CGI Innovation Day

Efficiency. Optimization. Transformation.

 

March 4, 2026

CGI Innovation Center | 1000 N. Glebe Rd. Arlington, VA.

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Top five takeaways from

CGI Innovation Day 2026


1)  Expanding the partnership ecosystem between Government, Industry and Academia.
The future of government contracting belongs to those who understand that AI transformation is an ecosystem effort. No single organization - government, contractor, tech company, or university - has all the pieces. But together, they accelerate innovation while reducing risk. This partnership ecosystem enables the government to gain access to diverse expertise, emerging technologies, and objective research insights. And it allows agencies to develop AI solutions that are more secure, more ethical, and more mission‑aligned than any single organization could produce alone.

2)  AI bolted on won’t always deliver the value: AI‑native workflows are the new currency of performance.
Organizations that simply “add AI” to legacy processes will see incremental gains at best. The real value comes when we rethink work itself, removing steps, collapsing handoffs, redesigning decision points, and letting AI become the default operator rather than an accessory. AI‑native workflows unlock efficiency and new mission outcomes that weren’t previously possible.

3)  Data is the new infrastructure, and it must be treated that way.
AI maturity is ultimately data maturity. Agencies that modernize how they collect, classify, secure, share, and govern data will accelerate faster than those that focus on tools alone. Data fabric, metadata strategy, and cross‑domain interoperability are no longer technical concerns. They’ve become foundational infrastructure decisions driving mission agility and AI readiness.

4) The best talent strategy is access plus permission plus experimentation.
AI skills don’t grow from training alone; they grow from real hands‑on work. When employees have access to modern tools, clear guidance on responsible use, and permission space to experiment, they naturally become innovators. Organizations that cultivate this environment will build durable pipelines of AI‑literate, AI‑fluent, and ultimately AI‑creative talent.  

5)  AI is driving a software development paradigm shift.
We are moving from “humans writing code” to “humans supervising code.” Systems engineering, product management, security, and testing are all being re‑imagined in an era where AI models participate in design, generation, remediation, and optimization. The winners will be those who embrace this shift and adopt new development lifecycles, new governance approaches, and new roles that fully leverage AI-assisted engineering.
 

 

A day of innovation in 30 seconds - watch the 2026 recap!

 

 

 

What is CGI Innovation Day?

Be a catalyst to accelerate your mission through innovation.

CGI Innovation Day, an exclusive, invite-only event, brings together leaders and decision-makers from federal agencies as well as leading industry partners and academia to explore, discuss and showcase mission-focused innovation.

A day of discovery, collaboration, and innovation. This full-day event features a rich agenda that includes keynotes from luminaries, a Shark Tank competition, panelists from varied backgrounds and mission-based Proof-of-Concept (PoC) demonstrations. CGI Innovation Day hosts a cross-section of federal agencies as well as key industry experts from CGI, AWS, TrackLight Inc. and Georgetown University creating valuable networking opportunities.

Harness the power of innovation to drive efficiency, optimization, and transformation.

 

Shark Tank Demos
Disclaimer: The concepts, demonstrations, proofs-of-concept (POCs), and logos presented during this event’s Shark Tank–style sessions were created solely for the purpose of this event. They are illustrative in nature and do not represent finalized, commercially available products or services in the marketplace. Any branding, visual designs, or solution concepts shown are provisional and may not reflect future offerings.

 Challenge
Traditional asset management systems are primarily designed for compliance, audit, and financial tracking, operating as passive ledgers that require manual effort to extract insights, which can be slow and costly in urgent situations.

Solution

Asset Intelligence Missions Support (AIMS) is an AI-powered analysis tool that turns asset management data into mission-focused insights. Drawing on asset management AIMS can show the location of critical assets, provide strategic insight and inform budgetary and spending decisions

Benefits
AIMS transforms traditional asset management through AI-powered real-time insights, geospatial visualization, and predictive scenario planning. AIMS identifies high-cost contracts, underutilized licenses, and recommend procurement consolidation and hosting strategies, optimizing spend and performance for digital assets across agencies.
AIMS enables on-demand reporting, reducing reporting cycles from six weeks to six minutes, allowing users to create, modify, and deploy custom reports instantly without development backlogs. 

 Challenge
Improper payments cost the government billions. In entitlement programs, benefits payments are distributed from primary recipients to multiple sub-recipients. Substantiating evidence that establishes eligibility of sub-recipients for benefits, and receiving the correct amounts is often difficult for federal agencies to access and evaluate. they do not have adequate mechanisms to perform due diligence checks on recipients and sub-recipients.

Solution

AI-powered, CGI Payment Integrity Platform addresses improper payments across business domains, incorporating evidence provided by recipients. This holistic, intelligent system collects supporting evidence and confirms the eligibility of sub-recipients, identifying improper payments and preventing them. The system also enables the agency to remediate improper payments.

Benefits

Federal agencies gain visibility into their spending and can cut off the tap when it’s flowing to entities not entitled to receive it. AI automates the work of gathering and analyzing the data, freeing it from silos. 

 Challenge
Agencies’ helpdesk operational ecosystems are disjointed, rely heavily on human agents, are limited in availability, inconsistent in quality, and expensive to operate. The customer experience is frequently frustrating, as multilingual support may be lacking and high demand can lead to lengthy wait times.

Solution

CGI Swift Knowledge Yield (CGI S.K.Y.) integrates multiple enterprise applications, including ERP, document repositories, and ticket management systems, using sophisticated APIs and Agentic AI to provide streamlined access and consistent support. The result is a vastly improved user experience and drastically reduced resolution and handling times.

Benefits

CGI S.K.Y. provides faster inquiry resolution, 24/7 availability, consistent quality, cost savings, scalability, enhanced data insights and integration. 

 Challenge
Agencies such as CBP, IRS, EPA, FDA, and others face changing regulations, manual processes, and the need to interpret vast legal precedents, which slow down decision-making and create rule making backlogs

Solution

Powered by agentic AI, Intelliflow revolutionizes the way organizations develop, govern, and interpret rules. It uses advanced AI models, retrieval-augmented generation, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP)-ready architecture to ensure portability, flexibility, and scalability across all federal agencies, supporting document workflows and intelligent assistance.

Benefits

Rule writers at agencies need to take action faster and more efficiently. Agentic AI takes vast amounts of data and processes rules in a fraction of the time in currently takes with accuracy and traceability. 

 Challenge
Managing finances in government agencies is complex and manual. Limited resources and high staff turnover lead to reactive, short-term fixes. Critical resolutions get lost in spreadsheets and emails, with no accountability or closure.

Solution

Ledger Guard is a smart financial management tool designed for seamless, accurate, and proactive government compliance. It includes a real-time detection engine continuously analyzes financial data identifying potential issues and their sources in real time.

Benefits

An AI-powered compliance tool, Ledger Guard rapidly analyzes financial data, integrating the multiple data streams into a single dashboard and identifying accounts with unexpected balances. This enables agencies to identify and resolve issues proactively. 

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 Thank you

to our featured speakers & partners in innovation

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Dave Wennergren

Chief Executive Officer,
American Council for Technology-Industry
Advisory Council (ACT-IAC)
 

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Dr. Frederic Lemieux

Professor of Practice and Faculty Director,

School of Continuing Studies,
Georgetown University
 

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Dr. Laura Freeman

Deputy Director,
Virginia Tech National Security Institute
 

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Chad Bungard
 
Chief Strategy Officer
U.S. Social Security Administration
 

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Jamie Baker

Federal Health, Science and Policy,
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
 
 

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Ryan Palmer
 
Architecture Lead for AI Services, 
General Services Administration 
 
 

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