The United States transitioned from just a recurring flu season to a full pandemic with the infiltration of the Corona Virus. This pandemic caused the healthcare system to turn upside down and develop new pathways, processes, and techniques for not only tending to and treating the COVID patients, but also treating the general populations with the daily medical and surgical conditions. So many changes occurred in the healthcare system in a very...

A holistic cloud strategy is a catalyst for business innovation, but it demands agile and responsive IT to deliver on this promise. Purpose-driven agencies must embrace technical agility in order to securely meet new business demands and mission outcomes. This panel of government and industry experts will discuss steps to build and mature a lean-agile organization with an emphasis on technical agility to deliver mission success in the cloud. O...

Emerging Technologies, whether mobile/5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, blockchain, Quantum Robotics, and many others are evolving at a faster pace than ever with government and industry. The technologies can be new or existing where the latter new capabilities are being developed and where both will change status quo and provide unrealized social and economic benefits. These technologies provide enhanced connectivity regardless of...

Just as COVID-19 has forced all of us to re-imagine our lives, we give you ReImagine Nation ELC 2020. Having invested in a cutting-edge delivery platform, we will exceed expectations by offering live and just-in-time content to a geographically dispersed audience, across the world. Our conference theme, “Mission Resiliency: Technology, Culture, & Agility”, brings together content across cybersecurity, emerging technologies, mis...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 10/6-10/7/2020 The most expansive explosion of innovative activity in federal acquisition in a quarter of a century is continuing to gain power as it spreads across the government, bottom to top, and side to side. Last year’s theme was “Acquisition Innovation in Action.” This year we are building on that...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 9/1-9/2/2020 Innovation though Networks: The Power of Partnerships ACT-IAC's seventh annual premier event to identify, recognize, promote, and connect the best innovations and innovators to improve services to citizens and government operations.

The importance of cybersecurity is at an all-time high, especially for government agencies. It’s a matter of national security. With the number of federal employees remotely connecting to agency networks, cloud-based remote access environments and collaboration tools via telework, agencies can be exposed to increasing risk. While guidance has been issued to help agencies better protect their network environments, CenturyLink has years of...

As you move from on-prem to cloud infrastructures, a good portion of your time will now be spent analyzing and consolidating cloud spend. It’s easy to get the cloud bills, but when you have to dive into the millions of line items and use the data to make informed cloud decisions and communicate this to business stakeholders that don’t really understand the TCO of cloud spend, chaotic decision-making can happen. We’ll walk thr...

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...