For many agencies, their video teleconferencing system was like grandma’s china—you knew it was there, but only broke it out on special occasions.

Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and the VTC became the oxygen of the federal government—they couldn’t accomplish much without it.

In this exclusive executive briefing, the following experts provide insight into increasing network capacity, bandwidth and adding more virtual private network (VPN) licenses and the like:

• Zach Brown, Chief Information Security Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Doug Cowan, Lead, Federal Civilian Cybersecurity Team, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Dr. Christina Handley, Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Sukhvinder Singh, Chief Technology Officer and Information & Process Management Division Chief, United States Agency for International Development
• Kurt Steege, Chief Technology Officer, ThunderCat Technology
• Gary Stevens, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Executive Director for Information Security Policy and Strategy, Department of Veterans Affairs