PurposeTo create a forum that fosters interaction and knowledge sharing between small businesses, government officials, industry experts, and large/ prime businesses. The aim is to equip attendees with knowledge and tools to help access government contracts, navigate regulatory demands, explore contracting, subcontracting, or teaming arrangement opportunities, and stay updated on pertinent topics important for small business growth. Objectives...

Government and industry face significant challenges in hiring the right skilled workforce, encountering a very competitive landscape, where all are vying for similar talent along with pressures to control cost. With this new landscape, government and industry are investing human capital well versed in digitization, robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and new emerging technologies of the future. Everyone is still en...

The Summit is the most important event of the year for our community of government and industry leaders who share a passion for government modernization through shared services. The theme of this year’s Summit is “Breaking out of the Box to Achieve Performance Breakthroughs.” We’ll be hearing from big thinkers in our community and around the country about bold and innovative ideas to overcome barriers and speed up the p...

Digital Transformation – the process of using digital technologies to create new or modify existing business process, culture and/or customer experience to meet the changing business and market requirements – Is helping government and industry improve operational efficiency, productivity, and resiliency. Its success requires savvy leadership that is willing to challenge the status quo, a skilled workforce that is comfortable with t...

Over the past year, the Biden-Harris Administration has increased the focus on improving federal services through the President’s Management Agenda which presented a roadmap for ensuring an equitable, effective, and accountable Federal Government that delivers results for all. The three priorities were: Strengthening and empowering the Federal workforce; Delivering excellent, equitable, and secure Federal services and customer experience...

Women Empowering Women Women in today's era, more than previous times, are navigating pathways to more senior management and executive positions, while managing their work and home life, their steps in growth, and their selected roles, especially in fields where women are underrepresented. The second annual Women in Leadership Forum will focus on the techniques and steps of how women in primarily male-dominated organizations or agencies have a...

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Initiatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs One of VA’s priorities is to ensure all Veterans, including women Veterans, Veterans of color, and LGBTQ Veterans feel welcome at the VA. In addition, President Biden has empowered Federal agencies with a call to action through a series of executive orders (EO). Please join our VA Federal Insights Exchange panel for an interactive discussion...

DESCRIPTION As women navigate the path of higher management positions, they are challenged to proactively manage their growth and development to prepare for the leadership roles they desire. ACT-IAC is planning a forum that will bring together a diverse mix of successful women leaders, who will provide an understanding of the steps they have taken to climb the corporate ladder to a successful leadership position. It is the intent of this forum...

The challenges that Federal agencies face in building and developing their workforce are growing. Skills become obsolete more quickly and the amount of time to build expertise in new, more complex technical skills is increasing. These challenges require new ways of thinking about talent, centered on the digital talent enterprise. The concept of the digital talent enterprise uses IBM’s HR 3.0 paradigm to focus on better experiences, intro...

Customer experience (CX) has been embraced by many private sector organizations to help stand apart from the competition and improve customer loyalty. Its growth in the public sector has been accelerating as well, and currently over 22 federal agencies have established some form of formal CX function. Will Congress standardize federal agency organizational design to include a CXO, following the precedent of CFO’s, CIO’s or, most re...