Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Americas brings together leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies and governments to collaborate on securing North America.The conference will look at developing on the theme of previous events in helping to create better understanding of the issues and the threats, to help facilitate the work to develop frameworks, good risk management, strategic planning and implementation.

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 10/19-10/21/2021 Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21): Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience advances a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure. The Nation’s critical infrastructure provides the essential services that underpin American society. Pr...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has the potential to automate entire processes or part of processes that are repetitive, monotonous and occur in high volumes. In a shrinking budget environment, RPA is a tool to “do more with less”. While RPA automates “hand work”, AI assisted Intelligent Automation also automated “head work”. RPA, IA and AI has spread rapidly in the private sector and many federal and stat...

This Potomac Forum Training Workshop will help agencies comply and meet NARA records management requirements. As Agencies work to meet upcoming deadlines for managing federal government records, NARA continues to focus on ways to help agencies implement electronic records management including shared services, training, digitization, GSA partnerships, and how to manage emails and other records in accordance with regulations and policy and e-di...

Blockchain in Government Training Workshop IV: Understanding Blockchain – Putting the Pieces Together – Looking into the Future Blockchain growth and adoption has only continued to increase in the public sector. The first three Potomac Forum Blockchain Workshops were a great success. Students requested a follow up Workshop in a Blockchain series and this fourth Workshop will offer the most detail in putting your chain together! Co...

How best to encourage employee engagement, enhance a culture of civility and respect, improve the performance of Federal workplace processes and improve overall workforce engagement to achieve future mission success and achieve workforce restructuring requirements in the modern, mobile workplace.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has the potential to automate entire processes or part of processes that are repetitive, monotonous and occur in high volumes. In a shrinking budget environment, RPA is a tool to “do more with less”. While RPA automates “hand work”, AI assisted Intelligent Automation also automated “head work”. RPA, IA and AI has spread rapidly in the private sector and many federal and state...

Hurricane season is now through October. With last year's series of natural disasters in Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the crippling winter storms in the Northeast, is your organization fully prepared to cope with a catastrophic event? Learn about New COOP Requirements, Federal Government Policy, Best & Proven Practices and what they mean for your organization. The Federal Government’s continuity requirements are...

Overview: We have all seen the results of the big data hype. Big data projects fail at the same alarming rate (2/3rds consistently fail to meet functionality, date or cost plans) that characterize IT investments in general. The failure of big data can be attributed to three specific factors: 1) Without an agreed upon definition of big data all results (measurements, claims of success, quantifications) were correctly viewed skeptically and wit...

Overview: With the Technology Business Management (TBM) outlined as a priority in the President's management agenda, and the progress made by OMB/GSA in formalizing the overarching approach to TBM for the federal government, agencies must be equipped with the right knowledge to make their TBM implementation decision to ensure alignment with their missions, goal, structure, and IT environment. This workshop aims at providing the actionable ele...