Here are the top 5 benefits to attending this year’s summit, “Transforming the Citizen Experience”: It's FREE! – We know your budget is tight, so don’t miss out on this free educational opportunity. Improve the citizen experience – Most agencies think they know the information citizens want and how they want it, but only 45% of citizens would agree. Learn strategies to raise overall citizen satisfaction. Net...

Are you ready for a new kind of customer success? Join us for the all-new Salesforce World Tour in Washington, D.C. on April 28 and see how to connect with your customers in a whole new way. Access the best speakers, sessions, keynotes, and more - for FREE! Learn firsthand from government leaders how to sell, service, market and succeed like never before!

Join us for the inaugural Docker Federal Summit for Federal DevOps & IT Infrastructure leaders. Learn from your peers and industry leaders how-to modernize your application architectures quickly, securely and cost effectively with Docker. This full day event, with keynotes, product demos, ecosystem innovations and customer success stories will provide agencies the framework to successfully and securely build, ship, and run any app, anywher...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...

Following high profile disasters in recent years, the emergency management community is exploring new approaches to traditional recovery challenges. These changes, from the use of technology to improve decision-making to legislation, are improving our ability to build stronger, more resilient communities. Follow the conversation as Thad Allen, Executive Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton and Retired Admiral of the US Coast Guard, moderates...

This four-day course is far more than learning the syntax of the Semantic Web or how to use tools to implement semantic based systems (although it certainly does cover both of those). This course is about learning how to think and design in semantics. We have been continually evolving this course over the ten years we have been teaching it. We are always adding new technologies and new techniques to the course. Over the course of time we...

The federal IT enterprise is changing. Under pressure to improve the agility and scalability of IT services, federal agencies are looking to take a new approach to their enterprise infrastructure. They need the ability to rapidly provision resources—compute, storage, networking, software—to meet constantly shifting workload demands driven by cloud, mobility, big data, and related solutions. The traditional approach of dedicating re...

Opportunities - And Obligations - of Big Data in a VUCA World by Mr. Mark Haas, CMC, FIMC The accelerating pave and scope of business, politics, finance, and science often render their meaning and implications beyond our comprehension. It will be the analytics, interpretations and communication of big data as a science and its practitioners as professionals that will derive that meaning. We are implicitly responsible for using data to make sen...

Go Ahead. Gain Insight, Ideas and an Action Plan VMware vForum is a free one-day event that offers a unique setting for IT professionals to engage with experts and learn about the latest technologies, tips, and trends in the field. Join us on October 22, 2015 in Washington, DC! It doesn’t matter whether you are at the start of your journey or already have an advanced deployment plan—join us as we help you navigate your IT journey a...

Reduce Database Risks and Costs Through a Dual Database StrategyAre you looking to increase the speed and efficiency of IT services for your agency at a lower cost? This may be difficult to achieve while still meeting the unique requirements set by your agency. We invite you to join us for a half-day seminar on Wednesday, October 21st, to discuss new ways to reduce database risks and costs through a dual database strategy. Benefits of attendin...