Civic Roundtable

At this year's Public Sector AI Summit, we heard from Denise Reilly-Hughes of Vermont’s Agency of Digital Services. From disaster response to ethical governance, Denise shared how Vermont is paving the way on what responsible, servant-centered AI can look like. Proud to spotlight this kind of leadership at Civic Roundtable! 📖 Read the highlights below! 🎥 Watch the full talk here: https://lnkd.in/eTX4Y-Rm

Shoutout to Meg and the team at Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins for driving this forward — we’re proud to support this important effort to connect city leaders around AI innovation!

We’re excited to share a new case study highlighting our work with Oregon Housing & Community Services (OHCS) to streamline and strengthen the homelessness response across rural Oregon. Homelessness is one of the most complex challenges facing our communities — and too often, public servants are burdened by siloed systems and duplicative work that make coordination difficult. Roundtable was built to support exactly these kinds of cross-agency efforts. We’re grateful to support leaders like Kay Brooks who are driving impact and innovation in their communities every day. 📖 Read the full case study here!

Today, Civic Roundtable was named one of Fast Company's 2025 Most Innovative Companies. Our team shares a core belief: The public sector is a force for good. From responding to emergencies, keeping our elections secure, and improving our health to spurring economic development, supporting people suffering from opioid addiction, and helping people experiencing homelessness recover, our public institutions have a critical role to play in the health and wellbeing of all our lives. But public servants are used to being hamstrung by outmoded technologies, inundated every day with content from lengthy policy documents and webinars and hundreds of emails, and frustrated by collaboration challenges as they try to work cross-functionally with other federal, state, and local government employees, nonprofits, and other partner organizations. Public servants deserve better, and that’s why we built Roundtable. We are grateful for the public servants, partners, and cheerleaders who got us to where we are today. Today, we’re celebrating, and tomorrow we are getting back to work! 🚀  #FCMostInnovative

🚀 Proud to kick off an important project with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs this week — Bringing Veterans Home, a statewide effort to end veteran homelessness. Austin B. presented our role powering this initiative, and Emily Benz and Shonali Bose ran an incredible session to get things started. Bringing Veterans Home is about more than just coordination—it’s about ensuring veterans get the support they need, faster. With Roundtable, we’re helping streamline collaboration across agencies and partners so that no veteran has to wait for critical services. Proud to be part of this effort, and grateful to the leaders who have been doing this work for decades. More to come!

This week, our very own Markise Williams and Austin B. had the privilege of presenting at the NASDVA Conference in D.C., engaging state leaders dedicated to serving veterans about our work in the space. A huge thank you to THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS INC for hosting such an important and inspiring gathering, and to all the state directors and partners who took the time to connect with us. Looking forward to continuing the conversation!

In this month's Spotlight on Service, we are proud to celebrate Lorain Crowl, CFRE, who has dedicated her career to community development and nonprofit leadership, with a particular focus on homelessness and affordable housing in South Carolina. Learn more about her work and story here!

At Roundtable, we believe the best product ideas often come from the field. We recently ran a team hackathon to prototype solutions based on what we're hearing from our users—and one of those ideas just made it into the platform! ⭐ We’re excited to launch built-in video meetings—a feature that started as a hackathon project earlier this year. ⭐ We kept hearing about the challenges of running programs across agencies—siloed video platforms, friction in coordinating access, and the loss of institutional knowledge when discussions aren’t captured in a usable way. So we built a way to fix that. With Roundtable Video, you can: 🔹 Run programming—trainings, meetings, workshops—directly in Roundtable. 🔹 Automatically transcribe, store, and parse discussions for easy reference. 🔹 Use AI to search transcripts and surface key insights across conversations. By integrating video with our powerful search engine, we’re making it easier than ever for agencies to access institutional knowledge, revisit key discussions, and break down silos. Stay tuned for the next Roundtable hackathon!

❄️ This winter, we hosted the Public Sector AI Summit at Harvard, bringing together leaders to explore how AI is shaping government. Excited to share highlights from Ben Henderson, Arizona's Director of Operations, on how the state is using AI to tackle workforce challenges, detect Medicaid fraud, and respond to extreme heat. One standout initiative? Turning decommissioned shipping containers into solar-powered cooling centers to protect vulnerable communities -- an effort coordinated on the Civic Roundtable platform. 📖 Read the highlights: https://lnkd.in/e9NkKARC 🎥 Watch the full talk here!

At Civic Roundtable, we’re proud to celebrate leaders like Jessica Torres, M.P.A., who dedicate their careers to addressing some of society’s most complex challenges. As the Continuum of Care Coordinator, Jessica works tirelessly on homelessness prevention in Essex County by building connections between federal, state, and local agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private partners. From leading data-driven efforts like the HUD Point-in-Time Count to organizing events like the Homeless Connect, Jessica’s work reflects her deep commitment to supporting the community’s most vulnerable members. Check out her story here: https://lnkd.in/eU2UFy7p