The pandemic-induced massive shift to remote work has truly highlighted the need to enable employees to manage their own environment, particularly to access, monitor and interact with their work flows in an efficient and meaningful way. Think of those needs in the context of workplace apps, and one starts really seeing the advantages of no-code/low-code development platforms that offer unrivaled ease of use, accessibility for developers or eve...

The transition to Agile development is complex and challenging, especially for legacy programs. Where do you start and what obstacles may exist? Agile and DevSecOps are often touted as silver bullets to accelerating delivery of mission winning capability. These modern development and deployment methodologies offer many benefits, but navigating their implementation requires a data-driven understanding of which applications will benefit the most...

At the beginning of 2020, nearly every organization had a multi-year digital transformation program they were executing against. As the global pandemic set in, for most, that multi-year plan became a multi-month plan and multi-week in some cases. “In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.” ― Liz Curtis Higgs 2020 became the year of haste. Workforces and workload...

New ways of working have emerged, both for Federal Government agencies and the citizens they serve. This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by Federal IT Government Leaders within the Federal Cloud space. What type of solutions have been made available to help strengthen Federal Data? What strategies can be put in place in order to help embrace a data focused future? What will embracing a Data Drive...

In today’s climate, we must make smarter IT investments that are responsive to federal mission and citizen expectations. GSA IT’s mission, vision, goals have remained the same, but the pace and volume of work continue to expand. We continue to engage our employees and customers to understand how GSA IT excels and where we can improve our services. These efforts and COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the importance of digital techno...

It’s fair to say that enlightened organizations buckled up and embarked on the DevSecOps journey some time ago. It hasn’t been an easy road, complete with many unexpected speed limits, roadblocks and detours. It would seem timely to pull out the map, pinpoint where we are, and look ahead to get a better idea of what exactly the destination looks like. To help us evaluate progress made thus far, ATARC, in collaboration with the U.S...

The Financial Systems Summit (FSS) is now the Technology & Transformation Summit (TTS), renamed to better reflect the broader scope of topics included in the program! Every year, this event brings more than 1,300 government leaders and industry experts together to discuss ways to improve government services through technology modernization and business transformation in a budget-constrained environment. As new forms of advanced technology...

How should agencies be assessing their level of where they are and where they want to be? This panel will discuss workforce requirements to succeed in predictive analytics projects, Workforce 2025 (OPM/RPA), CDO council/training government workforce, action plan 2020 for data skills, Data Readiness and prep for predictive analytics, culture, and change management in agencies.

This year has proven the need to strengthen Artificial Intelligence capabilities, and a need to solve the AI challenges brought forth due to the pandemic. This panel will explore the current state of technology, use cases, and limitations of AI at the edge. Listen in as subject matter experts share lessons learned and solutions to the challenges brought on to their agency’s as a result of COVID-19. What emerging technology has led to str...

A holistic cloud strategy is a catalyst for business innovation, but it demands agile and responsive IT to deliver on this promise. Purpose-driven agencies must embrace technical agility in order to securely meet new business demands and mission outcomes. This panel of government and industry experts will discuss steps to build and mature a lean-agile organization with an emphasis on technical agility to deliver mission success in the cloud. O...