
Ryan Koch explores the parallels between historical railroad gauge conflicts and modern data infrastructure challenges, emphasizing the importance of standardization and network effects in overcoming systemic friction...


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Civic Tech Chat is a podcast about the civic technology movement. We seek to harness the power technology has to improve the delivery of public services to people everywhere.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCivic Tech Chat is a podcast about the civic technology movement. We seek to harness the power technology has to improve the delivery of public services to people everywhere.
Recent episodes include "Gauge Wars: What Railroads Teach Us About Data Standards" (26 October 2026, 32 minutes), "Six Weeks to Launch: How Nava built Document AI in response to H.R. 1" (6 October 2026, 67 minutes), and "AI Governance: Who's Accountable When the Machine Decides?" (13 August 2026, 24 minutes).
Civic Tech Chat publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 113 episodes.
Booking probability for Civic Tech Chat is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Civic Tech Chat requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Civic Tech Chat's contact route on record: verified email.
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Civic Tech Chat is a technology podcast with 113 episodes published.
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Ryan Koch explores the parallels between historical railroad gauge conflicts and modern data infrastructure challenges, emphasizing the importance of standardization and network effects in overcoming systemic friction...

Summary When H.R. 1 put new pressure on states to cut SNAP payment error rates, Nava PBC had six weeks to help Pennsylvania stand up a way to catch bad document uploads before they reached a caseworker. That...

AI tools have quietly moved out of isolated dev environments and into the middle of how real work gets done. That shift is genuinely exciting, and it brings a fresh set of risks worth sitting with. In this solo episode...

Episode #108
We're joined by David D'Silva, Principal Product Manager at Nava, for a conversation about legacy lockpicks: the reusable tools, playbooks, and patterns that help government teams move out of legacy systems faster and...

Episode #107
<p>In this interview, Brian Chidester from Adobe discusses the importance of AI readiness in government, data governance, and the future of AI in public sector transformation. Learn how organizations can start small...

<p>Christian Martinez shares his journey from cognitive neuroscience to civic tech, highlighting the importance of open data, reproducible research, and building accessible tools like R packages. Discover how relevance...

Episode #105
<p>Ryan Koch discusses the importance of understanding supply chain attacks in cybersecurity, illustrating how they exploit trust in software components and build systems, and offering practical strategies to mitigate...

Episode #104
<p>We're joined by Mark Headd author The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Modernizing Legacy Technology Systems. We talk about good modernization practices like the strangler fig pattern as well as ways teams can use...

Episode #103
<p>We’re joined by Ed Mullen, Technical Solutions Director and Lauren Ciferri Director of Product, over at Nava PBC. We’ll have a conversation about open source government technology, using Nava’s Strata project as a...

Episode #102
<p>We're joined by Mike Paciello (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-paciello-1231741/), Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye (https://audioeye.com) for a conversation about web accessibility standards. We'll talk...

Episode #101
<p>Our host Ryan Koch talks about the Dutch Government's invocation of the 1952 Good Availablity Act. This action recently led to what's been referred to as the 'Nexperia Crises' creating a scenario where technical...

Episode #100
<p>We’re joined by Senongo Akpem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/senongoakpem/) Vice President of Design and Research at Nava PBC (https://navapbc.com/). Together we talk about shifts in the direction of the design and...

Episode #99
<p>We're joined by Amanda Renteria (https://codeforamerica.org/people/amanda-renteria/) CEO of Code for America (https://codeforamerica.org). We dive into a conversation about what's needed to make 'good' government...

Episode #98
<p>We're joined by Brett Ferrin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-ferrin-8504b8346/) VP of Sales at Traffic Logix. Together we have a conversation about how technology and data can be used to proactively improve...

<p>We're talking about experimentation in government services with two experts from Nava Labs, a philanthropically funded part of Nava PBC: Genevieve Gaudet (Director) and Martelle Esposito (Partnerships and Evaluation...

Episode #96
<p>We're joined by Ami Yares (https://www.amiyares.com/) songwriter and Executive Director of Build a Bridge (https://buildabridge.org), a non-profit that focuses on transforming lives through art-making, and by...

Episode #95
<p>We're joined by Amanda Renteria (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-renteria/), CEO of Code for America to discuss their upcoming Summit event. We'll cover a bit about the event itself, the state of the civic tech...

Episode #94
<p>Our host, Ryan Koch, does a breakdown of infinite scrolling. We talk about what this design technique is, why it gets used, and the potential effects it could have on folks using applications. Music Credit...

Episode #93
<p>We're joined by Mike Gifford (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgifford), Open Standards and Practice Lead at CivicActions (https://civicactions.com/). We'll dig deep into what it takes to build accessible web services...

Episode #92
<p>We reach back into the archives to re-release episode 84. In it we were joined by Marina Nitze (https://twitter.com/MarinaNitze) to talk about their book Hack Your Bureaucracy (https://www.hackyourbureaucracy.com/)...
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