On this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we speak with Santiago Garces, Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston, about how Boston has become a leader among municipalities for its rollout of Generative AI policies. We also discuss the city's partnerships with higher education and AI training for public sector workers.
On this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we discuss Utah's use of Artificial Intelligence in government with the state's Director of AI, Christian Napier. Listeners will learn about Utah's Google Gemini pilot and how they scaled the usage of AI to the state's workforce.
Watch Christian's full InnovateUS workshop here.
In this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we discuss Pennsylvania's ChatGPT pilot with Harrison MacRae, Director of Emerging Technologies for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Listeners will learn about the pilot and how its findings are influencing the future adoption of AI technology in the state's government.
Check out the recording of Harrison's InnovateUS workshop here.
Read the findings of the state's ChatGPT pilot here.
In this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we discuss the traits and skills often associated with leadership with Seth Harris, Former Acting Secretary of Labor, Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Professor and Senior Fellow at The Burnes Center for Social Change.
Listeners will learn some tools for assessing whether they would be a good public-sector leader.
Check out the recording of Seth's workshop session here.
In this episode of the InnovateUS podcast, we discuss policy analysis and the implementation of science and technology policy with Dr. Deborah Stine from the Science and Technology Policy Academy.
Dr. Stine shares insights from her new book From Expertise to Impact: A Practical Guide to Informing and Influencing Science and Technology Policy
Sign up for upcoming workshops, including Dr. Stine's upcoming series on community engagement at innovate-us.org/workshops.
In this first episode of the InnovateUS podcast, Jess Silverman talks with Anita McGahan from The Burnes Center from Social Change about her InnovateUS workshop series Innovating in the Public Interest: Partnering for Public Good. Learn about how to achieve early wins, how to scale public sector innovations, and how to demonstrate the impact from your projects.
Learn more about InnovateUS here: innovate-us.org
Sign up for the next workshop in Anita's series here: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AvZ4ZXNDuuat9WVijDtKSqPWom027CGRzbAv0E1BXFh6DMDq209L~AkO6jTfdOu0ndqpEOS1suUGwszUUvZ2RMyoiDcNixCUusyNKhELxgIYg3g
Check out Anita's work here: pisquared.burnescenter.org