March 3-6, 2024, NCMA will be in Jacksonville, FL to convene the entire acquisition team to support our mission to advance contract management’s nexus with related acquisition communities. NCMA is the neutral forum for real conversations across functions and across government and industry. Nexus is a carefully curated event to create an environment where multi-functional buyer and seller teams train side by side on our shared and pressin...

PurposeTo create a forum that fosters interaction and knowledge sharing between small businesses, government officials, industry experts, and large/ prime businesses. The aim is to equip attendees with knowledge and tools to help access government contracts, navigate regulatory demands, explore contracting, subcontracting, or teaming arrangement opportunities, and stay updated on pertinent topics important for small business growth. Objectives...

A 2-day leadership training event with 27 sessions led by government and industry leaders. National Leadership Training (NLT) is the essential event for developing and training government financial professionals to excel as leaders in today’s competitive market. Don’t miss this opportunity to share best practices, find new solutions to challenges, network with peers and learn from the top financial management leaders and industry e...

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...

Insider threats are back and broader than ever – growing more than 44% over just the past two years. Once manifesting mainly as malicious attacks against an organization, insider threats now are commonly the result of accidents or external compromise. And just as commonly, these threats prey upon access to your critical systems and data. Which are the predominant insider threats against your organization? How are they picking away at yo...

Join Esri in Washington, DC, to learn how the federal government is using GIS to promote a deeper understanding of complex issues for effective solutions. Attend professional development workshops, learn from Esri staff, and connect with your peers. Visit the Esri Expo to discover how Esri partners are using GIS in new and exciting ways. Engage with Esri experts as well as sponsors and exhibitors to get your questions answered.

Grab a ticket to join us for targeted networking with your fellow government contractors. Attendees include govies, large system integrators, mid-tiers, and small non-traditionals. We’ll bring the drinks and food – you bring the business cards and get ready to mingle! We’ll also be joined by representatives from large defense primes and integrators, so maybe you’ll leave with a new customer or two. Please note: This eve...

PostgreSQL's materialized views are a great tool to provide low-latency answers to complex queries – but did you know they could offer serializable consistency if you used cutting-edge streaming engines, many millions of dollars, and countless hours of work from talented systems engineers and academics? Oh, and I guess you could then also join them with arbitrarily complex queries over Kafka topics… In this talk, we'll take a look...

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....

The EHLS program is a fully funded scholarship that offers training in advanced English and career skills for U.S. citizens who have a college degree and are native speakers of Chinese Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Persian Farsi, Korean, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Turkish, or Hausa. After the eight-month program at Georgetown University, participants are required to seek at least one-year of employment with the federal government. Join EHLS staff in the...