Federal Cloud & Data Forum

Michelle Zebrowski is the inaugural Chief Data Officer (CDO) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), bringing nearly two decades of dedicated service to the agency. As CDO, she spearheads efforts to cultivate CBP’s data ecosystem, ensuring data accessibility, discoverability, and its strategic application for informed decision-making. This year, under her leadership, a data catalog has been deployed, encompassing over 95% of OIT-managed datasets, totaling more than 50 petabytes of data and nearly 300,000 data assets. Her leadership is pivotal in positioning CBP at the forefront of artificial intelligence adoption within the federal government, overseeing a portfolio of over 100 AI use cases, including the deployment of ChatCBP, which is transforming how 60,000 employees accomplish their daily work.

Michelle’s commitment to excellence has been recognized with numerous accolades, including the CBP Commissioner’s Award in both 2020 and 2024. She was also honored as the 2021 Commissioner’s Employee Spotlight for her volunteer efforts in animal welfare and received a CBPeople Spotlight Award. Additionally, Michelle received the 2026 Fed100 award and has been featured in CDO Magazine’s Global Data Power Women list for both 2024 and 2025. Her other honors include the 2024 GTSC Homeland Security Today – Holiday Hero Award for MVP Data Advancement, the 2025 GTSC Homeland Security Today Trailblazer Award, the 2025 Orange Slices National Security Award, and the 2024 Engage Homeland and National Security 100: Driving Innovation Forward award.

Kevin Murphy serves as NASA’s acting chief data officer, acting chief artificial intelligence officer, and the chief science data officer for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. He also leads the agency’s High End Computing Capability Portfolio.

As acting chief data officer and chief artificial intelligence officer, Murphy provides strategic leadership to the agency’s application and use of data and AI at a critical juncture where demand and adoption are rapidly increasing. He works to align NASA’s AI strategy with enterprise data governance to ensure responsible, transparent, and secure development, deployment, and risk management across the agency.

As the chief science data officer, Murphy works across NASA’s five science divisions to advance artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data science for the agency’s scientific data. He oversees the strategic planning and implementation of NASA’s data and computing ecosystem, including high-end computing and cloud resources, ensuring these critical capabilities are efficient, reliable, and aligned with mission priorities. This stewardship enables gold standard, reproducible science while also supporting mission-critical engineering, modeling, and analysis activities across the agency for programs such as Artemis and future Moon-to-Mars exploration. Murphy’s leadership ensures NASA’s scientific data remain openly accessible and preserved for long-term discovery and innovation.

Previously, Murphy managed the data systems programs responsible for the production and distribution of data from NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites to users around the world. He initiated the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program and led the Satellite Needs Assessment Working Group. During his tenure at the Goddard Space Flight Center, he developed and managed projects including near real-time science data production systems, search engines, scientific data visualization systems, and Your Gateway to NASA Earth Observation Data | NASA Earthdata.

Murphy’s leadership has been recognized with numerous awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Engineering, Charles S. Falkenberg Award, and Fed 100, and the 2025 AGU Open Science Group Award among others.

He holds a master’s degree in Geographic Sciences and has completed coursework for a doctorate in Geography from the University of Maryland.

Anish Patel serves as the Head of Federal Civilian at Cloudflare, with a mission of helping to build a better Internet for everyone. Since joining three years ago, Anish has led go-to-market for Cloudflare’s Federal business and his team is directly responsible for improving the resiliency of many services that citizens rely on every day.