Highlights As the largest conference of its kind, this nationwide conference will bring together over 3,200 attendees from Veteran-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSB/SDVOSBs), Federal Agencies and departments, and prime contractors to share best practices of how to do business together. In addition to many educational sessions on Federal contracting for small businesses, attendees will have the opportunity to showc...

This is a networking event, not a conference or seminar. Event is open to govt contractors, govt employees, embassy officials, those interested in doing business with the govt and all others. This is a recurring monthly event - every 3rd Thursday of the month at the Kennedy Center, 5-8pm, Millennium Stage Area, Foyer Level. No charge to attend. Please contact Jennifer Schaus for more information. Thank You!

Attend this conference to learn how to capture the power of social media in your organization, along with helpful tools, tips and techniques to get started, including: Developing a social media (blogging, podcasting, wikis, social networks, etc.) strategy to drive performance-based communications Building senior management support for your social media programs Integrating social media tools into your internal and external communications pract...

Register Now Fifth SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium The Keck Center Room 100 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC July 13–14, 2010 We are pleased to invite you to attend the Fifth Annual SHRP 2 Safety Research Symposium on July 13–14, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The Symposium will be held at the Keck Center of the National Academies. The purpose of this symposium is to review current progress on SHRP 2 safety projects with current con...

Networking Skills: Making Your Contacts Count July 7, 2010 9 am - noon Create, Cultivate & Capitalize on Networking Relationships & Opportunities This workshop is based on the book Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and CareerSuccess by authors Anne Baber & Lynne Waymon. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the seminar. Networking Skills: Making Your Contacts Count Are you a natural-born net...

GovLoop and Young Government Leaders (YGL) are joining forces to enrich the lives of emerging leaders in today’s government. We have developed the Next Generation of Government Summit to tackle issues the next generation is facing in their daily government lives. By educating, inspiring and transforming the current and future leaders of government through case studies and hands on training we will help make government cool! The 1st Next...

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone who has an interest in learning or improving skills necessary to implement the Obama Labor Relations Executive Order. This includes HR practitioners, union officials, members of bargaining teams, legal staff, neutrals, and line managers. OVERVIEW OF TOPICS COVERED: - A close look at traditional or distributive bargaining and its limitations,- An in-depth review of win-win bargaining to include tools, techniques, and...

Join us in Boston, June 23–25, 2010, for the 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX ATC '10 will again bring together leading systems researchers for cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain insight into a variety of must-know topics, including virtualization, system administration, cloud computing, security, and networking. The technical program begins on Wednesday, June 23, and includes refereed papers...

A major complaint in many government agencies is information overload. How do you make sense out of all the data coming in and then use it to make a difference? In the past, too much emphasis has been placed on producing performance information to comply with a checklist of requirements instead of using it to drive change. This must change. Federal managers and employees at all levels must use performance goals and measures to set priorities,...