GSA to take its Emerging Tech Showcase governmentwide
(L to R) GSA Deputy Administrator Mike Lynch and Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia speak at GovExec’s Government Efficiency Summit on July 16, 2026. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW
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Frank Konkel
The live and virtual event invites all of government to attend and will feature senior federal leaders, practitioners and industry experts sharing what’s working in government technology and innovation.
As the General Services Administration closes in on achieving its 2026 moonshot goal to save and automate 1 million hours of work for its employees, the agency will showcase and share those internal efforts — and a host of other proven tech efforts — with a governmentwide audience on July 30.
Registration for the Emerging Technology Showcase is open to all federal employees, and though the event will be held in person at the Interior Department’s Yates Auditorium, it will be livestreamed for a virtual audience likely in the tens of thousands.
“The administration has looked at GSA to lead” on approaches that make government more efficient, effective and responsive, GSA Deputy Administrator Mike Lynch said Thursday at the Government Efficiency Summit.
GSA hosted an internal tech demo day in late spring, featuring several agency employees — including Lynch and Chief Information Officer Dave Shive — who showcased several ways technology was being used across the agency to save time, improve efficiencies, deliver better outcomes and services or make employees’ jobs easier. Several thousand employees tuned in, and Lynch said its in the agency’s DNA to share what’s working.
“That's really a core to GSA's mission and a convening function that we've heard: a lot of demand and interest throughout government to expand what we were doing internally and offer it up more broadly,” he added.
One certain talking point for the event will be a step-by-step guide GSA released in June to cut, streamline and automate work called the Elimination, Optimization and Automation playbook. The playbook builds on lessons learned from federal pilots, mature automation programs and GSA’s own extensive internal enterprise efforts to improve operations. One such effort, the agency’s push to save and eliminate 1 million hours of employee work within the calendar year, is pacing far ahead of schedule.
“We're at roughly 850,000 [hours identified], which has been amazing, and we've been blown away with kind of the adoption that's taken place, largely driven by technology,” Lynch said Thursday. “We put that in [the] playbook, and we're now showcasing that as part of the forum on the 30th that should be available to all of government to see where to use that within your own workflows.”