We take you now to A.L. Darman, Managing Director of Public Service at Accenture.

My name is Zael Darman.

I lead Accenture's public service AI practice.

And we've got about 500 or so practitioners that support organizations like yourselves in really rethinking how we do the work we do.

And the research that we've collaborated with with the Colorado Business Roundtable is an interesting one this year.

Our combined team helped design the survey, analyze the data, and really shape the insights that you're about to see.

And in the attempt to eat our own dog food, or as I like to say, drink our own champagne, we used a lot of AI in thinking and analyzing this data.

The data this year