Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference
Overview
Emerging technologies (ET) are evolving at a rapid cadence measured in weeks, not months or years. Likewise, innovation is much broader than inventing or adopting a new technology – it includes changing how business is done to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and customer service. The technologies that make our lives easier and the forward innovative thinking that breeds creativity, will catapult us into the next level of government IT.
ACT-IAC has created the Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference, to be held virtually May 25 – 26, 2021, to focus on the innovations and emerging technologies that are on the forefront of change in Federal IT. This year’s agenda revolves around three major themes: Resilient Infrastructure, Emerging Technologies, and the U.S. Science and Technology Agenda.
In addition to a dynamic set of speakers and opportunities to engage, the conference will celebrate the winners of the 2021 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards, who will share their innovation successes and lessons learned. You’ll also hear from successful industry emerging technology and innovation solutions in our Showcase of Excellence. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to network with your peers and discover the art of the possible as we collaborate together to accelerate the delivery of government mission outcomes.
Speakers:
Gabe Chang, Federal CTO Architect, IBM
Rima Oueid, Senior Energy Finance & Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy (invited)
Brandon Rodenburg, PhD, Physicist and Quantum Information Scientist, MITRE
Carl Williams, Deputy Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited)
Agenda
Agenda - By Date
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Perryn Ashmore, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (confirmed)
Alka Patel, Head of AI Ethics Policy, Department of Defense, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (invited)
Speakers:
Gabe Chang, Federal CTO Architect, IBM
Rima Oueid, Senior Energy Finance & Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy (invited)
Brandon Rodenburg, PhD, Physicist and Quantum Information Scientist, MITRE
Carl Williams, Deputy Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Bob Burns, Executive Director, Innovation and Collaboration, DHS Science and Technology, Directorate (confirmed)
Charles Clancy, Senior Vice-President, General Manager, MITRE Labs, Chief Futurist (confirmed)
Pete Tseronis, Founder and CEO, Dots and Bridges, LLC (confirmed)
Paula Gold Williams, Chief Executive Officer, CPS Energy (invited)
Saif Ishoof, Vice President of Engagement, Florida International University (invited)
Mike Sarasti, Chief Information Officer, Miami City (invited)
Jim Perscbach, Chief Executive Officer, Port San Antonio (invited)
Innovation Nominations A-C
Innovation Nominations D-H
-Biometric login: simplifies the sign-in process, which has long been a pain point for Veterans
-Profile: Veterans can view and edit their personal information, including direct deposit information for payments
-Claims & Appeals Status: Veterans can view claim statuses and manage some claims
-Facility Locator: directs users to their nearest VA facilities
-Appointments: Veterans can navigate to their appointments, view, or cancel them
-Veteran Crisis Line: Veterans can access the crisis line and integrate with their phone’s SMS features as needed
-Secure Messaging: Veterans can message their VA health providers through the app
While currently in prototype, the VA mobile app is scheduled to be released on Google Play Store and Apple App Store in May 2021.
• A single digital platform that integrates 13 different legacy websites and serves as a borrower’s front door to FSA services via the StudentAid.gov website and the redesigned myStudentAid mobile app, eliminating the need for multiple log-ins.
• A modern marketing platform supporting real-time, personalized email and SMS communications.
• A consolidated customer care platform empowering customer service agents and back-office processers to better manage customer inquiries.
• The ‘Aidan®’ virtual assistant, a 24/7 service using natural language understanding to answer FAQs about student aid and provides key transactional functions, including checking loan balances and making payments.
Show how to build an agile and scalable digital platform by creating and integrating reusable APIs and multiple Cloud environments.
Offer a central place where business and IT leaders can critically assess our core capabilities for potential implementation into their environment.
Give users a place to experiment and see our unique advantages and competitive differentiation.
Provide use cases that showcase the business metrics and successes that our technical capabilities offer our customers.
