The pace of change is accelerating in the market, which means we can always take a step back to understand where those changes have come from and how that drives business activities. Bill Wright, head of global government affairs at Elastic, joins for this episode to explain how the fundamentals of the Trump administration’s approach to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity line up with those from the Biden Administration. Yes many things are different, but several others are not as well. For Wright, this shows just how critical cyber and AI are to the federal government. As he tells Editor Nick Wakeman, the Trump administration is looking to expand the government's AI and cyber strategy with a greater emphasis on commercial technology. And of course, speed and efficiency are key points Wright addresses too. As he explains, understanding where customers have come from and where they want to go is step one in finding growth opportunities across today’s market. Here are the tech takeaways from Trump’s budget proposal ‘Just wait’ to see how CISA reforms play out, DHS head tells cyber community Industry awaits how OMB AI guidance on paper will be implemented in practice What the federal workforce could look like with AI government employees
