DevCast

Coming off our April 5th Catalytic Think Tank event: Everyone Can Innovate, Chief Technologist John Janek and Associate Controller, Tina Ehlers reflect on the event and continued the conversation on innovation. In this episode, they talk about emerging themes surrounding innovations like how to increase leaderships appetite for innovation, measuring success and failures, building trust and psychological safety within your teams, how to integrate innovation in your own work, and promoting diversity within innovation. As John and Tina share their insights, they share examples from their own projects and at Dev Technology, as well as being part of an innovative organization. They even break down what is innovation and how we think about it from the lens of individuals and a team. Check out the episode to hear more!

Join Chief Technologist John Janek and Technical Director for Digital Identity and Biometrics Niroop Gonchikar as they talk about their attendance at the Consumer Technology Association’s CES Conference in Las Vegas on January 7-8. They share insights on the global conference that brought together over 130,000 innovators, industry, and leaders across the tech landscape. John and Niroop share their thoughts on the new and existing technology showcased at conference that’s moving the field forward in support of productivity, processes, government delivery, and also share why CES is a great show for government innovators to attend. Listen to their conversation as they reflect on the event, their takeaways to be able to better support their Dev teams and clients. 

Coming off Veterans Day on November 11, this month we celebrate all veterans and those Dev veterans working in the information technology space. Join us on this episode with special guest host Renata C. Spinks, CEO of CyberSec International and a former servicewoman, talk with Dev Veterans Darryle Stephens, Clement Yang, and Chris Kennedy about their experiences and skills from active duty, their transition from service to the civilian sector, and bringing their unique experiences to the government contracting space.

Join Chief Technologist John Janek and special guest host Lisa Kemes, Senior ServiceNow Architect, talk with Kendall Holbrook, Emma Antonios, Becky Crane, Bethany Hsiao, and Courtney Tyler about their experiences at the 2023 AnitaB.org Grace Hopper Celebration. They have an empowering conversation about women in technology at Dev and in the industry, reflect on our Top Companies for Women in Technology Award, and how we can continue to build a more equitable and inclusive for future technologists.

Join our Chief Technologist John Janek and special guest Marisa Roinestad, Technical Project Manager in the International Revenue Services’ Enterprise Digitalization Office on today’s DevCast episode. Marisa talks about her time as a government employee over the last 23 years, working with partners and subject matter experts for project success, and the IRS’ Scanning as a Service project, digitalizing files for easy processing and secure storage, in an effort for the agency to become a digital first organization.

Coming off of Dev Technology’s first-ever TechFest event hosted on July 19, our Chief Technologist John Janek speaks with our internship leaders Casey Acosta, Bethany Hsiao, Josh Lamke and our 2023 summer interns about their experiences, things they are working on, and their intern run Hackathon project.

Dev Technology’s internship program is an outstanding chance for college students to gain specific and practical experience working in a modern technology organization delivering solutions for our internal and external clients.

Join Chief Technologist John Janek and Technical Director for Biometrics Niroop Gonchikar as they talk about their attendance at the AWS Public Sector Summit held in Washington, DC on June 7-8. They share highlights on the conference from using the cloud and AI/ML, to the major themes of optimization, FinOps, continued modernization tracks, and distributed design systems that was present in the conference programming. They also noted that the more players in this market will lead to better systems, tools, and engagement across the industry.

Join our Chief Technologist John Janek and special guest Colonel Kristin Saling, Director of the Commanding General's Innovation Cell at the US Army's Human Resources command on today's DevCast. We'll be covering tech, data, and a little bit of insight on how we can and should start thinking about leveraging disruptive and emerging technologies in all the areas where we work.

Join John Janek as he talks with Kendall Holbrook, Becky Crane, and Lisa Kemes about their experiences at the 2022 AnitaB.org Grace Hopper Celebration. They have an incredible conversation about self-organizing women, empowering conversations with people, and using technology to make things better for all.

Dev Technology's internship program is an outstanding chance for college students to gain specific and practical experience working in a modern technology organization delivering solutions for our internal and external clients. Join our Chief Technologist John Janek as he speaks with our internship lead Ariana Snyder and our 2022 summer interns. They discuss their experiences, things they worked on, and their key takeaways from the summer.