FORUM Innovation Awards

Date

June 18, 2026

Time

1:30 pm

Location

Crystal Gateway Marriot

Address

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

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June 18, 2026

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In 2026, the FORUM Innovation Awards will honor technology programs within these three major agency verticals:

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The FORUM Foundation Awards honor the unsung heroes of government contracting—the administrative professionals, coordinators, support staff, and essential team members who are the backbone of every successful GovCon operation. These are the people who make everything possible: the proposal coordinators managing impossible deadlines, the executive assistants keeping leadership on track, the contract administrators ensuring compliance, the junior analysts doing critical research, the office managers holding operations together, and the countless professionals whose vital work rarely receives recognition.

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Join us as we celebrate the true
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June 18, 2026

1:30 pm

Crystal Gateway Marriot

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

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June 17, 2026

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Demonstrators

Demonstration submission deadline is EOD January 16, 2026.

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Join us as we celebrate the true
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June 18, 2026

1:30 pm

Crystal Gateway Marriot

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

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June 17, 2026

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Demonstrators

Demonstration submission deadline is EOD January 16, 2026.

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Celebrate the 2025 FORUM IT100 Winners

Adam Byer

iTech AG

Chief Delivery Officer

Adina Pantella

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Executive Director, Passenger Systems Program Directorate

Alexis Bonnell

OpenAI

AI Adoption and Deployment

Alisa Bearfield

CGI Federal

Senior Vice President, Civilian Business Unit

Andre Martin

Leidos

Business Systems Analysis

Ankur Saini

US Department of Transportation

Chief Technology & Product Officer (FMCSA, PHMSA, MARAD)

Anna Ehrhardt

GDIT

Vice President

Atul Mathur

Credence Management Solutions

Principal and CIO

Ben Kutil

Ad Hoc

Chief Technology Officer

Bob Stevens

GitLab Inc.

Vice President, Americas and Public Sector

Brian Bordelon

Nutanix

Chief Technologist

Brian Funk

MetaPhase

Chief Technology Officer

Brock Spradling

Red Hat

Sr. Director, Sales

Carla Jones

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Director of the Division of Workforce Systems

Chakravarthy "Chak" Susarla

DSSC

Senior Technical Director

Chris Townsend

Elastic

Global Vice President, Public Sector

Christa Zimmerman

Bixal

Director, Health Portfolio

Christopher Wood

Ad Hoc

Chief Growth Officer

Col. Nathaniel Huston

U.S. Central Command

Deputy Chief Technology and Data Officer

Dan Janes

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Program Lead

Danielle Applegate

CGI Federal

Vice President, Veterans Affairs

Davyd Chung

Digital Infuzion

Chief Growth Officer

Dawn Wierzbicki

Signature Performance

Chief Federal Business Development Officer

Denise Rainey

Rainmakers Strategic Solutions

President & CEO

Diana Logreira

NASA

Mission Directorate Lead Web Program Manager

Domenique Malone

Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)

Information Technology Manager

Dorothy Callahan

SoftDev Incorporated

BD/Strategic Partner Liaison

Dr. Jessica Resig

Applied Research Institute

Vice President of Solutions Innovation

Dr. Justin Ubert

DOT/FTA

Chief, Cybersecurity & Operations

Dr. Rajan Natarajan

Global Alliant Inc.

President and CEO

Dr. Roshni Ghosh

RGP Federal

Chief Growth Officer

Dr. Shane Mcnamee

Appian

Global Health Industry Lead

Dr. Thomas Chon

Tetra Fields LLC

CEO

Elad Schulman

Lasso Security

CEO & Co Founder

Eric Gonzales

Ad Hoc, LLC

Senior Director, Client Growth & Strategy

Eric Strauss

Connected Logistics/Canopy Health

Chief Growth Officer

Greg Clifton

Intel Corporation

General Manager

JW Funkhouser

GDIT

Senior Director

James Perkins

Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Deputy, Program Executive Office (PEO)

James “Frank” Hudson, Jr.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology

Jason Adolf

Appian

VP, Global Public Sector

Jason Preisser

Applied Research Institute

Senior Vice President, Federal Programs

Jeremy Walsh

FDA

Chief AI Officer

Jessica Bernhardt

Food and Drug Administration

Program Manager

Jill Wallace

GDIT

Program Director

Johann Dettweiler

stackArmor, a Tyto Athene company

CISO

Joseph Brennan

Leidos

Reporting and Analytics Manager

Karen Brazell, DSL

Department of Veteran Affairs

Senior Advisor to the Secretary

Karlene Stecchi

Tantus Technologies, Inc.

Executive Vice President

Katie Arrington

Department of Defense

Acting Chief Information Officer

Keith Gibson

Runyara

Founder/CEO

Kelli Furrer

Slingshot Aerospace

Chief Revenue Officer/Chief Marketing Officer

Kelly Olson

Adobe

General Manager, Public Sector

Kevin Duvall

Department of Health and Human Services

Deputy Chief Information Officer

LTC Bryan Cercy

U.S. Central Command

Director of Operations for the Chief Technology Officer

Lance D. Jenkinson

U.S. Department of War

Chief, Training, Compliance, and Information Division (DTMO)

Larry Vandergrift

Defense Health Agency Occupational Environmental Health, Surveillance, and Readiness

ILER Project Controller

Lee Ann Crochunis

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS)

Deputy CIO, and OIT Director

Madhu Jegarnathan

Tria Federal

Vice President, Value Based Care Portfolio

Mani Allu

Centennial Technologies

CEO and Founder

Mariela Unangst

Progsit LLC

VP Business Development and Capture

Mary Affeldt

mPower, Inc.

