*SAVE $50 on Registration fee with code "GovEvents" Learn first hand about the many new changes just announced to CPIC!In May of 2017, OMB introduced a new model for the Administration's pulse check on investment health and performance - compliance with Technology Business Management (TBM). As the new Administration makes it's mark on the Federal IT modernization and performance criteria for the federal government, TBM provides a newer framew...

Get Jazzed About Grants ManagementAttend the region's premier educational event for grants professionals to get answers to your questions about managing grants and to stay up-to-date on recent developments affecting grant-funded entities. Southern Grants Forum 2018 will be held in New Orleans and will feature a dozen experts and more than two dozen informative yet entertaining sessions over three exciting days. The Southern Grants Forum will...

The 2018 NACCHO Annual Conference is the only conference that speaks directly to the daily challenges and opportunities that local health officials and their staff face. The annual conference will be held July 10-12 at the New Orleans Marriott. The conference offers an opportunity for local health department staff, partners, funders, and individuals invested in local public health to share the latest research, ideas, strategies and innovations...

Kick start the new year with our first live training event of 2018! Please join us in New Orleans for SANS Security East 2018 (Jan 8-13), and experience exceptional cyber security training designed to help you advance your career. SANS’ training is unrivaled in the industry, and our passionate instructors are leading industry experts and practitioners. Their practical expertise adds value to the training material, ensuring you will be ab...

Join us from July 17-20, 2017, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana, for Federally Employed Women's (FEW's) 48th National Training Program (NTP). The NTP is open to all employees from military, private and public sector organizations who want to climb the ladder to the next step in their career. All courses are Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Standards Aligned and target entry-level employees through senior decisi...

The challenges our first responders face in an emergency are daunting--and the landscape is rapidly changing. Decades of increased urban density, mobility, and technology are all fundamentally changing disaster response. Pair this with external factors like climate change, as well as political and cultural factors like increasing gun violence and threats of terrorism, and you have a profession that looks entirely different than it did just a d...

Chairman: Rob LeeCPE Credits: 16Summit Dates: April 18-19Training Course Dates: April 20-25 Will you be the Hunter or the Prey? The Threat Hunting & Incident Response Summit will focus on specific hunting and incident response techniques and capabilities that can be used to identify, contain, and eliminate adversaries targeting your networks. SANS and our Founding Partner Carbon Black are pleased to invite you to the Summit where you will...

Today’s water professionals must balance increasingly challenging environmental conditions and constraints. Demands for water and energy resources continue to climb, making conservation and the use of viable alternatives a design requirement. New technologies and management approaches are allowing water utilities to diversify their water portfolios as never before. This year, the Sustainable Water Management Conference will present solut...

This 2-day course explores principles developed over the last twenty years in the “social behavior” arena. The same concepts that effect positive social engineering are duplicated in designing inhabited spaces to cause people to do what you want them to do. Students will learn to design “from the curb inward” and incorporate overlapping threat prevention principles. We also look at crime and terrorist activity and their...

Safe-room, panic rooms, evacuation shelters, tornado cellars and collective shelters all provide protection from man-made or natural threats, for both short and long periods of time. They usually serves as a place to repair to during emergency situations; a fall back position in case of emergencies, if you will. Effective design components; i.e., air requirements and waste management, capacity limits, use of electronic media and other technolo...