Expert Briefings & Roundtable Collaboration on Counterintelligence, DevOps, Supply Chain Security Think Tank Led Education Where You Are In ChargeDefending against today’s threats requires more than listening. It requires actively engaging with experts and peers to discuss your challenges, share solutions, and build the relationships that are the key to long-term success. ICIT, a non-profit cybersecurity think tank, has created an e...

The purpose of this workshop is to provide senior-level executives with a framework and set of actionable steps to understand and assess the data maturity of their organization. By leveraging the Federal Government Data Maturity Model (FGDMM), attendees will engage in "hands-on" exercises to articulate a data strategy and roadmap for their agency. If your agency is just getting started, or if your organization has a strategy, but is struggling...

Technology and data are business enablers. Yet too often, fears of privacy compromise, policy violations, and data breach overwhelm organizations to the point of becoming obstacles to innovation and change. To truly support the mission, technology and security leaders must harness the power of readily available tools and strategies that will enable them to build secure, trusted applications to meet the growing needs of internal and external cu...

The federal government is increasingly adopting best practices for earth observation and imagery workflows to improve service delivery and support the administration's goals and other federal initiatives such as: Optimizing infrastructure investment.Enhancing safety and security.Identifying change in natural and built environments. Creating more efficient land planning workflows. Agencies are now realizing measurable benefits from new sensor...

This forum seeks to bring together people from the data, analysis, financial, policy and public communities to better understand the challenges and solutions to financial integrity. This forum is looking to provide cases of how using seemingly disparate data led to company or agency success. We want you to imagine the possibilities and provide you with a couple of tools along the way. Keynote Speaker:Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Of...

Overview: We have all seen the results of the big data hype. Big data projects fail at the same alarming rate (2/3rds consistently fail to meet functionality, date or cost plans) that characterize IT investments in general. The failure of big data can be attributed to three specific factors: 1) Without an agreed upon definition of big data all results (measurements, claims of success, quantifications) were correctly viewed skeptically and wit...

Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has long argued that software is eating the world. This is true for the federal government as well, where both mission-critical and everyday operations are deeply reliant on technology. This raises the stakes dramatically for IT leaders, challenging them to become more visible in their agencies and better collaborators with their mission, business and operations stakeholders. Register today to attend the event...

Automation -- a staple of federal IT initiatives for decades -- can only go so far when it comes to improving the performance and cost-effectiveness of government operations. The problem is that traditional software can only do so much without human intervention. That is where artificial intelligence comes in. The interest in AI is not to replace people, but to augment their ability to do their jobs, whether that involves managing IT operation...

Modernization is no longer an option. As part of its effort to drive innovation and technological advancement, the Trump administration has established the Office of American Innovation, which will bring together the best ideas from the public and private sectors. One of its top priorities is to improve government operations and services—and IT is a key part of that. This event will bring together thought-leaders from government and indu...

We're excited and gearing up for our next Microsoft Azure Gov DC Meetup, The Power of Data Analytics to Transform Government, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 6 – 8:30 p.m. at 1776 in Washington, DC. Be sure to RSVP to join us to hear about the advancements in big data and predictive analytics, see demos, and get insight to how analytics is helping emergency preparedness, response and recovery missions. As always this Meetup is FREE and open to the...