All Episodes
Proudly Serving: Writing a Book in the Open
Rebecca Woodbury and Luke Fretwell discuss their collaborative process in writing 'Proudly Serving,' a book aimed at making civic tech and government more accessible, ...
AI Governance: Who's Accountable When the Machine Decides?
AI tools have quietly moved out of isolated dev environments and into the middle of how real work gets done. That shift is genuinely exciting, and it brings a fresh se...
Legacy Lockpicks
We're joined by David D'Silva, Principal Product Manager at Nava, for a conversation about legacy lockpicks: the reusable tools, playbooks, and patterns that help gove...
What is AI Readiness?
In this interview, Brian Chidester from Adobe discusses the importance of AI readiness in government, data governance, and the future of AI in public sector transforma...
Relevance Drives Rigor: Exploring Open Data with R
Christian Martinez shares his journey from cognitive neuroscience to civic tech, highlighting the importance of open data, reproducible research, and building accessib...
Supply Chain Attacks
Ryan Koch discusses the importance of understanding supply chain attacks in cybersecurity, illustrating how they exploit trust in software components and build systems...
The SpecOps Method
We're joined by Mark Headd author The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Modernizing Legacy Technology Systems. We talk about good modernization practices like the stra...
Nava Strata: Open Source Government Technology
We’re joined by Ed Mullen, Technical Solutions Director and Lauren Ciferri Director of Product, over at Nava PBC. We’ll have a conversation about open source governmen...
Digital Accessibility
We're joined by Mike Paciello (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-paciello-1231741/), Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye (https://audioeye.com) for a conversation a...
Nexperia Crises
Our host Ryan Koch talks about the Dutch Government's invocation of the 1952 Good Availablity Act. This action recently led to what's been referred to as the 'Nexperia...
Evolution of Design and Research in Civic Tech
We’re joined by Senongo Akpem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/senongoakpem/) Vice President of Design and Research at Nava PBC (https://navapbc.com/). Together we talk ab...
99 FormFest
We're joined by Amanda Renteria (https://codeforamerica.org/people/amanda-renteria/) CEO of Code for America (https://codeforamerica.org). We dive into a conversation ...
98 Proactive Traffic Safety
We're joined by Brett Ferrin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-ferrin-8504b8346/) VP of Sales at Traffic Logix. Together we have a conversation about how technology a...
97 Pioneering Progress: Advocating for Experimentation in Government with Nava Labs
We're talking about experimentation in government services with two experts from Nava Labs, a philanthropically funded part of Nava PBC: Genevieve Gaudet (Director) an...
96 We the Songwriters
We're joined by Ami Yares (https://www.amiyares.com/) songwriter and Executive Director of Build a Bridge (https://buildabridge.org), a non-profit that focuses on tran...
95 Code for America Summit 2025
We're joined by Amanda Renteria (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-renteria/), CEO of Code for America to discuss their upcoming Summit event. We'll cover a bit about...
94 Infinite Scrolling
Our host, Ryan Koch, does a breakdown of infinite scrolling. We talk about what this design technique is, why it gets used, and the potential effects it could have on ...
93 Building an accessible web
We're joined by Mike Gifford (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgifford), Open Standards and Practice Lead at CivicActions (https://civicactions.com/). We'll dig deep into ...