Governments at all levels are being tasked to think outside the box to meet today's ever-growing list of challenges. From new legislation like the 21st Century IDEA Act, to NIST Cybersecurity Framework updates, to the new Cloud Smart policy, agencies are being asked to transform. But despite these mandates to modernize, many agencies are still struggling with common challenges like slow legacy systems, untrained personnel and outdated processe...

State and local governments are looking to the cloud for ways to improve services for and with citizens through open data initiatives, public safety modernization, education reform, citizen service improvements, and infrastructure programs. However, data centers remain critical to IT operations for many state and local governments, and a majority of workloads, such as legacy business applications and sensitive data, live on-premises. Many agen...

Within many government organizations, critical and often customized applications developed decades ago keep operations running and hold much-needed data. These applications run on legacy systems and while the hardware is reliable now…they are quickly beyond end-of-life status. In addition, the source code for these applications is often not replicable, causing an expensive dilemma for the organization. If your agency is trying to figure...

State and local governments are looking to the cloud for ways to improve services for and with citizens through open data initiatives, public safety modernization, education reform, citizen service improvements, and infrastructure programs. However, data centers remain critical to IT operations for many state and local governments, and a majority of workloads, such as legacy business applications and sensitive data, live on-premises. Many agen...

Join BlackBerry for a webinar on how we are helping cities drive increased collaboration and public safety by providing secure solutions to manage crisis communications, inter-org secure communications, and collaboration and integrated management of endpoints. Internet of Things (IoT) represents an exponential increase in opportunity for modernization and increased public safety. Along with these opportunities, however, comes an exponential i...

State and local governments are looking to the cloud for ways to improve services for and with citizens through open data initiatives, public safety modernization, education reform, citizen service improvements, and infrastructure programs. However, data centers remain critical to IT operations for many state and local governments, and a majority of workloads, such as legacy business applications and sensitive data, live on-premises. Many agen...

As AI emerges from research labs and IT back offices and into the mainstream, the transformational possibilities of AI for both businesses and government are enormous. According to the Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, released earlier this year, AI promises to drive growth of the United States economy, enhance our economic and national security, and improve our quality of life. To discuss how AI is...

The concept of smart cities is evolving. States, counties, and municipalities are rallying around the promise of smart to reshape our collective thinking of how our communities will run in the future. Join us on Thursday, April 4 from 2-3 p.m. ET/11 a.m.-noon PT to learn the building blocks for an effective smart strategy. With any government trend, it is sometimes best to take a step back and evaluate whether things are actually working and h...

The purpose of this workshop is to provide senior-level executives with a framework and set of actionable steps to understand and assess the data maturity of their organization. By leveraging the Federal Government Data Maturity Model (FGDMM), attendees will engage in "hands-on" exercises to articulate a data strategy and roadmap for their agency. If your agency is just getting started, or if your organization has a strategy, but is struggling...

As governments at all levels work to keep up with rising citizen expectations, what does it mean to truly be a digital government? In Las Vegas, Route Fifty and Nextgov are teaming with Adobe to talk with with leaders across government who are transforming the way their services are designed and delivered, and reimagining what is possible with a technology-powered government. Some featured speakers include: Max Everett, Chief Information Offic...