John Balla is Global Industry Marketing Principal for the Public Sector at SAS. His long experience with government entities around the world ranges from his work at Fortune 100 companies to co-founding two start-ups. He is multi-cultural and multi-lingual and has lived and worked on 3 continents. He earned a degree in economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
As a public sector leader, the pressure to resolve operational issues in your organization is constant, and you may be considering new or better AI models, AI agents or more broadly applied generative AI (GenAI) applications. At the same time, growing use of AI can raise issues related to accountability,
At the risk of oversimplifying, I think of artificial intelligence as what becomes possible after you’ve fully embraced analytics and you’re starting to get bolder about how to use it. Your models are getting better, your predictions are more accurate, your results are stronger and over all, confidence grows in
