Sure, the DC metro area might not share Silicon Valley’s reputation for tech trend leadership. If anything, its never-ending association with partisan squabbling and gigantic federal bureaucracies makes it seem like the antithesis of innovation.
But that assumption overlooks just how important all those dynamics are to today’s tech landscape. From the Biden administration’s executive order on responsible artificial intelligence to the local companies still depending on massive government contracts, the past year underscored the power the nation’s capital and its surrounding counties bear in shaping tech’s future. No wonder why it frequently nets top marks on national tech rankings.
Given the region’s authority in all of the industry’s moving parts, we posed a series of questions related to leadership and the future to our 2023 RealLIST Engineers. Here’s what two of them — Terry Bazemore Jr., cofounder and COO of Prince George’s County-based Ey3 Technologies; and Michael Akinwumi, chief tech equity officer for the White House-adjacent National Fair Housing Alliance — had to say.
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