John D. Flory III is a recognized Cybersecurity expert with over 28 years in the security field. His hands on experience dealing with real time cybersecurity attacks and remediation offers a valuable resource to organizations’ cyber preparation. John’s leading edge approach has allowed him to help create human firewalls as one of the key pillars of defense.

John has been highlighted in multiple publications as a knowledge leader and cybersecurity expert, including Cybersecurity Magazine, Cyber Protection Magazine, and the Crucial Tech Podcasts series. Featured as a keynote, John has spoken at numerous conferences including, The Symantec Global Conference, NY Bankers Conference, The Department of Homeland Security Forum, NY State Bar Association, Emergency Preparedness Conference, and many other diverse venues.

John is a proven business leader with an unprecedented history of building effective and overachieving teams.  John is a former partner at TAG Solutions as well as the co-founder of Cyberstone Security, and currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Harbor Networks.

Tiffani leads ESG process and innovation on the Hewlett Packard Enterprise sustainability team. In this role, she leads a team responsible for maintaining governance and integrity of the ESG data and metrics HPE discloses publicly. Additionally, Tiffani drives initiatives to better embed sustainability into products and solutions. Innovation is not only key to reducing HPE’s Scope 3 emissions around product-use and leased categories but is also critical to helping HPE customers achieve their own sustainability goals with HPE technologies. Tiffani brings a diverse background in environmental development and business intelligence reporting. She previously worked as a data and business analyst for an organic produce distributor and served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic where she specialized in rural water infrastructure projects.

Timothy D. Goddard has served in local government in Massachusetts for more than 35 years, including the past 12 as Town Administrator/Chief Procurement Officer in Carlisle, Mass. Previously, he served as Assistant Town Manager in Framingham, Mass. and as Town Administrator in Littleton, Mass.

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he currently resides in Littleton, where he has served in numerous local offices, including the past 15 years as Town Moderator.

April Lanni has 30 years of professional purchasing and planning experience in Government, Service, and Manufacturing Organizations. Prior to becoming the Town of Stoneham’s first Procurement Officer, April spent 14 years at the Massachusetts Port Authority in the role of Senior Buyer. April started at the Town of Stoneham in January 2020, seven weeks prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and at the beginning of the Town’s High School Building project.

Peter is the President and CEO of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council (“GNEMSDC”), a 46 year old organization focused on promoting economic inclusion and minority business development throughout New England. Before GNEMSDC, Mr. Hurst was an entrepreneur for over 24 years having founded and led the only minority-owned and managed bank in Connecticut, which was focused on Connecticut’s urban centers. He also founded and led a financial advisory and merchant-banking firm.  He has been an investment banker on Wall Street, leading and executing merger and acquisition and corporate finance transactions. He began his career as a practicing lawyer.  Mr. Hurst received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with an A.B. in accounting. He is an independent director with WIN Waste Innovations, a vertically integrated waste management company owned by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (“MIRA”). He Co-Chairs WIN’s ESG Committee and Co-Chairs its Diversity and Inclusion Sub-Committee, and is a member of the Compensation Committee. He has served as a director of two publicly traded companies and another company owned by MIRA.

Lynn Rose, an Environmental Health and Safety and Pollution Prevention Consultant, has worked for over 30 years in public and non-profit agencies as well as a private consultant on EHS/P2 issues for the public sector and small businesses. Her emphasis is on prevention, including reducing hazards, followed by safe management of hazards that cannot be eliminated.  She has won several awards for this work, including from EPA, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and most recently from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable for Educator of the Year, 2019. Her recent work with the Toxics Use Reduction Institute was based on safe infection control programs in schools and public agencies. She trains entities statewide and nationally on this topic. She is currently assisting the Operational Services Division, Environmentally Preferable Products (EPP) Program to update their EPP cleaning products and equipment contract.

Adam is the Senior Director of End User Compute Partnerships in the Hardware and Advanced Solutions department at SHI International Corp. Adam manages the pre-sales support group for all of the top end-user computing, unified communications and collaboration, and extended reality partnerships. 

Kevin is the Senior Director of Strategy and Product Management of Managed Workplace Services at SHI International Corp. Kevin specializes in end-user computing, unified communications and collaboration, and extended reality.

Hilary Nardone is the Environmental Group Training Manager at Barclay Water Management, Inc. She received her B.S in Biology from St. Michael’s College and her Master of Public Health from the University of Vermont. She is a certified ASSE 12080 Legionella Water Safety and Management Specialist.

Jeff Bajgot joined WCA as a Senior Consultant in 2019.  Jeff is responsible to develop or enhance programs and services such as E-Rate eligible Managed Secure Internet, DDoS Protection and Private LTE.  Jeff is a 30 plus year veteran in the IT and telecommunications industry.   Prior to WCA he founded and led two successful K-12 focused ISP’s supporting the K-12 and government sectors in New England.  Jeff is expertise is in Networks, Cybersecurity, and contemporary information systems architectures including assessing, designing, planning, deployment, and support.   In addition he has deep knowledge of E-Rate and ed-tech at a national level.

Andrew Shoemaker is the founder and chief engineer of NimbusDDOS.  Andrew has more than 20 years of DDoS technical expertise, with experience drawn from both attacker and defender viewpoints.  Prior to founding NimbusDDOS, Andrew ran technical operations teams at numerous massive-scale consumer brands in the online media, and eGaming industries.  Andrew regularly performs source code analysis of emerging DDoS attacks, and botnets and enjoys writing source code for unique 0-day DDoS attack vectors.

