Women Empowering Women Women in today's era, more than previous times, are navigating pathways to more senior management and executive positions, while managing their work and home life, their steps in growth, and their selected roles, especially in fields where women are underrepresented. The second annual Women in Leadership Forum will focus on the techniques and steps of how women in primarily male-dominated organizations or agencies have a...

The pandemic showed that Federal computer systems are aging, redundant, and struggling. Congress appropriated $1 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the White House added $500 million as part of the Cyber Executive Order – for a total of $1.5 billion in available TMF dollars. These new funds present an immense opportunity for our nation to modernize our aging government technology sy...

DESCRIPTION The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how the business of government gets done. Within acquisition, new opportunities have presented themselves to innovate and collaborate more effectively with industry. In this changing landscape with a new Administration, an increased focus on supporting the federal workforce, continuing telework, and a new urgency to address supply chain and cybersecurity challenges, it's a different world and we ma...

Federal agencies are rapidly deploying intelligent automation to increase operational efficiency, reduce low-value workload and improve citizen services. Meanwhile, Industry continues delivering new and innovative solutions to the RPA, AI and Blockchain markets. Co-hosted by GSA and ACT-IAC, the Digital Transformation summit is a virtual two-day event set to examine the latest developments in intelligent automation and the work done to ignite...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 11/5/2020 The last five years have seen rapid changes in the tools and technologies available to government agencies. These new solutions offer capabilities that expand and enhance the government’s ability to provide services to citizens in a more efficient and manageable way. The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy of Cloud Sm...

Emerging Technologies, whether mobile/5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, blockchain, Quantum Robotics, and many others are evolving at a faster pace than ever with government and industry. The technologies can be new or existing where the latter new capabilities are being developed and where both will change status quo and provide unrealized social and economic benefits. These technologies provide enhanced connectivity regardless of...

Governments at all levels are being tasked to think outside the box to meet today's ever-growing list of challenges, especially in the midst of shrinking budgets and the ongoing pandemic. The only way to be successful is to modernize and innovate. But, many agencies are saddled with slow legacy systems, untrained personnel, and outdated processes. Governments need to find creative solutions to these problems, which often means looking at new t...