GovCIO Media & Research Podcasts

The NIH agency's CIO discusses the importance of technology and big data to manage research. He brings to the agency a creative background in the animation industry and is now working on various health initiatives, including those researching sickle cell anemia.  

Gordon Bitko discusses FBI's focus of improving IT management, infrastructure, networks, applications and services to improve performance capabilities in support of national security.

GSA's assistant commissioner of the Office of Systems Management under the Federal Acquisition Service discusses improvements to the federal government's acquisition systems. Her office includes two programs, the Integrated Award Environment and the Common Acquisition Platform, both of which use modernized technologies to improve systems and processes.

Jeff Shilling discusses data and technology efforts behind the nation's largest funder of cancer research. He shares optimism toward technology's future role in processing cancer data for the research community and furthering research and discovery in the mission to treat cancer.

As director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller has an important public health mission to reduce disease from tobacco use. With a background in law as an attorney, Zeller discusses the importance policy and technology play in the center's mission.  

A leader from GSA's newest initiative with its Centers of Excellence toward collaborative IT modernization talks the importance of partnerships and agile methodologies to solve some of government's toughest technological challenges.

As new CIO of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and veteran private sector technologist, Jamie Holcombe discusses the agency's efforts with data management and technology modernization within the nation's intellectual property community.

Kelly O'Connor was motivated to join public service to serve veterans. She explains the importance of user-centered design in product management and what it means for Veterans Affairs' overall modernization efforts. 

Michael Akinyele leads the Department of Veterans Affairs' newly formed VA Innovation Center. Part of his focus at the center is implementing care and payment innovation as dictated by Section 152 of the MISSION Act. Akinyele discusses his journey to the VA and where he sees the department's efforts toward IT modernization and the future of delivering care to veterans.

Natalie Vanatta, a national cyber protection team leader, explains the methods behind "threatcasting," a tactic used to stay at the forefront of the nation's cybersecurity threats. She also goes into how various technologies like AI could help the future of managing cyber risk.

Andrea Norris discusses the technology efforts at play in managing the National Institutes of Health's mass amount of data across its research community. With extensive backgrounds at NASA and NSF, Norris also advocates for more women in government leadership.

Renee Wynn has an astronomical responsibility in managing a mix of new and legacy systems to manage NASA's vast amount of data across its programs that include missions back to the Moon and to Mars. 

Terry Gerton, a 20-year Army veteran and career member of the Senior Executive Service, discusses the importance of Congressionally chartered NAPA's mission to the advancement of public service initiatives.

Zachary Goldstein's responsibility for NOAA's vast amount of data has greater implications for the public good. The CIO discusses the importance of the cloud and other efforts, including high-performance computing.

Nagesh Rao, a self-appointed "Geek in Residence" at the Small Business Administration, discusses the importance of taking risks on small companies toward driving technological innovation and change. He brings in his experiences in and out of the private sector and government, which also includes a career at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to highlight modernization efforts and the importance...

Jen Sovada, a 25-year career U.S. Air Force airman, discusses her work to recruit and retain talent in the service amid a changing technological landscape and mission needs.

Angela Colter talks how new technology is not always in focus in modernizing government systems, and that taking into account the process and user needs should be any organization's foundation. The head of the General Service Administration's 18F office discusses her strategic vision for IT services and recruitment over the next year.

Stacey Dixon brings a mechanical engineering background to IARPA and discusses the positives and negatives to new technology in research programs.

Dr. Neil Evans, an active clinician to veterans, discusses how he became involved in efforts with improving services to veterans by increasing access to care using digital health technologies

VA's Charles Worthington joined us to discuss his experience standing up the U.S. Digital Service team, various fellowships and his time at Harvard earning his degree in social studies. Worthington is currently working to modernize the VA's digital products and recently spearheaded the relaunch of the VA.gov website.

This episode features  Sezin  Palmer, mission area executive for National Health for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Palmer uses her education in engineering to revolutionize health, so that one day people won't have to go to a medical facility to know what's going on in their bodies. Her first role at  APL  was a program area manager for submarine warfare, where she worked on ke...

This episode features Steve Blank, entrepreneur, founder of the Lean  Startup  movement and original Silicon Valley- er . Blank founded eight companies and authored two books about executing  startup  business models. Although he retired in 1999, he hasn't stopped spreading his knowledge and experiences by teaching entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and beyond —courses that have e...

This episode features Nick Psaki, Pure Storage's U.S. Public Sector CTO. Pure Storage is a technology company helping the government build a better world with data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Psaki is helping lead these efforts. He joined us to talk about how he went from working with the Army's top intelligence leaders to helping lead Pure Storage's efforts. Psaki also breaks d...

This episode features Justin  Herman , lead of the Emerging Citizen Technology program office for  GSA's  Technology Transformation Services.  Herman  talks about his transition from public affairs officer in the Air Force to social technologist, his passion for  GSA's  emerging tech missions, and how the arrival of the  internet  at his high school in a small town in New Hampshire led him to deve...

Oct 25, 2018 |  This episode features Marcy Jacobs, Executive Director of the Digital Service team at Veterans Affairs, and recent recipient of a Service to America Medal for Management Excellence for her and her team's work connecting vets to the benefits they deserve. Jacobs talks about her background in fine arts and psychology, her 15-year career in web design and how  USDS  actually came to h...