CEO

Meera Shah

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

Health Specialist

Melissa McGriff

ServiceNow

VP Federal

Michael Wittman

CGI Federal

Vice President, Health and Social Services

Mitch Thornbrugh

The Indian Health Service

CIO

Molly Maass

US Customs and Border Protection

Director, Land Border Integration

Murali Mallina

Tria Federal

Chief Technology Officer

Ned Blackburn

Centennial Technologies, Inc

Senior Director of Growth and Client Success

Nick Weber

National Institutes of Health Center for Information Technology

Acting Director, Office of Scientific Computing Services

Nicolas Chaillan

Ask Sage

CEO and Founder

Nikole Farmer

Concept Plus

Program Manager

Omer Khan

Peraton

Vice President of Benefits, Claims and Integrity Solutions

Patrick Newbold

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare

Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology

Prasad Bhalerao

Publicis Sapient

Group Vice President

Quentin McCoy

United States Health and Human Services

Head of Contracting Activity

Ratima Kataria

ICF

VP Federal Health

Rhonda Brown-Massey

Peraton

Program Director, Space Communications Programs

Richard Jacik

American Institutes for Research

Chief Technology Officer

Robert Cunningham

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Executive Director, Enterprise Command Operations

Sara Thomas

AWL Strategies, LLC

CEO

Sarah Jester

GDIT

Sr. Program Director

Siva Sivaraj

ITC Federal, LLC

Vice President of Technology and Innovation

Sophie Myers

SAIC

CX Leader

Spencer Burgos

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology

Program Analyst

Steve Irish

Peraton

VP & GM - Defense Enterprise and Health Solutions

Sumesh Sundareswaran

GDIT

Vice President

Sunitha Ravi

Centennial Technologies Inc.

VP - Operations and Delivery

Tarik Reyes

Peraton Corporation

President, Defense Mission and Health Solutions

Tauryn Williford

IVA'AL Solutions LLC

Chief Executive Officer

Tim McCutcheon

Department of Veterans Affairs

Health System Management and Operations Director, OIT PDS Health Services Portfolio

Todd Van Haaren

PingWind

Sr. Director of Customer Engagement

Traci Walker

Digital Services Coalition

Executive Director

Venkat Kondapolu

HHS/Administration for Children & Families

Director

Vennard Wright

PerVista AI

CEO

Vijay Veerappan

Global Alliant Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

Wade Zarriello

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Acting Director, Infrastructure & User Services Group

Zhuchun "Emily" Qiu

Dept of Veterans Affairs

Deputy Portfolio Director

Tetra Fields (SDVOSB) modernizes digital health by uniting AI, Health IT, data science, and research to transform healthcare data management and interoperability. As 2024 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs AI Tech Challenge Finalist, we deliver mission-driven solutions that advance federal health insight and data exchange.
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Our federally approved advanced AI solution for semantic harmonization transforms diverse healthcare data into FHIR, enabling seamless, standards-based interoperability. In partnership with CMS OHEI and HIIG, we help craft the 2025–2035 Interoperability Roadmap, shaping the next decade of national digital health.

Our analytics and quality measurement work at CMS informs how over 10% of U.S. GDP is spent, underscoring our impact on system-wide healthcare transformation.

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Announcing the FORUM IT100 2025 Hall of Fame Winners

Andrew Collins

Peraton

Sr. Business Development Executive

David Affeldt

NeoMatrix LLC

CEO

Jango Unwalla

Unissant Inc.

Chief Knowledge Officer

Joan Bishop

QualX, LLC

Chief Growth Officer

Maria Gaboury

Intersystems Corporation

Strategic Parternships Executive

Melinda Pitchford

Connected Logistics

Chief Strategy Officer

Michael Kennedy

SoftDev Incorporated

Chief Delivery Officer

Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry

U.S. FDA

Former CTO

Nate Swab

Sentar

Senior Director, DoD Programs

Announcing the FORUM IT100 2025 Lifetime Award Winners

Vennard Wright

PerVista AI

CEO

Eddie Pool

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology

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Keynote Speaker

We are thrilled that Kimberly Brandt ,Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is delivering the keynote address at the 2026 Disruptive Tech Summit and Awards Ceremony on March 17th!

With her extraordinary leadership overseeing CMS's $1.4 trillion budget and her pivotal role in developing groundbreaking interoperability regulations, Kim brings unparalleled insight into how technology is transforming healthcare delivery and government operations.

Her distinguished career spans senior executive positions across government and private sector leadership, including her tenure as Principal Deputy Administrator for Policy and Operations during the first Trump Administration, Chief Oversight Counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and strategic advisor to healthcare private equity firms.

Kim's unique perspective on innovation, regulatory reform, and the intersection of policy and technology makes her the perfect voice to inspire and challenge our community of disruptive thinkers and leaders. This is a keynote you won't want to miss!

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