DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

Join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Ernest Reed, Director of the Category Management Support Office (CSMO), Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics (OPAL) at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Reed will talk about the VA's implementation of Category Management as they work to buy smarter and more like a single enterprise. In addition, he will be talk about the challenges and opportunities inherent in implementing category manage...

The purpose of Imagine Nation ELC is to bring together the government technology community to discuss the issues facing government and work together to develop practical solutions and innovative strategies. We expect over 750 executives from government and industry to participate in what has been described as the “best event in the government technology arena.” Imagine Nation is planned and assembled by a planning committee of exec...

Imagine Nation ELC 2022 brings together the government technology community to discuss the issues facing government and work together to develop practical solutions and innovative strategies. We expect over 650 executives from government and industry to participate in person plus a virtual audience in what has been described as the “best event in the government technology arena.” Seating is somewhat limited this year. The best way...

Building the Cyber Environs: Tools, Technology and Workforce The shift to digital, cloud, AI and other technologies has given rise to a variety of cyberattacks with an alarming cost. Government and industry continue to face critical security and risk issues with increased cyber threats, supply chain and cloud vulnerabilities, ransomware, phising, stolen credentials and identities, new sophisticated attack approaches and other cyber-types of at...

Leave your cloud pain points at the door and learn the value of building FinOps best practices. Incorporating these practices will provide your agency with mature processes that maximize the business value from cloud spend. We’ll provide FinOps lessons learned, from project planning to cost optimization. Wherever your agency is in its cloud journey, get insights to optimize cloud spend and meet your cloud goals. Objectives: Learn about F...

Learn how the USCG is transforming and modernizing its fleet and IT infrastructure to better perform its missions. The US Coast Guard (USCG) has been actively pursuing an ambitious technology revolution plan to replace legacy equipment and modernize its cybersecurity and data management capabilities. Sworn to protect the American borders, the Coast Guard focused on empowering their fleet with reliable, mobile, and secure systems. Learn how the...

Women Empowering Women Women in today's era, more than previous times, are navigating pathways to more senior management and executive positions, while managing their work and home life, their steps in growth, and their selected roles, especially in fields where women are underrepresented. The second annual Women in Leadership Forum will focus on the techniques and steps of how women in primarily male-dominated organizations or agencies have a...

As public sector agencies develop plans for delivering on the objectives of the presidential Executive Order on Cybersecurity, we at Lumen know that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. While agencies expand their cyber protections to combat cyber threats and protect against attacks, their focus should be on taking a holistic approach and not looking at this new directive as simply a set of compliance mandates. The attack surface wi...

The future is full of potential! A variety of trends and market influences are converging to shape the enterprise of the future. 5G and edge computing, hyperautomation, intelligent composable business, and concepts from books like “Team of Teams” are enabling new operating models at scale. Many enterprises are transforming to harness these trends and create a new future. We’ve never been better prepared to take advantage of t...