DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...

Join us for a fireside chat with Dr. Ernest Reed, Director of the Category Management Support Office (CSMO), Office of Procurement, Acquisition and Logistics (OPAL) at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Reed will talk about the VA's implementation of Category Management as they work to buy smarter and more like a single enterprise. In addition, he will be talk about the challenges and opportunities inherent in implementing category manage...

The purpose of Imagine Nation ELC is to bring together the government technology community to discuss the issues facing government and work together to develop practical solutions and innovative strategies. We expect over 750 executives from government and industry to participate in what has been described as the “best event in the government technology arena.” Imagine Nation is planned and assembled by a planning committee of exec...

The October 2023 DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit is a non-partisan, educational, & training “town-hall-style” summit that will discuss efforts to advance the defense health care mission, explore HIT and medical solutions that will improve the delivery of healthcare, and advance a single, unified, interoperable health IT approach to enable improved, continuous, lifelong patient-centered care. Why You Should Attend this Summit...

Join the hundreds of mayors, council members, managers, finance officers, public works directors, police chiefs representing over 130 Maryland municipalities. City and Town officials are eager to connect with industry leaders.

We would like to invite you to attend this year’s Data in Motion conference on March 30 at the Westin Tysons Corner where we will explore how organizations can succeed in the data streaming era. The conference will be centered around the theme of Meeting the Culture of NOW with Data in Motion, where we will examine the creation of Apache Kafka®, the open-source distributed event streaming platform that is capable of handling trillion...

About the NAGC Communications School: The NAGC Communications School is the only event of its kind that provides invaluable networking opportunities and practical educational sessions to help government communicators increase their skills. Federal, state and local government communicators and contractors gather to network and attend educational sessions. Who Should Attend: Federal, state, and local government communicators, including contracto...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date registration information! Largest annual gathering of Maryland city/town officials representing over 130 different municipalities. Attendees look to conference exhibitors for the latest products and services available for their residents.

As agencies push their modernization and digital transformation efforts forward, they know that the foundation of the work must focus on the network level. Right before the pandemic hit, the CIO Council provided a white paper to help agencies lay out a plan for their next generation networks. It discussed how new and emerging technologies will change networks of the future and predicted increased use of 5G wireless networks and software define...