Networking Skills: Making Your Contacts Count July 7, 2010 9 am - noon Create, Cultivate & Capitalize on Networking Relationships & Opportunities This workshop is based on the book Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and CareerSuccess by authors Anne Baber & Lynne Waymon. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the seminar. Networking Skills: Making Your Contacts Count Are you a natural-born net...

GovLoop and Young Government Leaders (YGL) are joining forces to enrich the lives of emerging leaders in today’s government. We have developed the Next Generation of Government Summit to tackle issues the next generation is facing in their daily government lives. By educating, inspiring and transforming the current and future leaders of government through case studies and hands on training we will help make government cool! The 1st Next...

The 2010 National Space & Missile Materials Symposium (NSMMS) brings together the Nation’s technology leaders to review the critical challenges of materials, processing, and manufacturing for space, missile, and hypersonic systems. Nearly 500 system engineers, designers, scientists, researchers, managers, and senior leaders attend from the joint services, NASA, DOE, academia, and industry. The Symposium has established a format that...

Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning July 1, 2010 First Thursday Seminar #6 Operations, Maintenance, and Commissioning provides an overview of operations and maintenance (O&M) best practices with a focus on corrective, preventive, and predictive infrastructure requirements and commissioning for existing buildings. Date: July 1, 2010 Time: 1:30 ET Length: 90 minutes Instructor: Ray Pugh; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory FEMP Exp...

Agile BI: Making Business Intelligence Work for the Organization Attendees of this webcast learned how: Organizational and IT managers can work closely together to accelerate BI project success by addressing the primary challenges across accessibility, technology, and financial barriers Changing demands and requirements are associated with evolving data warehousing and analytics needs Agile techniques can be utilized to enable tighter collabor...

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone who has an interest in learning or improving skills necessary to implement the Obama Labor Relations Executive Order. This includes HR practitioners, union officials, members of bargaining teams, legal staff, neutrals, and line managers. OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED: - A close look at traditional or distributive bargaining and its limitations,- An in-depth review of win-win bargaining to include tools, techniques, and...

The annual National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) National Security Space Architecture and Policy Symposium will be held this year on the 29th and 30th of June at the TASC Heritage Conference Center in Chantilly, VA. This year’s symposium will focus on looking forward for national security space (NSS) with discussion of acquisition process and technology enablers and how they will shape the architectural and policy landscape. The...

Government in today's business environment is facing new management paradigms. Agencies are facing demands for decreased development costs, reduced time to deployment, and increased scrutiny into capital investments. New business solutions must address these shifts. These new solutions must also address the evolving pressures of regulatory requirements including the latest demands for transparency and accountability, combined with the prolifer...

Mocana, which secures the “Internet of Things,” protects the 20 billion non-PC devices that are increasingly connecting to networks across every sector of our economy including Federal and Medical. These devices already outnumber workstations on the Internet by about five to one. Each device represents a comparatively easy way to infiltrate the rest of the network as hacks, malware and viruses grow more numerous and sophisticated....

Nations around the world are grappling with the challenge of “open government”. Many are openly stating that they embrace it, most are struggling to understand what it is and how to actually implement it. Why are they so intent on this? Because the people, the constituents they serve, of all kinds, from families to communities, corporations to small business and non-profits, and public sector employees themselves are demanding it....