The NextGen Summit is the embodiment of what NextGen represents: inspiring government innovation and providing training and leadership opportunities for public servants. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 5,000 federal, state and local govies to be positive change ambassadors. This year, the NextGen Summit will be hosted virtually on August 19-20, 2020. Why does it matter to me? The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enab...

The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the “new normal” is still being defined. According to OPM’s most recent telework report to Congress, only 22% of government employees had adopted telework as part of their regular work week prior to the pandemic. Telework and flexible work schedules are in the toolbox to ensure the health and safety of governmen...

Three months after the impact of the pandemic spurred virtually universal work from home, agencies are reviewing state by state plans for partial or full return to work. To encourage collaboration and effective delivery of agency missions, technological tools such as cloud solutions, virtual private networks, and teleconferencing were implemented, with close monitoring the impact of these changes on their cybersecurity profile. This webinar wi...

Today, agencies are striving to improve their application security programs, while at the same time, not slowing down the development, delivery, and deployment of their software applications. Can a balance be achieved between security and an organization’s (or agency’s) daily business requirements? We know it’s possible. Application Security (AppSec) Awareness Programs that are specifically focused on the development communit...

For weeks, most of the federal civilian workforce and a large percentage of Department of Defense employees have been teleworking. Information Technology offices across government have been logging long – often intense – hours in order to enable mission-critical work, some of it directly tied to COVID-19 response efforts. Agencies have purchased hundreds-of-thousands of new laptops, managed an exponential rise in help-desk requests...