The Public Sector Show by TechTables
The Conversations Public Sector CIOs Can't Have Anywhere Else. The real conversations—from security theater to AI slop—that 250K+ public sector leaders have tuned into. You won't find these conversations at conferences (or LinkedIn). techtables.substack.com
Episodes
Summary
Broward County has 31 cities, 67+ lines of business, and 14 IT managers that CIO Domenic DiLullo has to keep in sync - while a property tax measure heading to the ballot could reshape his entire budget.
Glenn Mack just took over as CTO of the North Carolina courts: 100 counties, 105 courthouses, from Murphy to Manteo. He walked in from 17 years in public safety and found the AI policy was… non-existent.
And Jon Minshew ...
#238: 40 CIOs. 40 Different Missions. How LA County's CIO Holds IT Together — with Info-Tech Research Group
Summary
Los Angeles County is the largest county in the U.S. serving over 10 million people across 40+ different departments.
They just passed a $46 billion budget. And their CIO, Peter Loo, has to coordinate with 40 other CIOs to get anything done.
That’s not a technology problem. That’s one of the hardest lead...
#237: University of Pittsburgh & Dell Technologies: Can AI Wearables Predict a Heart Attack Before It Strikes?
What if your wearable could do more than track steps - and actually help detect cardiovascular risk before symptoms appear?
Heart disease is the deadliest disease on the planet. In the U.S. alone it killed close to 300,000 - more than cancer. And it’s a quiet killer: by the time you feel a symptom, the damage is u...
#236: How Nevada Recovered from a Statewide Cyber Attack in 28 Days (And What Every CIO & CISO Should Do Before It Happens to Them)
Summary
Nevada woke up to a ransomware attack that took 60+ state agencies offline. No ransom paid. Full recovery in 28 days.
State CIO Timothy Galluzi and Info-Tech's Mark Hellbusch break down the largest ransomware attack in Nevada state history - how the network came back in 48 hours, how they kept...
Episode Summary
In this episode, Mark Roman and Carlos Thomas from Info-Tech break down the enrollment cliff, AI disruption, and cultural skepticism hitting Higher Ed - and why the CIO is the one best positioned to lead through it.
Featuring
Mark Roman is Managing Partner for the Education Business at Info-Tech Research Group - supporting universities, colleges, and K-12 institutions around the world, and a self-described electric gui...
Episode Summary
What do you do when you can't stop the thing you're trying to fix?
Three returning guests sit down for one of the most honest conversations about public sector modernization we've had on the show.
From the latest on SF's 911 cloud migration, to what it means to modernize Harry Reid International Airport in real time while simultaneously designing the technology architecture for a second commercial airport 20 miles sout...
Episode Summary
Boston's CIO thinks "modernization" is what you say when you've stopped investing. Clark County thinks AI should handle your entire move to a new city. Dell thinks you can't do any of it without clean data. Three takes. One conversation about what government services actually look like when they work.
Featuring
Santi Garces is Chief Information Officer at the City of Boston - leading a team that spans user researchers,...
Episode Summary
In this Info-Tech LIVE New Orleans episode, Tom Zehren, CEO of Info-Tech Research Group, and John Burris, CIO of Southeastern Louisiana University, break down why AI efficiency is a growth mindset - not a cost-cutting exercise - and what the CIO role actually becomes when Agentic AI is the next IT super trend.
Featuring
Tom Zehren is CEO at Info-Tech Research Group - a global research and advisory firm now operating ac...
Episode Summary
In this episode, Adam Mikeal, CISO at Texas A&M University, and Tim Paikoff from Axonius break down how consolidating fragmented security data into a single view changed the way A&M tracks assets, validates policy, and tells cybersecurity's ROI story to leadership — and why AI's data access model is now keeping CISOs up at night.
Featuring
Adam Mikeal is Chief Information Security Officer at Texas A&M...
Episode Summary
In this episode, Craig Woolley from LSU, Lizbeth Johnson from NC A&T, and Ron Ringgold from SentinelOne break down how a student-powered SOC model is scaling across 32+ institutions - and why the hardest part of cybersecurity leadership isn't the technology, it's the people.
