Tech Talks
The GSA CTO team hosts in-depth Tech Talks, where presenters discuss technology topics affecting the agency. Each Tech Talk is a 30-minute informal meeting with an audience of internal GSA members. Demonstrations are often provided along with follow-up Q&A. Registration is limited to internal GSA personnel. To register to attend a Tech Talk event, please contact Joe Novak at Joseph.Novak@gsa.gov.
For general questions about the Tech Talks, please contact the GSA CTO team at cto@gsa.gov.
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GSA IT Collaboration Tools Professionals
September 9, 2020, 1-1:30p ET
Objective
Different teams communicate in different ways. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution that meets the needs of every business and operational need.
So how are folks supposed to know what’s best for their activity? GSA IT’s service catalog includes a robust offering of Communications and Collaboration tools.
This Tech Talk provides a high level overview of the current offerings as well as touches on things to consider when determining what’s best for your team.
Who
Sean Zerges and Paul Powell
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Professional Development for IT Professionals
September 1, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
Some people have ten years of experience, and other people have one year of experience ten times.
Are you intentional in your development as an IT Professional, or is your career simply happening to you? Rachel Surick and Ryan Day will share some strategies for Professional Development for IT Pros.
Learn about the new Cyber Career Pathways Tool, Intentional Development, Personal Branding, and becoming a T-Shaped Person.
Who
Rachel Surick and Ryan Day
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GSA Acquisition Fax Solutions
July 23, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
GSA, do you still need the ability to fax? GSA IT (IQ) has the solution for you. Using FoIP and our Gmail we can assist you with your faxing needs.
Faxing is still widely used between GSA and its user community. It is, for the most, part reliable and inexpensive to communicate. Many of our business partners still use this protocol to send and receive information.
Teleworking has created the need for “Virtual Faxing” and GSA employees can now send and receive faxes from their laptops. Physical fax machines are becoming a thing of the past.
The combination of FOIP and Gmail has allowed GSA users to now send and receive faxes. Faxing has always been a low cost portal for communication between GSA and its Faxing trading partners.
Who
Christine Palko
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10x
June 25, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
What problem are you trying to solve?
10x is an incremental investment program within GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS). 10x funds, supports, and develops ideas from federal employees about how technology can improve the public’s experience with the government.
Our approach to IT innovation is based on modern venture capital practices and is designed to spend fewer taxpayer dollars while ensuring the best products and services are funded.
10x spends the smallest amount of funding necessary at each stage of a project to determine whether or not it’s worth pursuing.
These iterative investments save money while ensuring that the products and services meet a real, verifiable need in the federal marketplace.
Who
Nico Papafil
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Digital Signature Solutions Docu Sign Federal
June 10, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
DocuSign Federal, GSA’s new digital signature solution went live on October 1, 2019.
DocuSign is an intuitive, 508-compliant option that is sure to improve your overall user experience. This digital signature solution offers a robust menu and more drag-and-drop options making it easier than ever to sign and send your documents.
DSS also offers several APIs options which we are going to review during this Tech Talk.
Who
Sudhathi Suthrave
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Google Flutter
May 27, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.
Introduced in 2017, it is a growing platform that helps ease cross-platform application development.
It has brought a large number of noteworthy changes to the procedure of application development, which we are going to review during this Tech Talk.
Who
Brian Miguel
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Security Considerations with ATOs
May 20, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
The Federal Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and the requirements to achieve an Authorization to Operate (ATO) can seem so complicated.
Join Bo Berlas, GSA’s Chief Information Security Officer, to make sense of it all and review GSA’s Agile and risk-based approaches to ATO.
Who
Bo Berlas
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IDT Reorg
April 30, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
The GSA IT Office of Digital Infrastructure Technologies (IDT), formerly the GSA IT Office of Infrastructure and Operations (IDI), is in the process of reorganizing in order to shift from project-based stovepipes into product-based plan/build/run or intake/broker/integrate/orchestrate teams.
The strategic value of this new business model lies in leveraging existing technology, resources and vendor relationships in a new utility service environment, while improving access and quality of services to clients, and reducing costs of delivery.
This Tech Talk will drill down into what Digital Transformation means to IDT, what benefits and changes customers can expect, and the activities IDT is initiating in order to innovate IT for tomorrow.
Who
Brian Muolo
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HSPD-12 vs. GACA
April 22, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
As GSA IT has expanded IT tools offerings and options for external access, questions have arisen about when HSPD-12 is required for vendors, and what alternate methods or mechanisms (e.g. GACA) can be used to share information? What are approved NIST 800-63 B Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) methods to be used for vendors and/or federal customers?
Join us for the upcoming Tech Talk for a Q&A session on this topic with Phil Klokis, Associate CIO for the Public Buildings IT Services, and Bo Berlas, the GSA Chief Information Security Officer.
Who
Phil Klokis and Bo Berlas
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Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) at GSA
March 31, 2020, 1-130p
Objective
Learn more about how the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) are being used to modernize GSA applications. Hear about completed projects and projects on the horizon.
The goal is to transform agency systems from proprietary technologies to open source.
Transformation will simplify integrations with other systems; enable greater agility, resiliency, scalability, and performance, reduce the risk of scarce resource/talent pool and in long term lower the cost of operations, improve the quality of product, and help drive cultural change.
Who
Jason Donow and William Wales