Open to Public Sector only. The Center for Digital Government’s GovX Summit is the premier government experience event. It showcases the latest trends, best practices and ideas around the evolving experience of government. Convening government leaders, the GovX Summit presents a unique opportunity to glean insights and learn from those at the forefront of the government experience movement.

Join us online for the free professional development virtual summit! You'll participate along side more than 2,000 of your government peers in a full day of online sessions facilitated by career coaches, authors, public service thought leaders and experts.

The physical boundaries of business have blurred. Many organizations now operate as virtual ecosystems with no borders. While this change has helped improve agency resiliency and workforce satisfaction, it upends the traditional security framework and increases risk across every other aspect of an organization. Utilizing a Zero-Trust framework can be an effective security strategy that doesn't compromise user experience or team productivity. A...

This conversation will explore and answer vital questions for the CIOs of today and tomorrow, including framing the best approaches for navigating people and processes. We’ll answer questions like: How should CIOs manage and lead their workforce? How can they best measure performance? What are the processes and methodologies (agile, lean, etc.) that are essential for CIOs? What does success look like?

Government agencies of all sizes face increased pressure to safeguard data, protect mission-critical operations and stay compliant, but doing so can be particularly challenging for smaller agencies. While many larger organizations have the resources to handle cybersecurity operations, smaller agencies are often constrained in their ability to address critical security needs. Municipalities, localities and smaller cities and states all work wit...

Unprecedented amounts of funding through IIJA, the CHIPS Act and more will allow state and local governments to make massive investments in physical and digital infrastructure. But these funding opportunities prompt critical questions and challenges as agencies must think strategically about how to best use this money. Among them: How do you overcome major supply chain disruptions and make sure you have the resources to deliver? How can you en...

Across our portfolio of advanced warfighting capabilities, we have trouble seeing the causes of our shared problems due to a long-standing fixation on their symptoms. While our individual technologies are indeed exceptional, our philosophy is becoming obsolete and so our approach is becoming deficient for our circumstances. The Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS), or simply the Spectrum, is no less than the totality of all radiant EM energy, for ev...

State and local governments are tasked with securely connecting one or multiple of five things to support mission-critical needs: People, locations, data, clouds and applications. With a renewed focus on government cybersecurity, agencies face increased pressure to keep those connections secure. There’s growing attention to the physical security of government data centers and an increase in the adoption of cloud strategies that explore v...

Grants compliance can be a heavy lift for any organization. With the recent influx of federal funding for state and local governments, grants compliance has only grown more complex. Agencies must navigate uniform compliance requirements while balancing program-specific requirements or risk losing grant funding, designation as a ‘high-risk grantee’ and audits. Trying to achieve compliance with outdated management systems only limits...

Although the term Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is often used interchangeably with both Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and “drone,” a UAS is a “system” of three parts, with UAV or “drone” referring to the aircraft itself. In addition to the aircraft, the UAS includes the control station and the communication link between the control station and the aircraft. It is this communications link that is often the p...