GovTech @ SXSW

Austin Community College and VMware present GovTech @ SXSW, two days that will showcase the unprecedented partnership of defense, industry, and academia around digital transformation and national security innovation. National security and digital transformation thought leaders will participate in a series of roundtables, panels, and exclusive behind-the-scenes tours.

On Friday, Strategic Roundtables will provide an opportunity for your voice to be heard! Join leaders and peers in the Public Sector to discuss how GovTech issues affect you. Do these issues affect your day-to-day? Your team? Bring your ideas and thoughts for discussion. Strategic Roundtable sessions run hourly and cover the following topics:

Perpetual Cyber Innovation: How To Iterate Security Through Maturity?

Path to Production: How Does the Public Sector Seamlessly Respond to Digital Change?

DoD Software Factories: How to Shift Culture and Enable Collaboration?

On Saturday, Roundtable take-aways will be provided to SXSW moderators, and YOUR IDEAS may be spotlighted in the Saturday March 12 SXSW conversation.

Friday, March 11

9:00am - 12:00pm | Austin Community College Rio Grande Campus and Army Software Factory Tours (hourly)

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Strategic Roundtable Session 1

3:30pm - 4:30pm | Strategic Roundtable Session 2

4:30pm - 5:30pm | Strategic Roundtable Session 3

5:30pm - 7:00pm | Reception

Saturday, March 12

8:30am - 10:00am | International Defense Innovation Breakfast

Below events (noted with an asterisk) are SXSW Official and required valid SXSW credentials. For more information, reach out to sxsw@vmware.com

*10:00am - 11:00am | Stronger Together! Exporting Commercial Technology

*11:30am - 12:30pm | Forging the Future of Public-Private Partnerships

*1:00pm - 2:00pm | Transforming Soldiers Into Software Engineers

*2:30pm - 3:30pm | Building an Outcomes-based DoD DevSecOps Culture

*4:00pm - 5:00pm | To Boldly Go... Cloud-Native in the DoD

More information about the Strategic Round Tables below:

Path to Production: How Does the Public Sector Seamlessly Respond to Digital Change?

Rapidly changing customer expectations and needs have led to an urgent need for agencies to adapt. Putting the public first and transforming the customer experience is fueled by technology and innovative thinking. How can the Public Sector provide improved value to each constituent? How can technology enable agencies to address the gap in the digital workforce? How can Public Sector agencies be better enabled to understand and apply technologies to meet their business objectives?

DoD Software Factories: How to Shift Culture and Enable Collaboration?

The most successful DoD Software Factories share a few things in common like delivering on actual Warfighter Outcomes. Come learn from 3 of the most successful as they discuss what has been their keys to success. Our round table setting will allow you to be part of the discussion! The DoD fights jointly across all Services. How can the largest Software Factories collaborate to build software that mirrors how the DoD organizes for mission? What are impediments that get in the way of Software Factories collaborating? How might they be overcome? What kinds of future collaboration will create the most value across the software factories? How might we create effective ownership for strategic planning, facilitation, measurement of success and accountability, for cross-Software Factory efforts?