Salesforce
John D. Conley is the Regional Vice President for State and Local government at Salesforce.com. In this role, he works with public sector enterprises on their business transformation projects and cloud adoption strategies. John serves as a trusted advisor to the various business and technology divisions involved with Salesforce implementations. He has worked on over 65 Salesforce implementations in the past 5 years. He is certified as an Advanced Administrator, Service and Sales Cloud Consultant, and a Marketing Cloud Email Specialist. Prior to his role with Salesforce, John was the Executive Director of the Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority (SIPA) where he focused on bringing cloud technologies to state and local government agencies. During his time with SIPA, he followed two basic beliefs. One, governments need to modernize the way they operate and two, cloud technologies allow the best possible path forward for modernization. With these beliefs in mind, John negotiated contracts with Salesforce, Google, NIC, Inc, Verizon, Genesys, and others to bring cloud technologies to Colorado. John served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Colorado Governor's Office before joining SIPA. As Deputy CIO, he was responsible for large infrastructure projects, operations and policy, statewide broadband efforts, and the centralization of over 900 IT staff into one organization. With over a decade of experience in both state and local government John understands the unique position of public sector organizations and the challenges they face. John has a Master of Public Policy from Denver University and completed his undergraduate work at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.