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Gregory S. Smith is an internationally recognized IT executive with thirty years of experience managing complex IT and business systems. Mr. Smith serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a Washington, DC-area organization. Previously, Mr. Smith served for a total of seventeen years as the CIO for various organizations including the Pew Charitable Trusts and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). His for-profit experience combines IT and business acumen from a decade in US national security, US financial services 100, and consulting experience from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Smith is an honoree of several awards, including SmartCEO magazine's Top 10 CIOs in Washington DC, Computer World magazine's Premier 100 IT Leaders, CIO magazine's CIO 100, and eWeek magazine's Top 100 CIOs. He was also recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential CIOs by CIO Insight magazine. In 2017, he received an excellence in teaching award from Georgetown University. Mr. Smith is the author of CIO 2.0 (in Mandarin), Straight to the Top: CIO Leadership in a Mobile, Social, and Cloud-based World, How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers, and Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO. He received a BS in computer science from a top-ten national program from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MS in business from the Johns Hopkins University. He served for over ten years as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Carey Graduate Business School. Mr. Smith currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's graduate programs. Mr. Smith has spoken at a number of prestigious conferences across the globe, including keynote presentations in Canada, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Turkey, China, Singapore, and Belgium. He also keynoted the famous Interop conference in both New York and Las Vegas. As a practicing CIO and academic professor, he keeps his pulse on today's changing IT landscape and continues to apply those trends to business practice. Kyle Tait is a professionally trained voice actor and sports broadcaster based in Atlanta, Georgia. He's done voice work for TV and radio ads around the world, corporate training videos, whiteboard and explainer videos, documentaries, audiobooks, and more. He's narrated more than twenty titles on Audible and iTunes, across genres spanning from sports history to crime thrillers to self-help. In addition to his voice work, Tait is an established sports broadcaster, calling baseball, basketball, and football on ESPN3, as well as serving as a studio host on multiple national college networks with IMG College.

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