This event is open to Industry Insider members only. Join us for this inaugural Industry Insider – Florida members-only, in-person briefing which will feature insights on the state budget process as well as a discussion with the CIO of the Department of Environmental Protection. January marks the convening of the Florida Legislature to debate and finalize the state budget, which, once approved, will contain billions of dollars of new IT...

Severe weather events are on the rise and so are the costs. According to NOAA, from 1980-2022 the U.S. had an annual average of 8.1 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each. Yet, in the last 5 years, the annual average has increased to 18.0 events. And in 2023 alone the U.S. faced 25 confirmed billion-dollar weather/climate disaster events. What will we experience in 2024? While some organizations are sti...

GSA's Disaster Preparedness and Security Protection categories offer SL&T agencies easy access to a wide range of products, services, and commercial experts. These include personal protective equipment, security cameras, bottled water, and more. GSA's Disaster Preparedness and Security Protection categories are the perfect place to obtain or address your organization's emergency and security needs.

The federal government has been proactive in continuity of operations (COOP ) planning since at least the 1950s, when President Eisenhower issued executive orders directing various measures agencies should take to be prepared for a possible nuclear war. The need for COOP leads naturally to the question of resilience – how quickly agencies can recover from events beyond their control. Climate change is a slow-moving tsunami of many smalle...

The Summit is an automotive cybersecurity conference that showcases insights from manufacturers, suppliers, thought leaders, lawmakers, practitioners and other stakeholders and highlights the commitment of members to trust, share, teach, learn, and act. This year our event will take place both in Redondo Beach, California and virtually. We find ourselves at the starting line where the drive towards Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electrified...

Seeing changes in the physical features of the earth historically has taken eons – sometimes literally, as in identifying the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates and the drift that created the continents as we know them. But the advent of satellites, drones, sensors and other technologies provides a constant flow of data that accurately reflects the conditions that societies encounter today. In 2017, the Department of Defense creat...

Join Granicus for a complimentary webinar during Emergency Preparedness Month and dive into the world of emergency communications. A year after Hurricane Ian, leading Florida government communicators, representing the City of North Port and Sarasota County, will share their invaluable experiences and insights. Specifically, attendees will: Discover how these communications teams acted swiftly in the face of a natural disaster, ensuring accura...

Today more than ever, location-driven insights are becoming deeply integrated across the workflows, processes, and applications of industries, user communities, and citizens. As decisions within government, businesses, and citizenry are driven increasingly by location-based insights, geospatial data serves as an underpinning component in achieving a knowledge economy - creating greater efficiency, productivity, transparency, and responsiveness...

Urban flooding poses risks to residents, property, and infrastructure, and disrupts urban services. Hydraulic simulations help engineers to better predict and understand vulnerabilities like water velocities, depth, and floodwater extent. That understanding leads to more resilient drainage systems and more consistency maintaining utility service. OpenFlows SewerGEMS has long offered fully dynamic, 1D analysis capabilities to help engineers de...

The Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) at George Washington University and the Security and Sustainability Forum invites you to an extraordinary webinar shedding light on the paramount issue of threats to democracy in Europe and the United States. Join us as Zoltán Kész, a former member of the Hungarian parliament, a fervent advocate for democratic principles, and the Government Affairs Manager of the Consumer C...