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Barbara M. LoPresti – Keynote
Chief, Decennial Information Technology Division
U.S. Census Bureau
Ms. LoPresti was appointed Chief, Decennial Information Technology Division in March 2020. She oversees the Decennial automation activities for geographic, 2030 Census and the American Community Survey processing systems.
Ms. LoPresti started her career with the Census Bureau in the Boston Regional Office as a Survey Supervisor managing field data collection efforts. Subsequently, she transferred to Field Division, Headquarters where she worked in Information Technology positions of increasing responsibility in various divisions. From 1998 to 2015, she served as the Chief, Technologies Management Office. In that role, she provided innovative and practical solutions for mission critical data collection applications and systems for the Field Directorate. She pioneered the first deployment of a handheld computers and associated data collection software for the Non-Response Follow Up data collection operation in the 2004 and 2006 Census Tests.
From 2016 to 2020, she served as the Government Program Manager for the 2020 Census Technical Integrator (TI) Contract. In that role, she led a team of contract administrators, technical monitors and subject matter experts to provide the first hybrid cloud and mobility implementation used to support critical data collection, processing and field automation for the 248 Area Census Offices, 6 Regional Census Centers, Island Areas and over 400,000 Census enumerators. She oversaw the successful delivery of a System of Systems technical integration solution that was scalable, secure and met the business objectives of the 2020 Census.
Ms. LoPresti’s current initiatives are focused on transforming the Decennial Directorates applications and systems to support a multi-cloud, data centric computing environment. These transformation initiatives involve a series of modernization efforts to combine advance data science with traditional survey methods to diversify our data products and place data at the center of our approach.
Ms. LoPresti received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Concentration in Management Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany. She also received a Master’s Certificate in Information Technology Project Management and a Master’s Certificate in Federal Program Management from George Washington University.
