Raj Sharma, Chairman of Public Spend Forum, the world's only platform dedicated to public sector procurement, hosts the Public Procurement Leaders podcast. On each episode, Raj interviews leaders from the public and private sectors that are making a positive difference for how government's spend money to support their citizens and stakeholders. On this week's episode two, Raj hosts Jack Pellegrino, Director of the Office of Purchasing and Contracting for the county of San Diego.

In our inaugural episode of The Public Procurement Leader, Raj Sharma, Founder & Chairman of Public Spend Forum. talks with Gary Lambert, Assistant Secretary for Operational Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This 30 minute conversation includes tips from Gary's diverse professional background, the necessity of flexibility for innovation, and the importance of truly understanding your business and how it fits in to the overall enterprise.

In our inaugural episode of The Public CPO, Raj Sharma, Founder & Chairman of Public Spend Forum. talks with Gary Lambert, Assistant Secretary for Operational Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This 30 minute conversation includes tips from Gary's diverse professional background, the necessity of flexibility for innovation, and the importance of truly understanding your business and how it fits in to the overall enterprise.

In today's episode, we talk with Soraya Correa, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief procurement officer, about her department's innovative approach to industry engagement. Talking with industry is a hot topic these days, and DHS, with its reverse industry days, has hit on a great way to open those communication lines. Also interviewed in this episode is Harrison Smith from DHS, and Jeff Goldberg from TIAG.

You can also see more information about Reverse Industry Days on Public Spend Forum. Sign up today!

http://community.publicspendforum.net/blogs/ash-bedi/2016/10/27/dhs-pioneers-reverse-industry-day

In today's episode of the Public Impact Podcast, Public Spend Forum Advisor Shelly Kapoor Collins talks with Raj Shah, the managing partner of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), about the organization's mission and some of its successes so far.

For more on DIUx:

https://www.diux.mil/

For more on Public Spend Forum:

http://community.publicspendforum.net

Plenty of people know the story of the Tech Surge that helped save Healthcare.gov, led by folks like Todd Park, Mikey Dickerson and Ryan Panchadsaram. But not as many people know that after the surge ended on March 31, 2014, there was still much work to be done. And fewer people know that a significant portion of that work was done by a handful of technologists who quit their private sector jobs to stick around and write code for the government. And they did it while living together in a McMansion on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Check out Nava's site:

http://navahq.com/

And join us at our new Open Global Community:

http://community.publicspendforum.net/

On today's episode of the Public Impact Podcast, we talk with NASA's director of open innovation, Beth Beck about the agency's Space Apps challenge. Every year, NASA works with hundreds of citizen scientists, designers, engineers and coders over 48 hours to create very cool solutions to some of the space agency's biggest challenges.

For more on Space Apps:

https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/

For more on Public Spend Forum:

http://publicspendforum.net

San Francisco Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath talks about his many accomplishments in pushing government to be more open to citizens and industry.

To learn more about Public Spend Forum, visit http://publicspendforum.net/

Jay's article on the Procurement Bus:

http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-san-francisco-improving-procurement-process-rfp-bus.html

Follow Jay on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jay_nath

And follow us on Twitter:

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In today's episode of the Public Impact Podcast, we revisit our interview with Dave Zvenyach in light of the news that 18F's Micro-Purchase Platform is saving the government lots of money. Here's the article Frank references in the intro:

http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/acquisition/2016/08/15/micropurchase-auctions-18f-getting-big-value-small-buys/88401228/

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Links mentioned in the show:

Public Spend Forum:

http://publicspendforum.net/join-us

Dave Zvenyach:

https://18f.gsa.gov/team/vdavez/

18F:

https://18f.gsa.gov/

The $1 procurement:

http://publicspendforum.net/welcome-to-the-1-bid-whats-the-price-of-open-source-code/

In this week's episode of Public Spend Forum's Public Impact Podcast, Wendy Taylor, Director of the Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), tells us about how her organization battled the spread of the Ebola virus, and how that approach informs their mission as they take the fight to Zika.

Links mentioned in this show:

https://www.usaid.gov/grandchallenges/zika

http://www.sprtechnologies.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRab2bGahCE

http://publicspendforum.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzNaA0aPa-0