AI 🎙️ Episodes

March 29, 2026

#228: Ithaca College & Omnissa on Nebula, ICare Team & 150 Students Who Almost Slipped Through

In this episode, Dave Weil from Ithaca College and Mark Richards from Omnissa explore how a small liberal arts IT team built an AI tool that freed up 150 at-risk student meetings - and why human-to-human connection has to stay at the center of any real AI strategy.

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March 17, 2026

#227: UCSB, Virginia Tech & Cisco ThousandEyes on Leading IT Before the Problems Find You

In this EDUCAUSE episode, Josh Bright from UC Santa Barbara, Dwane Sterling from Virginia Tech, and JJ Mahon from Cisco ThousandEyes break down what it means to lead IT before the problems find you - from building a collaborative leadership team to monitoring the student experience before the first ticket ever lands.

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March 16, 2026

#226: ASU, Cloudflare & IDC on AI Governance in the Higher Ed Wild West

In this EDUCAUSE episode, Lester Godsey from Arizona State University, Dan Kent from Cloudflare, and Matthew Leger from IDC break down why most institutions are still in the AI Wild West - and what it actually takes to govern, secure, and scale AI across a campus before agentic systems make the problem exponentially harder.

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March 11, 2026

#225: CSU, UT System & Palo Alto Networks on AI Access, Cybersecurity at Scale & the CSU Promise

In this EDUCAUSE episode, Ed Clark from CSU, William Huang from UT System, and Chuck Romero from Palo Alto break down what it actually takes to close the AI divide across 460,000 students — and why browser security is now the front line.

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March 2, 2026

#223: Maricopa Community Colleges, Dell & NVIDIA on AI Workforce Development

In this EDUCAUSE episode, leaders from Maricopa Community Colleges, Dell, and NVIDIA break down what's actually broken in higher ed workforce pipelines — and what AI workforce development can do to fix it.

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Feb. 26, 2026

#222: ASU, UCSB & Tanium on Why AI Efficiency Isn't Enough in Higher Ed

In this EDUCAUSE episode, Kyle Bowen from Arizona State University, Joe Sabado from UC Santa Barbara, and Doug Thompson from Tanium make the case that efficiency was never supposed to be the finish line — and break down what responsible AI adoption actually looks like when it connects to the mission.

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May 7, 2025

#201: UHCL's NASA Partnership + UT System's Enterprise AI Strategy [EDUCAUSE 2024]

FEATURING Dr. LeeBrian Gaskins , Senior Associate Vice President of IT/CIO at University of Houston-Clear Lake William Huang , Deputy CIO, University of Texas System KEY POINTS UT System declared 2024 "the year of the student...

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May 1, 2025

#200: UCSB's Data-Driven AI Pilots + ASU's Multi-LLM Innovation Platform + Google's Higher Ed Partnerships [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring: Josh Bright , CIO and Associate Vice Chancellor for IT at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) Kyle Bowen , Deputy CIO at Arizona State University (ASU) Charles Elliott , Field CTO for Public Sector at Google Episode Highlights...

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Feb. 27, 2025

#196: Building Cyber Warriors: UTSA's SOC & Elastic's AI Secret Sauce [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring: Kendra Ketchum , Vice President for Information Management and Technology and CIO at the University of Texas, San Antonio Jared Pane , Director of Solutions Architecture at Elastic Episode Highlights: Leadership Ph...

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Feb. 20, 2025

#195: Purdue's Enterprise AI Challenge + Montana's State-Wide Cyber Hub [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring: Timothy Winders , AVP and Deputy CIO at Purdue University Zach Rossmiller , CIO, University of Montana Mani Keerthi Nagothu , Americas Field CISO & Associate Director at SentinelOne In this episode, you’ll learn: H...

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Dec. 31, 2024

#184: Seattle's Human-Centric Approach to Digital Services [Seattle Learning Conference 2024]

Featuring: Michal Perlstein , Senior Manager of Digital Engagement, City of Seattle IT Michelle Ringgold , User Experience Team Lead, City of Seattle IT Dennis McCoy , Product Management Team Supervisor, City of Seattle IT Je...

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Sept. 9, 2023

Ep.152 Transforming Legacy Systems: A CDO & CISO Blueprint for Digitization and Cybersecurity

Show Notes Featuring Shauna Rogers, CDO, Texas Attorney General, and Celerino Torres, CISO, Texas Attorney General 🔗 Connect with Shauna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunarogers2/ 🔗 Connect with Celerino: https://www.linkedi...

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Nov. 25, 2022

#112: Q Branch: Transforming Courts with AI & Automation in Maricopa County

Featuring: Aaron Judy , Chief of Innovation and AI at Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court In this episode, you’ll learn: How Maricopa County's intelligent capture project targets 33% labor reduction in phase one with ...

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Aug. 2, 2022

Ep.108 The Digital Deep Dive: How Texas Attorney General's Office is Revolutionizing Citizen Services with AI and Automation

In this episode of The Public Sector Show by TechTables, join host Joe Toste as he sits down with Krishna Edathil, Director of Enterprise Solution Services (Cloud/AI) at the State of Texas, and Shauna Rodgers, Chief Digital and Data Officer at the Texas Attorney General’s Office, to dive into their digital deep dive strategies.

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