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Emerging Tech

News and Events on Emerging Tech

22 posts

New Community

Introducing the New Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice

The new community will explore opportunities, share ideas, and collaborate on how RPA can be effectively implemented in federal agencies.
Posts by Ed Burrows
May 08, 2019

Deep Dive: How a Health Tech Sprint Pioneered an AI Ecosystem

Seven teams created digital tools that help in finding experimental therapies for patients, and for clinical trials to recruit new patients.
Posts by Gil Alterovitz, PhD Posts by Davar Ardalan Posts by Kristen Honey, PhD
Feb 27, 2019
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Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Laura Manley, Harvard Technology and Public Purpose Project

In this next installment of the Emerging Technology Leadership Series we will discuss with Laura Manley, director of Harvard TAPP, what agencies should know about better understanding and managing potential risks from promising emerging technologies.
Posts by Justin Herman Posts by Laura Manley
Dec 18, 2018
Video

Emerging Technology Leadership Series: AI for Government Services with Mina Hanna

Mina Hanna is the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee. He will share what federal managers need to know to understand this increasingly complex and expanding field.
Posts by Justin Herman Posts by Mina Hanna
Jul 30, 2018
Video

Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Brian Behlendorf and Blockchain

The Emerging Technology Leadership Series, hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration Emerging Citizen Technology Office, is a six-part livestream pilot to enhance the modern federal workforce with training, education and awareness of emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, Social Technologies and Virtual/Augmented Reality.
Posts by Brian Behlendorf
Jul 16, 2018
Video

Funding the Future: Technology Modernization Fund Proposal Workshop

Posts by Elizabeth Cain Posts by Emma Perron Posts by Justin Herman
Jun 08, 2018
Video

An Overview of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF)

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Program Management Office and the GSA Emerging Citizen Technology Office (ECTO) are hosting a conversation to help agencies develop proposals for technology modernization projects.
Posts by Justin Herman Posts by Elizabeth Cain
May 22, 2018

Machine Learning Paired with Skilled Data Scientists is the Future of Data-Driven Decision Making

ML can provide high-value services for data management and analytics, security threat detection, and process improvement but it doesn’t stop there.
Posts by Jada Jones
Oct 03, 2017

The Data Briefing: How to Build a Chatbot in a Weekend

As chatbots have become more popular, some online sites will let you create a chatbot with little or no programming.
Posts by Bill Brantley
Sep 27, 2017

The Data Briefing: How Blockchain’s Future Growth Will Affect Federal Agencies

Blockchains are an innovative technology which promises to radically change how society conducts business. It will take significant changes in organizational processes before agencies can begin to support blockchains.
Posts by Bill Brantley
Sep 13, 2017

Emerging Tech and Open Data for a More Open and Accountable Government

Open data and emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers, such as blockchain—hold vast potential to transform public services held back by bureaucracy and outdated IT systems.
Posts by Justin Herman
Aug 24, 2017

The Data Briefing: Ten Years of Digital Transformation—Lessons Learned

Since 2007, a major consulting firm has conducted an annual survey on organizations’ “Digital IQ.” In the ten years of organizations grappling with digital transformation, what has been learned?
Posts by Bill Brantley
Jul 26, 2017

Opening Public Services to Artificial Intelligence Assistants

“Hey, Computer, how do I access my public services?” Citizens will soon be able to ask their Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA) this question through an Emerging Citizen Technology open-sourced pilot program. The purpose of the initiative is to guide dozens of federal programs make public service information available through automated, self-service platforms for the home
Posts by Justin Herman
Jun 06, 2017

Federal Pilot to Integrate Public Services Into Intelligent Personal Assistants

The demand for more automated, self-service access to United States public services, when and where citizens need them, grows each day—and so do advances in the consumer technologies like Intelligent Personal Assistants designed to meet those challenges. The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA)
Posts by Justin Herman
Apr 24, 2017

Sharing Public Service Visions for Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence

I’m taking a break from sorting through dozens of concepts from federal agencies about how they want to use artificial intelligence and virtual reality for citizens in the coming months in order to share with you just some of these groundbreaking initiatives of tomorrow that can be explored at a DigitalGov University workshop this week.
Posts by Justin Herman
Nov 30, 2016
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