Despite the scope and scale of need for additional resources, many government agencies have struggled to administrate and spend American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds effectively. The Sonoma County Department of Human Services has addressed this issue by taking an innovative approach to ARPA funding – The department has developed a sophisticated blueprint for ARPA spending that addresses governance and accountability and establishes perfo...

State and local governments have a wealth of data from constituents, but few agencies are making good use of it – even organizations using modern data management and analytics tools. As government attempts to address complex challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic, gaining the most valuable, actionable insights from data requires methods that integrate multiple data streams. Using more datasets often provides a broader and more comple...

Digital transformation is more than technology upgrades. Modern tools can help agencies improve experiences for their workforce and the constituents they serve. Government Technology recently conducted a survey to capture insight into work environment and modernization challenges. Of the state and local government leaders surveyed: One-third said most of their agency’s processes are done manually More than a third said manual processes h...

This conversation will explore and answer vital questions for the CIOs of today and tomorrow, including framing the best approaches for navigating people and processes. We’ll answer questions like: How should CIOs manage and lead their workforce? How can they best measure performance? What are the processes and methodologies (agile, lean, etc.) that are essential for CIOs? What does success look like?

Unprecedented amounts of funding through IIJA, the CHIPS Act and more will allow state and local governments to make massive investments in physical and digital infrastructure. But these funding opportunities prompt critical questions and challenges as agencies must think strategically about how to best use this money. Among them: How do you overcome major supply chain disruptions and make sure you have the resources to deliver? How can you en...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can deliver a wealth of benefits when used responsibly. It can also damage an organization's reputation and future performance if safeguards are not in place – these include ethical, accuracy, privacy and security. The stakes are even higher for governments – If agencies don't design their AI operations to be trustworthy, they potentially risk eroding the public trust. Join Government Technology on Marc...

State and local governments are tasked with securely connecting one or multiple of five things to support mission-critical needs: People, locations, data, clouds and applications. With a renewed focus on government cybersecurity, agencies face increased pressure to keep those connections secure. There’s growing attention to the physical security of government data centers and an increase in the adoption of cloud strategies that explore v...

Grants compliance can be a heavy lift for any organization. With the recent influx of federal funding for state and local governments, grants compliance has only grown more complex. Agencies must navigate uniform compliance requirements while balancing program-specific requirements or risk losing grant funding, designation as a ‘high-risk grantee’ and audits. Trying to achieve compliance with outdated management systems only limits...

Check out more details about this event here! Whether it's a catastrophic accident, devastating weather event, or act of terror, we cannot predict when and how disasters will strike. But we can always be better prepared. Encompassing expert strategies and tactics, and a wealth of practical information, our Summits are a superb opportunity for gaining new ideas, best practices and peer relationships critical to collaborative response capabiliti...