Join us this spring for our third annual Women Tech Leaders summit! The federal government faces priorities to diversify its workforce, including technology leaders. With women representing only a quarter of the entire STEM field, the calling for women technology leaders to public service is vital and urgent. Leading women from across the federal government highlight top initiatives around artificial intelligence, health care, data management...

IDENTITY WEEK is the most important identity event in the USA.IDENTITY WEEK is a conference and exhibition bringing together the brightest minds in the identity sector to promote innovation, new thinking, and more effective identity solutions. Key areas of focus include secure physical credentials, digital identity, and advanced authentication technologies, such as biometrics.

America's Army and its People, Transforming for the Future THE ARMY’S MOST POWERFUL EVENT COVERS EVERYTHING YOU NEED – ALL IN ONE PLACE. The Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting is the largest land power exposition and professional development forum in North America. Taking place over three days, the Annual Meeting is designed to deliver the Army’s message by highlighting the capabilities of organizati...

Information Technology (IT) modernization in Government has lagged compared to similar efforts in the commercial sector, leading in many cases to significant and ongoing cyber security challenges; IT system deficiencies; excessive spending on older, legacy technology; lack of interoperability with both internal and external systems; and difficulty in maintaining infrastructure and applications. With the goal of modernizing their IT portfolios,...

‘Mission Command’, previously ‘Command and Control’, is now in its 8th year and while the nomenclature has changed, so has the technology requirements. For 2014, IDGA has evolved this event to reflect this change, stay current in the market and to bring to light future capability needs and solutions by facilitating industry and end user engagement. IDGA’s Mission Command will focus on improving network integration...

Many advancements have occurred in the landscape of cyber resilience. However, cyberspace remains a mysterious terrain. A realistic perspective on unknowns must be established to combat and ward off the myriad of risks that threaten our national and economic interests. This event will bring together defense, government and industry leaders to devote a concentrated focus on breaking down the latest in policy, information sharing, security techn...

The Atlantic’s Conversation on Generations will feature a conversation between Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large at The Atlantic and Richard Florida, Co-founder and Editor-at-Large of The Atlantic Cities. The discussion will offer an in-depth look at the opportunities for cities to change and adapt to accommodate aging populations, and will assess how architects and urban designers can work with city government leaders to improve...

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 2nd Annual Government Mobility Forum, hosted by FCW and its partners, on December 5th in Washington, DC. This popular annual event will bring together those who are driving the technology and policy changes necessary to enable next generation applications for the increasingly mobile federal workforce. This focused program, offered free of charge to government participants, will advance your thinking a...

Each fall, GOVERNING hosts an awards banquet in Washington to honor individual state and local government officials for outstanding accomplishment. Our Public Officials of the Year are elected, appointed and career officials from any branch of state or local government who are nominated by GOVERNING's readers and selected by our editors.The 2012 Public Officials of the Year awards dinner will be held on November 15 at Washington's historic Wil...

This is a challenging, stimulating, and opportunity-filled time to be a Federal IT professional. The push toward innovation and introduction of new, more flexible technologies is influencing how agencies create, collect, store, share, and manage information. Plan to attend this FCW Executive Briefing for a snapshot of where the government is making progress with massive data center consolidation and agency efforts to move suitable information...