Embedding Trust into AI for the Public Sector
Artificial intelligence is transforming how government agencies defend, protect, and deliver on their missions. From accelerating cyber threat detection to streamlining operations, AI offers powerful new capabilities—but only if it’s built on a foundation of trust, transparency, and resilient, secure data systems.
Public sector leaders face a balancing act: harnessing AI’s potential while ensuring the systems, data, and governance that underpin it are trustworthy and secure. Many agencies are using decades-old mission-critical applications for essential programs. The aim of AI strategies is not to replace these systems, but to integrate with them, enabling agencies to preserve proven reliability while enhancing capabilities through secure data access, replication, governance, and real-time system assurance.
Join us as thought leaders from government and industry explore how agencies are approaching AI in ways that strengthen mission readiness, maintain public confidence, and safeguard against evolving threats, including practical approaches to embedding resilience into AI—from ensuring data integrity and explainability to enforcing policies and continuously monitoring system health to detect and prevent issues before they impact operations.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the trust deficit in AI and how transparency and data integrity can bridge it
- Learn strategies for building AI systems resilient against manipulation, errors, and data-driven vulnerabilities
- Explore how secure data integration, replication, real-time monitoring, and operation assurance support trusted AI decisions
- Develop a blueprint for embedding governance, policy enforcement, and monitoring into AI programs from day one
Speaker Details
Chris Kinginger, PhD
Assistant Director for Catalytic Data Resources,
NIH Common Fund
Office of Strategic Coordination
Martin Stanley
AI and Cybersecurity Researcher,
NIST
Tim Willging
Chief Technology Officer,
Mainframe, Rocket Software
Bill Pratt
Contributing Editor,
FedInsider
Event Topic
Big Data, Mobile, ModernizationRelevant Audiences
All State and Local Government, All Federal Government, National Guard, Air Force, Coast Guard, Navy, City Government, County Government, Municipalities, State Government, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Interior, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, General Services Administration, Government Accountability Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Health, National Security Agency, U.S. Agency of International Development, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Postal Service, Veterans AffairsOther Agency
Office of the President (includes OMB), Other Federal Agencies, Judicial Branch Agencies, Foreign Governments/Agencies