Agencies have made significant progress in improving interactions with their citizen customers by modernizing their infrastructure, moving to the cloud, using agile digital services and emerging technologies on the front end and capturing and analyzing the data on the backend. There is still work to be done, however, and the 21st Century IDEA Act -- passed as part of the 2018 NDAA -- has added new priorities for improving and expanding the typ...

Records Management University Class 3: Tapping and Collecting Social Media Threads As more and more organizations utilize the recent technological advances in communications and transacting business via Social Media, managing individual and group dialoging has quickly surpassed the use of verbal interactions (phone), that in the past required warrants and notice to record. Since privacy in communications is almost all but dead (the rebound of...

Records Management University Class 2: Synching and Ingesting eContent (non-email) Face it, you will never know of all the content that exists in your organization’s networked servers and legacy applications. For an enterprise record management solution, it is guaranteed be a lot. Ingesting and categorizing that content is a monumental task given the typical lack of resources and user apathy for manual intervention. In this class we will...

Records Management University Class 1: Conquering the Email Avalanche Email continues to evolve as the go to electronic record in eDiscovery. The growth of emails during the last 20+ years has been enormous. Basically, it has become the voice of the individual. As such, it’s capture, management, categorization and access have become instrumental in the functioning of organizations of all sizes. Email’s value continues to grow and d...

The Financial Systems Summit (FSS) unites government leaders and industry experts to discuss how to improve government services through systems modernization in a budget-constrained environment. Sessions will highlight CIO/CFO priorities, agile, shared services, cybersecurity and emerging technologies.

For three days in October, forward-thinking leaders of government and industry will converge in Philadelphia to network, share, learn, collaborate, and together imagine and invent their future. Our goal: harness creative thinking, innovation and technology to form a more perfect union of government and industry, and forge actionable approaches and practices that maximize the value we provide to our nation’s citizens. IMAGINE NATION ELC 2...

Top cyber experts struggle to pinpoint the coordinates for successful risk management. DHS’ CDM program is helping agencies locate which direction cybercriminals and attackers are headed. This includes increased focus on securing beyond the perimeter, safeguarding mobile devices, and protecting sensitive data in the cloud. CDM offers a navigation system for government’s security future, but which route is the fastest, the most dire...

The President’s Management Agenda set out an aggressive plan for more effective and efficient government, and a key component of that plan is the modernization of agencies’ technology infrastructure. In a time of budget questions and manpower shortages, how do agencies deliver on this goal? This FCW Summit will explore how agencies have navigated the policy developments, the workforce challenges and look at who has delivered the be...

According to Gartner, moving applications to the cloud is a top priority and one of the most often mentioned game-changing technologies for government CIOs today. But obstacles – like lack of experience in cloud migration, security concerns, and acquisition hurdles – continue to impede agencies’ progress. Successful IT modernization includes determining cloud readiness with an eye toward providing mission value that supports...

In the last five years, the tools used in defense have evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real-world magnet for large-scale investment. In Texas, that means modernizing defense health technology in San Antonio and the ever-expanding Army Futures Command with its hub now located in Austin. The research and development starting in the south will spark technological shifts that will accelerate tomorrow’s military.Join Defense One...