TAGITM 31st Education Conference

Featured Speakers

Dr. Mark David Milliron
Catalyze Learning International

Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as Board Chair for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and as a Trustee for Western Governors University. He is also the founder and CEO of the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational institutions nationally and internationally; and authors and moderates the Catalytic Conversations Blog.

Mark brings to this work broad experience, having previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with SAS, the world's largest private software company; President and CEO of the international education association the League for Innovation; and as Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College (NC).

While teaching at ArizonaState, Mark received the International Communication Association’s Teaching Excellence Award. More recently, the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education honored Mark as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. In 2005, PBS named Mark the recipient of its annual O'Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Mark with its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments, contributions, and leadership.

Regardless of all of these activities and accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia’s husband, and as father to Alexandra, Richard and Marcus.
    

John McCumber
Strategic Programs Manager
Public Sector Group
Symantec

John McCumber is the strategic programs manager in the Public Sector Group of Symantec Corporation.  He is currently involved in research and development activities in support of leading edge government information assurance initiatives.  John is a retired US Air Force officer and former Cryptologic Fellow of the National Security Agency.   During his military career, John also served in the Defense Information Systems Agency and on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon as Information Warfare Officer during the Persian Gulf War.

In addition to his professional responsibilities at Symantec Corporation, John is currently a Professorial Lecturer in Information Security at The George Washington University in Washington, DC and is technical editor and a monthly columnist for Security Technology and Design magazine.  John is the author of Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems: a Structured Methodology from Auerbach Publications.  He lives in Falls Church, Virginia and Cary, North Carolina.

Michael S. Morris
Special Agent and Laboratory Director
North Texas Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory
United Stated Federal Bureau of Investigation

SA Michael S. Morris has been employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for over twenty years. He has over seventeen years experience in computer intrusions and fourteen years experience in computer forensics.  During the last eight years, SA Morris has been the Laboratory Director for the North Texas Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (NTRCFL).  As the Laboratory Director, SA Morris has oversight of fifteen computer forensic examiners from local and federal law enforcement agencies.

SA Morris has been the case agent on several large multinational computer intrusion and copyright investigations.  Due to his knowledge of computer intrusions and computer forensics, he has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, numerous local newspapers and he has appeared in an Arts and Entertainment documentary on Cyber Terrorism, as well as the Learning channel's documentary "Hidden Secrets of the FBI."

SA Morris has received commendations from the Director of the FBI for advancing the fields of computer intrusion investigations and computer forensics and is a CISSP.