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Explore global research, case studies and podcasts on digital transformation and innovation in the public sector.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 65: Innovative Culture and AI: Digital Transformation in the City of Kelowna
Episode 65: Innovative Culture and AI: Digital Transformation in the City of Kelowna
As the CIO for the City of Kelowna in Canada, Jazz Pabla led a small team charged with delivering digital services and meeting the developing needs of a growing city. He meets host Olivia Neal to explore how the team used Generative AI to test new approaches to service delivery, to support developers, and to create a culture of innovation that attracts and keeps talented people.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 63: A Connected and Citizen-Centered City: Lessons from Brussels
Episode 63: A Connected and Citizen-Centered City: Lessons from Brussels
Mary Odile Lognard shares the approach that she and her team have taken to enable the digital transformation of the City of Brussels. She introduces BRUCE, the new omni-channel platform used by the city, explains the impact of this work, as well as her lessons for others.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 60: Leveling the Cybersecurity Playing Field with AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud
Episode 60: Leveling the Cybersecurity Playing Field with AI, Machine Learning and Cloud
Using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud to address cybersecurity challenges in the Public Sector.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 59: Modernizing National Approaches to Cybersecurity
Episode 59: Modernizing National Approaches to Cybersecurity
Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Government’s Centre for Cyber Security. As Canada’s technical authority on cyber security, the team use their expertise to keep safe the information and systems that Canadians rely on, to protect and defend the country’s cyber assets and to lead Canada’s federal response to cybersecurity events.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 58: Cybersecurity in an AI-Driven Landscape
Episode 58: Cybersecurity in an AI-Driven Landscape
Cybersecurity stands at the forefront of global concerns, and recent advancements in generative AI have opened new avenues for both progress and peril. Guest host Alvaro Vitta and Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, delve into the insights from the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 57: India’s Journey to Digital Transformation: A Conversation with Dr. Pramod Varma
Episode 57: India’s Journey to Digital Transformation: A Conversation with Dr. Pramod Varma
India’s digital transformation journey has relied on strategic thinking, collaboration, and innovative solutions. Dr. Pramod Varma talks with us about how India overcame hurdles to create a robust digital ecosystem, including a digital identity program for over one billion people.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 56: Championing Identity for All: Empowerment and Progress in Africa
Episode 56: Championing Identity for All: Empowerment and Progress in Africa
Dr. Joseph Atick is a recognized thought leader in digital identity, economic development, data protection, and privacy. With a career spanning several decades, he is a founding father of the digital identity community and Executive Chairman for ID4Africa.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 20: Delivering Amazing for the World Cup
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 20: Delivering Amazing for the World Cup
Mohamed Abuagla is the Chief Executive for Hayya, the organization in Qatar responsible for helping the country manage the massive influx of people for the World Cup, while providing a seamless experience for fans entering the country, using transportation, and attending the games.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 19: Infrastructure is Our User Interface for the Planet
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 19: Infrastructure is Our User Interface for the Planet
Peter Torrellas is President for Connected Communities at Parsons Corporation leading infrastructure-focused business across cities, transportation, and utilities. Peter joined the podcast to talk about embracing the complexity of infrastructure to implement projects across domains.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 18: The Power of Having a Vision
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 18: The Power of Having a Vision
Enrique Penalosa, the former mayor of Bogota, Colombia joined the podcast to talk about the importance of having – and sticking to – a clear vision to overcome resistance and drive change at the city level and how it helped him transform Bogota.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 17: How Art is Driving Change in Philadelphia
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 17: How Art is Driving Change in Philadelphia
Jane Golden is the Executive Director of Mural Arts in Philadelphia. Jane joined us to talk about how engaging communities is driving positive change in the city and how murals are changing SEPTA spaces to improve the passenger experience.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 16: How Cascais Became a Smarter City
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 16: How Cascais Became a Smarter City
Miguel Pinto Luz the Deputy Mayor of Cascais joined us to share the story of how Cascais prioritizes quality of life, and how it’s putting service delivery and economic development first to achieve it. Listen to learn about Cascais’s transportation system and why accountability and transparency are at the core of how Cascais is becoming a smarter city.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 15: Charting the Future of Water
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 15: Charting the Future of Water
Peter Fiske is the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI). He joined The Future of Infrastructure to talk to us about the future of water – and how infrastructure will need to change to combat climate change, become more efficient, and meet demand in the coming decades.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 14: Sustainability is an Opportunity for Transportation
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 14: Sustainability is an Opportunity for Transportation
Laura Tolkoff is the Transportation Policy Director at SPUR – the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association. Laura joined the Future of Infrastructure to talk about why sustainability is an opportunity for transportation, and how SPUR is shaping San Francisco’s transportation system.
