Technology policy from the industry table.
Download On Tech is a policy-minded technology show from ITI, centered on how technology companies explain innovation to policymakers. Its recent conversations move from AI infrastructure and cybersecurity to sustainability, education, workforce development, and inclusive data.
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Download On Tech presents technology as something built through companies, governments, standards, infrastructure, and people. Its recent run is less about gadgets than the systems that allow technology to scale. AI appears repeatedly, but not as a magic word. The show links it to infrastructure, cybersecurity, talent, investment, and policy stability. That gives the conversations a boardroom-and-public-sector texture: practical, cautious, and focused on implementation. Jason Oxman, identified in the episodes as ITI’s President and CEO, guides discussions with guests from Dell Technologies, Oracle, HPE, Siemens U.S., Schneider Electric, Nielsen, and a European policy forum in Brussels. The questions tend to ask how regulation, industry action, and public-private cooperation shape real outcomes. One recent AI conversation centers on the conditions needed for AI-ready infrastructure, including power, land use, grid modernization, workforce readiness, and risk-sharing. Another considers regulatory agility, trust, security, and efficiency as governments respond to fast-moving AI development. Cybersecurity is treated as both product design and operational practice, especially in Schneider Electric’s discussion of secure-by-operations and the difficulty of reaching end users across differing regulatory systems. Sustainability receives a similarly concrete treatment, moving through supercomputing, data centers, clean-energy signals, digital twin technology, and climate modeling. The show also makes room for social impact and inclusion. Oracle’s education work brings in career-connected learning, employee volunteering, and technology education for teenagers. Nielsen’s episode connects data analytics, Latino representation, consumer insights, and the importance of diverse perspectives in interpreting data. The Brussels panel broadens the lens to Europe’s digital imperative, competitiveness, standards, implementation, and regulatory harmony. Download On Tech works best for listeners who want to hear how technology companies describe the policy conditions around innovation. It is not a casual tech-news recap. It is closer to an institutional briefing with enough conversational movement to keep the issues grounded.
Made for: Suits a listener who follows AI, cybersecurity, sustainability, data inclusion, and workforce policy through an industry and government lens. Best for someone who wants practical context from technology-sector leaders rather than consumer product reactions.
What sets it apart: Download On Tech stands apart by keeping technology, public policy, and implementation in the same frame. The show’s recent episodes connect high-level debates to concrete operating concerns such as grids, standards, secure systems, education programs, and data representation.
Download On Tech is the official podcast of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).
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A grounded policy discussion of the power, partnerships, and public stakes behind AI-ready infrastructure.
Download on Tech takes AI infrastructure out of the abstract and puts it in the policy room, where ambition has to contend with power, land, grid upgrades, and the people needed to build and run it.
A practical look at how Oracle connects teenagers, technology, educators, and volunteers.
Oracle Education Foundation gives this technology conversation a practical center, with Colleen Cassidy explaining how career-connected learning reaches teenagers through hands-on classes, design thinking, and exposure to tools that feel connected to their lives.
A grounded conversation on cutting technology's own footprint while using it to help other sectors reduce emissions.
Monica Batchelder, Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Chief Sustainability Officer, treats technology's climate role as bigger than the data center itself.
A Brussels policy discussion on turning Europe's digital imperative into coordinated action.
This Brussels discussion frames Europe's digital imperative as a coordination problem as much as a technology one. Jason Oxman, ITI's president and CEO, opens with the stakes: growth, economic development, job creation, economic security, and competitiveness all depend on…
A Siemens U.S. policy voice connects secure-by-design cybersecurity with public-private technology priorities.
Download on Tech looks at how Siemens U.S. is navigating a technology policy landscape shaped by a new administration. The episode links the company's long experience with AI to secure-by-design cybersecurity, international cyber standards, and the public-private partnerships…
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
["Nick Jefferson, Dell Technologies' vice president of government affairs, says 2026 will move governments from AI pilots to full-scale deployment.", "He argues that fragmented standards, AI sovereignty, and energy constraints will shape how the U.S.
Monica Batchelder, HPE’s Chief Sustainability Officer, says the lowest-impact AI is “the AI you never use” and urges companies to weigh financial and environmental costs before deployment.
Colleen Cassidy says Oracle's social impact work centers on the Oracle Education Foundation, the Oracle Health Foundation, and 127,000 volunteer hours across 51 countries.
At ITI's Brussels event, Jason Oxman frames "Digital Imperative" around innovation, security, and growth while saying EU-US trade is about one-third of world GDP and one-third of global goods-and-services trade.
Bree Saxe says Siemens has invested about $20 billion in the United States since 2007 and has more investment on the board now than in any of her 12 years there.
Trevor Rudolph from Schneider Electric discusses the concept of secure by operations, a community-driven approach to securing critical infrastructure.
Download on Tech host Jason Oxman interviews Dell Technologies Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy Dr.
Stacey de Armas, Nielsen's Senior Vice President of Diverse Consumer Insights and Initiatives, describes how her Cuban, first-generation background in Los Angeles shaped her work with Hispanic and Latino audiences.
Sam Rizzo, Zoom's head of global policy development, explains how data localization can raise costs, limit service quality, and narrow competition for mid-sized cloud companies.
ITI president and CEO Jason Oxman interviews Aura chief scientist Zulfikar Ramzan about AI, cybersecurity, consumer protection, and AuraX's product roadmap.
Microsoft Senior Accessibility Technology Evangelist Lori Allen explains how generative AI, Microsoft Copilot, custom neural voice, and computer vision can expand access for people with disabilities.
ITI president and CEO Jason Oxman interviews Trellix Chief Human Resources Officer Michael Alessia about Black Americans in technology, DE&I, and cybersecurity workforce shortages.
Intel Vice President Jane Stankiewicz explains to ITI CEO Jason Oxman why Intel treats AI policy as a global priority alongside its CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and oneAPI software.
On Download on Tech, Jason Oxman interviews Arthi Prabhakar, the Biden-Harris Administration’s Chief Science and Technology Advisor, about U.S.
Jason Oxman interviews Sheri Byrne-Haber, Senior Staff Accessibility Architect at VMware, about her role in building accessibility programs and the intersection of technology innovation and public policy for people with disabilities.
Jason Oxman interviews winners of ITI's 2020 Industry Awards, starting with Tenable's James Hayes discussing the Tech Impact Award and cybersecurity.
Jason Oxman interviews winners of ITI's 2020 Industry Awards, including Adobe, HP, and Salesforce, about their achievements in environmental stewardship, corporate social responsibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.