Federal Tech Talk

Willie Hicks, federal CTO at Dynatrace, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a new survey that asked three hundred federal information technology professionals about the challenges their agencies face in moving to the cloud.

Patrick Sullivan, CTO of Security Strategy at Akamai Technologies, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss Zero Trust and how to apply it to federal information technology.

Joe Balchune, vice president and general manager of Federal Markets at Motorola, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain how his company provides mission critical communications for many federal agencies. 

Vimesh Patel, chief technology advisor for WWT, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges of software modernization for the  federal government.

Tim Odom, director of Business Technology Solutions Development at Vidoori, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk, to explain how high-performance testing can help federal leaders complete major tasks on time and under budget.

Duncan Jones, head of Cybersecurity, and Tom Benjamin, president at Cambridge Quantum North America, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk for a deep discussion on quantum computing and federal information technology.

Bob Stevens, Area VP of Public Sector at GitLab, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the entire process of the software development life cycle and provide guidelines on ways to incorporate testing in all aspects of project completion.

Nancy Pate, general manager, Public Sector and Danny Holloway, Public Sector Field chief technology officer at  Immuta, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to share methods to overcome some of the typical access-control issues inherent in applying zero trust principles to enterprise-level applications and data.

Kurt Greening, Leader Public Sector, Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company's innovations are helping federal IT officials protect their data from cyber attacks.

ThreatLocker CEO and co-founder Danny Jenkins joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity. zero trust software, and issues brought up by the Log4j cyber attack.

Gil Vega,  chief information security officer for Veeam, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain why federal IT officials should update their data security strategies.

Michael Speca, president of Ardalyst, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to give us an update on the CMMC initiative from the Department of Defense.

Bill Wright is the senior director of North American Government Affairs at Splunk, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal technology leaders need to ingest, monitor, analyze and search their agency's data.

Mark Johnson, vice president of Federal Cloud at Oracle, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk, to discuss the challenges federal information technology folks have in transitioning to the cloud.

Dan Graves, chief technology officer at Delphix, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges federal IT officials face when managing diverse data sets.

idRamp President Mike Vesey joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how Identity Credential Access Management can help federal IT officials protect their agency's data.

Janek Claus, director of Application Development at Sev1Tech, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the implications of rapid software development.

Tim Jones, regional vice president of Systems Engineering, Public Sector, at ForeScout Technologies, joins host John Gilroy on Federal Tech Talk to discuss the world of Operational Technology or OT.

Peter Chapman, CEO of IonQ joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to give an overview of quantum computing for federal information technology.

Steve Grewal, vice president & CTO, Public Sector at Cohesity, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss data management and the IT challenges facing federal technology professionals.

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Aquia, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss cloud security and enterprise architecture for federal systems.

Claire Walsh, vice president of Engineering & Henry Jai, Data Science Capability Lead at Excella join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges of using artificial intelligence, how AI is implemented, and explainable artificial intelligence(XAI).

VAST Data Federal's Gus Hunt and Randy Hayes join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how improvements in data storage can increase access and reduce long- term costs for federal agencies.

John Phillips, vice president, Public Sector at Tricentis, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how automating the software testing process will bring large federal IT projects to completion sooner.

Rob Shore, senior vice president of Marketing at Infinera, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how optical networks can help federal agencies scale network bandwidth and accelerate service integration.

Allen McNaughton, director of Pre-Sales Engineering, Public Sector at Infoblox Federal, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a topic that is foundational to understanding how the Internet works -- a protective Domain Name Server system

Michael Murray, founder & CEO of Scope Security, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss healthcare cybersecurity and why some devices in hospitals can be vectors for ransomware attacks.

Nicholas Andersen, chief information security officer, Public Sector at Lumen Technologies, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity in today's rapidly changing federal environment.

Nicholas Speece, chief federal technologist at Snowflake, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how Snowflake is using the Data Cloud to change the way companies and federal agencies approach data management.

Jeremy Hogg, vice president of Public Sector Sales at Kofax, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss whether your agency is a candidate for Robotic Process Automation.

Michael Acton, vice president of Solutions at ARRAY Information Technology, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges of managing data for the Department of Defense.

Presidio Federal General Manager Clara Conti, and Chief Technology Officer Craig Heartwell, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain how their company can assist the federal government in its modernization challenges.

CrowdStrike's Shawn Henry and Drew Bagley join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss "threat hunting" and what can happen if a federal agency is the target of a ransomware attack.

Mark Forman, executive vice president of Dynamic Integrated Services, discusses the challenges government agencies face in trying to modernize their programs, and the changing role of the federal CIO.

Ericom's Chase Cunningham joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the concept of Zero Trust.

Stuart Itkin, vice president of CMMC and FedRAMP Assurance for Coalfire joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to talk about the CMMC initiative from the DoD.

Todd Schroeder, managing director Global Public Sector, Strategy and Sales for Google joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how the Google Cloud platform can help federal agencies reduce cost and improve flexibility.

Yash Prakash, chief strategy officer at Saviynt, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk, to discuss identity management and how federal agencies can elevate access for customers, secure access without a VPN, monitor every privileged session.

Ryan Picchini, senior director of Product Marketing at Acquia, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how effective web design can help align federal agency resources and remove silos for citizens to consume federal information.

Tom Kennedy, vice president, Public Sector at Rubrik and Christopher Ginder, regional director of Civilian Agencies at NetApp, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss a joint venture to improve network security in the federal government.

Mark Johnson, vice president, Department of Defense at Oracle., joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies make the move to a hybrid cloud environment.

Ulf Ewaldsson senior vice president, Chief Network Officer at T-Mobile US, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain how 5G can help federal agencies accomplish their goals.

John Peluso, chief product officer at AvePoint, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss experiences his company has had with several agencies when they wanted to make a transition to the Microsoft cloud. 

Joe Flynn, public sector CTO for Boomi (a Dell Technologies Business), joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how the company helps federal systems connect in a manner that is economical and respects all compliance conventions.

Dr. Michael Stonebraker, co-founder of Tamr, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss why he thinks his company has solved the basic problem with machine learning.

Bob Dunn, vice president of Federal for Juniper Networks, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain how recent changes in Juniper Networks can help with federal information technology goals.

ID.me CEO Blake Hall joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss identity management and the challenges federal IT officials face in protecting their information from scammers.

FedHIVE CEO Michael Cardaci joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help agencies make a smooth transition to a new set of requirements from the DoD called the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.

Neil Proctor, vice president of Engineering R&D at Acronis SCS, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help a federal agency accomplish the goal of resiliency.

Matt Bradley, vice president of Global Security Solutions at On Solve, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how a new stack of products from OnSolve can help federal IT professionals reach their goals for 2021 and beyond.

This week on Federal Tech Talk, Will LaForest, public sector CTO at Confluent joins host John Gilroy to discuss federal use cases that apply the event streaming platform ApacheKafka and how it fits into the federal data strategy.