• Messaging: email, calendar and contacts
• Content management: web portal, file sharing, storage, archive and index, search, and filter, workflows and orchestration
• Productivity suite: word processor, spreadsheet, database management, drafting and diagramming, project scheduling and tracking
• Collaboration: one-to-one instant messaging, presence, persistent group chat, web conferencing, native audio, native video, white boarding, and desktop sharing
Fernglas capabilities include:
— Multi-cloud IAM and governance and centralized RBAC access for ALL cloud accounts
— Multi-cloud Cost Management and Optimization
— Service catalog and end-to-end automated provisioning
— Multi-cloud Continuous security and compliance
— Multi-cloud Application portability and interoperability
— Predictive multi-cloud operations management
— Cross-domain multi-cloud data security.
At a high level, the solution would enable the medical logistics community to:
• Provide medical supply chain management
• Supply medical asset management, preventative maintenance and readiness of medical equipment
• Oversee medical property accountability within the operating force environment in a manner that is as responsive, capable, and efficient as direct patient care activities
• Make sound, informed decisions in mission-critical operational environments through real-time, accurate and insightful information
PEO EIS’s GCSS-Army product office began deploying the solution to the field in phases. Partial new functionality was implemented in August and December 2020. The remainder of the functionality is tentatively scheduled for implementation in May 2021.
Innovation Nominations I-P
unemployment and pandemic assistance to those impacted by COVID-19. As of mid-August 2020, more than 60 million constituents have applied for unemployment, overwhelming state staff and systems. As the number of constituents applying for assistance continues at unprecedented levels, improper payments will also increase as a result of bad actors, deceit, and errors. Google Cloud is aiding the efforts of states and local agencies to identify and prioritize improper payments, before funds are distributed thwarting fraud, honest mistakes, and supporting distribution of aid to constituents truly in need. Additionally, the scalable and rapid to deploy environment helps agencies manage huge caseloads and the backlog of claims states continue to face. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Google can help agencies identify and prioritize fraudulent applications before funds are distributed, thwarting bad actors and supporting distributing aid to the constituents truly in need. Google’s Big Data Analytics & AI/ML capabilities enable states to process vast amounts of data at scale and accelerate the distribution of claims quickly, efficiently, and accurately.
- During data preparation, AI can be used to improve data quality, reducing the manual effort required to prepare high-quality data for consumption.
- Unlimited amounts of data from disparate systems can be stored in a data lake in open formats while accessible via high-performance query engines to other applications.
- By using the latest in explainable AI and big data tools that can easily scan petabytes of structured and unstructured data, agency managers can quickly define a target KPI they wish to optimize and use the insight from an ML model to automatically find the factors influencing it, letting them make dramatically faster and more objective business and operational decisions.
CVP also offers Nightingale with our own data scientists as an end-to-end "Managed Analytics Service", allowing agencies to accelerate decision-making, reduce operational costs via a shared pool of data science talent, and gain operational efficiencies with proven processes and talent that is ready to go with a platform on day one.
130,000 AIR QUALITY DATA POINTS COLLECTED
Governance + Coordination
Privacy + Transparency
Security + Safety
Fairness + Equity
Efficiency + Sustainability
Openness + Public Engagement
The NYC IoT Strategy offers recommendations to address these issues and outlines five broad goals for near-term City action:
1. Foster Innovation by creating structures and programs that support research, testing, and experimentation with IoT technologies
2. Promote Data Sharing and Transparency around City IoT use by engaging residents about IoT initiatives, and aggregating information and data from the City’s work to make them available across agencies, and for the public, where appropriate
3. Improve Governance and Coordination of the City’s use of connected technologies through new policies and processes
4. Derive Value from Cross-Sector Partnerships by supporting and pursuing new opportunities for collaboration
5. Engage with Industry and Advocate for Communities by creating new channels for exchange and advocating for digital rights.
