S2E6 - Anh Selissen - Inside the Agency Running 200 AI Use Cases at Once

In this episode of the GovAI Podcast, Noam Maital and Dustin Haisler are joined by Anh Selissen, Chief Information Officer for the Texas Department of Transportation and a disruptive innovator running one of the largest, most complex public sector technology operations in the country.With over two decades across the public and private sectors, Anh brings a rare combination of operational discipline and clarity to a 13,500-person, statewide agency. She walks through why TxDOT rewrote its AI strategy just one year after publishing it, why it was authored entirely in-house, and how the agency is operationalizing agentic AI through strong governance, ROI tracking, and human-in-the-loop accountability.They explore the data foundation behind it all, including consolidating 97+ data solutions into a single enterprise data platform, and how TxDOT uses a readiness scorecard to prioritize 200+ AI use cases without falling into pilot purgatory. Anh also shares how the agency's AI Academy and network of nearly 200 "AI champions" is pushing adoption into the business while keeping security and risk in healthy balance.Looking ahead, they dig into multi-agent orchestration for operational monitoring, the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA), and how AI could fundamentally transform how roads get built.This podcast is brought to you by Darwin AI, a platform built for state and local government to help agencies adopt and manage AI responsibly.