Oscar Miranda has more than 25 years of information security experience in the healthcare, finance, and insurance industries. He spent 18 years working at one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health plans, in various cybersecurity leadership roles ranging from penetration testing to endpoint and network security. As the Field CTO for healthcare at Armis, he is responsible for evaluating strategic partnerships and feature sets to ensure healthcare customers’ needs are met.

For two decades, Ben Cushing has been a leader in emerging technology solutions across multiple industries and is committed to radical innovation in healthcare. Before joining Red Hat, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for MDLogix, a behavioral health IT firm supporting Johns Hopkins Medicine. There he architected and brought to market a Behavioural Health cloud platform for use with employer, healthcare, and education markets.

In addition to supporting analytics and operations at the National Institutes of Health for 6 years, Ben had the opportunity to practice a Scaled Agile Framework with Accenture where he led the technical architecture and design for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Management Platform, an industry leading Health Management and Care Coordination platform serving 9 million patients. His tenure at Accenture began with the acquisition of Agilex, where Ben designed LSI solutions, developed systems to automate the Post-9/11 GI bill, and supported in-theater data collection and analytics tools. While at Agilex, Ben architected and led the development of a mobile Software Development Kit, still in use today by the VA to produce more than 60 applications.

Avneet is a Solution Engineer in our MuleSoft Public sector team supporting the Federal Civilian customers. Her focus is primarily the healthcare sector and today, she will be covering how MuleSoft can help solve the interoperability challenges.

Ryan Dempsey Argentieri serves as the Deputy Director of the Office of Technology at ONC. In this position, she supports ONC’s Certification & Testing, Standards, and Technical Strategy & Analysis portfolios. She also leads the coordination of cross-functional programs promoting interoperability and standards harmonization for high priority areas such as public health data modernization and social determinants of health.

Before joining ONC, Ryan was Principal of Silver Mountain Solutions, a global advisory firm focused on the launch of new products and initiatives in cleantech, infrastructure and health information technology, as well as public-private partnerships, focused on environmental preparedness and economic resiliency. Ryan has worked as a founder, co-founder and advisor to more than a dozen start-ups and has a specialization in building public private partnerships in health care and within the built environment. She started her career at United Technologies corporation (now Raytheon Technologies) where she managed both the U.S. and international government relations across the commercial and aerospace/defense portfolio before moving on to lead the company’s integrated building and district level energy solutions work in emerging markets.

Ryan holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University’s Carey School of Business, an MA in Conflict Resolution, International Relations and Human Rights from the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego, and a BA in Government & Politics with a specialization in Leadership Studies from the University of Maryland. Ryan also earned a Certificate in Conflict Management and Multi-Track Diplomacy from the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) and is pursuing a Certificate in Public Health Informatics from Johns Hopkins University.

Ishwar Chandramouliswaran is a Program Director and technical lead for the strategy, planning, coordination and oversight of establishing a FAIR data ecosystem at the NIH Office of Director, Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS).

Steve Winterfeld is the Advisory CISO at Akamai. Winterfeld is focused on being the voice of the customer for Akamai’s security vision and helping CISOs solve their most pressing issues. He has served as CISO for Nordstrom bank, Managing Director of Incident Response / Threat Intelligence at Charles Schwab, and Director of Cybersecurity for Nordstrom. Additionally, he has supported multiple DOD and government agencies while at Northrop Grumman/TASC. He has spent over 20 years building security programs to protect companies and their customers. Winterfeld has published a book on cyber-warfare and holds CISSP, ITIL, and PMP certifications.

Jurgen Kanagalingam is a Senior Solutions Consultant at ServiceNow supports modernization efforts at Veterans Affairs.

He has over 15 years of experience working with federal agencies, much of that time working with program leadership helping to identify and evaluate technologies that can help them execute their mission more effectively.

Throughout his career, Jurgen has had the privilege to work with active-duty service members, senior military leadership, Ambassadors, and small business owners living his passion.

Mr. William J. Tinston serves as the Director for the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) program office. In this role, he oversees the FEHRM’s efforts in implementing a single, common federal electronic health record (EHR) with the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The FEHRM enables joint decision-making and drives federal solutions for optimizing EHR implementation and operation.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Mr. Tinston has three decades of experience in defense acquisition program management, portfolio and investment management, and enterprise information technology. He previously served as the Program Executive Officer for the Program Executive Office, Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS). In this role, he led the deployment of DOD’s EHR. Additionally, he worked with VA and USCG to assist their transition to the same EHR as DOD, ensuring progress toward a single, common record for every beneficiary.

Prior to PEO DHMS, Mr. Tinston held senior executive positions at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), most recently serving as the Program Executive Officer. In this role, he was responsible for the management and oversight of DLA’s Major Automated Information Systems programs and special interest programs and was the milestone decision authority for DLA’s less-than-major programs. He was the corporate provider of acquisition management services and provided overall direction and guidance for the development, acquisition, testing, systems integration, product improvement and fielding for assigned DLA programs.

EDUCATION

Mr. Tinston holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Information Systems. He is Defense Acquisition University-certified at level three in Program Management and Information Technology. His honors include the DLA Meritorious Civilian Service Award and a Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award. As a testament to his work, the Defense Information Systems Agency recognized him as an Outstanding External Contributor.

Hayden Huang leads efforts to improve federal government function as part of GAO's Science and Technology team. His work covers a variety of areas, including infectious disease policy, response, and funding, data issues, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. His work led to recommendations for federal agency practices as well as assessments of different technologies. These technology assessments are intended to provide an overview of the latest status of technologies or science-based methods. The associated reports typically include discussion of the benefits and challenges of the technologies as well as key policy-based approaches that can help realize their full potential. Recently, he has worked on a Science and Technology Spotlight on Digital Vaccine Credentials and is currently examining the use of artificial intelligence in medical diagnostics.

Leonie Heyworth, MD, MPH is a telehealth thought leader dedicated to promoting health care technology. Beginning as a front-line primary care provider in 2015, Dr. Heyworth has partnered her clinical and research experience with an unwavering dedication to telehealth expansion for the six million Veterans who rely on VA for health care. Her passion for health IT as a field provider led her to her current role as Director of Synchronous Telehealth for VA’s Office of Connected Care, where she leads national synchronous telehealth programs, policies and initiatives to enable front-line care teams across the VA enterprise to deliver quality and accessible video telehealth. Dr. Heyworth’s efforts have built the foundational elements of VA’s telehealth program, enabling rapid change during the COVID pandemic.