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The IBM Center for the Business of Government has unveiled “Navigating Generative AI in Government,” a comprehensive report authored by Alex Richter. This session delves into the report’s findings, offering strategic pathways for integrating generative AI across government operations. Featuring the report’s author and Dan Chenok, Executive Director of the IBM Center, this discussion provides actionable insights for public sector leaders. In this episode of GovExec TV, learn how generative AI is transforming governance.
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George Jackson
Executive Producer
GovExec TV
George Jackson is the Executive Producer of GovExec TV. He joined GovExec in 2020 to enhance the scale of their events and audience experiences, and launched GovExec TV in 2021.
George spent the first five years of his journalism career at WJHL-TV in Johnson City Tenn. – beginning as an overnight producer for the station’s 6 a.m. broadcast. He advanced to lead on-air reporter for WJHL’s 11 p.m. newscast.
As a reporter, George examined the earnings of two non-profit hospital systems, felony charges filed against a local sheriff, predatory paving companies, a health benefits backlog for local veterans, and a series of cold-case murder investigations. He received an honorable mention for Best TV Reporter in the 2011 Tennessee AP Broadcast awards and won a Best Investigative Reporting award from Media General in 2010.
George joined DC’s ABC affiliate WJLA-TV in 2012 to produce Capital Insider, which won him an Emmy award. One year later, he developed and recorded the pilot episode of Government Matters – a program about the business of government. It debuted as a weekly show on Sunday, August 4th of 2013. George led Government Matters through September of 2020, expanded its reach to a daily worldwide audience, and produced its first feature-length documentary The Dawn of Generation AI.
George is from Toledo, Ohio. He lives with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of rescue dogs in Northern Virginia.

Alex Richter
Professor of Information Systems
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Alex Richter
Professor of Information Systems
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor Alexander Richter studies the transformative impact of IT in workplace settings, focusing on fostering innovation, productivity, and employee engagement. His research on human-AI collaboration emphasizes the importance of contextual understanding, value-driven design, and adaptive approaches to create meaningful sociotechnical systems.
He has published more than 100 fully refereed articles in leading academic journals and conferences, which have been cited more than 9500 times, awarded with several best paper awards and covered by many major news outlets. He also regularly publishes in practitioner outlets and in collaboration with organisational leaders.
In 2024 he was included in the Stanford-Elsevier Top Scientists List, ranking 285th globally among 18,561 researchers listed in the sub-field of Information Systems (IS). In the same year he was the first academic from a university in the Asia-Pacific region to receive the prestigous 'Innovation in Teaching Award' from the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The award acknowledges his 'Learning Out Loud' approach, which emphasizes collaboration and applied learning to support student engagement and achievement.


Dan Chenok
Executive Director
IBM Center for the Business of Government
Dan Chenok is Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government. He oversees all of the Center's activities in connecting research to practice to benefit government, and has written and spoken extensively around government technology, cybersecurity, privacy, regulation, budget, acquisition, and Presidential transitions. Mr. Chenok previously led consulting services for Public Sector Technology Strategy, working with IBM government, healthcare, and education clients.
Before joining IBM, Mr. Chenok was a Senior Vice President for Civilian Operations with Pragmatics, and prior to that was a Vice President for Business Solutions and Offerings with SRA International.
As a career Government executive, Mr. Chenok served as Branch Chief for Information Policy and Technology with the Office of Management and Budget, where he led a staff with oversight of federal information and IT policy, including electronic government, computer security, privacy and IT budgeting. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Branch Chief and Desk Officer for Education, Labor, HHS, and related agencies in OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Chenok began his government service as an analyst with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and left government service at the end of 2003.
In 2008, Mr. Chenok served on President Barack Obama’s transition team as the Government lead for the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform group, and as a member of the OMB Agency Review Team.
Mr. Chenok has won numerous honors and awards, including a 2010 Federal 100 winner for his work on the presidential transition, the 2016 Eagle Award for Industry Executive of the Year, and the 2002 Federal CIO Council Azimuth Award for Government Executive of the Year.
Mr. Chenok earned a BA from Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.