MeriTalk Announces 2024 AI Honors Award Winners

Government and Industry Leaders Celebrated for Their Impacts on AI Innovation in Federal IT

MeriTalk Announces 2024 AI Honors Award Winners

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Today, MeriTalk announced the winners of the 2024 AI Honors Awards. The awards recognize individuals in government and industry who are helping agencies realize the transformative power of AI on agency missions through experimentation, adoption, management, and partnership.

“These innovators are leading the charge in harnessing AI’s potential for government agencies,” said Caroline Boyd, principal, government programs at MeriTalk. “We’re proud to celebrate their work integrating and promoting this transformative technology to improve the future of government.”

This year’s winners are listed below.

Government

Christopher Alvares, Department of Agriculture
Austin Bazydlo, National Institutes of Health
Luis Betancourt, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Alexis Bonnell, Air Force Research Laboratory
Erika Botts, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security
Michael Boyce, Department of Homeland Security
Amanda Bullock, Air Force Research Laboratory
David Carroll, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Ntina Cooper, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Ivo Djoubrailov, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Brian Erickson, U.S. Coast Guard
Bryan Fossi, Naval Supply Systems Command, Department of the Navy
Lynne Graves, Chief Data and AI Office, Department of the Air Force
Jonathan Hart, Department of State
Samantha Hubner, Office of Management and Budget
Nathan Manzotti, General Services Administration, AI Community of Practice
Kathryn Marchesini, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services
Anderson Monken, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Ola Olude-Afolabi, Department of Commerce
Udaya Patnaik, Federal Acquisition Service, Information Technology Category, General Services Administration
John (Erik) Peterson, Department of State
Brian Post, Sandia National Laboratories
Collen Roller, Air Force Research Laboratory
Kim Sablon, Department of Defense
Alicia Scott, Department of the Navy
Erin Seghesio, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Fisheries West Coast Region
Vinay Singh, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Samuel Stehle, Center for Analytics, Department of State
Mario Stylianou, Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Commander Jonathan White, U.S. Coast Guard
Alan Zavala, Social Security Administration

Industry

Michael Adams, Carahsoft
Brian Bird, Voyatek
Cameron Chehreh, Intel Public Sector
Greg Forrest, Lockheed Martin
Sydney Gillen, ECS Technology
Corey Hulen, Mattermost
Zak Kidd, AskHumans
Aparna Kumar, World Wide Technology
Martin Lucero, Bright Star Solutions
Pete Luongo, ServiceNow
Matthew McDonald, ECS Technology
Jay Meil, SAIC
Felipe Millon, OpenAI
Allen Scales, Torch Technologies Inc.
Jim Smid, Palo Alto Networks
Neal Soni, Prepared 911
Eric Velte, ASRC Federal

Award winners will be recognized at the Innovation Intersection: Cyber and AI Honors event on October 3 at Planet Word in Washington, D.C. For more information on the awards and winners, visit https://www.meritalk.com/award/ai-honors-awards-2024/

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