Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Virtual, Webinar
In 2023, we're living in a time of substantial technological growth. Government agencies and organizations are tasked with continuously transforming their practices to stay on the cutting-edge of evolving technologies, skills, and markets.
Join our upcoming webinar with Steve Rader from NASA Johnson Space Center to learn how NASA innovates by leveraging crowd-based platforms for open innovation and open-talent. Steve will also touch on the nature of the workforce in 2023 and the future of work.
About Steve Rader
Program Manager, NASA Tournament Lab and the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation
Steve currently serves as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) which are working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowdsourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge-based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.
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In 2015, Steve was named as one of 20 Challenge Mentors for U.S. Government Services Administration’s (GSA) Prizes and Challenges government-wide community of practice. Steve has worked with various projects and organizations to develop and execute over 100 different challenges. He speaks regularly about NASA’s work in crowd-based challenges and the future of work both publicly and internally to the NASA workforce to promote the use of open innovation tools.
Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for 33 years. Prior to joining CoECI/NTL, Steve worked in mission control, flight software development for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, command and control systems development for the X-38, and led the Command, Control, Communications, & Information (C3I) architecture definition for the Constellation Program.
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