Overview

March 17
10AM PT, 1PM ET

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AI is already embedded in government systems, often outpacing policy. When AI influences eligibility decisions, enforcement actions, or access to public services, the stakes are high—public trust, regulatory risk, and security. Responsible AI frameworks address this by enabling explainable decisions, strong governance, and bias mitigation, showing that structure and oversight accelerate innovation rather than slow it. As a result, leaders are increasingly expected to clearly explain how AI is monitored, controlled, and justified. 

Join Government Technology, Pegasystems, and AWS for a live webinar where industry experts explore what responsible AI looks like in practice. Drawing on AWS’s governance framework, Pega’s principles of transparency, fairness, empathy, and robustness, and leading AI safety research, the panel will show how intentional design, practical controls, and lifecycle governance help agencies manage risk and maintain accountability. 

What you’ll learn: 

  • How responsible AI is applied in everyday systems 
  • Practical ways to manage risk in high impact AI use cases as systems evolve 
  • How agencies can meet public and regulatory expectations around AI governance 

Speakers

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Tara DeZao

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Customer Engagement, Pegasystems

Tara DeZao, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, at Pegasystems has cultivated a successful career in the marketing departments of both startups and Fortune 500 enterprise technology companies. She’s passionate about helping clients deliver better, more empathetic customer experiences. As a subject matter expert in marketing, advertising, leadership, and responsible AI, she’s an experienced thought leader across written, audio and live mediums. She holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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Travis Lenihan

Senior Account Manager, Anthropic Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Travis Lenihan serves as AWS Senior Account Manager for Anthropic Public Sector, bringing over 25 years of government technology partnership experience to responsible AI deployment in the public sector. He specializes in managing Claude LLM implementations across Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, healthcare, and education organizations, with expertise in FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level authorizations through AWS GovCloud. Travis previously led the AWS Intelligence Initiative Foundational Program. His extensive background in government contracting and technology partnerships positions him at the forefront of secure, compliant AI adoption for mission-critical applications.

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Dale Jablonsky — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Dale has over 40 years of in-depth Technology technical and leadership experience, whose career initially spanned across 30 years with the State of California, including 10 years of CIO executive roles at CA Employment Development Department (EDD) and CalPERS, the nation’s largest pension fund. Since departing from government in 2013, Dale has spent another 12 years in management consulting, focused on the government CIO, primarily around IT Strategy & Architecture, IT Services Transformation and Legacy Systems Reengineering disciplines, among others. While delivering executive management consulting projects at KPMG, VIP (Visionary Integration Professionals) and Performance Technology Partners, across many states and counties, Dale’s specialty was typically positioning government CIO’s for increased IT investment, including major new IT project funding and significant increases in IT staffing levels. Though the power of IT Financial Management and Transparency, Dale’s methodology served as a major new bridge between the Business and Technology organizations, often providing technology services insights to the business executives for the first time.

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