The Buzz with ACT-IAC
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The Buzz with ACT-IAC
Latest Episodes
Leading Health IT Modernization with Trust: Ratima Kataria on Data, Responsible AI, and Change Management
In this episode of The Buzz with ACT-IAC, we are in conversation with Ratima Kataria, VP of Health and IT Strategy at ICF. We talk about her career journey from satellite communications and semiconductors into federal health, including serving ...
ICYMI: Keynote Fireside Chat from Acquisition and Innovation Forum 2026
In this episode we feature ACT-IAC’s Acquisition and Innovation Forum's keynote fireside chat with Ann Marie Johnson and OMB/OFPP’s Mathew Blum on the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) to restore common sense, put mission first, and shift from c...
ICYMI: Lunch & Keynote Fireside Chat from the Acquisition and Innovation Forum 2026
In this episode we feature ACT-IAC’s Acquisition and Innovation Forum's Lunch & Keynote Fireside Chat between Geoff Edwards and NASA Financial Systems Office Director Chi Okonkwo, who shares her career path from consulting to OPM m...
ICYMI: From Fragmented to Frictionless: Unified Customer Experiences
At an ACT-IAC panel on moving from fragmented to frictionless, unified customer experiences, SSA’s Michelle Liu explains SSA’s Service Index, a framework and catalog mapping services across online, phone/IVR, and in-person channels to customer ...
ICYMI: Rural Health Transformation 2026: Turning Policy into Scalable Innovation
Health Innovation Summit ICYMI episode, features a panel on Rural Health Transformation, moderated by Avery Muse, following a DocuSign/Microsoft “Medicare Connect” demo showing verified digital ID, secure record access, consent signing, appoint...