Gwen Sykes from the U.S. Secret Service, Mary Peterman from the U.S. Courts, and Tracey Walker from RSM discuss perspectives and lessons learned as leaders in the government accountability profession.

Vladimir Antikarov, regional director of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) for Washington, D.C., discusses how to calculate the costs and benefits of enterprise risk management (ERM) using a real options approach adopted from the finance world. Vlad is the author of Real Options, A Practitioner's Guide and other papers on the application of real options to ERM.

Justin Marsico from the Department of Treasury discusses the USA Spending Data Lab (datalab.usaspending.gov). Check out the site and follow along as we discuss the amazing analyses Treasury is creating with the big data that is available to the public!

This week we chat with Kim Farington, CFO at FirstNet. FirstNet is an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce created to develop, build and operate the nationwide, broadband network that equips first responders to save lives and protect U.S. communities. Kim discusses standing up a CFO shop and using Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools.

On our third and final podcast from the 2019 PDT in New Orleans, we speak with winners of the Young Professionals Scholarship! Participants discuss their current career milestones, the benefits of working in government and their experiences at PDT 2019!

Our second of three PDT 2019 podcasts is with Past President Billy Morehead. We discuss the education and skills that new hires need in the modern accountability workforce.

Join us as we podcast from the 2019 AGA PDT in New Orleans! Our first of three PDT podcasts is with Past President John Lynskey. He discusses how his tenure as president went, his presidential initiatives and what he learned from all of you across the country this year.

Today we speak with Jennifer Leotta and Michael Holland from GAO about their upcoming Agile guide, agile development, best practices, challenges and the future of agile in the government!

Want to learn how IGs ensure the quality of their reports, investigations and professional staff? Today we chat with Tom Salmon from DHS OIG about quality assurance of audits, investigations, inspections and agency internal affairs offices.

Join us as we chat with Marisa Schmader from the Treasury on this "two-fer" podcast! We discuss G-Invoicing. What is it? What do agencies need to do? When do agencies start using it for inter-agency agreements? Then we turn to innovative use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at the Treasury's shared service provider, the ARC. RPA is helping the ARC do more with less, learn all about it.