Angel Smith
President of Global Public Sector
Virtu
About
Angel Smith is Virtru’s President of Global Public Sector. She leads go-to-market strategy and customer success for Virtru’s global public sector business, working to further establish Virtru’s Data Security Platform as the data-centric security standard across the Department of War, Intelligence Community, coalition partners, and the broader national security ecosystem Smith joined Virtru from Microsoft, where she served as Vice President, Americas Worldwide Public Sector and Global Defense and Intelligence, leading public sector sales and driving global growth in the defense sector. She previously led Microsoft’s Mission Solutions and Customer Expansion organization, managing a 120+ person cross-functional team delivering custom Azure workloads—including AI/ML and hyperscale cloud solutions—into sovereign, air-gapped, and classified environments across the DoD, Intelligence Community, Five Eyes, and AUKUS partners.
Sessions
Mission Modernization: Cloud, Security, and Scale in Federal IT Panel
What you will learn:
CIOs, CISOs and CTOs experienced at working with and for the federal mission have a candid conversation about what it actually takes to modernize at scale inside government. This expert panel will share insights and perspectives gained from being at the leading edge of 'the work' from cloud adoption, enterprise architecture shifts, and security transformation in highly regulated, mission-critical environments. Hear how experts balance innovation with risk, manage legacy system constraints, navigate procurement and policy hurdles, and build resilient, zero-trust-aligned infrastructures.