Oct 22 2019

Imagine Nation ELC 2019: Federal CIO Suzette Kent Drives Innovation Agenda

Federal CIO Suzette Kent and her office have been busy, issuing new policies around data center optimization, cloud, the Trusted Internet Connections program and a federal data strategy. Kent argues that those policy updates will set agencies up for success as they continue to modernize their technology environments. At the Imagine Nation ELC 2019 conference in Philadelphia, we spoke with Kent about those policy changes, how the government is approaching automation technology policy and the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions network modernization contract

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Participants

    Federal CIO Suzette Kent 

Video Highlights

  • Policies issued from the office of the Federal CIO will help agencies remove barriers to technology modernization and adoption. 
  • The government is working on a new policy to guide how agencies use automation technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and natural language processing. 
  • The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract will enable agencies to transform their network infrastructure to support better service delivery to citizens.