LIVE: Jennifer Pahlka & Michael Kratsios on Building a Tech to Government Talent Pipeline
For this live edition of The Dynamist, FAI's Marshall Kosloff interviews Jennifer Pahlka, fmr. Deputy CTO of the United States and author of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better and Michael Kratsios, fmr. CTO of the United States and Managing Director at Scale AI on accelerating technical talent pipelines into government service. This event was hosted at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on December 4, 2023.
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Show Notes
The worlds of tech and policy are increasingly integrated, for good or ill. Tech professionals are recognizing government service as a vital way to contribute to the national interest, at the same time that politicos and policy experts have realized that they need the tech industry’s experience and insight. Ten years after the Foundation for American Innovation was formed to serve as a bridge between Silicon Valley and DC, the fusion of technology and public policy is greater than ever. But can technologists, founders, and investors really accomplish more in a sclerotic political environment than they can in industry?
Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Obama, and as a member of the Defense Innovation Board under Presidents Obama and Trump. This year, she published Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. Michael Kratsios, former Principal and Chief of Staff at Thiel Capital, served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Under Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon during the Trump administration. He is Managing Director at Scale AI, where he leads corporate strategy and helps accelerate AI applications across industries. Media Fellow Marshall Kosloff hosts The Realignment podcast with FAI.
This event was hosted at the Internet Archive in San Francisco on December 4, 2023. We thank Project 47 for their support of From Tech to Government and Back Again.