Tech for America: What’s Ahead for Government Tech in 2025
Race Capital, Hanwha Life, and MLtwist are proud to present Tech for America: What’s Ahead for Government Tech in 2025.
As government agencies continue to embrace technology to enhance their operations and services, there is a growing focus on innovative solutions for the public sector.
We'll hear from leaders in government tech about the latest developments and initiatives, and how they are leveraging AI and other technologies for the future of America. Learn from senior executives and government leaders about what’s next for tech in America, from chipsets to AI and other emerging technologies.
We will delve into the future of government technology, exploring how government agencies and tech companies are working together to streamline processes, improve public services, and ensure data security.
Speakers include:
Bruce Andrews - Corporate Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Officer at Intel Corporation
Bruce Andrews is corporate vice president and chief government affairs officer at Intel Corporation. He leads Intel’s global government affairs group and oversees the company’s government affairs and public policy functions and strategies. Andrews is a seasoned public policy and international government relations executive. He joined Intel from SoftBank Group, where he was senior vice president and managing partner, co-leading global government affairs. In previous roles, Andrews served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and chief of staff to the secretary.
Thomas Osborne, MD - Chief Medical Officer | Microsoft: Federal Civilian
Thomas Osborne MD is Chief Medical Officer for Microsoft, Federal Civilian. Prior to joiningMicrosoft, he held various executive leadership roles in government and industry. Throughout his career, Dr. Osborne has collaborated broadly and leveraged the latest technologies to positively transform healthcare, such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, 5G, sensor technology, wearables, robotics, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Dr. Osborne has received numerous national awards for his translational work that have been published in leading medical journals and textbooks on a wide range of topics such as cancer, infectious disease, neurologic disease, surgery, pain, climate, falls, elder care, determinants of health,telehealth, diagnostics, predictive analytics, health risk, efficiencies, advanced health technology, big data analytics, and the future of health care. Dr. Osborne received his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School and completed his clinical residency and fellowship at Harvard hospitals.
Carolyn McGourty Supple - Head of Public Affairs and Customer Engagement, Google Public Sector.
Carolyn McGourty Supple is Head of Public Affairs and Customer Engagement at Google Public Sector. GPS’s mission is to empower the public sector to digitally transform by applying Google technologies to their mission. In her role, Carolyn works across Google and with leaders in state, local and federal governments and higher education to position cloud technologies - from AI to data and analytics to infrastructure - to help solve some of their most critical challenges.
Prior, Carolyn stood up the tech scouting practice at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led digital transformation and strategy projects for commercial, government and nonprofit clients.
She co-founded the Center for Ethical Leadership in Media at the University of Texas at Austin, where she serves as board chair and visiting professor. She has a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Jeff Fields - Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Branch in San Francisco
Jeff Fields currently serves as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Branch in San Francisco. For more than 18 years, Jeff has conducted extensive global operations in support of U.S. national security priorities, to include deployments on FBI-embedded assignments with U.S. Special Operations Command in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. In addition, he has firsthand experience tackling the challenges encountered at the intersection of intelligence and emerging technology and innovation.
Jeff earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Hampton University and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and formerly a Fellow with the Intelligence Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Mr. Fields volunteers as a mentor with the non-profit Girl Security, and he is an unabashed Hip Hop head and fan of the Opera.
David Smith - Founder and CEO at MLtwist
Before founding MLtwist, David Smith held leadership roles at Google, Oracle, Neustar, DoubleClick, and has been through 4 acquisitions. He is focused on enabling strategic data for AI and has launched first of kind data partnerships with companies like Oracle, Google, JD Power, Twitter. David holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from UC Davis.
Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.
Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, Agora.io, and many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.
Hanwha Life, South Korea's first life insurance company with assets valued at more than $100 billion, has invested in, but not limited to, fintech, artificial intelligence and digitalization. We are expanding our efforts in the U.S. to find opportunities for new business and partnerships, to continue creating value for our next generations.
MLtwist is a no-code platform streamlining pipelines for AI data. We offer a seamless and secure user experience by ingesting, cleaning, and augmenting unstructured data. The data is then delivered to the customer into their native format for them to train their AI.