The MMA Annual Meeting & Trade Show has many popular features: A range of informative and timely workshops Compelling and inspiring speakers A general business meeting and important policy discussions A robust Trade Show featuring the latest services and solutions for cities and towns Countless networking opportunities – and fun! The MMA’s Annual Meeting is a great opportunity for local officials to: Learn about solutions to pr...

So, you've accepted a new position as an Internal Auditor; congratulations, and welcome to our world! Internal Auditors provide an extremely important and unique function: to independently assess controls to balance risk that may impede the objectives of an organization. We are the "last line of defense" in organizations to report risk events. Please join us for this valuable in-person, interactive training and allow our expert instructors to...

Are your audit leadership skills working to get the job done? This in-person event is focused on helping attendees in mastering the skills necessary to efficiently lead audit teams. This course provides new leaders with the tools needed to effectively lead audit teams, while exploring the life cycle of an audit from an audit leader's perspective. "This course is not just for auditors or new audit leaders, it is for anyone who wants an understa...

Every day, information is generated and made available to the public about the risks and benefits of public policies, new products, and corporate behavior. People are accessing this information in real time via traditional news, online media, and word of mouth. The public’s near-instant access to this unfiltered information presents significant new risks, including reputation damage for companies who cause health or environmental damage,...

Radiological Emergency Planning: Terrorism, Security, and Communication Radiological emergency planning is used to mitigate the effects of events such as a release at a nuclear power plant, the detonation of an improvised nuclear device, or an explosion involving a radiological dispersal device (dirty bomb). While these types of emergencies are rare, they have the potential for devastating and widespread harm. Minimizing the likelihood of harm...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 2021 PLEASE NOTE: In light of growing concerns about COVID-19 and its unpredictable advance, we have made the difficult decision to reschedule the Massachusetts IT Leadership Forum 2020. The safety and well-being of our sponsors, attendees, speakers and staff comes first and foremost. We are working to identify a new date fo...

Who is this workshop best for? This workshop is intended for people who want to learn the basics of Ansible Automation including Ansible Tower, understand how they work and how they can be used to automate basic tasks. In addition, the instructor will provide information on differentiation between the upstream project and the product offering from Red Hat. Join if you never tried Red Hat Ansible Automation. Description What is Ansible, how do...

Government Technology's passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Massachusetts Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda that is relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspirational keynot...

Who is this workshop best for? This workshop is intended as an introductory course for Ansible Network Automation. For more in-depth training please refer to Red Hat Training Ansible for Network Automation. The intended audience is someone who has limited or no exposure to writing Ansible Playbooks or using Ansible Automation. This workshop will cover common network scenarios and topics and is best suited for network engineers or folks intere...

The third annual Boston Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. Admission is $350 each, giving you access to all Interactive Panels, Discussions, Catered Breakfast, Lunch & Cocktail Reception.