Jose Arrieta is the former Chief Information Officer and Interim Chief Data Officer of HHS. He is a respected leader in applying emerging technologies, especially blockchain, artificial intelligence/machine learning and process automation. He oversaw $6.3B in IT investments, $800B in grants and $26B in Federal contracts in his last three years at HHS. He provided cyber security solutions for 174,000 people. He has published articles on valuing disruptive technology companies and the importance of industry / government communications. Jose led the creation / implementation of the largest public health surveillance capability in the United States during the pandemic and the first enterprise grade supervised machine learning capability to help more accurately distribute testing supplies and predict hot spots across the United States. He successfully defended the HHS network against multiple large scale nation state cyber-attacks. He created a public private key, distributed ledger infrastructure to establish digital identities for commercial, federal, state end points to aide the COVID 19 vaccination and testing efforts. He built and led the implementation of the first blockchain based solution for lowering licensing costs and decreasing the timeline of the procurement process in the Federal Government. He created and teaches the first blockchain course (blockchain and cryptos) at the Johns Hopkins University as well as entrepreneurial finance. He founded small business called imagineeer when he left Government. imagineeer is an IT solutions company that currently is focused on fund raising, blockchain enabled diagnostic development, cyber security solutions and quantum inspired optimization capabilities. He works with Federal customers evaluating and valuing venture backed technology starts ups in the health and national security space. He’s launched a technology start-up to enable digital twins with a focus on mental health. He currently sits on a number of boards and advises 5 technology startups providing help with strategy and fundraising. imagineeer is also working to build an ecosystem to facilitate secure, autonomous, data driven, AI powered science-based organizations. Jose lives in San Diego at the moment 😀 and has two young children.