Webinar Topic: The Cybersecurity Imperative: An Agency's Toolbox for Secure Data Brought to you by FedInsider, WTOP, and Federal News Radio, this complimentary one-hour webinar will explore how lead agencies are tackling the growing threat of cybersecurity. Executive Order 13636 [Feb 2013] on cybersecurity advises agencies: "Repeated cyber intrusions into critical infrastructure demonstrate the need for improved cyber security. The cyber threa...

Do not miss the opportunity to participate in the 2013 World Congress of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP) with active participation from government, industry and academia. This four day event will take place on Monday, July 22 – Thursday, July 25 with the exposition taking place July 22-23. Attendees: With past attendance of up to 2200 attendees, WORLDCOMP’s audience will include government/i...

Healthcare Data Analytics – What You Need to Know about This Burgeoning New Field! The healthcare analytics market, already at almost $4 billion annually, is expected to grow to nearly $11 billion per year by 2017. In addition, the application of emerging Big data tools and analytics could help U.S. citizens save as much as$450 billion in healthcare costs, but fundamental change is necessary to meeting such goals, according to a new ana...

Analytics, Utilities and the Future Grid– Challenges and Opportunities – The utility and grid analytics market is poised to explode over the next five years, with estimates that utilities will spend well over $1 billion per year in smart grid and other analytics capabilities by 2020. Analytics are seen as driving savings across the entire enterprise – from asset planning and management; to load balancing and management; trans...

Don't miss your chance to register for this FREE FCW Executive Briefing, which will focus on new tools, technologies and management strategies being developed to help government agencies manage and use their data to gain insights, solve problems, spur innovation, and discover valuable business intelligence contained in the big data they are receiving. Why should you attend? Participate in an interactive discussion with government speakers from...

It's on Isilon—Big Data for GovernmentLunch Keynote & Panel Speakers AnnouncedJoin us at EMC’s Big Event for Big Data on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 to discover how your agency can leverage Isilon’s powerful scale-out platform to accommodate explosive growth. At this year’s event, Steven I. Cooper, Principal, Deep Water Point, LLC, will give the keynote and you will have the opportunity to share ideas with your peers a...

Biometrics Analytics, Big Data and Biometric-Enabled Intelligence— Next-Generation Capabilities and Opportunities The proliferation of new collection devices, a range of new developments in recognition technologies, innovative approaches to sensor and data fusion, and the emergence of powerful analytic tools give defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement officials important new capabilities to carry out their mission...

MarkLogic Big Data Nation 2013 Tour Ft. Huachuca Government agencies are being tremendously impacted by the challenges of managing and utilizing Big Data. Legions of IT pros are trying to make legacy technology go against its nature. Money is spent, deadlines are missed, pressure is mounting, and your department heads and other constituents don’t quite get it. So how do you really get started?Agenda 8:00am Registration, Breakfast, ...

The U.S. Department of State's Office of eDiplomacy is pleased to announce it's 11th Tech@State event, Tech@State: Moneyball Diplomacy, at GWU's Jack Morton Auditorium on Friday, June 7th. Please join us for a day of stimulating presentations and engaging discussion on how new and creative data analysis using economic thinking can better inform diplomacy and development. Featured speakers include: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of 'The Black Sw...

President Obama has declared that the "cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation" and that "America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity." Federal employees are invited to join us for an interactive discussion on security of information systems, which is rapidly becoming one of the foremost focal points of the United States and other countries. Critic...