Is Your Workforce Up to the Challenge? New This Year at Imagine Nation – ELC 2018: Full day of Training Sunday, October 14, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA! Add training to conference registration or purchase separately Immersive training led by experts in their field: Training participants are eligible for up to eight (8) Continuous Learning Points (CLPs), four for each half-day course and eight for a full-day course. Training fee applies and...

Identity and Access Management is key and crucial to managing the roles and access privileges of individual network users through a digital ID that has to be maintained, modified and monitored throughout what many call “the access lifecycle”. This entire process is inextricably linked to the security and productivity of an organization to protect their digital assets and enhance business productivity. Whether it be an individual di...

Information Technology (IT) modernization in Government has lagged compared to similar efforts in the commercial sector, leading in many cases to significant and ongoing cyber security challenges; IT system deficiencies; excessive spending on older, legacy technology; lack of interoperability with both internal and external systems; and difficulty in maintaining infrastructure and applications. With the goal of modernizing their IT portfolios,...

Prepping for the Digital Frontier, “Smart Trends in IoT” hosted by ACT-IAC will provide attendees with a wide-range of discussions around the frameworks; implementation and methodologies; business and technology; connection between federal, state and local IoT; and cybersecurity, compliance and privacy enablers in the emerging IoT landscape to help prep agencies for the Digital Frontier. Keynote speakers will highlight topics which...

The ACT-IAC Federal Insights Exchange in collaboration with the IT Management and Modernization Community of Interest invite you to join in this conversation and gain insight into the future of cloud at DHS, key objectives, target outcomes and ideas on how industry can participate. The IT modernization forecast definitely includes clouds. Within the Department of Homeland Security, the incoming Chief Information Officer, Dr. John Zangardi anno...

ACT IAC is pleased to announce the first Network Modernization Forum to be held on Tuesday, June 19 at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. With the 2017 award of GSA's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) and the explosion of new technologies, the time to transform the government's IT and telecommunications into a robust, powerful and secure network is here! Join us for a special all-day program featuring keynote speaker and Federal C...

Modernize, Optimize, Visualize, Evangelize (MOVE) Forward -- On Friday, May 18th, ACT-IAC Voyagers Class of 2018 is hosting a half-day event centered on IT Modernization. To fuel discussions and harness the power of thinking across both Government and Industry, this event will feature keynote speakers, multiple panel presentations, and roundtable discussions. The panels feature distinguished guests, who accentuate the discussion by providing s...

While many Federal organizations are moving aggressively to lower monthly portfolio data center costs by leveraging public and private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to run legacy virtual machines, this approach does not take full advantage of the potential benefits of a cloud architecture. Cloud-native development reconstructs an application in a target cloud ecosystem, and calls upon cloud services inherent in the cloud e...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Lifting the Curtain with Reverse Industry Day on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC. REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT IN FEDERAL ACQUISITION -- Before there is a contract and before there is a solicitation, there is a need or requirement that the end-user deems necessary to meet the agency’s mission. The ident...

Mission Possible We are living in a time of unprecedented change. In the world, our country, economy, and government and in the area of emerging technologies - everything is changing. It is not only possible, but imperative that we harness change, to make our government more effective, secure and citizen driven. This conference is designed to share ideas and successes that will lead to this outcome. Are you results-driven? Successful in your f...