DESCRIPTION As women navigate the path of higher management positions, they are challenged to proactively manage their growth and development to prepare for the leadership roles they desire. ACT-IAC is planning a forum that will bring together a diverse mix of successful women leaders, who will provide an understanding of the steps they have taken to climb the corporate ladder to a successful leadership position. It is the intent of this forum...

The future is full of potential! A variety of trends and market influences are converging to shape the enterprise of the future. 5G and edge computing, hyperautomation, intelligent composable business, and concepts from books like “Team of Teams” are enabling new operating models at scale. Many enterprises are transforming to harness these trends and create a new future. We’ve never been better prepared to take advantage of t...

A 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article offered an “…analysis of all US military casualties from October 2001 through December 2017 found that survival among the most critically injured casualties increased 3-fold during the course of the conflicts and that 3 key interventions (tourniquets, blood transfusions, and prehospital transport within 60 minutes) were associated with 44% of mortality reduction...

Despite decades of science demonstrating that organizations with more diverse leadership perform better, women and minorities remain grossly underrepresented in management positions across the Federal Government. Building a diverse leadership team requires building equity into every career development decision that creates great leaders, from initial branch assignments in the military to lateral assignments in the civil service. Internal mobil...

Suicide prevention and mental health among Veterans is an important topic to address, especially during a pandemic, where everyone is having to isolate themselves to control the spread. Predictive analytics and other data management and analysis tools are being leveraged to help identify at-risk Veterans and implement interventions before a mental health crisis occurs. This panel discussion will focus on: What is currently being done across VA...

The importance of cybersecurity is at an all-time high, especially for government agencies. It’s a matter of national security. With the number of federal employees remotely connecting to agency networks, cloud-based remote access environments and collaboration tools via telework, agencies can be exposed to increasing risk. While guidance has been issued to help agencies better protect their network environments, CenturyLink has years of...

For three days in October, forward-thinking leaders of government and industry will converge in Philadelphia to network, share, learn, collaborate, and together imagine and invent their future. Our goal: harness creative thinking, innovation and technology to form a more perfect union of government and industry, and forge actionable approaches and practices that maximize the value we provide to our nation’s citizens. IMAGINE NATION ELC 2...

EPIC (Exploration, People, Inspiration, Collaboration) – The Future of Information Technology, is a half day event that will focus on the effective characteristics leaders need in shaping the future of the federal IT industry. This event will feature experienced practitioners serving as keynotes and panelists who have thrived through times of change taking their organizations to the next level by sharing their vision of the future. Speci...

This forum will provide government and industry with a much clearer understanding of Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Automation. To set the stage for this half-day forum, we are providing a short description of these terms. RPA promises to speed up and automate routine processes while reducing the amount of errors, which in turn will enable human team members to pursue higher value tasks that can...

This forum seeks to bring together people from the data, analysis, financial, policy and public communities to better understand the challenges and solutions to financial integrity. This forum is looking to provide cases of how using seemingly disparate data led to company or agency success. We want you to imagine the possibilities and provide you with a couple of tools along the way. Keynote Speaker:Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Of...