- Future of Infrastructure: Episode 13: Promoting Joy: The Role of Parks and Public Spaces in City Infrastructure
Future of Infrastructure: Episode 13: Promoting Joy: The Role of Parks and Public Spaces in City Infrastructure
Phil Ginsburg is the General Manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. He joined the Future of Infrastructure to talk about the importance and often overlooked role of parks as infrastructure that make cities work for their residents.
- Welcome to the Future of Infrastructure
Welcome to the Future of Infrastructure
This year, The Future of Infrastructure is setting off on its own as a standalone podcast hosted on Microsoft’s Public Sector Center of Expertise. Learn more about this new podcast.
Read more - The Future Powered By Hyperscale Cloud Computing with Dave Sloan of Microsoft
The Future Powered By Hyperscale Cloud Computing with Dave Sloan of Microsoft
Listen to this podcast hosted by Foley & Lardner LLP as they discuss hyperscale cloud computing with Microsoft’s Dave Sloan, CTO for Worldwide Public Sector.
Visit this external website to listen - Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 43: Lessons Learned from 100 Years of City Planning
Episode 43: Future of Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from 100 Years of City Planning
Tom Wright is the CEO of the Regional Plan Association. He joined the podcast for a discussion of what they’ve learned by taking the long view of city and regional planning.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 42: Future of Infrastructure: Building for Resilience
Episode 42: Future of Infrastructure: Building for Resilience
The Special Advisor for Climate & Sustainability at Columbia University talks about lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and how a comprehensive infrastructure approach mitigates the impact of climate change.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 41: Building blocks for digital transformation
Episode 41: Building blocks for digital transformation
Ashleigh Sinclair, Managing Associate at Linklaters and Andrew Cooke, Global Policy Lead at Microsoft share insights from their paper on Building Blocks for a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 39: The Future of Tax Operations
Episode 39: The future of tax operations
Jeff Saviano is the Global Tax Innovation Leader for EY. In the first episode of our Public Finance mini-series, Jeff tells Olivia about the intersection of tax and innovation and shares what he sees in the future of public finance.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 38: Cybersecurity, Compliance and Cloud: Lessons from Singapore
Episode 38: Cybersecurity, Compliance and Cloud: Lessons from Singapore
Yeo Beng Huay leads the Governance Planning and Policy Division in GovTech, Singapore. Her team plans and formulates policies, standards, and guidance for government ICT and smart systems, and provides data driven management of compliance and risks.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 37: Military Lessons on Cyberdefense
Episode 37: Military Lessons on Cyberdefense
Dr. Marcus Thompson is a retired Major General and former Head of Information Warfare for the Australian Defense Force. On the second episode of our cybersecurity mini-series, Dr. Thompson talks with Alvaro Vitta about best practices for protecting sensitive data and why making risk-based decisions is so important.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 36: Cyber Resilience in Government
Episode 36: Cyber Resilience in Government
Tom Burt is the Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft. On the first episode of our Cybersecurity mini-series, Tom tells Alvaro Vitta about the trends he’s seeing, working with the government in Ukraine on cyber defense, and how public sector organizations can be better prepared for future attacks.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 34: Future of Infrastructure: Skills are the Currency of the Global Workforce
Episode 34: Future of Infrastructure: Skills are the Currency of the Global Workforce
Karin Kimbrough is the Chief Economist at LinkedIn and an expert in the global workforce. With increased global investment in infrastructure, a skilled workforce is needed to meet that demand. In this conversation, we discuss what this investment means for green jobs and women, and how we can expect the job market to shift in coming years.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 33: Future of Infrastructure: Be Nimble to Succeed
Episode 33: Future of Infrastructure: Be Nimble to Succeed
Ratna Amin, Project Director for the City Administrator Office at the City of Oakland joined us to discuss how civic organizations are pushing governments to get transit infrastructure right – and the complexity of defining success.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 32: Future of Infrastructure: Closing the Infrastructure Gap
Episode 32: Future of Infrastructure: Closing the Infrastructure Gap
Alice Charles brings a truly global perspective and decades of experience to our discussion of infrastructure and its impact. In this conversation, we talked about infrastructure needs around the world, and what kind of investments we need to make to close the gap.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 31: Future of Infrastructure: Collaborating for Safer Roads
Episode 31: Future of Infrastructure: Collaborating for Safer Roads
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada CEO, MJ Maynard joined Jeremy Goldberg to share how a collaboration between public agencies and technology companies helped make their roads safer.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 30: Restricted data in the cloud
Episode 30: Restricted data in the cloud
Rear Admiral António Gameiro Marques is the Director General of the Portuguese National Security Authority, which includes the National Cybersecurity Center.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 29: Future of Infrastructure: Focusing on Long-Term Outcomes
Episode 29: Future of Infrastructure: Focusing on Long-Term Outcomes
