Amy and Matt talk with iUrban Teen founder Deena Pierott all about her work in STEM education, diversity and inclusion and public service. iUrban Teen was NASCIO's Giveback partner at our recent NASCIO Annual Conference in Seattle. 

Learn more here: https://iurbanteen.org/ 

Amy and Matt share the recording from the Leadership Lessons Learned live session at NASCIO's Annual Conference in Seattle. Five NASCIO members, shared their five-minute Ignite-style talks on their leadership lessons learned outside the office. 

The speakers included Michele Hovet from SAP, Brian Eagle from Unisys, Nathan Buckwalter with the Michigan Dept of Health and Human Services, Mike Tosh at Guidehouse and Mere Work from ID.me. They covered everything from horses, parenthood, relationships, fitness and military service!  

We are having a real in-person event! Matt and Amy sit down with NASCIO's Program and Brand Director Emily Lane again to talk about our NASCIO Annual Conference in Seattle. We talk about programming, COVID-19 protocols, what to wear, our NASCIO Give Back partner and more of your FAQs. This episode is full of useful information if you are a NASCIO member planning to attend (or thinking of attending) the conference.

Registration is open until October 1 (NASCIO members only): https://www.nascio.org/conferences-events/2021-annual-conference/#register

Amy and Matt talk with NASCIO's program director for enterprise architecture and governance about the new NASCIO publication "Making the Case for Insight Enabling Analytics." Eric gives us a rundown of the inspiration for the report, what's in it and some of the takeaways. We also talk about working from home, the lack of Kansas-specific foods, music and at the end Eric treats us to a song on his guitar!

Report: https://www.nascio.org/resource-center/resources/making-the-case-for-insight-enabling-analytics/

Music: Traditional American folk song Wildwood Flower performed by Eric Sweden

Amy and Matt talk with Rick Webb who is NASCIO's current Corporate Leadership Council Chair about his background as a former state CIO in North Carolina in the late 1990s, his long career in the private sector, how the CIO role has changed and hasn't changed, chairing the CLC  through the pandemic, his advice for new state CIOs and the importance of legacy building. 

Matt and Amy talk with NASCIO President and Commissioner for the New Hampshire Department of Information Technology, Denis Goulet. We talk with Denis about his NASCIO Presidential Initiative on Business Relationship Management and why he wanted to focus on this topic. We also discuss federal action on cybersecurity issues for states, what's he's most proud of during his extra long term and what he thinks CIOs will be focused on over the next several years.

NASCIO Publication on BRM: https://www.nascio.org/resource-center/resources/evolving-relationships-business-relationship-management-and-the-new-cio-operating-model/

Amy and Matt talk about how NASCIO Voices started, what the podcast has covered, how the pandemic affected the content and life at home, episodes you may have missed, best blooper and much more. 

Amy and Matt talk with Lexington, Kentucky CIO Aldona Valicenti about her career, her years as Kentucky's first CIO, her time as NASCIO president and her role in the organization's name change from NASIRE to NASCIO in 2001. Alonda has been deeply involved with NASICO for 25 years and her insight and experience with the organization is closely tied to NASCIO history.

Amy and Matt talk with Texas Department of Information Resources Executive Director and state CIO, Mandy Crawford about a whole of state approach to cybersecurity, the Texas ransomware attack, digital services, the pandemic, the future of work, and her best parenting advice as the mom of triplets!

Amy and Matt talk with Norm Farley, the Chief of Public Safety Communications at the Maryland Department of Information Technology about their NASCIO award winning project, the Maryland First Responder Radio System Team.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.nascio.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Maryland-FiRST-NASCIO-Submission.pdf

Maryland FiRST Website: https://doit.maryland.gov/support/Pages/Maryland-FiRST.aspx