The White House's AI Executive Order in October 2023 lays the groundwork for exponential AI growth in the federal sector after a year of particularly rapid development for the emerging technology. As the public sector meaningfully moves forward into an AI-enabled future, government leaders are working to harness the groundbreaking potential and innovation AI has to offer. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual AI Summit, where feder...

Current bureaucratic procedures in the Federal government have imposed an overwhelming paperwork burden on citizens and workers, amounting to over 9 billion hours annually. In December 2021, President Joe Biden issued the Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government. Although past actions have laid the groundwork for service improvements, this new order recognizes the need for...

We would like to invite you to attend this year’s Data in Motion conference on March 30 at the Westin Tysons Corner where we will explore how organizations can succeed in the data streaming era. The conference will be centered around the theme of Meeting the Culture of NOW with Data in Motion, where we will examine the creation of Apache Kafka®, the open-source distributed event streaming platform that is capable of handling trillion...

In response to rapid technological advancements around the world, the Pentagon is ramping up its research and development efforts in 14 critical and emerging technology areas which include AI, microelectronics and hypersonics, among others. The Department of Defense has identified these technologies as paramount to U.S. national security, and the list now serves as a guide for government and industry technology investments. In the coming years...