FORUM Innovation Awards

Date

June 18, 2026

Time

3:00 pm

Location

Crystal Gateway Marriot

Address

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

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Join us as we celebrate the true trailblazers in federal contracting!

June 19, 2026

3:00 pm

Crystal Gateway Marriot

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

Registration closes on

June 17, 2026

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

Health IT
Federal Civilian
Defense

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Demonstrators

Demonstration submission deadline is EOD January 16, 2026.

Deadline to submit nominations has closed.

Register

Join us as we celebrate the true
trailblazers in federal technology!

June 19, 2026

3:00 pm

Crystal Gateway Marriot

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

Registration closes on

June 17, 2026

Sponsor

Thank you! Your submission has been received!

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Demonstrators

Demonstration submission deadline is EOD January 16, 2026.

Deadline to submit nominations has closed.

Register

Join us as we celebrate the true
trailblazers in federal technology!

June 19, 2026

3:00 pm

Crystal Gateway Marriot

1700 Richmond Highway Arlington, VA 22202

Registration closes on

June 17, 2026

Sponsor

Thank you! Your submission has been received!

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Demonstrators

Demonstration submission deadline is EOD January 16, 2026.

Deadline to submit nominations has closed.

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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

Christa Zimmerman

Bixal

Director, Health Portfolio

Christopher Wood

Ad Hoc

Chief Growth Officer

Chris Townsend

Elastic

Global Vice President, Public Sector

Col. Nathaniel Huston

U.S. Central Command

Deputy Chief Technology and Data Officer

Danielle Applegate

CGI Federal

Vice President, Veterans Affairs

Dan Janes

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Program Lead

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

James “Frank” Hudson, Jr.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Chief Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology

James Perkins

Defense Healthcare Management Systems

Deputy, Program Executive Office (PEO)

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

JW Funkhouser

GDIT

Senior Director

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

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

LTC Bryan Cercy

U.S. Central Command

Director of Operations for the Chief Technology Officer

Ludka Abbott

Metron, Inc.

Assistant Facility Security Officer

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

Sarah Jester

GDIT

Sr. Program Director

Sara Thomas

AWL Strategies, LLC

CEO

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

CEO

Eddie Pool

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology

Event Agenda

3:00 Registration Opens
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3:30 Intro, Alexa Tsui, CEO, FORUM
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3:40 Fireside Chat
• Dr. Belinda Seto, Deputy Director, NIH
• Ratima Kataria, VP Health IT Strategy and Growth, ICF
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3:55 Winners List 1
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4:05 Innovative Panel: Gov AI Use Cases
• Jennifer Ives, Founder, The JSI Group
• Isabel Rioja-Scott, Director of AI Workforce Enablement, Center for Analytics, part of the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology
• Natalie Buda Smith, Director of Digital Strategy, Library of Congress
• Krista Kinnard, Deputy Chief AI Officer, NASA
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4:25 Innovative Insights, Robert Cunningham, Executive Director, VA
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4:40 Winner List 2
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4:50 Featured Speaker, Gibran Mills, Associate Director, Acquisition Policy, Oversight & Business Strategies, U.S. Department of Transportation
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5:05 Dinner Served
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5:25 Winner List 3
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5:35 Innovative Robotics Demo, Vennard Wright, CEO, Pervista
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5:50 Winner List 4
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6:00 Keynote Introduction: Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, Chief AI Scientist, Arch Systems
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6:05 Keynote Speaker, Raj Agrawal, PhD, Colonel, USSF, Military Deputy (Space), DAF PAE C3BM, DAF Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communication, and Battle Management (C3BM)The Pentagon, Washington DC
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6:20 Open Networking, Alexa Tsui, CEO, FORUM
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6:20-8:00 pm Networking

Congratulations to our 2026 Winners

Access to Care Data Product Prototype

DHA CDAO

AI Powered Integrated Site Verification System (iSVS)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Arch Systems, LLC

Analysis & Management System (AMS) Modernization

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/ICF

Autonomous Casualty Evacuation Testbed (ACET)

US Army Institute of Surgical Research

Bed Management Dashboard System

Leidos and PEO DHMS/EIDS PMO

Blood Inventory & Bed Status Data Products

Defense Health Agency

Business Rules Extraction Team

Peraton

CDAO Skills Matrix App

CDAO, Defense Health Agency

CDAO Power Automations Program

Under Secretary of Research & Engineering, U.S. Department of War

CDC DSMES Project

Peraton Inc.

