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 234: You Are the Active Ingredient
May 6th, 2022 | 31 mins 3 secs
amazon, ar, ar real estate, augmented reality, cows, cryptocurrencies, denver, denver broncos, fake shutdown, farmers, garage door openers, grammarly, grammarly premium, ios, malware, metal, metal detector, milk, milk production, missile silos, music, personally identifiable information, pii, placebo pills, placebos, ratings, real estate, superworld, uber, vr, zeebo
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about clever uses of malware, cows, virtual reality, augmented reality, cryptocurrency, and the Denver Broncos (not all at the same time)
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Episode 233: Flavor Canister
February 28th, 2022 | 31 mins 52 secs
ai, back to the future, deep fakes, detachable tongues, drafts, eisenhower matrix, eric stoltz, flavor, flavor canisters, flavor perception, gans, google meet bot, ilo, initial litigation offering, lickable tvs, membership attacks, odd telephone numbers, priorities, ryval, tasks, telephone numbers, todoist
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about reverse engineering taste and reverse engineering AI training sets!
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Episode 232: CRIME SKELETON!
February 16th, 2022 | 27 mins 25 secs
busy simulator, cockroaches, crime skeleton, doom, drafts, fish, fish operated vehicle, fov, i libertine, jean shepherd, microcontrollers, non-fungible olive gardens, olive garden, rats, remote control, rescue, robots, screaming, search and rescue, skeletons, uavs, vr
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fish, rats, cockroaches, and screaming
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Episode 231: Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble
February 7th, 2022 | 25 mins 19 secs
ai, ai prosecutor, air conditioning, akron, allendale, arduino, arduino leonardo, austin, badusb, blower, bridges, candles, dad bands, donotpay, email, fin7, henry kissinger, iphone, kevin rose, larsony, management, mouse jigglers, mouse movers, open source, prosecution, ransomware, robot lawyers, texas, theft, weather
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about automating ransomware, automating prosecution, automating defense attorneys, and a bridge
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Episode 230: Need Some Gom Jabbars
December 23rd, 2021 | 33 mins 57 secs
9100, acetate, all i want for christmas is you, bidi, biometrics, captions, cartoons, chia pets, deepfakes, dr. david a. wheeler, dune, fingerprints, labor, long eggs, luminations, mariah carey, metaverse, microsoft teams, neural yorker, new yorker, plant wigs, port 9100, ransomware, receipt printers, sociogram, trojan source, twisted sister, unicode, unionization, video conferencing, we're not gonna take it, wood glue
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake fingers, and fake code
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Episode 229: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
December 18th, 2021 | 31 mins 58 secs
1/3, 1/4, 3/9, a&w, bitcoin, bitcoin whitepaper, burgers, candy canes, dune, gilbert gottfried, guitar pedals, hot dogs, imax, jobs to be done, math, netflix, oktoberfest, olfactory bulb, pine gap, ransomware, rhel, rhel 9, smelling, smells, stereo, straight outta compton, trigeminal nerve, twitter
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about getting more out of employees, noses, math, and jobs!
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Episode 228: This Email Could Have Been an AI Avatar
November 17th, 2021 | 40 mins 59 secs
acoustic hailing and disruption, ahad, air travel, airlines, deepfakes, distortion pedals, duct tape, email, gig economy, harps, ipad, ipad mini, jazz, jazzkeys, k-mart, leaf blowers, licensing, marketing, meetings, mine, navy, non-lethal weapons, ownership, placebo pedal, reclining seats, sales, us navy
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the weaponization of your voice, the weaponization of deepfakes, and the weaponization of the future of air travel
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Episode 227: Meetings and Punishment
October 4th, 2021 | 40 mins 10 secs
david macaulay, eyes, facebook, fake grocery items, flatland, gather, meetings, metaverse, mini-brains, online town, optic cups, organoids, polytron, print shop, prison, soup-like homogenates, stem cells, turing tumble, video conferencing
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about meetings with VR, VR with prison, prison with meetings, and brains with eyes
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Episode 226: Plowshares into Swords
September 27th, 2021 | 34 mins 4 secs
ai, ai mr. potato head, biosphere 2, face maker ai, flamethrowers, harry potter, hogwarts, hogwarts castle lego, keyboards, law of war, lego, marriott, mars, mcmansions, microsoft natural keyboards, mr. potato head, nasa, norms, nuclear bunkers, pyrotechnic-aspyhxiation-burglar alarm, real estate, sad topographies, spaceship earth, steve bannon
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about appreciating our listeners, gassing bank robbers, wardriving smart meters!
