David Egts
Co-Host of Dave & Gunnar Show
David Egts is MuleSoft's first-ever Public Sector field CTO. He is the executive-level connective tissue between MuleSoft and top public sector decision makers and influencers globally. In C-suite meetings, presentations, and his expansive thought leadership platform, he draws on decades of technical expertise to help agencies integrate, automate, accelerate, and innovate service delivery. Internally, David applies his deep industry knowledge to help ensure current and future government requirements are factored into existing products and R&D efforts.
Outside of MuleSoft, David is the founding co-chair of the WashingtonExec CTO Council and advises numerous companies on commercializing open source software and working with the public sector industry.
David received industry-wide recognition as an FCW Federal 100 winner, FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership awardee, and one of WashingtonExec’s Top Cloud Executives to Watch. He has won multiple highest employee honors from Red Hat, Silicon Graphics, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.
David is a three-time graduate from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS and MS in Computer Science and an Executive MBA. When not behind a computer keyboard, he's often found on his motorcycle or behind his drum kit.
David Egts has hosted 222 Episodes.
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Episode 250: Our Favorite Things
December 15th, 2023 | 42 mins 1 sec
1password, bitwarden, blogtrottr, chromebooks, dayone, drafts, feedly, flint, fz-09, gl.inet, grammarly, lauren egts, mt-09, pocket, radbike, radrunner, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 5, remember the milk, scratch, slack, spintronics, the great guinea pig escape, thermapens, thermoworks, todoist, tom bihn, turing tumble, ublock origin, video speed controller, yamaha
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about their favorite things!
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Episode 249: Lorem Ipsum Dolor & Cheddar Wrap
October 28th, 2023 | 29 mins 59 secs
ai, amazon kitchen, arnold schwarzenegger, arpa, arpa-h, awake peanut butter chocolate bites, brain cells, caffeine, computer chips, dreamforce, dungeons & dragons, elaine, foo fighters, hand grenades, heilmeier catechism, lorem ipsum, nap pods, panera, panera bread, panera charged lemonade, recipies, salesforce, seinfeld, soup nazi, sports, supermarkets, the simpsons, trader joe's, trurest, werner herzog, yelp
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Dave with caffeine, Dungeons and Dragons with AI, computer chips with brain cells, sleeping with discomfort, and the Heilmeier Catechism!
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Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories
October 4th, 2023 | 34 mins 3 secs
ai, ai bias, ai writing assistance, astrology, bias, blankets, delete, fictional brands, freedomgpt, google, google photos, gpt4all, hugging face, iceland, magic editor, netflix, open source, plaques, poisongpt, recursion, spider-man, spider-verse, stalin, supply chain attacks, toronto
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.
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Episode 247: Full Jacob's Ladder
July 17th, 2023 | 52 mins 18 secs
ai-generated commercials, airbnb, ansible, ansible lightspeed, baseball, chatgpt, chirper.ai, claude, debatedevil, djs, dune, fortune cookies, generative ai, google authenticator, gpt, gpt jailbreaks, grammarly, grandma exploit, h. r. giger, jailbreak chat, radio, radio gpt, robot puppets, star wars, terminals, the beach boys, the beatles, umpires, vanessa carlton, warp, wes anderson
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fortune cookie GPT, radio GPT, devil’s advocate GPT, and Google Authenticator
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Episode 246: AI-Generated Agitprop
June 26th, 2023 | 40 mins 9 secs
ad optimization experience, ads, agitprop, ai, amazon codewhisperer, andy jassy, auto-gpt, bing chat, butlerian jihad, chaosgpt, chatgpt, chatpdf, einstein gpt, frequency allocations, generative ai, github co-pilot, gpt-3.5, gpt-4, midjourney, radio spectrum
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about GPT inception, GPT automation, GPT ad experience optimization, and Andy Jassey’s interviewee skills
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Episode 245: Giant Asthma Inhaler with a Mouth
June 5th, 2023 | 24 mins 28 secs
arnold schwarzenegger, cocktails, explosives, historical ai selfies, ios, kissing machines, marriott, mfa, mr. trololo, multi-factor authentication, nissin cup noodle, noodles, renaissance faires, sherwood forest faire, soup, usb drives, voice isolation, will smith, zeigarnik effect
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about questionable USB drives, questionable long-distance kissing machines, questionable cocktails, and answers with the Zeigarnik effect
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Episode 244: Not That Kind of Edible
March 28th, 2023 | 28 mins 19 secs
ai security cameras, backflips, bagpipes, cardboard boxes, day drinking, edible ndas, fake name generator, field sobriety testing, ice ice matrix, lynyrd skynyrd, marine corps, mastodon, ndas, perplexity ai, the matrix, time blocking, todoist, wilford brimley
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about NDA life hacks, day drinking life hacks, AI life hacks, and fake persona life hacks
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Episode 243: No Bamboozle
February 12th, 2023 | 38 mins 54 secs
activitypub, chatgpt, delorean ipsum, exercise machines, friendica, gl.inet, hipster ipsum, lorem ipsum, mastodon, meetings, moa party, movetodon, no bamboozle, openwrt, peertube, pixelfed, rss, spotify, todoist, twitter, white noise
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Mastodon, white noise, and meetings (not necessarily all three simultaneously)!
