GREGORY S. SMITH
C-Level IT Executive, Author, Professor
Gregory S. Smith is an internationally recognized IT executive with decades of experience managing complex IT and business systems. Mr. Smith serves as a C-level IT executive for an organization in the state of Maryland. Previously, Mr. Smith served in a variety of CIO roles with organizations including the American Kidney Fund, Pew Trusts, ASCD, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Mr. Smith's for-profit experience includes a decade in U.S. national security, financial services 100 at SallieMae, and consulting experience as a principal consultant in the management consulting group at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Mr. Smith is the honoree of several awards including: SmartCEO magazine's Top 10 CIOs in the Washington DC area, Computer World's Premier 100 IT leaders, and CIO magazine's CIO 100. Mr. Smith was also recognized by CIO Insight magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential CIOs in the United States.
Mr. Smith also serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, graduate programs. Mr. Smith is the recipient of the 2017 and 2022 Tropaia Outstanding Faculty Award for Technology Management at Georgetown University. He has over 20 years of higher education experience teaching the next generation of IT and business leaders.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS / ARTICLES
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Speaker, Inverness College, Inverness Scotland, May 9, 2024.
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Panel Speaker, DarkTrace Live, April 2, 2024.
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Speaker, CIO4Good Conference, Arlington, VA, April 24, 2023.
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Discussion with Nicole Eagan of DarkTrace about AI / Email protection, https://darktrace.com/.
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Speaker, The Richmond IT Director's Forum, Hertfordshire, England, October 17-18, 2022.
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Speaker, The University of Glasgow, Scotland, October 14, 2022. See the PowerPoint presentation.
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DarkTrace Blog, Filtering out digital toxins: Why the American Kidney Fund chose Darktrace, October 12, 2022
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Speaker, The Richmond CIO Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona, September 25-27, 2022.
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Interview, Executive Platforms, The New Normal in IT, June 20, 2022.
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Fed Health IT, Advice for the Industry on Managing the Impact of COVID on the role of Federal CIOs / CTOs, March 28, 2022.
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Interview, The Hackett Group Senior Research Director Rick Pastore talks with American Kidney Fund CIO Gregory Smith about his new book, March 22 2022.
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Panel Speaker, The Hackett Group, Mid-market Leadership Discussion, "How Will IT Lead in the New Normal? Trends from Hackett's 2021 Key Issues Study," October 26, 2020.
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"The Importance of IT Strategic Planning and Disaster Recovery Testing in a Covid-19 World," August 31, 2020; Georgetown University.
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Keynote Speaker, University of Reykjavik, Iceland, February 14, 2020; Visiting Georgetown Professor Discussion with Computer Science Students.
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Keynote Speaker, University of Iceland, Iceland, February 14, 2020.
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Keynote Speaker, University of Akureyri, Iceland, February 17, 2020.
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Keynote Speaker, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, November 22, 2019; "What is World-Class IT?"
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Panelist, InfoSec Healthcare Connect CIO Summit, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, August 19-21, 2019.
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International Keynote Speaker, Mobile Enterprise Canada Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 4-5, 2016.
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International Keynote Speaker, CIO Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 26, 2014.
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Keynote Speaker, Interop Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2, 2014 "Mobile and Cloud Computing Merge to Form a Supernova of Computing Opportunities."
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International Keynote Speaker, Intracom IT Executive Summit, Montreal, Canada, April 25, 2013.
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International Keynote Speaker, IT Executive Summit 2012, Macau, China, November 7-9, 2012.
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Keynote Speaker, Interop, New York, October 6, 2012.
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International Keynote Speaker, CIO Business Congress Summit, Kovalem, India, July 21-22, 2011.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gregory S. Smith is the author of several books, including Dream Challenge, Straight to the Top: CIO Leadership in a Mobile, Social, and Cloud-based World, CIO 2.0 (Mandarin), How to Protect Your Children on the Internet, and Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO.
Quotes from Professionals and Georgetown University Students:
"I am currently supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) CIO by helping to create a Strategic Management Branch. Your book has been helpful and I review it often for pearls of wisdom."
- Shaw M. Otto, MS, PMP
Georgetown University Graduate School Graduate
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