Ep. 191 The Surge of Google Public Sector

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Google's public sector has exploded into the federal technology marketplace. Today, we recapitulated the recent Google Public Sector event and tried to understand the reasons for the success.

Our guest is Troy Bertram, Executive Managing Director of Google's public Sector Partner Ecosystem. Together, we review the keynote presentations, essential concepts, and the value Google can bring to rapid innovation in the federal government.

The event kicked off with Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector, emphasizing the value of making systems foundationally secure. Apparently, this message resonates with the tech audience.

Although Google Public Sector has only been around for two years, it saw 1,000+ people attend, including 24 federal leaders and attendees from over ten countries. Apparently, operational resilience is an international concept.

We also heard some entertaining concepts. Leigh Palmer talked about AI as “always confident, not always correct.” She and her panel focused on the importance of having valid data before the discussion of artificial intelligence begins.

Forrester has some predictions about the public sector that apply to federal cloud usage. They say that “public sectors should become more adaptive to build resilience and fuel innovation.

Troy Bertram focuses on the DoD's efforts to leverage many of the concepts detailed at this conference.