GovCIO Media & Research Podcasts

Oct 16, 2018 |  This episode features Meagan Metzger, the Founder and CEO of tech-accelerator Dcode. With dual degrees in marketing and engineering, she founded Dcode, at the intersection of tech and government. And of all the tech-based challenges between industry and the public sector, she chose to tackle one of the biggest barriers: procurement. But starting a business wasn't easy, and Metzger...

Oct 11, 2018 |  This seventh episode features Stephanie Neill, Executive Director of USDS at Homeland Security. Neill spent much of her younger years abroad, as her father was a U.S. Ambassador for the small West African country of Benin. She held an inherent interest for culture, international relations and global business, but found her way into the tech space while still in college. In fact, Ne...

Oct 1, 2018 |  This sixth episode features  Haiyan  Song, Senior Vice President of Security Markets at  Splunk . Song was named in the top 50 most powerful women in tech in 2016 and 2017, but her childhood dream was actually to be an astronaut. After growing up in China and attending one of the top engineering universities, which at the time was 10 percent woman, she landed into computer science n...

Sept 25, 2018 | This fifth episode features Shannon  Sartin , executive director of the U.S. Digital Service at the Department of Health and Human Services.  Sartin  comes from a family of public service, but unsure of her career path, obtained a degree in Italian from the University of Arizona. She got her start in tech with  Bunjie , the video game company behind Halo, but eventually made her wa...

Sept 17, 2018 |  This fourth episode features Ashley Mahan, the General Services Administration's first evangelist for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. She came to GSA in 2015 to stand up her role and help agencies understand FedRAMP — but she doesn't have an educational background in IT. Rather, she majored in business and minored in real estate, which led her to a consultin...

Sept 12, 2018 |  This third episode features Peter Newell , managing director at BMNT, a Silicon Valley company focused on solving national security challenges. He spent nearly 30 years in the military and when time came to transition out of the service, he knew what he didn't want to do next: work for somebody else. So he uprooted his life to the West Coast, fought through a start-fail process an...

Sept 5, 2018 |  Molly Cain, Director of the Office of Venture & Innovation at Homeland Security, speaks with Camille and Amanda about her drive for innovation, how she fosters and encourages tech adoption and how an entrepreneurship culture is changing government.

Aug 29, 2018 | This inaugural GovCast episode features Jose Arrieta, who runs acquisition at the Health and Human Services Department. His career didn't start in government but on the basketball court. That professional path took a dramatic turn on Sept. 11, 2001, when his coach came into the gym where Arrieta was practicing, saying two planes had hit the World Trade Center.