Online registration is now closed, but walk-in registrations are welcome! Fusion Exchange from SAP returns in-person on November 16th in Washington D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn best practices, discuss new strategies, and network with colleagues across a wide-variety of fields. With a full day of complimentary events, planned the event has a plethora of opportuni...

Connecting Government Learning Professionals through Technology Co-located with the GV EXPO, the GLTS is sponsored by the FGDLA and provides two days of learning, networking, and engaging opportunities for distance learning professionals in Government agencies. Our focus is on instructional design, LMS integration, instructional and cognitive learning strategies, gaming and simulation for distance learning, video and animation for distance lea...

Overview: On January 20, 2017 there will be a new President of the United States, but beneath the surface the transition period really has already begun. The last year of a President’s term poses both great dangers and opportunities for career civil servants, and the higher rank of those civil servants, the greater are both the opportunities and the risks. As outgoing political appointees focus intensely on both getting a new job outsid...

The National Association of Government Communicators' 2016 Communications School will be held June 7-9, 2016 at the FHI 360 Conference Center, Washington, DC. It is the only event of its kind that provides invaluable networking opportunities and practical educational sessions to help government communicators increase their skills. The coveted NAGC Government Communicator of the Year Award is presented during the Communications School and honor...

On behalf of the ICCEC 2016 Planning Committee, we invite you to attend the 12th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation taking place on May 19-22, 2016 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. This series of conferences was started by George J. Agich and Stella Reiter-Theil in 2003 to fill the significant gap in the field between the explosion of clinical ethics, ethics committees, and ethics consultation services around...

Pancreatic cysts are being detected with increasing frequency due to advances, and rising use of, imaging technology. A recent study suggests that only 2% of cysts are malignant at diagnosis. Clinicians are faced with the task of identifying those cysts with high malignant potential as early as possible while limiting unnecessary surgery. Current guidelines take a very cautious approach that result in unnecessary morbidity. Newer testing modal...

Join ACT-IAC, the Small Business Administration and the HUBZone Council in a collaborative strategy session the HUBZone Huddle: Strategy, Solutions and Next Steps. The “Huddle” will bring together HUBZone companies, government agency and large business to learn and strategize about initiatives to promote and support HUBZone firms in federal contracting opportunities. Featured speakers will present from their vantage point the criti...

As the maternal age is increasing and the American population is becoming more obese, the number of pregnancies complicated by diabetes and obesity also is increasing. The 14th Annual Meeting of the Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group of North America serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of data, gathered through collaboration among basic, translational and clinical researchers and research centers, both nationally and internationally. This...

This timely one-day conference is intended to provide new evidence-based strategies for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, including many newly approved biologic therapies and surgery of common arthritic, rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. Local experts and renowned invited speakers, nationally known for their clinical and clinical research achievements, will provide state of the art summaries. In addition to lectures with questions and...

Federal Strategies Workshop: Creating Measures for Training and Development How is your agency making data-driven decisions to improve learning? Big data, analytics and reporting are becoming the status quo to forecast future trends that will affect the Federal workforce. Bersin, by Deloitte, reports only 14% of HR organizations believe they regularly use data to make talent and HR strategy decisions. Blackboard’s fall Federal Strategies...