Featuring
Craig Woolley is CIO at LSU - 35 years in higher ed IT, architect of the student-powered SOC model now operating across 32+ institut...
Episode Summary
In this EDUCAUSE episode, Dr. Vanessa Kenon from UTSA, Tonya Bennett from the University of Pennsylvania, and Tim Boltz from Carahsoft get into the tension every higher ed IT leader is sitting with right now - when to move on AI, when to wait for policy, and how to keep curiosity alive before the feds rewrite the rulebook.
Featuring
Dr. Vanessa Kenon is Associate Vice President for Information Technology at the Univers...
Episode Summary
In this episode, Dave Weil from Ithaca College and Mark Richards from Omnissa explore how a small liberal arts IT team built an AI tool that freed up 150 at-risk student meetings - and why human-to-human connection has to stay at the center of any real AI strategy.
Featuring
Dave Weil is Senior Vice President of Strategic Services and Initiatives at Ithaca College - overseeing HR, IT, Analytics, and AI, and a longtime ...
In this EDUCAUSE episode, Josh Bright from UC Santa Barbara, Dwane Sterling from Virginia Tech, and JJ Mahon from Cisco ThousandEyes break down what it means to lead IT before the problems find you - from building a collaborative leadership team to monitoring the student experience before the first ticket ever lands.
Featuring
Josh Bright is Associate Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO at UC Santa Barbara - a returning guest from Episode...
In this EDUCAUSE episode, Lester Godsey from Arizona State University, Dan Kent from Cloudflare, and Matthew Leger from IDC break down why most institutions are still in the AI Wild West - and what it actually takes to govern, secure, and scale AI across a campus before agentic systems make the problem exponentially harder.
Featuring
Lester Godsey is Chief Information Security Officer at Arizona State University - back at ASU after 3...
In this EDUCAUSE episode, Ed Clark from CSU, William Huang from UT System, and Chuck Romero from Palo Alto Networks break down what it actually takes to close the AI divide across 460,000 students - and why browser security is now the front line.
Featuring
Ed Clark is CIO at the California State University System - overseeing technology for 22 universities and 460,000 students, teaching Information Systems at Cal State Fullerton, and...
In this EDUCAUSE episode, leaders from UCLA, Vanderbilt, and Ericsson break down the 5G vs WiFi campus debate and what it means for the future of higher education networking.
Featuring
Joe Way is the Executive Director of Digital Spaces at UCLA and co-founder of HETMA
BC Hatchett is the Director of Classroom Technology at Vanderbilt University and co-founder of HETMA
Ben Moebes is a Director of Public Sector at Ericsson
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In this EDUCAUSE episode, leaders from Maricopa Community Colleges, Dell, and NVIDIA break down what's actually broken in higher ed workforce pipelines — and what applied AI can do to fix it.
Featuring
Jess Evans is the Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer at Maricopa Community Colleges — founding member of the National AI Consortium alongside Miami-Dade and Houston Community Colleges, leading AI strategy across ...
In this EDUCAUSE episode, Kyle Bowen from Arizona State University, Joe Sabado from UC Santa Barbara, and Doug Thompson from Tanium make the case that efficiency was never supposed to be the finish line — and break down what responsible AI adoption actually looks like when it connects to the mission.
Featuring
Kyle Bowen is the Deputy Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University leading AI strategy across one of Americ...
#221: Lisa Kent, Melissa Kraft, Derek Williams - 2026 World Cup, Fusion Teams, AI Wins, Leading Well
Featuring
Lisa Kent is the CIO & Director, City of Houston leading IT for America’s fourth-largest city as she prepares for the World Cup, consolidates Houston Police Department IT, and navigates the delicate balance between innovation and risk.
Melissa Kraft is the CIO, City of Frisco managing IT for one of America’s f...
#220: From Admin to Youngest CIO — How Curiosity & Collaboration Built Two Public-Sector Leaders
Featuring:
Erica Early, Chief Information Officer, Washington State Office of the State Treasurer
Lisa Faison, Chief Information Officer, City of Goodyear, Arizona
Episode Highlights:
What if the fastest route to becoming a CIO wasn’t a degree or a title — but saying yes to the “one more project” everyone el...
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