The Midwest's largest city is hosting the largest gathering of state and provincial legislators from the region. The 74th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Legislative Conference will be held July 21-24 in downtown Chicago. This four-day event will give the Midwest's legislators the chance to learn from one another, as well as renowned policy experts and featured speakers such as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and best-selling author Jon Meacham.

Managing privileged account passwords is a first step to strengthen your security posture, but important gaps remain that can easily be exploited by bad actors. Learn how to combine password vaulting with the following, all while securing remote access and monitoring all privileged sessions: Brokering of identitiesMFA enforcementJust-enough privilege

Whether you are doing manual edits to single PDF documents or automated edits to mass quantities of paper or digital files (e.g. Word, TIFF, PDF/A, etc), Foxit has one integrated, secure platform for all your PDF needs. In this introductory on-demand session for Government users, Frank Kettenstock will teach you to edit a PDF file like a Word document using PhantomPDF’s easy-to-use Microsoft Office like interface. Bookmark, redact, OCR t...

For three decades, thousands of federal HR, EEO, diversity, employee/labor relations and ADR practitioners have turned to FDR for unparalleled training and the unique opportunity to interact with government leaders and industry experts — at an unbeatable value!The FDR Advisory Board, composed of experienced practitioners, crafts each year’s program to ensure that the topics covered are timely, relevant and address the current issue...

St. Louis - known for the Arch, barbeque, blues music, the St. Louis Cardinals, and much, much more - will wow Communications School attendees from June 13-15! The “Gateway to the Best in Government Communications” school program will wow you with the variety of training topics, including social media, communications strategic planning, and plain language. The Communications School is the only event of its kind that provides invalu...

The Fair Housing + Civil Rights Conference is a free multi-day symposium featuring workshops, panel discussions, networking and career development opportunities, all led by distinguished civil rights activists, government officials, world-class trainers, and non-profit organizations. Attend workshops, panel discussions, trainings, and book signings. Network with over 600 professionals who are working to promote equality and fairness nationwide...

Connecting Government Learning Professionals through Technology Co-located with the GV EXPO, the GLTS is sponsored by the FGDLA and provides two days of learning, networking, and engaging opportunities for distance learning professionals in Government agencies. Our focus is on instructional design, LMS integration, instructional and cognitive learning strategies, gaming and simulation for distance learning, video and animation for distance lea...

Course Description This course is an introduction to the planning, analysis, sourcing and forming contracts between public and private parties for the purpose of accomplishing the missions of governmental agencies at the federal level by a Subject Matter Expert. It is designed for individuals considering or engaged in a federal procurement (1102) career. It is for personnel wanting to enhance their knowledge, and suppliers or citizens interest...

Prerequisite: Should have at least six months of contract experience, have taken the FAR Workshop or another basic FAR course before this course. What you will learn: The Advanced FAR Workshop provides an in-depth analysis of the most important parts of the FAR. In this two-day class, we will focus on those FAR Parts that tend to generate the most issues and questions, specifically: • The classification of workers • Intellectual Prop...

Join us as Webinar Wednesdays continues the conversation about inclusion in communications. Last month, we learned how a community reinvented its communications to adjust to changing demographics. This month, Kara Alaimo, Ph.D. will discuss how to adapt your communication strategies, tactics, and messages for different countries and cultures. Kara will celebrate the release of her newly published book (available August 17), Pitch, Tweet, or En...