Michael Pegues
Local IT Leader of the Year
As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the City of Aurora, Illinois, Michael Pegues leads the Information Technology (IT) Department and manages the citywide IT strategic plan for technology services that serve all departments and hundreds of thousands of direct constituent interactions. Pegues has developed a passion for city work and has become an urban-tech champion, driving smart city efforts from plan to execution to achieve the goal of making the City of Aurora a regional technology hub.