Overview

August 31

For today’s government agencies to stay functional, they have to transform into digital enterprises. At the core of this transformation is fostering a digital culture.

Whether a small project or a multi-tiered modernization program, how well an organization promotes a digital-first, data-driven culture dictates—to a considerable extent— how much that organization benefits from the change. If culture comes first, performance will follow–this is the case for almost all technology deployment, including generative AI.

Still, many organizations find this one of the most challenging hurdles to clear. Explore why that is and the strategies agencies can use to drive organizational change during a live 30-minute webinar hosted by Government Technology and CGI on August 31, 2023, at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET.

Key takeaways include:

Why culture is pivotal to AI success
How to build a data-driven culture
Best practices for promoting change readiness

Speakers

Kim Tarabetz, Ed.D.

Director, Consulting Services – Organizational Change Management, CGI

Dr. Kim Tarabetz is a Change Management Practice Lead with more than 20 years in areas related to people, program improvement and organizational performance. Her focus is on benefit realization, and helping clients achieve meaningful value from their strategic initiatives. Collectively, her industry experience includes pension administration, health & human services, behavioral health and transportation in the public sector, as both a consultant and public servant, and high-tech in the private sector, where she served some of the biggest technology and social media companies in world. Kim holds a doctorate in Organizational Change & Leadership from the University of Southern California, where her research focused on guiding government organizations through agile transformation.

Gaby Lio

Director, Consulting Services – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, CGI Emerging Technology Practice

Gaby is a Data Science Practice Lead who leverages her expertise in data analytics, data science, and predictive modeling to transform immense amounts of data into information, enabling clients to more effectively draw conclusions, build models, and report findings through visualizations. She helps leads expansion of the firm’s technical expertise in the AI and ML space. Gaby brings nearly a decade of experience across multiple industries, including commercial and public sector, and specifically healthcare, pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, and non-profits. She has a passion for learning new programs and technologies to help clients make data driven decisions and for mentoring and developing members into strong technical leaders in the emerging technology space.

Steve Zemanick

Director, Consulting Delivery – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, CGI Emerging Technology Practice

Steve is a Lead Innovation Strategist for CGI’s Emerging Technology Practice. Steve’s primary focus is on Data and Artificial Intelligence, where he helps clients embrace new strategies and technologies to digitally transform how their organization does business. With 20 years of multi-industry experience, Steve has a wide range of capabilities providing end-to-end digital transformation solutions to global organizations. He has applied his extensive experience in the strategy, technology selection and implementation of secure solutions leveraging cloud and hybrid platforms, modern application architectures, edge computing, data management, data / system integrations, data insights and next generation approaches such as Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning.

Craig Orgeron, Ph. D. — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Dr. Orgeron has extensive information technology experience in both the private sector and the federal and state level of the public sector. Currently, Dr. Orgeron is Professor of Management Information Systems in the Else School of Management at Millsaps College. After beginning his career as a communications-computer systems officer in the United States Air Force, he served as the Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) and Chief Information Officer for the State of Mississippi. In this role, Dr. Orgeron provided statewide leadership in the provision of services that facilitated cost-effective information processing and telecommunication solutions for Mississippi government agencies and institutions.

Webinar

Shifting Organizational Culture: The Precursor to AI Success