Dr. Darren Pulsipher is the Chief Solutions Architect for the public sector at Intel. He works directly with governments (federal, state, and local) and enterprise organizations such as IBM, GE, and Toyota to help them modernize their IT organizations. Through several executive and management positions (CIO, director of engineering), Dr. Pulsipher has developed a unique ability to bring technology, people, and processes together to provide real transformational change to organizations. He focuses on data transformation through data architecture, workload migration, cloud-native application development, service orchestration, and multi-hybrid cloud data center architectures. His research has resulted in eight patents in cloud and grid computing architectures, helping companies decrease product development lifecycle time through build, test, and deployment optimization, virtualization, and containerization. Dr. Pulsipher shares his passion for digital transformation on his weekly podcast “Embracing Digital Transformation.” He is a published author with three books on technology and technology management and over 100 articles published in various industry trade publications.