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What Happens When You Stop Building for Demos and Start Building for Real Work
An insightful conversation with Vitaliy Baklikov, CTO of Skyward IT Solutions, exploring the critical shift from building impressive prototypes to deploying production-ready AI systems. Discover how Skyward is breaking through the "demo trap" that plagues government technology, delivering real solutions that handle millions of actual transactions rather than polished presentations. Learn about the practical challenges of implementing AI agents in federal environments, the importance of compliance-first architecture, and why real-world testing beats staged demonstrations every time.
Dmitry Yun, Founder and CEO of Skyward IT Solutions – Interview Series
Published by Unite.AI
CMS AI Implementer Skyward Launches SkyAI Hub, Pioneering Government-Ready Agentic AI to Boost Federal Efficiency
Published by Yahoo Finance
The Future of AI and the Changing Workforce with Ksenia Kapoor
Published by OrangeSlices.ai
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AFCEA Law Enforcement & Public Safety (LEAPS) Summit
May 14, 2026 | Washington, DC
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June 30 - July 1, 2026 | Washington, DC
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FOIA Software Security: How to Evaluate What Actually Matters
Security is one of the first things federal agencies ask about when evaluating FOIA software, and rightly so. FOIA systems handle sensitive requester information, law enforcement records, personally identifiable information, and documents that carry …
By [Ksenia Kapoor](/content/author/kkapoor "link-to-author"/index.html) · May 18, 2026
FOIA Software Is Falling Behind, and the Backlog Crisis Proves It
Federal FOIA offices are in trouble. Request volumes are climbing at record rates, experienced staff are leaving, and the tools many agencies depend on were never designed for the pressures of 2026. For FOIA …
By [Ksenia Kapoor](/content/author/kkapoor "link-to-author"/index.html) · May 13, 2026
Skyward’s Open Source RAG APP ‘SWParse’ Surpasses Claude in Document Parsing!
A breakthrough for specialized open-source tools in the AI ecosystem Text similarity measurements comparing ground truth to various processing methods At Skyward, we’ve been tackling one of the most persistent challenges in the RAG …
By [Ksenia Kapoor](/content/author/kkapoor "link-to-author"/index.html) · February 25, 2026
Accelerating Government AI Adoption: A Practical Roadmap for Digital Transformation
In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, the federal government stands at a critical juncture. The recent response from Anthropic to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information (RFI) on AI Action …
By [Ksenia Kapoor](/content/author/kkapoor "link-to-author"/index.html) · February 25, 2026
Why We’re Building Our Own Question-Answering Dataset (And Why It Matters)
Working at the forefront of AI solutions for government applications, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with language models. But to truly understand how well these models perform, we need reliable ways to …
By [Ksenia Kapoor](/content/author/kkapoor "link-to-author"/index.html) · February 25, 2026