Disruptive Tech Summit Recap…
- FORUM President and CMO Scott Robinson opened the event by encouraging attendees to continue supporting government professionals amidst the uncertainty in our industry, and to always ” be a good person” while pushing public sector tech to new heights.
- Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, CEO of Rexota Solutions, offered a look at OTA-FAR procurement and the different types of OTAs in use, and offered a detailed look at consortia, memberships and innovation networks attendees could access to learn more about existing OT agreements.
- FORUM Advisory Council members David Yang, Tiffany Bailey, Krista Yager, Stephanie Geiger and Saishree Shetty gave out the Disruptive Tech Awards to the program and change agent winners during the event.
- Caroline Evans, Engineering Lead – Federal Health from Palantir, offered an engaging look at how AI is transforming healthcare by helping to link patient records, highlight needs, and establish the right level of care using existing patient records.
- Bryana Tucci, Principal Tech BDM at AWS, and Kunaal Sharma, Public Sector GTM Lead for Anthropic, showed attendees how GenAI partner solutions that run on AWS can accelerate government innovation, and how Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise solution helps companies and agencies build efficient AI-powered products that help them excel like never before.
- Alexa Tsui, Chief Operating Officer of G2X, gave a quick and informative demo of their GovCon platform and showed how much of the vital information needed to win more government contracts, is right at the users’ fingertips.
- Dr. Andrew Omidvar, Head of Government R&D for Philips, told attendees about RATE, a groundbreaking set of wearable devices that track vital health indicators for servicemembers in the theatre of combat.
- Felipe Millon, Public Sector Go to Market for OpenAI, interacted with ChatGPT using his voice (and got some lively and hilarious responses!) to show attendees the powerful uses of this cutting-edge AI tool.
- Benjamin Bryant, Acting Head of Contracting Activity for ARPA-H, explained their contracting process along with their OT benefits and R&D award metrics, to inform the audience about how best to work with them.
- John Ferry, President of TAC, gave the keynote address and shared information about AcqBot.com, their leading AI-powered platform for acquisition and contracting automation.
Special thanks to all our speakers, sponsors, demo companies and attendees for making this such a successful event!
