AGILE IN GOVERNMENT Mutual Adaptation Adapting agile to acquisition and acquisition to agile Scaling, Contracting, Governance, Measurement The purposes of this event are: develop better understanding of how agile software development methods can be fit within prescribed processes of government acqusition to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implications these have for evolving Government approac...

The Changing Landscape of Federal Information Technology Featuring 15th SOA for E-Gov Conference Federal organizations are racing to capitalize on social, mobile and cloud computing trends to provide solutions for their agency mission needs. At the same time there is great pressure to spend less while improving capability, service, cost and flexibility. This event is an open knowledge exchange forum for communities of practice in Cloud, SOA, S...

Purpose The conference will bring subject matter experts and other skilled practitioners of both Agile and Lean, and to discuss how DoD acquisition is rapidly migrating to new, innovative processes. Attendees will: Learn how agile development is being used in DoD and integrated within traditional acquisition processes like Earned Value Management Interact with experts in both Agile and Lean to understand how these approaches are converging Id...

UPDATE! Now One-Day Only, Wednesday, January 25 & Fee is waived for US government employees! Shared Services Across Government: accelerating secure information sharing through standards. “We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on ‘need to know.’ We now start from the imperative of ‘responsibility to share’…” - James R. Clapper, Dir...

This 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium will focus on the technology, standards and semantic interoperability required to drive DoD IT inefficiencies, move towards enterprise services which promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. This year the focus is on the necessity of semantic technology to achieve interoperable business operations t...

The conference focuses on real-world examples of how inter-agency initiatives are creating specific implementations of secure information sharing, interoperability, collaboration, and new acquisition paradigms. By attending, you will: * Interact with key leaders of information sharing, enterprise services and joint coalition programs* Learn implications of re-arranging DoD IT functions* Understand data management and sharing issues in conteste...

Data interoperability is critically important for Defense, Homeland Security, Healthcare, and Emergency Response. At this conference you will: Interact with Senior Government Leaders on interoperability issues. Discover emerging opportunities to provide tools and platforms for increased data interoperability Learn where Government resources are being channeled to increase data interoperability Gather important information on where you can cont...