1. Lowering language barriers with an open source and modular pipeline that enables and manages continuous translation, or
2. Driving digital equity by mapping existing and potential broadband assets, or
3. Fighting hate crimes by tracking bias and discrimination incidents across New York City.
The output of each project included the creation of a usable technology product that provides immediate value to partner agencies in their missions to better serve New York City. Innovation Fellows will gain invaluable hands-on experience solving critical challenges for the largest municipal government in the United States, demonstrate how powerful digital best practices can be for agency partners, and create real and lasting benefits for millions of New Yorkers. The second cohort of fifteen Innovation Fellows launched in November 2020 for a ten-week sprint to rapidly advance one of three digital products for:
1. Fostering business opportunities for minority & women owned business enterprises, or
2. Simplifying the City’s payment portal (which processes $20 billion + annually), or
3. Helping connect older adults to needed services and programming online.
Innovation Nominations R-Z
• Engagement and Assessment: Using NIC technology to help determine who needs to be tested and vaccinated and to capture consent.
• Scheduling and Notifications: Using the same Software-as-a-Service platform to allow individuals to find location-based testing and vaccination sites, schedule appointments and receive notifications and reminders.
• Onsite Testing, Vaccination and Clinical Resources: Administering COVID-19 tests and vaccinations with credentialed clinical staff.
• Logistics: Rapid mobile event facilities, equipment, location and traffic planning.
TourHealth uses NIC’s innovative mobile application Gov2Go®, the first personal assistant for government to secure test scheduling, symptom self-assessment, user notifications and result delivery, and is directly integrated with TourHealth lab partners.
• Utilizing technology platforms such as Sprinklr and Meltwater to conduct 24x7 social media scanning and monitoring.
• Reporting false content to social media platforms for review and removal to mitigate the spread of misinformation and disinformation.
• Establishing strategic partnerships with social media and technology companies, consumer advocate organizations, and civil society organizations to amplify Census Bureau messaging and mitigate both direct and indirect threats.
• Launching a dedicated page on the 2020census.gov website, Fighting 2020 Census Rumors.
• Empowering the public to report on social media and send reputational threats directly to the Census Bureau’s email inbox, [email protected]
• Uses AI to analyze satellite image data showing construction activity over time (provides "ground truth")
• Modernizes construction industry indicators (housing starts, residential and non-residential construction spending, and others)
• Identifies alternative sources of data to reduce reliance on surveys
• Leverages advanced analytics and automates manual processes to optimize performance
• Provides advanced analytics and data visualization to provide Census users and external stakeholders with timely, relevant insights for optimal decision-making
The solution collects, filters, formats, and aggregates unstructured data from numerous Census and third-party sources. The data is ingested into the Alteryx platform. Alteryx provides a unified analytic process automation (APA) platform that enables the creation and scheduling of workflows, that can collect satellite imagery and automate analysis using geospatial and AI/ML capabilities to validate, compile, and create more accurate and timely construction indicator insight.
o Consistency and unparalleled reliability and security with operations and applications, regardless of where they reside
o A reputation as a proven and trusted provider
o A broad suite of solutions for collaboration in the cloud
Webex for Government provides a modern experience to government employees on par with the commercial Webex solution available to private corporations. It delivers a single Webex app for calling, messaging, meetings, devices, and Webex Control Hub management for Federal customers. Webex for Government features a secure and seamless work experience for users and a lower total cost of ownership for organizations. Webex for Government offers one-button-to-push to join meetings, high-quality video, and seamless integration with Cisco devices such as Webex Rooms. It enables employees to stay connected by chatting and sharing files in dedicated Webex spaces. It also integrates with popular software applications, enabling seamless Microsoft Office calendar integration. Organizations can let users join meetings from their desktops, tablets, or smartphones directly from their calendars with a push of a button. Additionally, there are ready-made integrations with Enterprise Content Management applications such as Box or Microsoft OneDrive.
Sponsors
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