CEO of Infrastructure Western Australia Philip Helberg joined Jeremy Goldberg for our latest discussion on the Future of Infrastructure. Infrastructure has to serve people in the long term and this discussion is all about how to effectively make long term plans for infrastructure investment, and just as importantly, how to know if your plan is working.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 28: Future of Infrastructure: Changing Lanes: Equity in Transit
Episode 28: Future of Infrastructure: Changing Lanes: Equity in Transit
Seleta Reynolds, former GM of LADOT Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) joined Jeremy Goldberg to talk about the impact of our transit system on women and how we can build more effective and equitable transportation systems.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 27: Future of Infrastructure: Be Obsessed with Delivering the Basics
Episode 27: Future of Infrastructure: Be Obsessed with Delivering the Basics
Changing the face of Cleveland’s lakefront has been a long-term project. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb joined Jeremy Goldberg in our latest Future of Infrastructure episode to talk about the importance of building trust and equity by investing in infrastructure like the lakefront and getting the basics right.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 25: Future of Infrastructure: Public Interest Technology: This is Our Work
Episode 25: Future of Infrastructure: Public Interest Technology: This is Our Work
In the 1960s, Public Interest Law emerged as a way for the legal profession to deploy its expertise in service of the public. Today, our guest Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation says that it’s time for the same ethic and commitment to emerge from the field of technology. In this episode we discuss how to make that happen and what it will look like in practice when we create the structures for technologists to work in the public interest.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 24: Relinking a Community
Episode 24: Future of Infrastructure: Re-linking a Community
How can city leaders tackle the inequities of infrastructure built in the past? In this episode, Mayor Quinton Lucas joined guest host Jeremy Goldberg to talk about the legacy of U.S. Highway 71 in Kansas City, a divided community, and how he is using the U.S.’s Infrastructure Bill to build more equitable infrastructure.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 23: Coming up: Future of Infrastructure
Episode 23: Coming up: Future of Infrastructure
Public Sector Future host, Olivia Neal, is passing the baton to Jeremy Goldberg for a group of episodes that dive deep into the future of infrastructure. Jeremy explains why this is an important topic, what we actually mean when we talk about infrastructure, and what you can expect to hear in this special miniseries.
- Public Sector Future Podcast | Episode 22: Government migration to cloud ecosystems
Episode 22: Government migration to cloud ecosystems
Dr. Rami Amin is based in the Digital Development Practice at the World Bank Group, leading global advisory work on how to accelerate digital transformation, sectoral investment, and economic growth. He is a lead author of the World Bank’s Government Cloud Migration report.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 19 | Digital India – Part 2
Episode 19: Digital India – Part 2
Abhishek Singh is the CEO of MyGov, National e-Governance Division, and Digital India Corporation in the Government of India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT. Discover how he provides assisted access to digital services, works across various levels of the government, and implements data standards and service integration. Singh dives into projects like DigiLocker and shares where he draws inspiration from.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 18 | Digital India – Part 1
Episode 18: Digital India – Part 1
Abhishek Singh is the CEO of MyGov, CEO, National e-Governance Division and MD & CEO, Digital India Corporation in the Government of India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT. Discover Singh’s priorities in his roles, his communications and engagement approaches, the structure of Digital India, and how the pandemic transformed and continues to impact hybrid work in India.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 15 | Data Curation for Sharing and Crisis Response
Episode 15: Data Curation for Sharing and Crisis Response
Professor Dame Angela McLean is the Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK Ministry of Defence. She was appointed to the role in 2019. McLean is a Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University and Director of The Institute for Emerging Infections of Humans.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 14 | Real Time Crime Center
Episode 14: Real Time Crime Center
Inspector Joseph Courtesis spent 27 years of serving with the New York Police Department (NYPD). Courtesis was former Commander of the 105th and 106th Precincts, Central Investigations Division, and the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center. We explore how better use of data delivered outcomes for NYPD.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 6 | e-Estonia: Using Data to Deliver Trusted Services
Episode 6: e-Estonia: Using Data to Deliver Trusted Services
Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia, which has been called ‘the most advanced digital society in the world.’ He was named one of world’s top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical in 2018 & 2019. He is the chair of OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials.
- Public Sector Future Podcast: Episode 5 | Challenge-based approaches to Public Sector innovation
Episode 5: Challenge-based approaches to Public Sector innovation
Jeremy Goldberg recently joined Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector team. He’s worked in government in the city of San Jose, San Francisco, the city of New York, and most recently was leading technology for the Governor of New York State. We dive into one of the projects he was responsible for in the New York City Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer.
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