The Buzz with ACT-IAC
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Episodes
148 episodes
New V2X Technology at DOT with Grafton deButts and Brian Cronin
This week, The Buzz presents a conversation with Grafton deButts from Strongbridge LLC and the ACT-IAC Department of Transportation Federal Insights Exchange (FIE), as they sit down with Brian Cronin, the forward-thinking Director of the Intell...
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Welcome Our New Host: Yohanna Baez
Welcome Yohanna Baez: A Different Vision for The BuzzIn this special episode of The Buzz, new host Yohanna Baez introduces herself and outlines her vision for the podcast's future. She pays tribute to previous host, Colin Larsen, and dis...
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ICYMI: AI, Innovation, and the Future of Government with Alexis Bonnell
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our Vision 2030 event.In this opening keynote session, Alexis Bonnell, the Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research Laborato...
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Episode 154
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32:08
Farewell Colin!
This week, The Buzz is saying goodbye to Colin Larsen, who has produced and hosted the show since it began in the Spring of 2021. Colin would like to profoundly thank ACT-IAC and the listeners for their support through these more t...
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Episode 153
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Replay: Civil Service in American Government with Donald Moynihan
The Buzz is going on a short hiatus this summer, so our releases will be less regular than usual.In the meantime, we'll be replaying some of our favorite episodes from the past year or so. This week, we're revisiting a conversation we h...
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Episode 152
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43:29
Replay: The Green Transition Dilemma with James Salzman and J.B. Ruhl
The Buzz is going on a short hiatus this summer, so our releases will be less regular than usual. In the meantime, we'll be replaying some of our favorite episodes from the past year or so. This week, we're revisiting a conversation we ...
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Episode 151
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56:55
ICYMI: Creating a Medically-Ready Military at the Defense Health Agency
This week, The Buzz presents a keynote session from our 2024 Health Innovation Summit. In this fireside chat, Kevin Seeley, VP of Strategic Programs for Military Health at GDIT, sits down with Naomi Escoffery, Chief Accele...
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Episode 149
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25:48
ICYMI: How NIST is Responding to AI Development
This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2024 Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is responsible for developing and issuing guidance around the standards ...
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Episode 148
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ICYMI: Venture Meets Mission with Arun Gupta
Last week, ACT-IAC held its 2024 Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference in Cambridge, MD, where leaders and experts from across government, industry and academia met to discuss how government can harness new technology to improve mission...
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Episode 147
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52:06
ICYMI: Resilient Infrastructure Work at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Resilient Infrastructure Summit. In this opening keynote session, Dr. Elizabeth Doris, Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis at the National Renewable E...
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Episode 146
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ICYMI: Academic Perspectives in Resilient Infrastructure
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Resilient Infrastructure Summit. This panel focuses on how academic institutions contribute to infrastructure change action through research, sustainable practices, and policy advocac...
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Episode 145
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Dark Patterns and Ethical Design with Colin Gray
Have you ever tried to cancel an online subscription and ended up clicking around in circles trying to find the right button to press? If so, you experienced a "dark pattern" - a deceptive tactic of UX design that tries to trick users into doin...
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Episode 144
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ICYMI: Digital Transformation Strides Driving Citizen Experience in Government
This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2024 Digital Transformation Summit. This panel of fedtech experts discusses the progress they have made in their respective agencies to leverage digital transformation to enhance...
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Episode 143
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The Civic Tech Success of IRS Direct File with Courtney O' Reilly
About a year ago, we were joined on the show by Gabriel Zucker of Code for America to talk taxes. Specifically, a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act that directed the IRS to develo...
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Episode 142
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A New Era for US Passenger Rail? With Robert Puentes
This week, The Buzz is joined once again by Robert Puentes, President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation. Last time, we talked about some of the challenges facing American aviation and the FAA. The intervening weeks have ...
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Episode 141
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37:36
ICYMI: Shared Services Lessons from the Intelligence Community
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Shared Services Summit, in partnership with the Shared Services Leadership Coalition. Learn more at sharedservicesnow.org.In this fireside...
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Episode 140
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25:14
Replay: The Tax Software We Deserve with Gabriel Zucker
This episode originally aired on April 5th, 2023.As tax season ramps up in earnest, and given the good news about the IRS's Direct File Pilot Program, we thought now would be a good time t...
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Episode 139
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42:08
From the Archives: The Roots of Government CX with Dan Tangherlini
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our archives.The concept of customer experience has driven business decisions in private industry for some time, but it's only in the last decade that CX, or citizen service, has become a focu...
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Episode 138
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52:33
ICYMI: Don't Forget to Cyber
This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2024 Digital Transformation Summit. Digital transformation efforts often rely on implementation of new systems. This presents an opportunity to integrate improved cybersecurity polic...
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Episode 137
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Virtual Reality and the Future of Medicine with Dr. Brennan Spiegel
While virtual reality has been around for several decades, both as a concept and a technology, it is only in the past few years that inexpensive, mass-produced, higher-quality VR systems have become broadly available. This has enabled more peop...
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Episode 136
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37:58
The Future of Federal Buildings with Elliot Doomes
Since the mass adoption of remote work began in 2020, there has been an ongoing question around what the shift in commuting habits means for American downtowns. What should office space look like? Where should people be living and working, and ...
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Episode 135
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25:19
ICYMI: AI Acquisitions at the Department of State with Michael Derrios
This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Acquisition Forum, which specifically focused this year on AI in government. Our forum ended with a fireside chat between Susie Rainey, Diplomacy and Exploration Lead at Accent...
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Episode 134
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24:33
Modernization and Reform at the FAA with Robert Puentes
In just a few short years, the aviation sector has experienced the whipsaw of a pandemic-era travel freeze followed by a post-pandemic travel explosion. Like many other industries, our already complex air travel system has experienced s...
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Episode 133
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30:58
The Green Transition Dilemma with James Salzman and J.B. Ruhl
As we've explored on this show before, the past few years have seen an unprecedented level of public and private investment in green energy, green infrastructure, and electrification. Between the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infra...
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Episode 132
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