In this episode, host Brian Fox speaks with Brian DeLong, CTO at BMC3, and Gordon Deng, Cloud Customer Engineer at the Gravity Platform at Space Camp, about their insights from the recent Front Range Innovation Forum. They discuss key themes such as the importance of building a collaborative and safe innovation community, embracing productive failure, and improving communication between industry, government, and academia. Topics include acquisition challenges, modular open systems architecture, the concept of "exit-ramps," and the need for shared lessons learned. The conversation emphasizes creating forums and tools that foster transparency, trust, and speed in government tech efforts while also supporting leaders in being open about discussing failures.