The Buzz with ACT-IAC

Have you ever tried to cancel an online subscription and ended up clicking around in circles trying to find the right button to press? If so, you experienced a "dark pattern" - a deceptive tactic of …

This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2024 Digital Transformation Summit.

 This panel of fedtech experts discusses the progress they have made in their respective agencies to leverage …

About a year ago, we were joined on the show by Gabriel Zucker of Code for America to talk taxes. Specifically, a provision of the Inflation Reduction Act that directed the IRS to develop their own p…

This week, The Buzz is joined once again by Robert Puentes, President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation. Last time, we talked about some of the challenges facing American aviation and the …

This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Shared Services Summit, in partnership with the Shared Services Leadership Coalition. Learn more at sharedservicesnow.org.

In this fireside chat, M…

 This episode originally aired on April 5th, 2023.

As tax season ramps up in earnest, and given the good news about the IRS's Direct File Pilot Program, we thought now would be a good time to revisit …

This week, The Buzz presents a session from our archives.

The concept of customer experience has driven business decisions in private industry for some time, but it's only in the last decade that CX, …

This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2024 Digital Transformation Summit.

Digital transformation efforts often rely on implementation of new systems. This presents an opportunity to i…

While virtual reality has been around for several decades, both as a concept and a technology, it is only in the past few years that inexpensive, mass-produced, higher-quality VR systems have become …

Since the mass adoption of remote work began in 2020, there has been an ongoing question around what the shift in commuting habits means for American downtowns. What should office space look like? Wh…

This week, The Buzz presents a session from our 2024 Acquisition Forum, which specifically focused this year on AI in government.

Our forum ended with a fireside chat between Susie Rainey, Diplomacy …

In just a few short years, the aviation sector has experienced the whipsaw of a pandemic-era travel freeze followed by a post-pandemic travel explosion.

Like many other industries, our already comple…

As we've explored on this show before, the past few years have seen an unprecedented level of public and private investment in green energy, green infrastructure, and electrification. Between the Inf…

This week, The Buzz presents something a little different than usual.

ELC 2023, ACT-IAC's flagship conference in Hershey, PA, opened with a rousing, inspirational keynote from Art Jackson about perso…

This week, The Buzz presents a session from our December 2023 CX Summit. CX is a key component of the Biden-Harris President's Management Agenda.

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act appropriated an addi…

In August 2022, Congress passed the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors – or Chips and Science Act. Congratulations to whoever came up with that acronym. The law authorized more tha…

This week will be the last episode of The Buzz for 2023, and we're taking the time to reflect back on a busy year at ACT-IAC with Dave Wennergren, our CEO.

We review the major topics of interest for t…

The last time we discussed cryptocurrency on this podcast in April 2022, both the economy and the technology sector were in very different places. Right around that time, inflation really began to ac…

This year, ACT-IAC's Imagine Nation ELC was our largest conference ever, with more than 1200 in-person attendees! We also had more sessions than ever, and The Buzz is excited to bring a selection of …

This fall, our federal government has teetered on the edge of shutdown more than once before a last-minute agreement could be reached. As of this episode, yet another Continuing Resolution has extend…