Reshaping the Government Technology Ecosystem Rafael Lopez, Accenture Dan Hon, CfA Summit Co-Chair Greg Gershman, AdHoc Marquis Carbrera, IBM Three years after the launch of Healthcare.gov, the market for government IT and other services continues to evolve to meet the needs of a digital age. What do we learn from new models and partnerships, especially from how traditional vendors and a new breed of startups are working together? What still needs to happen to build a system that works for government, for the vendors, and most importantly, for the American public? A candid conversation about what's working, what's not, and a reminder of what's at stake.
How to Kill a $745M Project Raj Shah, startup entrepreneur Lt Enrique Oti, Managing Director, Air Force Element, Defense Innovation Unit Experimental Until recently, there’s only been one way to build software in the military. But a whiteboard in a Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar and a small software team in the Bay Area changed that. Congress noticed, and wanted to know why the Air Force was still doing it the old way. This is a story of change that goes from the very small to the very big, and like all the stories at the CfA Summit, it’s just the beginning.
Video: The Talent Initiative
Where We Go From Here Jennifer Pahlka, Founder and Executive Director, Code for America
User-informed Policymaking Cecilia Muñoz, New America, former Domestic Policy Council Director Better government technology is good. But government that actually works better is what we really need, and these approaches to technology development matter most when they serve as a way to improve policy and outcomes.
Changing the System from the Inside, and the Outside Lynn Overmann, Arnold Foundation DJ Patil, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist Beth Blauer, Executive Director at Johns Hopkins University Center for Government Excellence When you’re committed to using data to make government work better, you’ll likely be doing this from both inside government and outside at various times. What tactics work best from each vantage point?
Thursday May 31, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
East Hall
