This is not only a workshop on understanding the current state of cloud computing, it also addresses understanding your own IT requirements which dictate where and how cloud computing could be a fit with your enterprise. Cloud computing is the concept of leveraging IT assets over the Internet to provide more scalable, cost effective, and adaptable services to the organization. However, the concepts behind cloud computing reach much further. C...

Improved Education, Improved Communication, Improved Contracts. World Congress is about bringing together the greatest minds in both the government and industry to provide advice, best practices, and tools you can put to immediate use to help you and your organization deal with the issues you confront every day. Through the combination of our improved educational content and an improved level of participant networking and communication opportu...

Excellence in Government: Open Government Produced by Government Executive Media Group, Excellence in Government (EIG) is the premier public management conference dedicated to creating high-performance government. The conference offers federal managers access to high-profile keynote speakers and practical, innovative educational sessions. Excellence in Government 2010 will consist of three 1-day events held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Was...

Attend this conference to learn how to capture the power of social media in your organization, along with helpful tools, tips and techniques to get started, including: Developing a social media (blogging, podcasting, wikis, social networks, etc.) strategy to drive performance-based communications Building senior management support for your social media programs Integrating social media tools into your internal and external communications pract...

About this Event: We convene this networking event for communications and PR professionals in the greater Washington, D.C. region. The reception is held under the auspices of our WNG Communications Roundtable, and presents a marketing and business development opportunity for companies and professionals to increase awareness of their products and services. Who Should Attend: Business executives and other leaders confronted by challenges in comm...

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...

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....

Join us in Boston, June 23–25, 2010, for the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX ATC '10 will again bring together leading systems researchers for cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain insight into a variety of must-know topics, including virtualization, system administration, cloud computing, security, and networking. The technical program begins on Wednesday, June 23, and includes refereed papers...

2020 Vision: Leveraging Today's Best Insights to Manage Risk & Build a More Secure Future The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2010 is the premier conference and meeting place for IT and business executives responsible for creating, implementing, and managing a proactive and comprehensive IT strategy for information security, risk management, compliance, and business continuity management. As IT security and risk disciplines...

A major complaint in many government agencies is information overload. How do you make sense out of all the data coming in and then use it to make a difference? In the past, too much emphasis has been placed on producing performance information to comply with a checklist of requirements instead of using it to drive change. This must change. Federal managers and employees at all levels must use performance goals and measures to set priorities,...