CIT Tool Development

Sentar

CMS-CMMI team

Complement Animal Research in Experimentation (Complement-ARIE) Landscape Analysis

NIH/ICF

Contract Management and Acquisitions Team

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Cyber Issuance Tracker

NIWC Atlantic

DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC)

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DARPAConnect and ERIS

DARPA

Demonstration Evaluation and Management Oversight System (DEMOS)

Division of Information Systems, Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services, CMS

DoDI (Issuance) Tracker

CDAO, Defense Health Agency

DoWSciTechCONNECT

Office of the Undersecretary of War Research & Engineering

Enterprise Geospatial Portal NextGen: WildFireSA

U.S. Forest Service/ICF

Enterprise Service Desk - PIV Exemptions

Department of Veterans Affairs

Enterprise User Experience (UX) and Section 508 Accessibility Program

CGI Federal

FDA CTP Address Validation

FDA Center Tobacco Products

Financial Integrity Resource Management (FIRM)

South Texas Veterans Healthcare System

Grounded Chatbot for Federal Health

Chief Data & Analytics Office, Defense Health Agency

Health Plan Management System AI Analytics Solution for Beneficiary Complaints

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Innovation Support Platform

CMS

Integrated Workforce Lifecycle & Program Health Management System

NIWC Atlantic

Integration of Immersive Technology in Synchronous Virtual Clinics

Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

IRS Link & Learn AI Virtual Assistant (Chatbot Prototype)

IRS / Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication (SPEC)

JELA Program Management Office

DISA

JENNY- AI SOP Generator

FEMA/Arch Systems

Modernizing & Unifying Healthcare Data Interoperability for Veterans

The Syncly Direct Team

Multi-sensor IN-pixel hyperDimensional computing for efficient edge operationS (MINDS)

Arch Systems LLC

My HealtheVet Incident Response Service Request Integration

Veterans Health Administration

myAuth

DMDC

NASA Enterprise Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium Change & Adoption Campaign

NASA OCIO

NIA Information Technology

National Institute of Aging (NIA)

National Weather Service: Weather.gov 2.0 and Weather.gov API modernization

Office of Dissemination (DIS), NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS)

Nebula

Dark Wolf

NIMH ITSS Program

National Institute of Mental Health

OCHA ReliefWeb AI for Good Collaboration

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Online Forms (DMAF)

Internal Revenue Service

Phase One Protoware™

MetaPhase

Prior Authorization Team

Wellpoint Federal

REJTF.tech

CENTCOM – Rapid Employment Joint Task Force (REJTF)

Retiree Drug Subsidy

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Retrain Travel

Amtrak

VA Financial Services Center Software Development Support

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

VBA Claim Assist Portal (CAP)

Veterans Benefits Administration

Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center for Patient Safety Applications (Alerts & Recalls;Patient Safety Assessment Tool)

Booz Allen Hamilton
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans Relationship Management / Salesforce Veterans Crisis Line Medoraforce

Department of Veterans Affairs

Vendor Intake Streamlined Technology Assessment (VISTA)

CENTCOM – Rapid Employment Joint Task Force (REJTF)

Virtual Reality (VR) for At-Home Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Salem VA Medical Center
Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning (OHIL)

WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction) Model

CMS Innovation Center

Innovation Speakers

Raj Agrawal

Colonel, USSF, Military Deputy (Space), DAF PAE C3BM, DAF Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communication, and Battle Management (C3BM)

United States Space Force