As one of the largest federal cabinet departments, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an unlikely place to lead in innovation—yet, it has transformed into a testbed for use cases in technologies ranging from blockchain to artificial intelligence. HHS’s Ignite Accelerator serves as an internal innovation startup to improve department operations. In this session, an HHS panel of innovators will discuss groundbreaking use cases of collaboration across agency and industry lines.

Potential topics include:

• Sharing data and research to advance critical health initiatives

• Creating public-private working groups that can meet transformational challenges
• Best practices in coordinating and collabortating across multiple channels
• Lessons learned in fielding emerging technologies

Panelists

• Chris Chilbert, Chief Information Officer, Office of Inspector General, HHS

• Vid Desai, Chief Technology Officer, FDA, HHS

• Nick Weber, Program Manager, Cloud Services for Research, NIH, HHS

• Bernard Asare, Chief Information Technology Security Officer, SAMHSA, HHS

• Moderator: Janet Vogel, Chief Information Security Officer, HHS