“Last week the Veteran Affairs Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer, James Gfrerer, brought his top IT executives to Silicon Valley — and Insight Partners was honored to support this important trip…”
“Federal CIO delegations visit Silicon Valley (or Boston or New York) for many reasons — to meet with large tech companies, learn from fast-growing start-ups and scale-ups, and see interesting technology demos at universities. The VA CIO trip was no different, where they visited with Kleiner Perkins, the VA Medical Center in Palo Alto, Apple, Intel, Google, Github, Slack, Kaiser-Permanente and more. On behalf of Insight Partners, I was excited to pull together a few leading companies from our portfolio to participate in their learning and listening tour.”
“With five Insight portfolio companies, we spent the afternoon brainstorming, talking about how our companies build quality software efficiently, how they organize and motivate their IT workforce, and how they deliver on customer service — which happens to be the number one priority of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie…”
“The VA delegation visiting Insight Partners was led by Principal Deputy CIO Dominic Cussatt. They asked a bunch of hard questions about how the companies were internally organized, what they were seeing with their large enterprise customers, who, like VA, are transforming digitally.”
“It was exciting to host this VA delegation and get to know these talented OIT leaders. I’m sure I speak for the Insight-backed companies in attendance that we learned a lot about the VA’s digital transformation, their remarkable accomplishments to date and their challenges that lie ahead. We appreciate their efforts to learn firsthand from Silicon Valley innovators how to best buy and build software more efficiently, effectively, and securely — all in pursuit of better serving Veterans…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA IT Leaders Visit Silicon Valley – By Nick Sinai, February 5, 2020. Medium.
