PNNL is a Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security and the environment, and advances scientific frontiers in the chemical, biological, materials, environmental and computational sciences. PNNL employs 4,200 staff, has a $750 million annual budget, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965. Jerry is responsible for IT Infrastructure involved in the information intensive business of scientific research and technology development, including a high performance network supporting one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, unique information discovery and retrieval tools, and trusted capabilities for collaborating with researchers world-wide. Jerry also represents PNNL interests concerning information technology to DOE and other federal and state agencies, and develops strategic relationships with other Battelle and DOE laboratories, universities, business partners, and suppliers. Jerry chairs the DOE National Laboratories CIO Council and the Virtual Possibilities Network (VPnet) Board of Directors, and represents PNNL in the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium. Less   View all posts

Dr. Kellen, is the Chief Information Office for University of California, San Diego. He is responsible for the enterprise data and information services for UC San Diego. He will direct the teams within the UC San Diego IT Services unit providing data integration and data preparation services. He has 35 years of experience in designing, developing and directing the operations of data analytic systems in multiple industries and within higher education. He has been a PI and co-PI on projects for NSF directorates in the areas of cyberinfrastructure, advanced computing and cloud computing for research. He is a board member for IMS Global, a non-profit education industry standards and collaboration organization body that enables academic and educational technology interoperability. He is a Senior Fellow with Cutter Consortium, an IT industry strategy and analysis firm where we writes on strategy and IT topics. Dr. Kellen is in the IDG/CIO Executive Council CIO Hall of Fame (2019 inductee), a three-time winner of the CIO 100 award, a recipient of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year” in 2013, recipient of Computerworld “Honors Laureate” award in 2013, and was one of four recipients selected globally for Dell’s 2012 “Transformational CIO” award. Less   View all posts