Dr. Alan R. Shark is the executive director of the Public Technology Institute (PTI), a division of the nonprofit Fusion Learning Partners; and associate professor for the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, where he is also an affiliate faculty member at the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership (CAHMP). Shark is a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow and co-chair of the Standing Panel on Technology Leadership. Shark also hosts the bi-monthly podcast Sharkbytes.net. Dr. Shark acknowledges collaboration with generative AI in developing certain materials.