The Buzz with ACT-IAC

About The Buzz with ACT-IAC

Welcome to The Buzz with ACT-IAC – your source for the hot topics and top issues affecting the federal technology market. Join us each week to hear insights from government and industry leaders, stay informed on the topics facing government, gain access to thought leadership and valuable reports. Subscribe to follow us on your favorite podcast platform.

Publisher

ACT-IAC

Category

government · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2021

Latest episode

1 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

89 of 234 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Justin Wade on Leading Through Change

   Justin Wade is the new chair of ACT-IAC Voyagers’ 2027 Professional Development Program and CTO of the Interior Business Center at the U.S. Department of the Interior. We talk about why this is a critical moment to develop agile leaders amid rapid technology shifts and increased pressure for efficiency. Wade shares his lifelong path in IT, from learning programming in first grade, studying computer science at CU Denver, early leadership as a Unix system administrator, entrepreneurial work wit...

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   18 Jun 2026

   ICYMI ET&I Keynote Dr. Troy LeBlanc

   In case you missed it, this is ACT-IAC’s Emerging Tech and Innovation conference keynote remarks from NASA Johnson Space Center CIO Dr. Troy LeBlanc. He outlines how 65 years of human spaceflight have produced an explosion of imagery and mission data, from priceless Apollo film archives to near real-time ISS downlinks and millions of photos per expedition. He explains the need to organize, secure, and rapidly process data for confident, safe decisions, while preserving public trust as AI make...

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   11 Jun 2026

   ICYMI ET&I Keynote Fireside Chat Seval Oz

   A fireside chat from ACT-IAC’s Emerging Tech and Innovation Conference with Seval Oz, senior advisor (and nominee for assistant secretary) in USDOT’s Office of Research and Technology, and Amy McKenna of SAIC. Oz describes how DOT migrated to Google-based workspace IT and uses large language models to cut RFI analysis from six weeks to 24–48 hours. She explains the “Interstate 2.0” corridors initiative, where 23 states are forming adjoining-state teams to enable data interoperability across m...

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Justin Wade on Leading Through Change

Published 1 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] When you're the only IT person and they point at a building and say, go set up IT in that building. Let me tell you, you learn a lot doing that. It taught me resilience. It taught me a ton of technical skills. And I learned that it's not always about having all the answers. It's about being courageous enough to get out there and build things, learn things, admit when you don't know things, and just lead through the uncertainty. And then it also taught me a lot on the business side of things, again, as I spoke to of going after contracts and dealing with being the entrepreneurial side of things and getting work for myself. […]

Who has been a guest on The Buzz with ACT-IAC

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ratima Kataria
• Ann Marie Johnson
• Mathew Blum
• Shak McCants
• Jason Pan

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

183,121

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

51

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