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Episode 225: Criminal Value Chain
August 24th, 2021 | 48 mins 9 secs
apple, backdoors, citizen, csam, eff, electronic frontier foundation, espionage, fake tweet generator, gig economy, icloud, icloud photos, imessage, latin, latin insults, microsoft natural keyboards, mini metro, nightcrawler, the isolator, vigilante, whatsapp, wireless mice
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about backdoor innovation, gig economy innovation, and retro deep work innovation
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Episode 224: Smells Like Sauerkraut
August 12th, 2021 | 41 mins 23 secs
a-ha, advertising, alexa, amazon, android, anom, bo burnham, bob dylan, criminals, don't stop believin', ephemeral messaging, face smacking, fbi, foo fighters, frozen, geopolitics, icon music center, inside, journey, klingon, latin, let it go, lucid dreaming, lucid dreams, nest hub, nirvana, queensryche, ransomware, regional jet restrooms, signal, silent lucidity, smells like teen spirit, sublime, subterranean homesick blues, take on me, what i got, whatsapp, xkcd
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about the norms of dream coercion, the norms of encrypted messaging, and the norms of ransomware game theory
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Episode 223: Digital Skinner Box
August 2nd, 2021 | 40 mins 51 secs
ai, apple airpods max, audiophiles, aws, communication, controls, darpa, dogs, doom, doom captcha, infinidash, inspirational art, maker's schedule manager's schedule, mi band, mi band 6, paranoia, predictions, remote work, rpg, sarcasm, sarcasm detector, space shuttle, terms and conditions, today in tabs, unreal engine
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about teaching AI art and sarcasm, teaching humans dark patterns, and teaching all dogs new tricks
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Episode 222: Clever Girl
May 30th, 2021 | 36 mins
ads, advertising, ai, arduino, breathing, bud light seltzer, covid, facebook, instagram, jurassic park, merriam-webster, mr. potato head, new jersey, nft, nirvana, ohio, omega mart, politics, saypal, sensors, shot and a beer, signal, smells like teen spirit, ukuleles, vaccination, vax-a-million, willie nelson, zoom escaper, zoom fatigue
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about optimizing your ad experience, hypocrisy in politics, making pressure sensors with a pencil and a piece of foam, and breathing exercises!
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Episode 221: Money’s the Answer. What’s the Question?
May 19th, 2021 | 46 mins 5 secs
5g, 988, caller id, cybercorps, digital signatures, fcc, homomorphic encryption, hpe, information warfare, interagency personnel rotation act, public sector, quantum computing, robocalls, sbom, shockey's law, software bill of material, suicide prevention hotline, the tor project
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with Eric Burger about secure, insecure, and mostly secure computing, and a whole lot more!
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Episode 220: Is It a Zip File? Is It an MP3? You Decide!
May 10th, 2021 | 27 mins
ai, ai bias, algoe, austin, cyberstaking, faceapp, ftc, gpt-3, homelessness, japan, mova, movacon, mp3, najee harris, pickup lines, png, prop b, proposition b, richmond, steelers, steganography, twitter, whatsapp, zip
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about abusing Whatsapp, abusing Twitter, abusing LinkedIn, and abusing GPT-3
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Episode 219: Chimera in a Can
April 27th, 2021 | 28 mins 54 secs
airlines, bitsbox, chef boyardee, clip, cloudplayer, covid eyewear, dgshowdotorg, drones, fisher-price my home office, google play music, locust ears, masks, moth antennae, openai, ppe, robots, smellicopter, the black hole, twitter, typographical attacks, united airlines, youtube music
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about word and object AI chimeras, animal and machine chimeras, and Chef Boyardee!