AFCEA Bethesda is proud to bring you our 13th Annual Health IT Summit reimagined as a series of agency-focused events. Join us each Tuesday in March for Health IT March Forward, an entire month of cutting-edge information about today’s digital health IT innovations. ___________________________________ Health IT transformation has been high on the agenda for government healthcare in recent years, and the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digi...

AFCEA Bethesda is proud to bring you our 13th Annual Health IT Summit reimagined as a series of agency-focused events. Join us each Tuesday in March for Health IT March Forward, an entire month of cutting-edge information about today’s digital health IT innovations. ___________________________________ Health IT transformation has been high on the agenda for government healthcare in recent years, and the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digi...

YAFCEA Bethesda Women in Leadership ProDev: Diversity & Inclusion in STEM Leadership The 2021 Women in Leadership ProDev event features an opportunity to hear from accomplished executives across industry and federal IT. Under the theme “Diversity & Inclusion in STEM Leadership”, this year's event will focus on promoting Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in STEM fields. Speakers will address a variety of topics including d...

Modern Security Landscape: TIC 3.0, Zero Trust, and Supply Chain Security The large cyber espionage campaign by a nation-state targeting federal agencies and private industry underscores the need for new approaches to cyber defense. A lighter approach to security from a compliance, licensing, and procedures perspective is needed. This will make it easier to implement new security disciplines and their related solutions, such as Trusted Interne...

AFCEA Bethesda's January Breakfast Webinar: Speed and Security at Scale Adversaries are getting faster and smarter as they target the nation’s critical infrastructure, attempt to steal critical data from federal agencies, and launch malware and crippling denial of services attacks against government entities and municipalities. Meanwhile, the growth in the number of devices connecting to government networks and increase in a distributed,...

Security Chapter: Paper Security vs. Real Security The federal government faces multiple threats daily from cyber criminals and nation states looking to attack critical infrastructure, steal critical data, and launch malware and crippling denial of services attacks. Meanwhile, an increasingly distributed, remote workforce scattered across the country requires more robust protection for the devices they rely on. In response, the federal governm...

IT Transformation Chapter: Transforming the Business Using Technology Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies broadened the adoption of cloud computing, robotic process automation (RPA), and “low-code” application development techniques to rapidly deal with disruptions and improve productivity. The ramp up of increased telework capacity is due for the most part to expanded use of cloud architectures and capabilities. Federal e...

Creating a Risk-Resilient, Agile Enterprise Young AFCEA Bethesda’s 13th Annual Senior Government Executive Forum brings together senior and emerging government IT leaders with industry to examine innovative technologies, techniques, and acquisition practices used to create a secure, modern, and responsive enterprise. The Senior Executive Roundtables In each breakout room, a Senior Government Executive and Emerging Government Leader will...

IT Transformation Chapter: Balancing Near Term Reality with Long Term Objectives As the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread, agencies found innovative ways to quickly transition to emergency response and remote work across many areas, including technology, workforce, cybersecurity, governance, and funding. Funds provided through pandemic relief legislation supported modernization efforts in agencies for the short term. Going forward, agencies wi...

Secure. Enable. Modernize. Building on Technology Advances to Keep Moving Forward. Throughout 2019-2020, AFCEA Bethesda's breakfast series has brought together thought leaders from across government to educate the federal IT community on best practices and adoption of technology required to achieve mission objectives. The 2020 Tech Summit will take a deeper look at the issues explored in those series, including cybersecurity; leveraging data v...