity from a garage hobby to an international endeavor. It now partners with the largest tech companies on earth, like Amazon, to support over 20,000 children in 100 hospitals around the world.

Witnessing the desperate need for these services, Mr. Carol and the GameChanger team created “businesses around the charity,” to both promote the GameChanger vision into the for-profit space and to ensure that GameChanger Charity always had the means to support its patient populations. In recent years, the GameChanger team has created ZOTT: A for-profit subsidiary owned in majority by GameChanger Charity. ZOTT is a cloud-based content distribution platform designed to revolutionize hospitals’ patient engagement systems. Both the ZOTT and GameChanger Charity teams are thrilled to reimagine the ways in which the for-profit and nonprofit sectors can harness technology to change patients’ lives forever.

Dr. Swaine Chen is a Senior Research Scientist in Infectious Diseases at Genome Institute Scientist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Chen's work combines his training in medicine, biology, chemistry, and mathematics to understand how and why bacteria are able to cause infections in humans. This understanding, in turn, may enable us to detect and treat infectious diseases more effectively and more quickly in the future. Another major aspect of Dr. Chen's work is using DNA sequencing to detect and understand outbreaks of infectious diseases, especially those that are unexpected, like the Group B Streptococcus outbreak associated with yu sheng fish in 2015 in Singapore.

Sean P. Roche is a senior government executive with more than 37 years of federal service. In March 2015, he was named Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation serving as the second-in-command of CIA’s first new directorate in more than 50 years. The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) is responsible for cyber intelligence, open source collection, secure global communications, worldwide mission information systems, data curation, and data science. The DDI also accelerates the integration of advanced digital capability across all of CIA’s mission areas. Immediately prior to this position, Mr. Roche served as the Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Science and Technology.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Roche has held various senior leadership positions across a wide range of missions, disciplines, and tradecraft, ranging from research and development to clandestine operations. Within the Directorate of Science and Technology, Mr. Roche served in senior leadership roles in the Offices of Development and Engineering, Technical Collections, Global Access, Integrated Missions, and Mission Resources. Mr. Roche led teams that developed, delivered and deployed satellite and airborne reconnaissance systems, next generation collection platforms, clandestine collection operations, and advanced targeting tradecraft. In addition to his assignments at CIA, Mr. Roche has also served in positions across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense. He is a recipient of the Distinguished and Meritorious Presidential Rank Awards, the CIA Director’s Award, the Directorate of Operations Donovan Award, and other Intelligence Community and CIA Meritorious Unit Citations. He became a member of the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2001.