Innovation in Government

Suri Durvasula, the vice president of civilian agencies for Dell Technologies Federal, said AI factories can give agencies tools to accelerate their journeys. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Experts from Claroty and Axonius say agencies are facing an expanded attack surface as more operational technology systems connect to the internet. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Nate Fitzgerald, the head of product management for the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom, said budget pressures will require new cyber approaches. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Donna Roy, a federal advisory board member at Smartsheet, said agencies can digitize more forms by knowing the data they are collecting and standardizing it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Emilee Lehenbauer, vice president of federal at Qualtrics, said collecting and analyzing a wide range of feedback is key to fixing citizen interactions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Michael Riemer, the senior vice president of the network security group and field CISO at Ivanti, said ‘secure by design’ is more important than ever. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Chris Townsend, the vice president of public sector at Elastic, said using a data mesh architecture will make accessing data less costly and more reliable. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Wole Moses, chief AI officer for civilian at Microsoft Federal, said as agencies test AI use cases, leadership support remains a leading success factor. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Gina Scinta, the deputy CTO and security evangelist at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies need to recognize the benefits, risk of quantum and AI. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Salesforce’s Mia Jordan and Michael Hornsby highlight why bringing employees into the customer experience improvement discussion is so critical. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Cameron Chehreh, the VP and general manager for global public sector sales at Intel Corp., said network and data situational awareness will lead to AI success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

JP Marcelino, the AI/ML Alliances manager for Dell Federal, said when agencies use a framework to identify AI use cases and technologies they can move faster. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Cindi Carter, the global CISO for the Americas for Check Point Software Technologies, said AI can help augment cyber defenses already in place at many agencies. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Brian Mikkelsen, the vice president for US public sector at Datadog, said reducing tool complexity helps agencies understand how their systems are working. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Barry Leffew, the vice president of the government platform accelerator at In-Q-Tel, said areas like cybersecurity, enterprise technology, space, lightweight energy sources and biotechnology are among the company’s top investment focus areas. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Wayne LeRiche, the federal civilian field chief technology officer and solutions architect for Palo Alto Networks Federal, said secure access service edge (SASE) sets a framework for agencies to get more easily implement a zero trust architecture. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Herb Kelsey, the Project Fort Zero Team Leader at Dell Technologies, said agencies have the opportunity to focus on the policy and process side and not the technology piece of the zero trust architecture.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Drew Epperson, the vice president of federal engineering at Palo Alto Networks federal, said agencies need to think about modernizing their cyber tools as they transform their entire IT infrastructure. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Sudhir Hasbe, the chief product officer for Neo4j, said applying graphing technology can help agencies better understand relationships between people, processes and data. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Matt Mandrgoc, the head of Public Sector at Zoom, said there are several considerations agencies must keep in mind, including legacy technology and complexity as they move further into the hybrid work environment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Chris Townsend, the vice president of U.S. public sector sales at Elastic, said for agencies to operationalize their data to drive better decisions, they need to break down siloes and make it easier to search. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Kelsey Monaghan, the lead for federal strategic programs and partnerships for cloud and edge at Dell Technologies, said agencies need the ability to govern and provide workload flexibility across all individual cloud deployments to ensure consistency. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .