Welcome to INTERFACE Anchorage 2024! IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing new challenges every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to the need for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations, to help educate, advi...

Artificial intelligence unexpectedly catapulted into the mainstream over the last year — primarily with the explosion of large-language, generative AI models. Now, AI is set to revolutionize government operations and services in ways that no technology before it has. The U.S. government is at a critical point where it’s competing to set the tone for how AI will be used responsibly, safely and ethically across the globe while also l...

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...

Welcome to INTERFACE Portland 2024! IT Infrastructure is constantly changing, bringing new challenges every day. From ransomware and the latest security threats to the need for increased bandwidth and storage, it’s nearly impossible to keep up to date. Our conference is designed to help. We’ve assembled a combination of Best-in-Breed hardware and software solutions, along with local experts and organizations, to help educate, advis...

In an era of escalating cyber threats, a proactive approach is essential. This panel will highlight how zero trust principles can be augmented by comprehensive visibility and advanced analytics. By monitoring user behaviors, network traffic, and device activities, federal agencies can gain real-time insights into potential threats, swiftly detecting anomalies and unauthorized activities. This approach empowers agencies to respond promptly to s...

March 3-6, 2024, NCMA will be in Jacksonville, FL to convene the entire acquisition team to support our mission to advance contract management’s nexus with related acquisition communities. NCMA is the neutral forum for real conversations across functions and across government and industry. Nexus is a carefully curated event to create an environment where multi-functional buyer and seller teams train side by side on our shared and pressin...

Cybersecurity continues to be one of the biggest challenges public sector technology leaders face. In an industry that moves so fast and affects so many, state and local government information security leaders, as well as their counterparts at higher education institutions, are continuing to adapt to an ever-changing reality. From new threats ushered in from generative AI, to workforce challenges, to a constant need for additional funding, cyb...

PurposeTo create a forum that fosters interaction and knowledge sharing between small businesses, government officials, industry experts, and large/ prime businesses. The aim is to equip attendees with knowledge and tools to help access government contracts, navigate regulatory demands, explore contracting, subcontracting, or teaming arrangement opportunities, and stay updated on pertinent topics important for small business growth. Objectives...

The long awaited executive guidance on artificial intelligence has been released by the current administration and Federal agencies have wasted little time getting to work. With the frameworks outlined in the executive order, agencies have started implementing the guidance into their operational networks, recognizing the imperative of swiftly integrating AI-focused strategies to enhance the resilience and effectiveness of their cybersecurity m...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...