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How do you push cutting-edge tech through a political bureaucracy without getting buried?
Former FEMA Chief of IT Management John Binks spent 14 years pushing technology through disaster response and political appointees — then moved to industry at Titan Technologies. He joins me to share battle-tested rules for getting AI and innovation approved when every decision feels like turning a battleship.
We cover:
- The “run to Best Buy and buy me an AI” story every tech leader has lived
- Why government moves slow (budget cycles, 90-day political resets, public visibility)
- Unwritten survival rules: no surprises, pre-wire decisions, bring solutions
- How one AI project automating presidential disaster declarations succeeded because of diplomacy, not just data
- Turning oversight & cyber teams in ...
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