Michael J. Penders, Esq., President of Environmental Security International will convene Security and Sustainability Forum's May live webcast from Washington DC on International Standards for Supply Chains and innovations in safety, sustainability, and security. Included in this webcast will be discussions on water and agriculture supply. Large and small businesses in this rapidly growing industry will benefit as Penders brings experts togethe...

SSF's webcasts convene panels of current and former federal decision makers to tell you what a government agency is buying and how to position for its security and sustainability grants, contracts and R&D programs.One Katrina-like emergency can strain the resources of government response agencies. Multiply that by three and the Coast Guard, FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers, FBI, and a host of state and local control agencies hit the national...

Designing Forms, Surveys, and Dialogues for the Web Format: One-Day Course Instructor: Kathryn Summers, PhD, University of Baltimore Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Place: Department of Labor (DOL) Directions to DOL Fee: $200 federal, state, or local U.S. government;$300 for non-government Course Description This session will focus on designing registration forms, surveys, and engagement tools for a broad consumer audienc...

Join Government Executive's Government Business Council for a Roundtable Discussion on Transparency. Federal agencies and departments had until April 7th to present their plan for incorporating the principles of open government into agency operations. With the deadline now passed, do federal managers have what they need to make transparency in government a reality? The Government Business Council (GBC) - the research division of Government Exe...

Convene. Connect. Collaborate. Join government officials and regulators in Washington, D.C. for DARE 2010 as we dispel what’s happening in both residential and commercial real estate and what might be stalling momentum in the U.S. financial markets. Participate in conversations discussing lenders’ unbooked losses on defaulted commercial real estate and construction loans, the diminished cash flows on both the residential and comme...

BPM for Government: Improving Core Mission Performance Through Process Who has it? What’s the status? When will it be done? Government decision makers are asked these types of questions every day, and their ability to answer is often hindered by lack of visibility into core processes. To meet the new demands for transparency, accountability and visibility, and to foster collaboration beyond traditional boundaries, agencies are driving p...

The Open Government and Innovations Conference is... --an interactive discussion of efforts underway that use social media and social software to achieve these Initiatves --an educational forum designed to educate the government IT community of Open Government and Transparency initiatives --an event that directly supports the Obama administration principles for transparency, participation, collaboration and innovation as the format for the bu...

SunView Software Presents: Please join SunView Software for this complimentary webinar introducing ChangeGear, a best-of breed Change Management solution. Give your agency the ability to track, manage, and document IT infrastructure and configuration changes. With ChangeGear, your agency can automate approvals and notifications, document change with historical audit-trails, view real-time views of change activities, discover network assets usi...

This series of workshops is designed to steadily build momentum for successful implementation of the Open Government Directive. Mission: Demonstrate that creating a collaborative environment within an agency can be done with minimal resources (this is a no-frills workshop series). Share knowledge across agencies and between the public and private sector to address challenges and questions chosen by the participants from the public sector. Ensu...

2010 Government Web Managers 2–Day Conference: Open Government and Citizen Engagement Date: Tuesday – Wednesday, April 27 – 28, 2010 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (both days) Place: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC Fee: Fee: $250 for federal, state, or local U.S. government employees. Due to space limitations, this event is open to government employees only. Conference Description Join your peers for our biggest networking e...