WELCOME TO TDWI ORLANDO There’s nothing better than getting our hands on that next new innovation, figuring it out, and putting it to work to solve new problems and add new business insights. But what happens when it doesn’t work? What mistakes can we avoid? Fortunately, there are resources to maximize our chances of success. There are lessons to be learned. TDWI has been offering just that guidance for nearly 20 years. When new te...

Effective Data UsageAccording to recent estimates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. By the year 2020 it’s widely estimated there will be 40 zettabytes of data and government agencies will own much of it. This data comes from everywhere including sensors used to gather climate information, public safety and emergency management organizations, healthcare systems and more. The value of making this data open and available...

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Nevada Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public- and private-sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspi...

Black Hat Trainings 2014 brings together the best minds in security to define tomorrow's information security landscape. Below are a few of the courses being offered. Advanced C/C++ Source Code Analysis The days of running grep to find simple stack overflows are gone. Finding exploitable vulnerabilities, such as use-after-frees, often requires a thorough understanding of more complex code patterns such as reference counting and garbage collect...

Leading I&O: Delivering New Levels of Innovation and Productivity As I&O change accelerates, IT leaders must act quickly to take charge and lead infrastructure and operations transformation – or risk being left behind. Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference 2014 will help I&O and Data Center professionals reliably deliver crucial IT services and drive improved levels of productivity and inn...

The four-day event will include technical programs, plenary sessions with keynote and invited papers, and parallel sessions with oral and poster presentations. In addition, the symposium exhibition will feature the latest developments in commercial geospatial technologies. The main focus of the ISPRS Technical Commission I is primary data acquisition and processes which include remote sensing technologies, sensor platforms, data processing, ge...

As the government focuses on creating innovative solutions to save money, thieves are focused on undermining that progress. Sometimes it's hard to tell which side has the advantage. Identity thieves and others who cheat the government are working on an industrial scale, devising complex scams that include hundreds of accomplices. The Federal government is losing an estimated $300 billion per year to fraud. Thieves target Medicare and Medicaid,...

Every day Federal Government planners and operators face the real-world need to take the massive amounts of current, past and potential future data and make risk-cognitive predictions about the future. This is the essence of the mission of Federal Government, whether involved in communications, finance, energy, defense, healthcare, homeland security, law enforcement or intelligence operations. And while predictive analytics is not new, burgeon...

Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Maine Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public- and private-sector leaders to create an agenda designed to make that passion relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants tell us they use the inspir...

DSI’s Big Data for Intelligence Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate. The symposium will focus on data analysis to support time-sensitive decision-making. The Symposium will focus on the following topics: Utilizing the IC Cloud to Improve Intelligence...