The Buzz with ACT-IAC

Shark Tank: Innovative Solutions to Procurement Challenges

September 14, 2021 Episode 24
The Buzz with ACT-IAC
Shark Tank: Innovative Solutions to Procurement Challenges
Show Notes

On October 14th, ACT-IAC’s Emerging Technology and Acquisition Communities of Interest (COIs) will be hosting a Shark Tank competition focused on making acquisitions easier, faster, and simpler. Government agencies, academia, and industry will have an opportunity to pitch ideas on how federal government can leverage emerging technologies to solve federal acquisition challenges. On this episode, to cover the competition in more detail and provide an overview of the submission process, The Buzz is joined by Mike Rice, Co-Founder of CornerStone IT, LLC, and Cindy Good, Management and Program Analyst for the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation.

 All pitches for the competition are due on September 20, 2021, here. Not pitching, but plan to attend? Make sure to register here.

 In order to help inform the development of potential participant’s pitches, the Emerging Technology COI's Primers and Playbooks are available for review - listed below are links to each of the documents. Along with this, potential participants can review emerging technology use cases from across the government via the National Use Case & Solutions Library (NUCSL) here. Have questions? Chat us on our event page here: https://lnkd.in/e2Z5EM2p.

 Primers and Playbooks
Blockchain Primer: https://lnkd.in/ez9Nusk
Blockchain Playbook: https://lnkd.in/e8eqEBn
AI Primer: https://lnkd.in/e2RRhSp
AI Playbook: https://lnkd.in/eP2SRXZ
Intelligent Automation Primer: https://lnkd.in/eZD6nbh
Intelligent Automation Playbook: https://lnkd.in/e2G2FfZ

 Did you know? The Emerging Technology COI’s AI frameworks were recently covered in Forbes! Check out the article here.

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Intro/Outro Music: Focal Point/Young Community
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