GovConnect

Dan Hymowitz is the Director of the Mayor's Office of Performance and Innovation in Baltimore, Maryland. Listen in to learn about Dan's experience working on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and how he has used that experience to structure and lead an innovation team. This podcast was recorded in May 2019.

Julia Richman Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Technology Officer with City of Boulder, Colorado. After getting a public policy degree, she started in consulting. Joining one of the big consulting firms, she spent about 10 years working with state and local governments. Started at the city in 2017 as the Innovation and Analytics Officer, before moving into the role of CIO, overseeing the enterprise technology function.

David Graham, Chief Innovation Officer with City of Carlsbad, California. He is the first CIO in San Diego County and one of the few throughout the state at the local level. Traffic concerns, sustainability concerns, digital transformation moving our systems from analog to digital, going mobile, and providing more services to people.

Amanda Daflos, is the Chief Innovation Officer in the city of Los Angeles. Amanda has experience in the public sector and the nonprofit world and in 2018, Los Angeles was awarded the Fast Company world-changing idea for their work in tackling the housing crisis.

Our first international guest is Dominic Campbell, is the founder and CEO of Future Gov and the Interim Chief Digital Officer of Homes England the non-departmental public body, which funds affordable housing in England.

Greg Chavarria is the Assistant City Manager and Chief Information Officer at the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida. We discussed transitioning from civil engineer to programmer to project manager to CIO, the differences in IT leadership CIO roles at the local government level vs state department, and how PMP background can help any IT leader.

Brian Elms, a founding member of Denver's Peak Academy and currently serves as an Innovation Practice Lead at the Change and Innovation Agency. He’s also a published author thanks to his book Peak Performance: How Denver’s Peak Academy is Saving Money, Boosting Morale and Just Maybe Changing the World. (And How You Can, Too!) Learn about the different types of innovation, talking about and defining failure, and overcoming challenges facing innovation teams and leaders.

Abhi Nemani, who helped launch Code for America, served as the City of Los Angeles' first Chief Data Officer and later interim Chief Innovation Officer under Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, is the founder of EthosLabs, a govtech consultancy.

Dustin Haisler, the Chief Innovation Officer at Government Technology, is a ferocious reader who's curated content on all things innovation and then how it connects back to local government. He has direct personal experience with all sides of government innovation, first as CIO in the public sector, later working for a govtech startup, and now working with local governments across the world on content and events.

Brendan Babb, Chief Innovation Officer, talks about how his time as a programmer, researcher, patent holder, and Code for America co-captain impacted his perspective as the CIO of Alaska's largest city.

Nick Bowden was the CEO and Founder of MindMixer (and later mySidewalk), and he now serves as Product Lead for Model Lab at Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company.

Steve Ressler, the founder of GovLoop, has a experience in the public sector and has held leadership roles at GovDelivery, Granicus, and Callyo.