A symposium for govtech innovators and change agents with the audacity to continuously ship outcomes to prod.
Nov 6-8 2023 / Hamilton Hotel / Washington DC

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1. a willingness to take bold personal risks to continuously deliver valuable software users love, to prod.

2. having a bravery to deploy to prod that could offend others.
MAKE SHIP HAPPEN

Why go?

EXclusive content
Our deliberately crafted agenda on people, process, and technology includes critical methods to propel continuous delivery of outcomes in prod and develop a mindset for meaningful change.
Paired Learning
No sales. No theater. Armed with experience, lessons, and best practices, we share knowledge to start, scale and improve the next generation of government software organizations.
present action, future impact
History is watching. Prodacity sets the standard for how to do DevOps in government. This year, the focus is on: organizational change, bureaucracy hacking, tactics, and implementation.
What to expect

Topics

From understanding how to think big in our general session, to collaborative roundtable discussions and interactive playbook workshops, don’t miss this curated program designed to empower every discipline in govtech with invaluable strategies to tackle complex problems. Preview the Prodacity 2023 agenda here!

Think Big

General Session

Transformation Strategy

Organizational Design

Leadership Principles

Operating Models

Hack Bureaucracy

Track Talks

Leadership

Product

Procurement

Experience Reports

Rise Up Roundtables

Create Outcomes

Track Talks

Leadership

Product

Procurement

Experience Reports
New Starts
Legacy Modernization
Performance

MAKE SHIP HAPPEN

Registration Options

Gov w/ Hotel
$0

Rate for government employees with a reservation at Hamilton Hotel

Submit proof of reservation by October 6; rooms available at the per diem rate

Registrants must have and register with a valid .mil/.gov/.civ email address

Government
$298

Rate for government employees

Registrants must have and register with a valid .mil/.gov/.civ address

Groups of five or more eligible for 10% off; contact prodacity@rise8.us for details

Industry
$1598

Three jam packed days of programming and networking designed to move your outcomes forward

Groups of five or more eligible for 10% off; contact prodacity@rise8.us for details
REAL TALK

Featured Speakers

In our inaugural year, we brought you renowned govtech change agents, including Gene Kim, Admiral (Ret) John Richardson, and more! This year, we invite you to experience thoughtfully crafted messages from industry and government experts, thought leaders, and visionaries who will educate and empower you to Think Big, Hack Bureaucracy, and Create Outcomes. Check out the lineup for Prodacity 2023!

07:00 AM
Breakfast/Registration [2 HRS]
09:00 AM
Govtech: Delivering a Future Where Fewer Bad Things Happen Because of Bad Software
bryon kroger -
Founder & CEO, Rise8




9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
09:15 AM
Keynote: The Gravity of the Situation
TBA - Speakers to be announced soon!




9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
09:40 AM
Software Delivery Performance and Mission Success
nathen harvey - Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud




9:35 AM - 10:10 AM
10:15 AM
networking Break [30 min]
10:45 AM
Govtech Platforms Don’t Have to Suck
bryon kroger - Founder & CEO, Rise8




10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
11:00 AM
Panel: The State of Govtech Platform

Panel





10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
TBA - Speakers to be announced soon!
TBA - Speakers to be announced soon!
11:40 AM
The Art and Science of Continuous ATO
ROB monroe - cATO Speaker & Product Manager, Rise8




11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
12:15 PM
LUNCH & Learn - presented by Red hat [1 HR]
1:15 pm
What Great Enterprise Software Development Looks Like
mik freedman - Sr. Director, VMWare Tanzu Labs




11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
1:45 PM
The Value Flywheel Effect




1:25 PM - 1:50 PM
david anderson - Author & Technical Leader
2:05 PM
Leadership Principles: Avoiding Black Holes




1:55 PM - 2:25 PM
Paul gaffney - Change Agent & Transformation Artist
2:50 PM
networking break [30 min]
3:20 PM
Fireside: Digtial Operating Models & Organizing for Success
siobhán mc feeney - Chief Technology Office, Kohl's




2:30 PM - 2:30 PM
4:05 PM
Not Another Upskilling Talk
adam furtado - Founder & CEO, Sagely




3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
4:30 PM
Powerhouse Reflections
TBA - Speakers to be announced soon!




3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Panel

5:00 PM
Happy Hour!
All - Make Ship Happen




4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
6:00 PM
day 1 end! [15 HRS]
08:00 AM
Breakfast [1 HR]
09:00 AM
Welcome to Day 2!




9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
09:05 AM
Corporate Rebels
JOOST MINAAR - Co-Founder & Author
PIM DEE MORREE - Co-Founder & Author




9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
09:35 AM
Transition [5 min]
09:40 AM
Hack Your Bureaucracy
MARINA NITZE - Co-Author, Partner, & Fellow
NICK SINAI - Co-Author, Senior Adviser




9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
10:10 AM
networking break [30 min]
10:40 AM
Hack Your Force Design: Where do Software Factories Belong?
Max Reele - Air Force Service Lead, Defense Innovation Unit

Leadership





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Platform Hacks: Getting the Right Tools in the Right Environment
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!

