NASCIO Voices
A podcast from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). Amy Glasscock and Alex Whitaker interview guests (state CIOs, NASCIO members, strategic partners and colleagues) to get their unique stories and perspectives on state information technology, leadership and lessons learned.
Episodes
143 episodes
NASCIO Midyear in Philly (A Little East Coast Swing)
Goodbye to National Harbor, hello to Philadelphia. Alex and Amy are joined again by NASCIO's director of experience and engagement, Emily Lane to talk all about what we can expect at the NASCIO Midyear Conference coming up in Philadelphia. We t...
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Episode 142
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14:00
NASCIO Goes to Capitol Hill
Today Alex fills us in on the recent hearing on the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program and the testimony from Utah CIO Alan Fuller and CT CIO Mark Raymond. We also talk about making our homes more energy efficient and the new publicati...
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Episode 141
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15:20
The Obvious (and Simple) Way to Improve State RFPs
Today Alex and Amy are joined by Waldo Jaquith with US Digital Response to discuss a new joint publication on improving the RFP process with a simple summary sheet.We also discuss the importance of user research and who would play us in ...
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Episode 140
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13:11
How to Get Better Answers from Generative AI with Indiana's Bryan Zaczek
Alex and Amy talk with Bryan Zaczek who works as a principal data scientist with the state of Indiana's Management Performance Hub. Bryan walks us through the art of prompt engineering to get better answers from generative AI tools. We also tal...
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Episode 139
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16:49
How the Federal Funding Freeze Affects States, Plus Japan's Government IT Workforce Challenges
Today Amy and Alex talk about how the federal funding freeze might affect the Cybersecurity Grant Program and state IT offices. Plus Amy tells Alex about what she learned about the Japanese local government system, their workforce challenges th...
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Episode 138
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17:09
NASCIO's Federal Advocacy Priorities and the DOJ Final Rule on Accessibility for State and Local Websites and Apps
NASCIO's 2025 federal advocacy priorities are released! Alex gives us the rundown. https://www.nascio.org/government-affairs/federal-advocacy-priorities/Kalea Young-Gibson, NASICO's policy analyst also joins to give us an overview of th...
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Episode 137
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16:25
Taking a Dive Into 2025: State IT Trends for the New Year
Alex, Amy and Meredith from the NASCIO team disucss our predictions for the trends that will affect cybersecurity, privacy, AI, enterprise architecture, workforce and DC. We also give our pets some new year's resolutions.
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Episode 136
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25:40
State CIOs' Top Ten Priorities and Technologies for 2025
Amy and Alex are joined by Eric Sweden, program director for enterprise architecture and governance with NASCIO, for our annual NASCIO Top Ten episode. Come for the data, stay for Eric's Christmas medly on the guitar! Eric tells us all about wh...
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Episode 135
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21:53
NASCIO Wrapped 2024
Find out where we've been, what we did and all we accomplished as a community in our episode wrapping up the year at NASCIO. Alex and Amy have a conversation covering our events, publications, awards, advocacy priorites and some fun things too....
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Episode 134
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20:36
New Trends in State Cybersecurity
Alex and Amy are joined this week by NASCIO's deputy executive director Meredith Ward and Deloitte's Srini Subramanian to talk about the 2024 Deloitte-NASCIO Cybersecurity Study. We talk about the changing role of the state CISO, why budget woe...
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Episode 133
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35:10
How Are States Really Using Generative AI?
Today Amy and Alex talk about the new NASCIO report on how states are using generative AI. This was a President's Initiative Report spearheaded by the past year's President Jim Weaver, North Carolina's state CIO.Find out key findings fr...
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Episode 132
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17:50
NASCIO President Mandy Crawford's Priorities for the Coming Year
Amy and Alex sit down with Texas State CIO and Executive Director (and NASCIO's new president!) Amanda "Mandy" Crawford to talk about her involvement with NASCIO over the years, her priorities in Texas and her thoughts on a presidential initiat...
