Federal Tech Podcast

May 30, 2023 (Today’s interview was conducted at the Ron Reagan Building at the Qlik Global Tour: Public Sector.) Theinterview is with Steve Forster, Senior Data Strategist, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Our interview is with Steve Forster, a business intelligence strategist from the DLA. Steve started in the warehouse and...

June 1, 2023 David Magjuka & Jay Smith (The interview was conducted at the Ronald Reagan Building at the Qlik Global Tour: Public Sector). Guests: David Magjuka, Director of Digital and Data Transformation – Department of Navy, Financial Management System “Jay” Smith, Analytics as Service Portfolio Owner, Financial Management Data...

May 30, 2023 Terry Miller, Karsun (Today’s interview was conducted at the Caboose Brewing in lovely downtown Vienna, VA.  Not far from Mae-East).  When Covid hit, thousands of federal employees bumped up the number of visits to federal agency websites. But let’s not forget the number of citizens visiting federal agency...

May 25, 2023 Tom Scurlock, Talend (Today’s interview was conducted at the Caboose Brewery in lovely downtown Vienna, VA.  Not far from Mae-East).  What good is a cloud full of data if you can’t manage it? With all this hype about artificial intelligence, one key component that is getting left...

May 23, 2023 Jordan Burris, Socure (Today’s interview was conducted at the Caboose Brewery in lovely downtown Vienna, VA.  Not far from Mae-East).  Covid prioritized identity verification. It went from the bottom of the tech stack to the top. Many federal agencies have zero trust initiatives divided into segments; each...

May 16, 2023 Kevin Bocek, Venafi If you can distill today’s cybersecurity recommendations down to one word, that word me be “trust.” We have Executive Orders that talk about “trust” in digital architecture.  Look at the motto for today’s enterprise architecture, “Zero Trust Architecture.” The way most of us apply...

May 12, 2023 Billy Biggs, WalkMe When industries mature, users learn how to optimize them.  For example, early televisions were huge, expensive, and black and white.  Technology has made them small, cheap, and stunning.  When the cloud was introduced 15 years ago, there was a rough transition with rough starts,...

May 4 , 2023 Dr. Jennifer Sample, Accenture Federal Services For some reason, the topic of generative artificial Intelligence has embedded itself into the common mind. It is so pervasive that one might walk into a local Seven-Eleven and hear a conversation about ChatGPT. It may be fine for an...

May 2 , 2023 Frank Antezana, iTech AG When you look at the Executive Orders that have been issued you can see many references to user experience. The initial order, #14058, included thirty-six customer experience improvements across seventeen different federal agencies. This was followed up in March of 2023 with...