DescriptionRobust, accurate, timely, structured, and relevant data that provides a unified view is a necessary requirement for sound business strategy. Agencies and industry alike need to know how to identify and match, correct, implement identity rules, enforce adoption of taxonomies and analytics and reference data while also establishing and communicating information policies and mechanisms to ensure effective data use with policies, rules,...

USPTO CIO Jamie Holcombe and Product Line Leaders to update industry on the progress of modernization efforts and its Agile transformation along product lines. To satisfy new customer demands, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) embarked on an organizational transformation to change how they deliver enterprise IT. This journey encompasses the New Ways of Working (NWOW) and new, scaled Agile practices with a focus on customer...

DESCRIPTION The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how the business of government gets done. Within acquisition, new opportunities have presented themselves to innovate and collaborate more effectively with industry. In this changing landscape with a new Administration, an increased focus on supporting the federal workforce, continuing telework, and a new urgency to address supply chain and cybersecurity challenges, it's a different world and we ma...

“GSA’s Alliant 2 – Looking Ahead” The Federal Insights Exchange planning committee in collaboration with the Networks & Telecommunications Community of Interest invites you to participate in a lively and informative discussion on “GSA’s Alliant 2 – Looking Ahead”. GSA leaders Paul Bowen, Marcelo Olascoaga and Omar Saeb will offer the latest on this popular, multiple award, 10-year, $50B GSA A...

What do people look like when they are on your network or accessing a website or system? In most cases, a person is assigned a username, role and access rights that govern their interactions with the organization or agency. This controls what they can and cannot do within a network, application or website. But what should bots look like when they are operating on your network? Interestingly, a bot should not be treated differently: it must be...

Despite decades of science demonstrating that organizations with more diverse leadership perform better, women and minorities remain grossly underrepresented in management positions across the Federal Government. Building a diverse leadership team requires building equity into every career development decision that creates great leaders, from initial branch assignments in the military to lateral assignments in the civil service. Internal mobil...

Customer experience (CX) has been embraced by many private sector organizations to help stand apart from the competition and improve customer loyalty. Its growth in the public sector has been accelerating as well, and currently over 22 federal agencies have established some form of formal CX function. Will Congress standardize federal agency organizational design to include a CXO, following the precedent of CFO’s, CIO’s or, most re...

Protecting your agency from ransomware can feel like a full-time job. From hiding in SSL to chasing unknown file downloads to preventing lateral movement, there seems to be no shortage of ways ransomware can outsmart your defenses. Join Jose Padin, Director, Public Sector Sales Engineering, Deepen Desai, VP of Security Research and Operations, and Danny Connelly, Chief Information Security Officer at Zscaler, as they provide details on some of...

Overview: As stated in the Office of Management Budget, Memo-19-16, Shared Services will create efficiencies and optimize the workforce by shifting resources to higher value work and reducing duplication across agencies. The President's Management Agenda (PMA) identifies Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goals to target those areas where multiple agencies must collaborate to effect change and report progress. This is the fifth Summit being held on S...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Quantum computing offers a more sophisticated computing model that has significantly increased computer power, is faster, and will lend itself to a Quantum-Smart workforce. Do you want your data to be safe and protected in ten or twenty years from now? Would you like a faster computing process in place to prevent attacks on data? Will Quantum...