Dan Doney, Chief Innovation Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), will deliver the morning keynote at this year's event. Doney will explore the Big Data challenges facing the DIA and other elements of the Federal Government. He will also highlight how new technologies, related to Big Data, are creating new opportunities for technical breakthroughs, and the principles that DIA is using to foster technical innovation and put ideas i...

On February 26, 2014, Illuminate’s “Shared Data, Shared Knowledge” will bring together a diverse audience of stakeholders from the public and private sector to participate in an interactive lecture about the power of open data. Thought leaders Waldo Jaquith (Open Data Institute), Jeanne Holm (Data.gov) and Yuvi Kochar (Graham Holdings Company) will lead a discussion on the value of open data and examine how open data: Can be...

Since the launch of the 2012 Big Data Initiative, where the government invested over $250 million in Big Data throughout its federal agencies, we have seen the benefits and opportunities in this technology. Everywhere from border control, to health care records and scientific research, Big Data is playing a pivotal role in accomplishing critical missions and objectives. The amount of data the government faces is at its highest ever and less th...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

SINET Showcase & Workshops 2013 National Press Club, Washington D.C. | December 4-5 2013 SINET programs are designed to build community of interest and trust in order to “Give the Entrepreneur a Voice...” The SINET Workshops & Showcase bridges the gap between innovative early stage and emerging IT security solution providers and representatives from the investment, research, system integration, industry and Federal Governme...

Theme: Award-Winning BIG DATA Programs Hear About BIG DATA at NASA, IBM, DHS, National Science Foundation, DARPA, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Defense and Presidential Initiative on BIG DATA Research and Development - ROLE OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA IN THE BIG DATA WORLD - THE PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE ON BIG DATA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - NASA SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AND BIG DATA: THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AND DATA WAREHOUSING STORY - BIG D...

Public sector leaders are seeking to drive efficiency across their organizations—and those responsible for technology implementation and management are focused on maximizing available resources, from funding, to human capital, to IT infrastructures. Successful technologies are mission-driven, trusted, and integrated with agency policies, and they can evolve to incorporate innovation and best practices. With a focus on supporting effectiv...

You're Invited to join DMG Federal and Birst for an interactive, instructor-led session where you can experience a hands-on test drive of Birst Business Analytics, the industry's number one end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) tool. What Will I Learn? You will be amazed at how easy Enterprise BI can be. Utilizing the industry leading BI tool, you will learn how to: Import data & construct data models Develop Geo Maps & Multiple Chart...

You're Invited to a Tableau Coffee Hour October 15th in Washington, DC Join DMG Federal and Tableau for this interactive breakfast and discover how to gain insight into your Big Data to solve unexpected problems and challenges using data visualizations. Why Tableau? Visualize Massive Volumes of Date Share Reports Securly across the Enterprise Access Informaiton Anywhere and Anytime