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Join this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith featuring special guest, Barbara Morton, Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hear conversations regarding her prior career experience and story before joining as Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer at VA, the role that digital transformation is playing within...

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Nat Natraj, Co-Founder and CEO of AccuKnox as we discuss why KubeArmor and eBPF are essential for your baked-in security and runtime security, their new concept around policy templates supporting the MITRE ATTACK framework and STIGs, and why open-source and CNCF are essential to their success and what challenges they see in this current market.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest Chris Hughes, CISO & Co-Founder, Aquia where they discuss the current state of DoD Software Factories and their spread across the government, supply chain risk, continuous accreditation, compliance as code, and how to build the right culture and training for your teams so we can all move at the pace of relevance.

Join us for this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith and special guest Stuart Wagner, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, U.S. Air Force and Space Force as we discuss Stuart Wagner's career history and how he became Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, what is being implemented in the U.S. Air Force/Space Force to digitally tra...

Join us for this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith and special guest, Ann Dunkin, CIO, U.S. Department of Energy as we discuss the following: - The Journey towards becoming CIO   - What is being done for digital transformation in the DOE?   - How ATO has allowed DOE to deploy applications quickly   - Deploying a Low Code platform  - DOE's Playbook for...

Join this episode as we dive into the challenges around API Discovery, how APIs are changing in this modern DevSecOps world, the concept of Shift Left, Protect Right when it comes to API security, the tie back to DevSecOps and CI/CD, and finally Sanjay will share how he took two 2-member startups to large distributed teams!

Join this episode as we will talk about Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Megan's genius idea of Incident Command System for ICS, why are ICS systems critical and what makes them different from traditional IT and learn more about what does the role of a Chief Product Security Officer entail!

Join this episode fo In the Nic of Time with special guest Prakash Sethuraman, CISO of CloudBees as they talk about the security challenges in DevOps, how to find the balance between velocity and security, and Continuous ATO.

Join us for this special episode of Low Code Trailblazers with Bill Bunce, Enterprise Account Executive, Pegasystems as he sits down with he collegue John Smith, Practice Lead - Public Sector, Pegasystems to discuss building a low code culture in your agency. 

Join this episode of Keeping US Federal Agencies Ahead of the Latest Vulnerabilities with Joseph Lin, Palo Alto Networks and Guest Gerald Caron, CIO, Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology, HHS OIG as we discuss Attack Surface Management. Some of the questions you can expect our host to bring up during the discussion include: Why are the most recent vulnerabilities (Zoho, log4j) so...

During this episode of In the Nic of Time find out what "ITasCode" is and how to shift cybersecurity left so they can be fully embedded into your development teams. They also discuss what cyber tools can facilitate that shift and lessons learned from selling his company to a larger organization.

Join In the Nic of Time with Zack Butcher, Head of Product at Tetrate as we talk about why a Service Mesh is essential to your cyber posture, why Envoy is winning as a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), the recent NIST 800-204 publication series, and what is Next Generation Access Control and why it is the foundation of JADC2/ABMS for data-centricity!

Join this episode of  In The Nic of Time with Delegate Reid Novotnyto find out what it is like to push cyber laws in the Maryland General Assembly? How did Colonel Reid Novotny ended up leaving the U.S Air Force for the Maryland Air National Guard and become a member of the Maryland General Assembly? As a former Chief of Staff for two DAF CIOs, what did he see? What were the challenges? What...

Join this episode of The Modern Data Experience with Nick Psaki and Special Guest, Dr. Michael Segala, CEO, SFL Scientificas they discuss the following topics: The history and evolution of SFL’s efforts to date. The evolution of the services SFL developed. Why the decision to select and deploy Artificial Intelligence Ready Infrastructure? What have the results been? Interaction and integratio...

In the Nic of Time on Tuesday with Special Guest Nathanael Coffing, Chief Security Officer, Cloudentity to talk about identity management, authorization, person entity vs non-person entity, open policy agent and more!

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with special guest, Tracy Bannon, Senior Principal/ Software Architect & DevOps Advisor, MITRE, as we discuss why Culture matters so much to succeed in software innovation, how to attract and retain talent, how to train your teams and what is working or NOT working when it comes to the DoD Software Factories!

Join this episode to hear from Bill Bunce, Pegasystems, and Special Guests, Robyn Rees, Senior Advisor, Office of Human Capital, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Emily Camardo, Director of Operations, srcLogic, and Robert Gasser, Chief Revenue Officer, Revature, as they discuss: The current low code workforce.  How build, hire, and grow software engineers. The status of the low code wor...

Don't miss this episode of In the Nic of Time session with Brig. General John Olson, who is not only the first Air Force and Space Force Chief Data and AI Officer but also the Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations.

Join this episode of The Modern Data Experience with Nick Psaki and Special Guest, Rob Albritton, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Practice Lead, Octo, as they discuss the following topics: Intro to Rob Albritton and Octo Labs. What Octo Labs has helped accomplish. How to pick AI platforms and components. What do we do with new data, and previous algorithms outputs? What is the future evol...

Join Jennifer Kenney-Smith and Special Guest, Vidyut Desai, Chief Information Officer, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as they discuss the following topics: What how Mr. Desai has incorporated the Technology Modernization Action Plan over the past year. How best to prioritize in digital transformation. How to achieve digital transformation within mission timeframes. Dealing with Cultural pus...

Join us for this episode of Mobile and Cyber with Jaime Noble, Director, IT Security Division & Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice as we discuss the following bullets:  - An introduction to OJP/OCIO, mission, uniqueness, size, scope, autonomy, etc. (Remote work population, Macro level IT investment...

Join us or this special episode where we talk about Modeling and Simulation, Open Architecture and Digital twin capabilities and how to move your legacy programs to modern software and hardware best practices!

Join us to meet Raja Gudepu, the CEO of Oteemo! We will be discussing how he has enabled large organizations to move and accelerate their move to DevSecOps using various enablers and accelerators, how he assesses organizations' maturity and how he invests in his people to ensure they continue to lead with continuous learning and new certifications.

Watch this event to meet Jay Bonci the Air Force and Space Force Chief Technology Officer.  Jay is leading the push for digital modernization across the DAF, including with modern transport (SD WAN), DevSecOps, EITaaS, Zero Trust implementation, Data fabric and much more!

You definitely do not want to miss the next episode of In the Nic with Lauren Knausenberger the Air Force and Space Force Chief Information Officer.  Lauren will share her thoughts on her priorities, her progress made after being in her role for 1 year and 7 months and what keeps her up at night.