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Nancy Sieger
CIO
Internal Revenue Service
IRS’ innovator. Under Sieger’s guid- ance, the IRS transitioned to telework while delivering critical support for the country’s economic relief efforts during the pandemic. She oversaw an unprecedented extension of the 2020 tax filing season and ensured that nearly 60,000 employees could work remotely as the IRS processed more than 162 million individual tax returns — 152 million of which were filed electronically. Sieger also oversaw the deployment of the Get My Payment app, which gave Americans the ability to monitor the status of their eco- nomic impact payments, in less than three weeks.
Harrison Smith
Deputy Chief Procurement Officer
Internal Revenue Service
Transformation for the taxpayer.
Smith came to the IRS from the Department of Homeland Security, where he played a key role in the Procurement Innovation Lab. At
the IRS, he has focused his efforts
on enhancing the user experience through innovative acquisitions of new technologies, including automa- tion and machine learning tools that allowed the agency to respond quickly to new demands that arose during the pandemic. He also helped create and now co-directs the Enterprise Digita- lization and Case Management Office,
which empowers taxpayers and IRS employees to rapidly resolve issues in a simplified digital environment.
Nicholas Speece
Chief Federal Technologist
Snowflake
Delivering actionable data. Under Speece’s guidance, Snowflake has developed a secure, platform- agnostic, cloud-native platform that allows agencies to share data and collaborate in real time. He was also responsible for securing the plat- form’s FedRAMP authorization. With this wide world of intelligence at their disposal, agencies can make more informed and accurate decisions
that positively affect the country and its citizens. Speece also hosts “Data Champions,” a webinar series that features his conversations with the public sector’s top leaders as they discuss their biggest challenges and brainstorm practical ways to solve them.
David Spirk
Chief Data Officer
Defense Department
Data disruptor. Spirk has had an immeasurable impact on how war- fighters use data to achieve mission objectives. He spearheaded the devel- opment and deployment of DOD’s first-ever Data Strategy, which was completed and operationalized in under 180 days. The strategy estab- lishes a hierarchy of data stewardship
and publishes high-value data assets in a federated catalog. Data is stored in a platform- and environment- agnostic manner, and it is portable, allowing all stakeholders to have immediate access to real-time intel- ligence that can impact missions and save lives. Thanks to Spirk, the entire DOD community has embraced the power of data.
Robert Stein
Senior Vice President, North America Public Sector
Salesforce
Cloud aid for COVID. Stein and
his team oversaw the deployment of Salesforce’s Work.com solutions to help agencies maintain critical opera- tions during the pandemic while keep- ing employees safe. He was instru- mental in Salesforce’s ability to help agencies at the federal level and in all 50 states quickly shift to new digital models to serve constituents, includ- ing implementing solutions for con- tact tracing, grant management and unemployment programs. In addition, he played a key role in the launch of Salesforce’s Work.com for Vaccines, which gives governments and health care organizations a secure, agile platform to manage inventory, admin- ister vaccination programs, schedule appointments, communicate with providers and patients, and monitor outcomes.
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