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The Founding Fathers' Guide to Federal IT

  • Season 1
  • Episode 12
July 6, 2026

 Happy 250th birthday, America. In this special shortened Fourth of July episode of The GIST of Govt IT, Brian and Sean keep it snackable for the beach-and-boat crowd — kicking off with a debate over favorite founding fathers before turning to a rundown of the GIST 360 summer event lineup. Sean previews what's coming: a July 14 breakfast briefing at the National Press Club on securing the converged IT/OT/IoT enterprise; a mid-year federal IT priority-setting session featuring a fireside chat with CISA Director Nick Andersen, an ATARC roundtable on operationalizing continuous threat exposure management, as well as several webinars on deck. If you want to know where federal IT leaders are placing their bets for the last stretch of the fiscal year, this is your map to the conversations that matter. Plus a kite-surfing Ben Franklin!
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Upcoming GIST 360 Events

- July 14 — Breakfast Briefing, National Press Club - "When the Perimeter Disappears: Securing the Converged Federal Enterprise Across IT, IoT, and OT"

- July 14 — Mid-Year Federal IT Priority Setting & Listening Session, The Riggs Rooftop (9th & E, Washington DC, 5:30–7:30 PM)

- August 13 — Webinar: "From the Edge to the Enterprise: The Future of Mission-Critical Infrastructure"

- August 25 — Webinar: "Rethinking Command and Control Resiliency at the Tactical Edge"