The principles of cloud computing can be applied to any agency’s IT system even if it isn’t ready to operate in a cloud-based environment. Sponsored by VMware, Intel, Carahsoft.

Guest: Matt Schneider, senior director for government, education and healthcare at VMware

Utah CIO Mike Hussey and Go Forward's Peter Mosmans evaluate how state and local cybersecurity leaders have a leg up on security thanks to their ability to collaborate. Sponsored by Pluralsight.

Guests: Peter Mosmans, international private cybersecurity consultant for Go Foward and Mike Hussey, CIO for the State of Utah

After migrating enterprise applications to the cloud in 2016, Atlanta has found increased performance and more readiness to embrace smart city technologies. Sponsored by Microsoft.

Editor’s Note: This podcast was recorded before a ransomware attack affected Atlanta city technology operations in March 2018. The work the city does in the Azure Government cloud was not affected by the ransomware attack, Microsoft says.

Guests: Vijay Gogineni, deputy chief information officer, City of Atlanta; Frank Ruben, director of data analytics and reporting, City of Atlanta; and Murray Gordon, regional cloud sales director, Microsoft

On this episode of Priorities, Jake sits down with leaders from Alaska, Hawaii and Ohio to talk about their budgeting strategies and how to maximize the value of technology spend.

On this episode of Priorities, leaders from Michigan and Illinois join Jake to talk about their cloud computing strategy and how it helps their states address technology challenges.

On this episode of Priorities, Jake talks with Virginia Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson about the Commonwealth's initiative around broadband and wireless connectivity.

In the seventh episode of Season 2, Jake sits down with Arkansas' Scott Utley and Arizona's J.R. Sloan to talk about enterprise IT governance.

This episode of Priorities was brought to you by Insight.

In the sixth episode of Season 2, Jake sits down with Nebraska CIO Ed Toner, California's Peter Kelly, Accenture's Keir Buckhurst and NASCIO's Eric Sweden to talk about agile and incremental software delivery and to preview the results from an upcoming report from NASCIO and Accenture.

In the fifth episode of Season 2, Jake sits down with Pennsylvania CTO Jim Weaver to talk about how modernize legacy systems.

In the fourth episode of Season 2, Jake sits down with Maine CIO Jim Smith to talk about how states strategically plan for the future.