Let’s TalkTech with NVTC: Recent Episodes
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Let's TalkTech with NVTC explores tech's most notable trends, new innovations, digital transformations, lean agile principles and mindsets, the future of work and more. You'll meet NextGen leaders from NVTC member companies and learn about the great impact they are making in our region.
Most government contracting firms calculate and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), but which are the most useful to get ahead in the industry? During this episode of Let’s TalkTech with NVTC and Unanet for a discussion of the most used KPIs in GovCon and some of the industry benchmarks from Unanet’s 2022 GAUGE survey of GovCon firms.
There are 5 million more job openings in the country than there are unemployed. Tech companies have been the most challenged employers with finding qualified talent, but now that talent is open to those conversations. Please join iHeartMedia’s Cliff Chiet and Danny Bortnick. You don’t want to miss this episode!
Digital Engineering (DE) is the use of models (or Digital Twins) in the design, development, test, and sustainment of a system. From aircraft avionics, to submarine alterations, to training simulators, learn how AMERICAN SYSTEMS is using end-to-end DE processes and tools in response to growing demand from federal agencies and the DoD to find more efficient, less costly, and potentially life-saving solutions to complex problems
Cybersecurity pros need to see the future. Or at least train AI to accurately predict what's going to happen in tech. Learn about the latest research from the Old Dominion University's School of Cybersecurity, ranging from industry terminology and trends to job needs and automated innovations. Then find out how and why it applies to your industry, from keeping emails secure to helping land new contracts.
Gone are the days of reactive engagement. Customer expectations are higher than ever, with demands for thoughtful, proactive, and predictive connections on their terms. AI is playing a vital role in this new future of Customer Experience Management, working as the foundation for strategic contact centers, driving business growth, and improving desired outcomes.
Anyone that engages with customers has the power to drive revenue and CX is the arguable link to transition a cost center to a revenue generator. With the right tools and mindset, contact center employees can become trusted advisors that contribute to the top and bottom lines.
This roundtable will empower you to weaponize CX as a competitive advantage. During this roundtable, we will explore best practices for automation and discovery of unknown friction points in the customer journey, and identify how you can be more helpful, profitable, & growth minded – all with less cost to your organization.
Do you really know what the metaverse entails? Join NVTC and the Merritt Group as we explore the technologies and strategies necessary to build the infrastructure of the metaverse and what marketers need to know. Merritt Group Vice President of the Emerging Technology Group, Suzanne Block and Vice President of Digital, Pasha Irshad will discuss adoption hurdles technology companies are addressing, comment on existing projects, and elaborate on marketing’s role in the metaverse. You won’t want to miss this episode!
DE&I is something that illustrates our desire, intent, and actions to really see one another as unique and special individuals/groups deserving of the chance to reach our limitless potential. When it comes to the four spheres of life – personally, professionally, academically, civically – DE&I often overlaps and can be the differentiator between opportunities and measures afforded to those underprivileged and/or underrepresented demographics and shared identities in their respective fields, communities, markets, and more. We discuss how and why DE&I has to be integrated in our four spheres of life.
Speakers:
JaJuan Smart, Founding and Managing Member, Maktub Limitless
Dr. Marcellues Hall, Vice President and Director of Education & Training, Maktub Limitless
Artificial Intelligence. 5G. Cybersecurity. With rapid technological change, how do federal policymakers best develop, analyze and implement policies? MITRE launched its Center for Data-Driven Policy last fall to bring evidence-based, nonpartisan insights to policymaking in areas ranging from national security to pandemic recovery to social justice. In this episode of Let's TalkTech with NVTC, Dave will present an overview of the Center, its priorities and partnerships, and discuss how the Center serves as a resource for the government, universities, and think tanks. He will share his thoughts on policy issues that impact IT, workforce development, and the future of work.
Speaker:
Dave Powner, Executive Director, Center for Data-Driven Policy, Director, Strategic Engagement and Partnerships, MITRE
This episode is featuring Sean Hand, Director of Business Development, KPMG and the creator of The Awkward Networker.
Sean Hand will share how networking has and hasn't changed during the pandemic. His entertaining and thought-provoking content will leave you with all the tips, tricks, and techniques you’ll need to dominate your next virtual and in-person relationship development meeting.
Join Accenture Security’s Wayne Dennis, Global Cloud Leader, and Cate Reich, Senior Manager, as they expose five key cloud security myths and uncover the truth. This candid dialogue will provide useful information to support a secure journey to cloud.
The pandemic has caused severe disruptions in supply chains around the world. Accenture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are co-developing a supply chain resilience stress test for assessing operational and financial risks created by major market disruptions, disasters or other catastrophic events. In this episode of Let’s TalkTech, Accenture’s Ken Merriam and MIT’s David Simchi-Levi discuss this new supply chain resilience stress test that will improve agility and help companies outmaneuver uncertainty.
Speakers:
Ken Merriam, Managing Director, Supply Chain & Operations, Applied Intelligence at Accenture
David Simchi-Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems, Director of MIT Data Science Lab
This episode features Robin Jones and Dannette Gomez Beane, who will provide an update on Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus and share their plan to transform the region's talent pipeline.
Speakers:
Dannette Gomez Beane, AVP for Enrollment Management Strategic Initiatives, Virginia Tech Robin Jones, AVP for Student Services, Virginia Tech Innovation Campus
Our first episode features Michael Beckley, Founder and CTO of Appian, the Tysons-based software company that helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform.
Guest Speaker:
Michael Beckley, Founder and CTO, Appian