Angel Smith

Angel Smith

President, Global Public Sector Virtru
Angel Smith

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.

Conference Day 2: Thursday, 7 May 2026

2:00 PM SOVEREIGN INTEROPERABILITY: COALITION DATA SHARING IN ZERO TRUST ENVIRONMENTS

• Data Sovereignty in Coalition Operations – Leveraging commercial hyperscale cloud
for national security without foreign control
• The Zero Trust Interoperability Paradox – Why zero trust security makes connecting
coalition partners and legacy systems challenging
• Open Standards for Secure Data Exchange – Leveraging the Trusted Data Format
(TDF) to enable mission-critical sharing across security boundaries

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Angel.

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