DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...

DESCRIPTION: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies have entered the government procurement environment and from everyone’s perspective these technologies are here to stay. These newer technologies enable us to re-imagine service delivery and provide more efficient operations; however, there are still concerns about ethical and legal implications, intellectual property rights, data and privacy protection, and more....

Join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Ernest Reed, Director of the Category Management Support Office (CSMO), Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics (OPAL) at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Reed will talk about the VA's implementation of Category Management as they work to buy smarter and more like a single enterprise. In addition, he will be talk about the challenges and opportunities inherent in implementing category manage...

In this virtual fireside chat, Google Cloud Security Expert, Dan Prieto and Google Cloud Director of Government Security & Compliance, Jeanette Manfra will tackle some of the most top of mind security questions in the industry today. They’ll reflect on the recent cyber attacks, including Solar Winds, and what governments and private industries could do differently moving forward to address evolving risks. They’ll provide insigh...

Outdated technologies, piles of paperwork, lengthy business processes, frustrated stakeholders, difficult to use systems, and complex government mandates are just a few reasons motivating federal agencies to modernize. Many government processes have adapted to the underlying IT systems, and consequentially over time, become brittle and inefficient. Agencies are trying to not only modernize their IT systems but fundamentally redefine their busi...

Agility is a journey with DevOps as a major component for building a well-oiled machine that continuously delivers value to support your agency’s mission. Every journey has a beginning with a varying path and no end. The path defines the journey and helps to achieve incremental maturity as you learn along the way. During this discussion, government and industry experts will explore their experiences - from getting started and the steps t...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. ACT-IAC in collaboration and coordination with Immix Group is hosting a Cyber Technology Demo Day where technology manufacturers will provide ongoing 30-minute product demonstrations in an "open house" style series to government information technology influencers and decision makers from the federal and state governments and systems integrato...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. 5G refers to the fifth generation of wireless networks and technology that will lead to improving data speed, volume and latency AND will change the standard of public and private sector operations, from autonomous vehicles to smart cities. 5G will dramatically impact the future of global communication networks; enhance decision-making and st...

For three days in October, forward-thinking leaders of government and industry will converge in Philadelphia to network, share, learn, collaborate, and together imagine and invent their future. Our goal: harness creative thinking, innovation and technology to form a more perfect union of government and industry, and forge actionable approaches and practices that maximize the value we provide to our nation’s citizens. IMAGINE NATION ELC 2...