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MeriTalk Staff

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Tech Tonic September 2025
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As federal agencies move into the digital age, artificial intelligence is changing the way that the  government collaborates, streamlines workflows, and secures sensitive data, said Jeff Brown, lead of Google’s Global Public Sector Workspace, during a recent MeriTalking podcast. […]

Podcast: AI Unleashed: Transforming Government Collaboration and Citizen Services with Google Workspace

In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk’s Gail Emery sits down with Jeff Brown, Google’s Global Public Sector Workspace Lead, to discuss where modern collaboration, AI, and security intersect for the federal government. They explore how agencies can evolve their collaboration strategies, embrace AI responsibly, and align with zero trust principles – all while overcoming the […]

Innovation

MeriTalk recently sat down with Evan Davis, executive managing director, Maximus Federal, to discuss how agencies can anchor modernization in mission outcomes, harness data to drive performance, and build the collaborative practices necessary for long-term success. […]

cloud

MeriTalk recently sat down with Ray Hall, managing director of technology services at Maximus, to discuss key architectural and operational considerations as the DOD works to accelerate secure edge to cloud innovation, enable real-time joint force operations, and ensure cloud environments remain adaptive in the face of rapidly evolving threats. […]

MODERNIZATION AT SPEED: A Practitioner’s Playbook for Secure, AI-Ready Federal Clouds

Federal agencies face a complex balancing act. They must simultaneously modernize legacy systems, embed zero-trust security, and harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI), all while talent pipelines shrink and budgets tighten. A recent MeriTalk webinar, “Secure Cloud Modernization: Empowering Federal Teams for an AI-Enabled Future,” convened government and industry leaders who have tackled these challenges head on. […]

Federal agencies often face mounting pressure to modernize systems, derive faster insights from data, and deliver mission outcomes at digital speed. But many agencies struggle with the technical, security, and procurement barriers to full-scale AI adoption. That’s the challenge Deloitte set out to help solve with its Silicon to Service (S2S) solution, which is built on the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. […]

MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday, a provider of human capital and financial management system software, to discuss how agencies can rethink PAR processing with modern tools, configurable workflows, and real-time analytics to improve mission delivery, employee engagement, and operational resilience. […]

MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday, a provider of human capital and financial management system software, to discuss the risks of custom-built systems, the advantages of agile platforms, and how configurability can help agencies take control of their modernization journeys. […]

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