Product





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Hacquisition Strategy
jonathan mostowski - Co-Author, Partner & Fellow

Procurement





10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
11:05 AM
transition [10 MIN]
11:15 AM
Get That Money
matt macgregor - Principal Acquisition Leader, MITRE

Leadership





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
Hacking the Platform Developer Experience
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!

Product





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
All the Special Authorities
peter modigliani - Beacon Global Strategies

Procurement





10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
11:40 AM
Transition [10 min]
11:50 AM
Hacking Government Talent Management
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!





11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
12:15 pM
lunch [1 hr]
1:15 pM
Transforming Compliance Bureaucracy into Continuous Risk Management
lynette sherriLl - Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information Security & Chief Information Security Officer, US Department of Veterans Affairs
carrie lee - Deputy Chief Information Officer, Product Engineering Service, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Panel






11:55 AM - 12:25 PM
1:50 PM
transition [10 min]
2:00 PM
Replicator - Fireside Report
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!
TBA - Speaker to be announced soon!

Leadership






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
CMS Experience Report
lloyd evans - Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Aquia

Product






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
Experience Report
Dave Mazik - Director, VA Lighthouse, US Department of Veterans Affairs
andrew fichter - Deputy Director, VA Lighthouse Developer Experience, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Procurement






1:25 PM - 1:55 PM
2:30 pm
Transition [10 min]
2:40 PM
Experience Report 4
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!

Leadership






2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Experience Report 5
tba - Speaker to be announced soon!

Product






2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Fireside Experience Report 6 - SWF Contracting Retro
lori-ann rissler - Principal, Decisive Point
victoria wyler - Growth, Defense Unicorns

Procurement






2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
3:10 PM
networking BREAK [30 MIN]
3:40 pm
Rise Up Roundtable

Leadership






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
Rise Up Roundtable

Product






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
Rise Up Roundtable

Procurement






2:50 PM - 3:45 PM
4:40 pm
Transition [5 min]
4:45 pm
Hackathon Recap





3:55 PM - 4:25 PM
5:00 PM
day 2 end! [15 hr]
08:00 AM
Breakfast [1 HR]
09:00 AM
Farther, Faster, Far Less Drama
JANICE FRASER - Author & Innovation Leader
JASON FRASER - Author, Advisor & Leader at VMWare Tanzu Labs




9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
09:30 AM
Continuous Delivery is your Superpower
jez humble - Site Reliability Engineer, Co-Author, Lecturer




9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
10:00 AM
networking break [35 min]
10:35 AM
Growing Yourself as a Digital Transformation Leader
micheal snyder - Metronome

Leadership





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Fireside Chat: Building a prod playbook for the decisive decade
Nick miller - Federal Lead - AWS Marketplace, AWS
lathan turner - EVP, Global Public Sector, Second Front Systems

Product





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Tradewinds Contract Vehicle
TBA - Speaker to be announced soon!

Procurement





10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
11:05 AM
Large Scale Transformation Playbook
felicia schwartz - Managing Partner, formula.monks

Leadership





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Complexity: A Potential Enemy of Delivery
mike lanciano - Director of Engineering Growth, Clarity

Product





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Efficient Government Tech Doesn't Have to be Scary
john foster - Chief Impact Officer, Fearless

Procurement





11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
11:35 AM
Transition [10 min]
11:45 AM
Make Work More Visible
dominica degrandis - Author & Principal Flow Advisor, Planview

Leadership





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Your Data, Your Models, Your Intelligence. All Private (AI Demo)
kwasi ankomah - Head of AI, formula.monks

Product





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Avoiding Competition Theater
TBA - Speaker to be announced soon!

Procurement





11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
12:15 PM
lunch [1 hr]
1:15 PM
The Data Pyramid
LTC Melissa sayers - Operations Research Systems Analyst, United States Army - First Army

Leadership





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Air-gap Platform Deployments
TBA - Speaker to be announced soon!

Product





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Streamlining Procurement with a cATO Platform
enrique oti - CTO, Second Front Systems

Procurement





12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
1:40 PM
transition [10 min]
1:50 PM
Panel: The Future of Autonomy
msgt donald "chee" gansberger - Software Director - AFWERX Autonomy Prime, US Air Force
tyler sweatt - CEO, Second Front Systems
major victor lopez - Chief of Autonomy Operations - AFWERX SPARK, US Air Force
john goodson - CEO, Darkhive

Leadership






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
Design in Govtech
jennifer herzberg - Sr. Product Designer, Skylight

Product






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
FAR Better Contracting & SBIR Superpowers
kristina botelho - Acquisition & Innovation Leader, USAF

Procurement






1:30 PM - 1:55 PM
2:15 PM
Transition [5 min]
2:20 PM
Conference Closing Remarks





4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
2:40 PM
networking break - booth last call [20 min]
3:00 PM

Playbook Workshop

BONUS: New-Starts

Leadership






2:35 PM - 4:05 PM

Playbook Workshop

BONUS: Legacy Modernization

Product






2:35 PM - 4:05 PM

Playbook Workshop

BONUS: Performance Improvement

Procurement






2:35 PM - 4:05 PM
4:30 PM
end
see you in 2024!

Thank you to our partners

For information on Prodacity 2023 sponsorship opportunities, please reach out to Miranda Doyel at MDOYEL@RISE8.US