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Episode 242: The Fighting Schrödinger's Cats
December 15th, 2022 | 34 mins 10 secs
8.5x11, a4, ai, debate, encryption, ice, iso 128, iso 216, john le carré, mac, modifier keys, nypd, obs, open broadcast studio, outlanders, paper, phishing, qr codes, radios, rectangle, slavoj žižek, tumblr, twitter, university of northern new jersey, unnj, verified stickers, werner herzog
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about police, criminals, and ISO 216!
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Episode 241: Apple-Inspired Feedbag
November 18th, 2022 | 25 mins 51 secs
ai, apple, candy, cargo pants, cargo shorts, cargo swim briefs, clip, dall-e2, drums, free drum, halloween candy, image generation, karate, keyboards, kinesis, kinesis advantage360, kmart, kmart music, last supper, leonardo da vinci, mechanical keyboards, meetings, metaverse, microphones, noise cancellation, screaming, tabasco, virtual keyboards, virtual reality, virtual reality kmart
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple-inspired VR devices, keyboards, and Tobasco sauce!
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Episode 240: It's not just a good idea, it's the law
November 11th, 2022 | 29 mins 16 secs
ai, ai-generated artwork, ai-generated brands, ai-generated stock photos, cleveland, department of defense, desk tents, dod, dr. dre, drafts, dyngus day, gaming beds, hellekson's law, larps, last shift office chair, medieval music, motorized gaming beds, mulesoft, north korea, north korean military chorus, office charis, ohio, pocket, poland, rage against the machine, rockin'1000, software policy, toilet seats
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about Hellekson’s Law and LARPs!
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Episode 239: The Bottom Turtle
November 4th, 2022 | 29 mins 10 secs
blockchain, confidential computing, defcon, enarx, hardware security modules, horrible histories, hsm, idris elba, ken thompson, profian, reflections on trusting trust, tee, tpm, trust, trust in computer systems and the cloud, trusted computing, trusted execution environments, trusted platform modules, zero trust
This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell about his new book, Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud!
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Episode 238: Harmonica-Playing Firefighters Holding Coke Bottles
October 1st, 2022 | 29 mins 24 secs
4th psychological operations group, airres mask, analysis, arizona iced tea, cognitive bias, cognitive bias codex, default passwords, door, experience, ghosts in the machine, guy fieri, haptic controller, haptics, intuition, mouth, mouth haptics, mufflers, non-fungible olive gardens, passwords, press conference, sandman, spinocchio, stablecoins, suffocation, todaq, usdtea, virtual reality, vr, walk signs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about stable coins and slippery slopes
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Episode 237: Confidentially Speaking
September 20th, 2022 | 44 mins 21 secs
This week Dave talks with Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum talk about confidential computing!
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Episode 236: SodaStream Nighttime Formula
May 31st, 2022 | 26 mins 26 secs
1491, ai, alvin and the chipmunks, burger king, charles c. mann, co2, dall-e 2, deep dreams podcast, google calendar, gosleep, grammarly, job interviews, knockout gas, markdown, new hires, openai, public pianos, red hat summit, resume hacking, resumes, simply piano, sleep, sodastream, the melvins
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about technology-enhanced sleep, technology-enhanced image generation, and technology-enhanced job hunting
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Episode 235: The Cult of the Dead Fruit on the Back of the Computer
May 19th, 2022 | 52 mins 23 secs
coloring books, confidential computing, container commandos, docker, docker desktop, edge, fedora silverblue, flatpak, kubernetes, openshift, podman, podman desktop, podman in action, podman-machine, podman-tui, red hat enterprise linux, red hat summit, rhel, rhel for edge, rpm-ostree, scale, silverblue, singularity, systemd, toolbx, virtiofs
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Dan Walsh about his new crayon-free book Podman in Action!