About OMC26

The OSHEAN Member Conference (OMC26) brings together Rhode Island’s public sector and nonprofit technology community for two days of learning, collaboration, and forward-looking discussion. As networks, cloud platforms, cybersecurity systems, and emerging technologies become increasingly interconnected, the challenges facing technology leaders continue to grow. Addressing that complexity requires collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and trusted partners. OMC26 provides an opportunity for OSHEAN members and strategic partners to share ideas, explore new technologies, and learn from one another in a collaborative environment designed for meaningful conversations and practical insights.

Day One, November 12, 2026 — Member Conference

7:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Bally's Lincoln Event Center, 100 Twin River Road, Lincoln, RI

No institution in Rhode Island solves its technology challenges alone. Networks touch cloud, cloud touches security, security touches governance, and every one of those threads runs back through the same small community of people who keep this state running. That is the idea behind OMC26: Complexity is a Team Sport.

Day One brings the OSHEAN community together for a full day of conversation, expertise, and the kind of hallway exchange that turns into a phone call three months later. Doors open at 7:30 AM with breakfast and registration. Root beer floats and our awards ceremony begin at 3:45 PM, and the day closes at 4:30 PM.

Nine breakout sessions run across three blocks, three running concurrently in each, several of which are pairing a technology partner with an OSHEAN member institution, so every session carries both the capability and the lived experience of putting it to work. Topics span artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cybersecurity, cloud, fiber and network infrastructure, governance risk and compliance, managed services, and analytics.

Registration is complimentary for OSHEAN members. Non-member registration is $99 per person. For questions, drop a note to our Event Director, Tara Nelson at [email protected]

Day One Agenda

7:30 AM · Registration and Continental Breakfast
Foyer — Collect your badge and program.

8:00 AM · Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ballroom — Dave Marble, Chief Executive Officer, OSHEAN

8:30 AM · Opening Keynote, speaker announced October 13
Ballroom — A Nobel laureate opens OMC26. We are not naming him yet.

Here is what we will say. The discovery that won him the prize was made in a worm. It rewrote what biologists thought was possible. And it has almost nothing to do with technology, until you hear where his work is heading next.

The name arrives on October 13. Register now, and you will be in the room when he speaks.

9:15 AM · Partner Connection Time
The Partner Exchange — Refreshments served. Meet the partners supporting OMC26.

10:00 AM · Panel: AI in Healthcare
Ballroom — Moderated by David Hemendinger

10:45 AM · Breakout Sessions, Block One
Ballroom · The Dugout · The Bullpen — Three concurrent sessions. See the session guide for topics.

11:30 AM · Partner Connection Time
The Partner Exchange — Refreshments served.

12:10 PM · Lunch
Ballroom — Served at the tables.

12:55 PM · Fireside Chat
Ballroom — Jared Rosoff, Roblox, in conversation with Dave Marble. Roblox runs one of the largest platforms on the internet, carrying hundreds of millions of people and the complexity that comes with them. Jared joins Dave after lunch for thirty-five minutes on what it takes to keep something that big standing up, and what a network of schools, hospitals, and municipalities can take from it.

1:30 PM · Breakout Sessions, Block Two
Ballroom · The Dugout · The Bullpen — Three concurrent sessions.

2:15 PM · Partner Connection Time
The Partner Exchange — Final opportunity to visit the Exchange, which closes at 3:30 PM.

2:45 PM · Breakout Sessions, Block Three
Ballroom · The Dugout · The Bullpen — Three concurrent sessions.

3:45 PM · Awards and Closing Remarks
Ballroom — Root beer floats served during the ceremony.

4:30 PM · Close

The Partner Exchange is open in the Foyer throughout the day and closes at 3:30 PM.

The Rhode Island Monthly Tech10 Awards, hosted by RILIT, take place this evening. Registration details to follow.

With thanks to our OMC26 sponsors: Envision Technology Advisors, Armis by ServiceNow, Cisco, Fortinet, Highway 9, HPE, Vertikal6, Mobile Beacon, and Pier Group.

Day Two, Friday, November 13, 2026 · 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Cyber Range Experience & Technical Workshops

Rhode Island College · Institute for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, Providence, RI

Day Two is a different kind of day. Smaller rooms, hands on keyboards, and Rhode Island's own Cyber Range.

Every session is capped at twenty-four participants, which means every seat is a working seat. You will not be watching a demonstration from the back of a ballroom. You will be in the exercise.

Confirmed so far: the Cyber Range Active Threat Drill, a live immersive incident exercise inside the state's Cyber Range lab. Additional sessions are being built now across cybersecurity operations, resilience, governance and compliance, and emerging technology, and will be published here as they are confirmed.

Sign-in and breakfast open at 8:00 AM, with the welcome from OSHEAN CEO Dave Marble at 8:30 AM and sessions beginning at 8:45 AM.

Day One and Day Two are standalone events. You are welcome at either, or both.

We are still building the best workshops we can offer. As soon as the schedule and programming are locked, we will open that registration portal. Space will be limited on these workshops.

With thanks to our OMC26 sponsors: Envision Technology Advisors, Armis by ServiceNow, Cisco, Fortinet, Vertikal6, and Rhode Island College.

Speakers

Dave Marble President and Chief Executive Officer

OSHEAN

Opening Keynote Speaker announced October 13

A Nobel laureate opens OMC26 at 8:30 AM in the Ballroom. We are not naming him yet.

Todd Knapp CEO

Envision Technology Advisors

Rick Norberg CEO

Vertikal6

Bill Carter National Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, Public Sector

Fortinet

Session: The Quantum Countdown: Preparing Public Sector Cybersecurity for the Next Computing Revolution

Bill Carter is National Director of Cybersecurity Strategy for Public Sector at Fortinet. He previously protected Ohio's 12 million citizens as Chief Information Security Officer for the Department of Commerce and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for the State, overseeing security strategy across more than 80 agencies. His career spans Field CTO, Senior Systems Engineer, and Technical Consultant roles. He holds a master's degree in Cybersecurity and multiple industry certifications, including CISSP, SecurityX, and all MITRE credentials. He is an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity and an active member of the Ohio Army National Guard's Cyber Reserve and the FBI's InfraGard.

Jeremy Rodgers CTO and CISO, Cybersecurity for State, Local Government and Education

Armis by ServiceNow

Jeremy Rodgers is CTO and CISO for Cybersecurity across State, Local Government and Education at ServiceNow, which acquired Armis in 2026. He was formerly Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Florida, where he built the state's Cybersecurity Operations Center from the ground up across a 100,000-person organization. He spent a decade at IBM in security architecture and threat analytics, served as Deputy Mayor of Boca Raton, and is a Commanding Officer in the US Navy Reserve. He is completing a PhD in Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, and formerly sat on the Florida Cybersecurity Advisory Council and the MS-ISAC executive committee.

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