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Episode 131
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19:12
Summarizing the NASCIO 2024 State CIO Survey...With the Help of AI
Fresh off the NASCIO Annual Conference, Amy and Alex use the magic of Notebook LM to give us an audio overview of the NASCIO 2024 State CIO Survey. Hear how this AI tool summarizes the main ideas in the survey and even plays up this year's "bui...
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Episode 130
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10:10
NASCIO Annual Conference Sneak Peek With Emily Lane
It's time for the NASCIO Annual Conferece preview episode with our own director of experience and engagement, Emily Lane.We'll be getting together very soon in The Big Easy! Find out what to wear for the Awards and Recognition Dinner, w...
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Episode 129
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15:19
The Importance of Data Quality for GenAI with Eric Sweden and Chris Estes
This week we are joined by NASCIO's program director for enterprise architecture and governance, Eric Sweden and EY's Chris Estes on a new joint publication between NASCIO and EY called Data Quality--Vital to optimizing GenAI: A Survey of State...
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Episode 128
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21:29
What's Coming Up at NASCIO? Wrapping up Summer and Looking Toward Fall
Amy and Alex talk about the Summer Series guest list and discuss upcoming NASCIO events and publications. Plus they discuss what they did this summer and their work goals for the fall.
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Episode 127
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14:25
Summer Series: Nate Denny, Deputy Secretary for Broadband and Digital Equity (NCDIT)
Amy talks with Nate Denny, Deputy Secretary for Broadband and Digital Equity for the North Carolina Department of Information Technology. We talk about the direct impact he and his team have on the ability of North Carolina citizens to get the ...
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Episode 126
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21:52
Summer Series: Director of Data Services and GIO, Julia Fischer (MD DoIT)
Alex and Amy talk with Julia Fischer, Maryland DoIT's director of data services and geographic information officer. We talk all about her passion for maps, data and cartography.
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Episode 125
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20:35
Summer Series: Director of Communications, Paula Calhoun (Georgia, GTA)
Alex and Amy are joined by Paula Calhoun who serves as the director of communications for the Georgia Technology Authority. We found out that though Paula started out in broadcast journalism, she found her true calling in government.Fin...
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Episode 124
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15:31
Revolutionizing Assistance: New NASCIO Publication with Kalea Young-Gibson
Bonus episode! Amy and Alex interrupt our regular summer series programming to announce a new NASCIO publication: Revolutionizing Assistance: How States Can Improve Generative AI’s Role in Disability Empowerment. Author and NASCIO policy analys...
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Episode 123
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5:16
Summer Series: Special Projects Coordinator, Addy Newsom (TN, STS)
This summer we are diving into some of the lesser-known roles in state government technology. This week Amy and Alex talk with Special Projects Coordinator, Addy Newsom with Tennessee Strategic Technology Solutions. Addy also provides executive...
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Episode 122
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19:54
Summer Series: Chief People and Culture Officer, Lisa Jammer (Texas, DIR)
This summer we are diving into some of the lesser-known roles in state government technology. This week Amy and Alex talk with Chief People and Culture Officer, Lisa Jammer with the Texas Department of Information Resources. Lisa tells us how s...
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Episode 121
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12:52
20 Years of State Technology Leadership with Doug Robinson
Alex and Amy talk with NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson about 20 years in his role, what has changed with the state CIO role, state technology and NASCIO as an organization. We talk about challenges, successes and the advice he would go ...
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Episode 120
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31:13
AI, Privacy, TikTok and More: Federal Affairs Update with Alex
Amy and Alex talk about all the big issues happening now on Capitol Hill along with an overview of our recent federal fly-ins. We also discuss why AI isn't much of a partisan issue and the fact that TikTok is still here even though Congress ban...
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Episode 119
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18:24
All Things Midyear (and Our New Team Member)!
Amy and Alex talk with our newest team member Kalea-Young Gibson, policy analyst, about her background and why she is excited to work with NASCIO. Then we are joined by NASCIO's director of experience and engagement, Emily Lane to talk all thin...
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Episode 118
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