You and your team are invited to join Databricks and Carahsoft for a Databricks FY '24 Kick-Off with Lakehouse Libations on Wednesday, February 1, at Carahsoft from 4:00 - 6:00pm ET. Databricks is excited to bring together many of our key partners in the Public Sector to celebrate and share new enhancements in customer experience. Sign up today to network with peers and hear Databricks share: An overview of Lakehouse for Public Sector, includi...

Looking to connect with your local Atlassian community? Join Atlassian and your government peers for next month's Community Leader event at the Carahsoft office in Reston, VA. During this event, Atlassian's Principal Solutions Engineer, Derek Huether, will highlight a few tips and tricks to scale teams' agility with the use of Atlassian software. This informal gathering will serve as an opportunity to connect with fellow Atlassian users on ide...

Often GPU infrastructures for deep learning are siloed. ‘Shadow AI’ is the result of one-off AI initiatives inside Federal Government agencies, where siloed AI teams buy their own infrastructure, or use cloud compute resources. This decentralized approach results in many AI initiatives never making it to production. Join Run:ai, GAI & Carahsoft for a joint Happy Hour event where we will discuss: Why Shadow AI exists and how to...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is paving the way for the government to improve citizen services and automate internal use cases such as fraud detection, cyber threat detection, predictive maintenance, benefits & claims processing, border enforcement, and more. A McKinsey study last year found it takes an average of 9-12 months to get a single AI app from idea to production - 80% of those are shelved. According to a Gartner survey, less than...

Registration is closed The Annual Leadership Awards are a highlight for WIT members and the larger DC technology community that honors women succeeding in their careers while also mentoring the next generation of leaders. Drawing 500+ attendees in previous years, the awards program is back in-person this and and will honor women succeeding in their careers while also mentoring the next generation of leaders. See the list of award finalists!

Some say that data is the new oil, and like oil, data needs to be collected, refined, and distributed to gain value from it. However, unlike oil, data tends to lose its value the longer we wait to use it. So, what if we could hook up a pipeline to the source of the data, and transform it in near real time, on its way to the end-users? That's precisely the capability of Apache Kafka. Confluent provides the leading Kafka-based streaming platform...

USGIF is pleased to announce that GEOINT community icon Stu Shea will be awarded the 2021 Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award at the USGIF annual black-tie gathering of the GEOINT community. Stu has nearly four decades serving both government and industry in the intelligence, defense, aerospace, and government services markets. His energy, customer focus, and dedication of his life’s work to the tradecraft of ma...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Whether you are actively seeking employment, transitioning from the military or federal government, your contract is coming to an end or window shopping and want to see what else is out there for you, This Is The Event For You! Wednesday May 6th Sheraton Reston Hotel 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191 Register: www.restartevents.com/...

Reserve your table or individual seats now for the community’s 14th Annual GEOGala. The USGIF black-tie GEOGala celebrates the dedication and support of the GEOINT Community. USGIF is proud to bring together more than 500 leaders from across the Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Communities with USGIF Organizational Members, Individual Members, Foundation partners and their guests.

Whether you are actively seeking employment, transitioning from the military or federal government, your contract is coming to an end or window shopping and want to see what else is out there for you, THIS IS THE EVENT FOR YOU: Resumes submitted by 10/20 will be prescreened by the exhibiting companies and some candidates will be selected for private interviews during the events: “Wonderful experience. Not your usual job fair. Having inte...