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The Modern Data Experience with Nick Psaki and Special Guest Brett Vaughan, Navy Chief AI Officer and ONR AI Portfolio Manager, U.S. Navy Feb 04, 2022

Show notes

Intro Brett and AI in the Navy- 0:30

Applications, culture, processes and training of AI in the Navy- 8:30

How do we deploy AI capabilities to the service?- 16:45

Results of AI adoption in the Navy and the standing up of the JAIC- 23:00

Whats next for AI across the Navy/ How is AI going to evolve?- 32:00

Conclusion- 39:10

Mobile and Cyber with JT Keating, Jim Kovach, and Guest, Vincent Sritapan Jan 20, 2022

Show notes

Notes:

Timestamps:

- Vincent Intro (1 min)

- POTUS EO and Zero Trust (4 mins)

- Notion of Traditional Access (8 mins)

- Applying ZT to enterprise wide mobility (14 mins)

- BYOD (20 mins)

- Leadership buy in (27 mins)

- Mobile Applications (29 mins)

- Which requirements should we be paying attention to? (35 mins)

- Conclusion (37 mins)

The Year of the Hybrid with Jim Richberg and Special Guest, Mike Fagan of NIST Dec 30, 2021

Show notes

- Guest intro (1 min)

- Mission and Functions of NIST (1:15)

- Mike's journey to NIST (4:20)

- Executive Order impact (6 mins)

- Why is IoT a topic of interest for the federal government? (9:20)

- What unusual risks does IoT present for federal workers? (16 mins)

- How can you assist agencies in incorporating IoT into their infrastructure? (25:50)

- How is NIST engaging with industry and internationally in efforts to improve? (29 mins)

- Is NIST in position to shape behaviors for IoT? (32:45)

- How much do you collaborate within NIST? (35:20)

- Conclusion/wrap up (39 mins)

Low Code Trailblazers - Policy As Code and Operationalizing AI Dec 22, 2021

Show notes

Host: Bill Bunce, Pega Systems

Guest: Bryan Lane, FDIC

TimeStamps:

- Concept and history of "policy as code" (2 mins)

- Organizational benefits using policy as code (4:30)

- Policy as code implementation mechanisms (10 mins)

- Measuring policy with data (15 mins)

- AI advancing this concept (16 mins)

- How important is it to operationalize the AI capability model? (20 mins)

- Culture change and The Opportunity Project (27 mins) - Closing (27:30)

Cloud and Coffee with a Special Guest from SBA, Ryan Hillard! Dec 15, 2021

Show notes

During this Cloud and Coffee session, Ryan will share his experience being being a part of SBA’s first cloud project (Certify.SBA.gov), assisting SBA with their scale from 0 cloud to 4 FISMA classified systems in AWS, architecting the account structure and enterprise setup, and implementing server-less technology on SBA.gov and then spreading it out to the 4x other systems.

Opportunities and Challenges of the Quantum Revolution Dec 14, 2021

Show notes

ATARC's Quantum Working Group hears from Eric Miller, Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, on The Quantum Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada from his published October, 2021 policy paper (download here).

Retirement Episode with ATARC Board Member, John Sullivan Dec 13, 2021

Show notes

Tom Suder, CEO of ATARC, sits down to interview Senior Technology Advisor to the Deputy Associate Administrator for Government-wide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration, with 34+ years experience in government, John Sullivan.

Timestamps:

- Early background on John (1:15)

- Path to finding first federal job (3:22)

- Experience at EPA (4:34)

- Enterprise Architecture and transition to OMB (9:30)

- Association involvement and GITEC (17 mins)

- Top programs and achievements (20:30)

- Most impactful tech trends (24:20)

- Superstar shoutouts (27 mins)

- What drives you? (31 mins)

- Passions outside of work (32 mins)

- Closing (35 mins)

Working Together for Privacy Protection: The Importance of Identity Management Dec 08, 2021

Show notes

Tune into this panel to hear from topic experts to discuss the importance of Identity Management within federal agencies as the workforce shifts to a hybrid. What best practices do these topic experts recommend to help best protect data? How can government agencies implement an effective Identity Security model to minimize risk and keep pace with adversaries? What are best practices for Privileged Access Management controls?

Year of the Hybrid at the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Nov 23, 2021

Show notes

Jim Richberg sits down to interview Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity at Office of Personnel Management, James Saunders to discuss the future of work at OPM

Time Stamps:

Intro - James's job at OPM (1 min)

Cyber risks in a remote work environment (2 mins)

Notable cyber events (6:30)

Zero Trust technology roll out (9:10)

OPM Guidance update (11:20)

Increasing cyber security (15 mins)

Data Loss prevention (22:45)

How is OPM participating in expansion of ZTA (22:40)

TMF (24 mins)

Resources available for Cloud (25:20)

Role of private sector supporting OPM (27 mins)

Closing thoughts (29:40)

Cloud and Coffee Season 2 Launch Nov 02, 2021

Show notes

Co-hosts this season are Christ Oglesby and Terri-Lee Holland. Guest on this episode is Charlotte Lee.

Timestamps:

- Start time/introductions (5 mins)

- Language around modernization (7:25)

- Legacy Systems (8:30)

- Government/Industry working together (11:18)

- People and process approach (14 mins)

- Scoping down contracts (16 mins)

- Large contracts and big impacts (20 mins in)

- What should gov't be doing when creating new contracts? (21 mins)

- The move from UX to CX (28 mins)

- Key factors for leadership (30:30)

- Can technologists start becoming more human centric? (38:18)

- Continuous education (43:30)

- Leveraging information architecture (49:30)

- Does a project management plan call for a change management plan? (53 mins)

- Process flows and strategy (55:30)

- Identifying the customer (60:35)

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