Acquisition Excellence 2013

Acquisition Excellence 2013
The Intersection of Innovation and Transformation

March 21, 2013
Grand Hyatt Washington
Washington, D.C.

The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council and the General Services Administration are pleased to announce that they will be jointly hosting Acquisition Excellence 2013 on March 21, 2013, at the Grand Hyatt Washington.   This one-day education and training event will explore how agencies can progress to a more agile acquisition environment with innovative solutions in a cost cutting era.   

Modern technologies offer the promise to provide the streamlining of processes, the correlation of data for effective sharing, mobilization computing efforts to serve those where they need to be served and many more applications for more effective and efficient government.

Whether it is cloud computing services, mobile computing, data center consolidation, secure identification, agile development of applications or “big data” utilization to improve government processes; the procurement process can often be a roadblock to acquiring the tools to providing the citizenry a better government.

Acquisition Excellence 2013 will be a day spent exploring how agencies can best move forward with their effective acquisitions to better enable the government to function.  This year’s tracks will focus on Innovation in Acquisition and Workforce Transformation.  The collaborative discussions between government, industry and academia include:  

• Better Outcomes at Lower Cost
• Breaking Through the “No Risk” Approach to Contracting
• Data Analytics for Accelerating Acquisition Planning
• Bridging the Multi-Generational Acquisition Workforce
• Sharing Acquisition Strategies
• Strategic Approaches and Strategic Relationships in Acquisition to support Mission Delivery
• Cross-Agency Collaboration to Leverage Buying Power

Attendance is expected to exceed the 2012 Acquisition Excellence event that drew over 600 people – 55% of whom were government employees.  Attendees will receive CEUs for their participation in this training event.

- See more at: http://www.actgov.org/events/AE2013/Pages/default.aspx#sthash.BZ7tKxC0.dpuf