The Buzz with ACT-IAC

Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, was a computer error predicted to cause widespread systematic issues when internal dates changed from  12/31/99 to 01/01/00. Despite apocalyptic fears and dooms…

This week, the Buzz presents another session from one of our recent in-person events. The 2022 Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference took place from May  22-24, and explored how new technolog…

This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's 2022 Health Innovation Summit, which took place in person on May 5th.

This panel explores how health records can be more easily shared and within…

Here at ACT-IAC, we are all about looking at ways that technology can help solve our nation's most intractable problems. While technological development can and does shape and disrupt the way we live…

Last week, ACT-IAC held its 5th annual Health Innovation Summit – an event which explored the evolution of healthcare systems and technologies. Of course, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic looms la…

As the past couple of years have underscored, much of our modern society is organized around the internet. From work, to interpersonal communication, to news media, to leisure - over 80% of US adults…

For those outside of the acquisitions community, the practices, policies and processes of federal procurement can seem quite impenetrable. But given that the US Government spent more than $665 billio…

Voting is one of the most powerful and direct ways that the average citizen can participate in our nation's governance. Between local, state and federal government, there are over half a million elec…

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a rapidly-growing sector that seeks to use distributed ledger technologies (like cryptocurrencies) to move traditional financial services away from centralized inst…

Year after year, the United States experiences larger, more frequent, and more destructive wildfires as a result of a changing global climate. These disasters, although a natural part of our ecosyste…

In February of this year, the DOJ made the largest financial seizure in the department's history - $3.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency that had been stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange nearly 6…

In case you missed it, The Buzz presents a keynote session from ACT-IAC's most recent Digital Transformation Summit.

Jennifer Ewbank, Deputy Director of Innovation at the CIA, discusses the digital th…

Last week, The Buzz explored some of the complexities of ensuring affordable, reliable internet access to all Americans - as well as how the 2021 Investment Infrastructure and Jobs Act looks to impro…

Last November, after much deliberation and negotiation in the house and senate between congressional Democrats and Republicans, President Biden finally signed the $1.2 Trillion bipartisan Infrastruct…

As a follow up from our recent episode about digital transformation, this week The Buzz presents an interview with Dan Anthony, Senior Vice President and CIO of FedNow, a new digital payment rail bei…

For those outside of the acquisitions community, the practices, policies and processes of federal procurement can seem quite impenetrable. But given that the US Government spent more than $665 billio…

While emerging technologies like Robotic Process Automation, 5G,  and Quantum Computing may capture our imaginations (and headlines), there is more to digital transformation than buying a shiny new t…

This week, the Buzz presents a recording from ACT-IAC's 2012 Executive Leadership Conference.

That year's theme was "“Charting a Course Through Changing Times", so renowned theoretical physicist, auth…

For those outside of the acquisitions community, the practices, policies and processes of federal procurement can seem quite impenetrable. But given that the US Government spent more than $665 billio…

One of the many, many consequences of our current global pandemic has been the severe  disruption of supply chains. Our nation's economy has lurched and stumbled along these past two years, plagued b…