Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC

On this episode, we talk with IRS Executive, Ken Corbin, long-time government and industry CX leader, Martha Dorris and industry executive Angy Peterson about the power and promise of on-going customer experience efforts in the federal market and ACT-IAC’s upcoming CX Summit.

GSA Executive Laura Stanton and Dev Technology Group CEO Kendall Holbrook discuss the federal technology market and this October’s ACT-IAC Imagine Nation ELC Conference.

On this episode, we talk with Federal CIO Clare Martorana about the recently released Federal IT Operating Plan and hear from two more of the ACT-IAC 2022 Innovation Champion Award winners; Guests: Clare Martorana, Federal Chief Information Officer.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/claremartorana/ John Hutchison, Assistant Operations Research Analyst at the Argonne National Laboratory.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-k-hutchison/ Ronie Namata, Contracting Officer at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.    Additional Resources: To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/ To read the Federal Government’s IT Operating Plan, visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Federal-IT-Operating-Plan_June-2022.pdf To learn more about the 2022 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards:  https://www.actiac.org/act-iac-emerging-technology-and-innovation-awards-2022

On this episode, we talk some outstanding federal technology leaders who were “in the room where it happened” when the eGov Act was enacted 20 years ago—what did it entail, what’s been accomplished and where do we go from here.       Guests: Karen Evans, Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute and Former Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology at OMB. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensevans/  Mark Forman, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Optimization and Transformation, Dynamic Integrated Services and former Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology at OMB. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markforman1/  Robert Shea, National Managing Principal, Public Policy at Grant Thornton and former Associate Director at OMB. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjshea/  Dave Powner, Executive Director, Center for Data-Driven Policy at The MITRE Corporation and former Director of Information Technology Management Issues at GAO. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-powner-83079214/  Additional Resources: To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/ 

On this episode, we talk with GSA’s Sam Navarro about federal supply chain risk management efforts and hear from two of the ACT-IAC 2022 Innovation Champion Award winners; Cesar Tavares from Octo and D.J. Dart from INADEV Corporation. Guests: Sam Navarro is the Senior Advisor to the IT Category Manager at the General Services Administration (GSA) https://www.linkedin.co m/in/samuel-navarro-6036258/ Cesar Tavares is Senior Director, Emerging Technology at Octo Consulting https://www.linkedin.com/in/ctavares75/ D.J. Dart is the Chief Strategy Officer at INADEV Corporation https://www.linkedin.com/in/d-j-dart-69aa14/ Additional Resources: To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/ To learn more about the 2022 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards: https://www.actiac.org/act-iac-emerging-technology-and-innovation-awards-2022

On this episode, we talk with Gary Washington, Malcolm Harden and Todd Hager about innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in the federal market. Guests: Gary Washington is the Chief Information Officer for the US Department of Agriculture and the President of the American Council for Technology. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-washington-995413a5/ Todd Hager is Vice President at Macro Solutions and the Industry Chair for the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thagerdc/ Malcolm Harden is the Federal Partnerships Leader at Microsoft and the Executive Vice Chairman of the Industry Advisory Council. https://www.linkedin.com/in/malharden/ Additional Resources: To register for the 2022 ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference, May 22-24: https://web.cvent.com/event/9352f320-446a-41c4-82e9-bd24aa6f2f99/summary To learn more about ACT-IAC's National Use Case & Solutions Library (NUCSL): https://www.actiac.org/national-use-case-solutions-library-nucsl-pilot To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

On this episode, we talk with Karen Evans and Dan Chenok about the recently released Cybersecurity Education study that they led on behalf of the National Academy of Public Administration and catch up with John Marshall on federal shared services efforts. Guests: Karen Evans is a Partner at KE&T Partners, LLC, and has served in numerous senior positions in government to include Federal CIO, DHS CIO and Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensevans/ Dan Chenok is the Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government, former OMB Executive and former Chair of the Industry Advisory Council. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenokdan/ John Marshall is the founder and CEO at Shared Services Leadership Coalition and a former government and industry executive. https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-marshall-1a73971/ Additional Resources: To register for the 2022 Shared Services Summit on April 28th: https://web.cvent.com/event/11227a7b-b310-4195-8df0-3ad9e88c7325/summary Link to the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) report, “A Call to Action: The Federal Government’s Role in Building a Cybersecurity Workforce for the Nation:” https://napawash.org/academy-studies/dhs-cybersecurity-workforce To learn more about the Shared Services Leadership Coalition, visit their website: https://sharedservicesnow.org/ To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

On this episode, we talk with Acquisition experts Stan Soloway and Jason Knudsen on their ground-breaking report on the expanding use of Other Transaction Authority (OTAs) in the federal procurement market and then catch up with innovation leader Jim Cook on the recently released President’s Management Agenda (PMA) Learning Agenda. Guests: Stan Soloway, CEO of Celero Strategies, former CEO of the Professional Services Council, former DoD acquisition leader and a Fellow at both the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and the National Contract Management Association (NCMA)) https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-soloway-3707b84/ Jason Knudson, CEO of Vyzvalab, Inc., former Naval officer and former program manager for IT and related capabilities at the Defense Innovation Unit https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-knudson/ Jim Cook, Vice President for Strategic Engagement and Partnerships at MITRE and leader of the ACT-IAC Institute for Innovation https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-cook-10ab23a/ Additional Resources: Link to OTA Report – “Other Transaction Authorities: After 60 Years, Hitting Their Stride or Hitting the Wall”: https://www.businessofgovernment.org/report/other-transactions-authorities Link to the PMA Learning Agenda: https://www.performance.gov/pma/learning-agenda/ Link to President’s Management Agenda: https://www.performance.gov/pma Link to the MITRE Center for Data Driven Policy: https://www.mitre.org/research/policy-center To learn more about ACT-IAC, the Institute for Innovation, the upcoming Innovation Roundtables, the 2022 Innovation Awards, Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference or the Agenda 2021 Presidential Election papers, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

On this episode, we talk with Federal Deputy CIO, Maria Roat, about the President’s Management Agenda and then catch up with Tim Smith, President of OnPoint Consulting about innovation in the federal market.

On this episode, we talk with world renowned leading change icon and best-selling author John Kotter. Guest: John P. Kotter is a best-selling author, award winning business and management thought leader, business entrepreneur, Harvard Professor and the Executive Chairman of Kotter International. His award-winning articles in The Harvard Business Review have sold more reprints than any other author’s, and his 2012 article, “Accelerate!” won the McKinsey award for the world’s most practical and groundbreaking thinking in the business/management arena. His books have reached millions, and have been printed in over 150 foreign language editions. His 1996 book, Leading Change, was selected by Time magazine in 2011 as one of the 25 most influential business management books ever written. His new book is titled, “Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-To-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times.”