A 17 year veteran in the internet service provider arena, Jag Bains has extensive network design experience as well as implementing a number of security platforms. In his previous position as the Director of Network Engineering and Operations for PEER1 Hosting Jag was able to observe a large number of DDoS attacks against their customer base, and came to appreciate the singular focus needed to combat the evolving nature of these attacks. Jag holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Science from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.

Linda is a Strategic Business Development Manager in the Commercial Business Inkjet Print Division at Epson America and has been in the industry for over 20 years. Experience includes developing and growing new business partner relationships and opportunities nationally with Epson’s expanding commercial business inkjet portfolio. Responsible for developing strategic initiatives to increase outreach, education and building brand awareness around the benefits of Epson’s technologies with our customer end user community.

Brian Gilbert is a Sr. Technical Sales Specialist with Epson America, Business Inkjet. He has been in the industry for over 15 years with experience in managed print consulting, production, document workflow and professional services management roles. Industry certifications include CompTIA Sec+, Net+, CDIA+.

Tom Abrahamson is the KI-VP of Manufacturing and Strategic Sourcing and has more than 25 years of experience in the contract furniture industry. Prior to becoming VP of Manufacturing, Tom held multiple positions at KI, including Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Manager and Plant General Manager.

Logan Hermes currently is the Esports Program Marketing Manager with D&H Distributing. Logan has been a collegiate esports coach and is currently the Head of Operations for the Minnosota Esports Club as the only esports non-profit in the state of Minnesota. Logan has also wrote his masters thesis on gaming programs in edu as well. His favorite title is League of Legends. 

Katy joined Connection in 2011 and is the Business Development Manager for the state of Massachusetts and has a strong client background with her prior sales support roles as well as a very well broad and holistic knowledge of the company’s capabilities, resources and core competencies.  Katy works with the inside sales teams, management, marketing and directly with customers to ensure they are supported throughout their technology needs and endeavours. Katy reports to Lisa Trisciani, Vice President of Field Sales.  Katy works in the Merrimack, New Hampshire office. 

David Cho leads the Unified Procurement Services Team (UPST) that provides strategic sourcing, contracts, supplier management, procurement operation, accounts payable, travel services, and customer services to the various campuses within the UMass system. Over David’s 25+ years of work experience, he has maintained COO roles for emerging alternative asset management companies and provided strategy and operations management consulting services to regional, national, and global companies. David was featured in the October issue of Supply Chain Digital magazine.

Michael’s leadership and innovation have spearheaded more efficient business practices throughout his notable four-decade career. In 2018 Michael was named Executive Director of MHEC, a non-profit purchasing consortium. Since then, he has driven initiatives to make procurement simpler and more beneficial for members and suppliers. Michael holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of New Haven, West Haven, CT.

Laura worked for fifteen years as a public librarian from Illinois to Wyoming and has been messing around with computers for as long as she could get her hands on one. Her presentation and materials will be available online at lauracrossett.com.

Elizabeth Bird is the Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library (IL) and the former Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library (NY). She is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews, a podcaster, blogger, and author. Elizabeth serves on her library's internal Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) committee, and founded the Collection Advisory Group of Black Evanstonians, which is a community-based volunteer committee of library patrons. She has presented on the topic of building and maintaining diverse collections for LJ/SLJ's "Evaluating, Auditing, and Diversifying Your Collections" interactive workshop, with LACONI's meeting on "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cataloging and Collection Development", at the RAILS ARRT program "Diversity Audits for Library Collections", and many others.

Brian Packard is a national award-winning marketer who has commercialized over a dozen ‘world’s first’ healthcare products, from home defibrillators to ear thermometers to adjustable focus glasses.  His passion is bringing life-improving technology from concept to mainstream.  Brian is the CEO of Celios Corporation, a next-generation air purification technology company located in Massachusetts whose mission is to provide pure air to improve lives.

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph Vermont. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today's libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites. She writes a column for Computers in Libraries magazine and is the author of the book Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. She has taught "Tools for Community Advocacy" for the University of Hawaii's Library School and was on the Advisory Board to the Wikimedia Foundation. As a librarian without a library, for the past fifteen years she has spent most of her time working with her local community as a hands-on technology educator.

An experienced UPS Product and Insights Marketing Manager Chuck has worked cross functionally building campaign programs that boost brand engagement, improve customer loyalty, and drive repeat sales.  Chuck focuses on outpacing market growth by prioritizing opportunities through market insights, competitive advantages, and solutions throughout the Global Supply Chain.  This approach assists businesses in achieving top line revenue growth by identifying process improvements all while expanding to new markets and optimizing the customer experience.

In her role at UPS, Rachael serves as a logistics advisor to small- and medium-sized businesses in Western Massachusetts. She supports her customers’ goals through analysis of supply chain needs and business processes, and alignment with the services and solutions that UPS provides. With the majority of the world’s consumers and purchasing power outside of the United States, Rachael seeks to apply the knowledge she has developed from living and working abroad, as well as her academic background, to helping her customers develop sustainable, long-term strategies for growth through international markets. 

Michael’s leadership and innovation have spearheaded more efficient business practices throughout his notable four-decade career. In 2018 Michael was named Executive Director of MHEC, a non-profit purchasing consortium. Since then, he has driven initiatives to make procurement simpler and more beneficial for members and suppliers. Michael holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of New Haven, West Haven, CT.