Devote a day to increasing your understanding of leading-edge issues in cyber security being or to be addressed by public-private cooperation and collaboration in research and technical solutions by government, academia, and industry. Monday, March 24, 2014 The Mason Inn 4352 Mason Pond Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 Listen to government decision makers who face daily the dual challenge of completing their agencies' objectives while protecting their...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Join us in March 2014 at SSON’s largest flagship event in North America, the 18th Annual North American Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, which hosts 800+ shared services and outsourcing practitioners, industry solution providers and leading analyst firms for 3 days of information-sharing, networking and benchmarking. Voted as the #1 conference they would attend in 2014 by over 60% of our US customers, this SS&O event features...

IQPC’s 11th HR Metrics Summit will assemble experts and executives from cross-industry HR departments who will discuss the methods of validating HR’s role within an organization and develop strategies for resolving company and industry wide challenges. Learn About: Using HR Metrics to Drive Activity & Business Functions Predictive Analytics Data Sets: What Matters to You and Why? What are the right Metrics to track? NEW for 201...

Since the launch of the 2012 Big Data Initiative, where the government invested over $250 million in Big Data throughout its federal agencies, we have seen the benefits and opportunities in this technology. Everywhere from border control, to health care records and scientific research, Big Data is playing a pivotal role in accomplishing critical missions and objectives. The amount of data the government faces is at its highest ever and less th...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

Federal Sales Boot Camp The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting environment as it actually operates. This includes both the written and unwritten rul...

Amplify Your Knowledge! 5 Days. 4 Events. 20 Tracks. 200+ Sessions. The Ultimate IT and Developer Line-up. Live! 360 is back to turn your conference experience up to 11. Spanning 5 days at the Royal Pacific Resort in sunny Orlando, Live! 360 gives you the ultimate IT and Developer line-up, offering hundreds of sessions on the most relevant topics affecting your business today. Click the links to learn more! Visual Studio Live! • SharePoin...

Intelligence organizations across the Government must build the capacity to harness information being generated and collected at an alarming rate. Dramatic advances in IMINT and Open Source Intelligence alone are providing an unprecedented volume of data. Large data sets lead to more reliable information and intelligence, but the volume of unstructured data requires sophisticated capabilities in order to provide any actionable use. DSI's Big D...