Christine Thropp
Clara Conti, vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s North America Public Sector, was featured in the most recent Q&A session with GovCon Wire, the sister publication of ExecutiveBiz. She talked about her public sector work and background as well as the reason for her move to Red Hat. Conti also shared her objectives in the coming months and what she believes are the top technology challenges and or opportunities for government agencies over the next three to five years.
Executive Mosaic inducted Clara Conti into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 most significant contributors in the government contracting arena. Visit Wash100.com to cast a vote for Conti as one of your favorite GovCon leaders.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview with Conti:
“Open source artificial intelligence and machine learning at the edge – I see the confluence of all these technologies taking off next year. Over the past couple of years, AI and ML have advanced tremendously, often thanks to the elasticity of public clouds and GPU-enabled supercomputing.
In these cases, the data are collected and then sent off to the cloud or HPC data center for analysis. These models work well for workloads where you have the time to collect and transfer all that data to the cloud, but they aren’t as effective when you want to do real-time decision making.”
Visit GovCon Wire to read the full Q&A with Clara Conti, VP and GM of Red Hat North America Public Sector, and don’t miss our other interviews with the most significant executives of consequence to the federal and government contracting sector.
