To protect the health and saftey of attendeees this event has been canceled due to Covid-19 concerns. Cyber Smoke’s vibrant community has moved, for the foreseeable future, to the virtual realm. We invite you to join us for our next Backyard Cyber Smoke program to continue the important public-private dialogue that is critical to the business and mission delivery of government services – all from the comfort of your home office or...

States are struggling to slow the spread during the COVID-19 pandemic and are turning to technology to help. What exactly is contact tracing and how has it helped Maryland combat COVID-19? Join MeriTalk and AWS on Tuesday, August 11 at 1:30 p.m. ET for a webinar to examine how the state of Maryland leveraged cloud-based call center solutions to set up a contact tracing program. During the webinar we’ll discuss: Why cloud-based solutions...

With the Modernizing Government Technology Act now signed into law, Federal CIOs and IT managers should finally have the momentum – and means – to break free of aging agency infrastructures. Feds see opportunities to accelerate progress by improving the ability to share data between new and legacy systems. They say improved data sharing is the number one opportunity to accelerate modernization, followed by a clear vision of success...

Video surveillance data is growing – fast. By 2020, video surveillance is expected to reach approximately 3.3 trillion captured video hours globally. Organizations’ appetites for video surveillance in an "always-on" world are straining IT infrastructures – from networks, to storage, to analysis capabilities. Attend “The Video Vortex” webinar to discuss: How agencies can optimize video surveillance data insights Po...