Join us for a virtual retirement benefits webinar for Federal Government Employees. From a local “federal benefits guru,” Ed Zurndorfer- you will be learning about the mechanics and intricacies of the Federal Government’s benefits package for its employees. Most attendees say they wished they had come decades earlier, but it’s never too late to learn about the benefits that will support you in your retirement. The Virtu...

At one time or another, we - as private citizens - have experienced modern customer service while interacting online with leading retailers, entertainment providers, fulfillment centers, banks and/or credit cards, as a few examples. The world-class, consumer-grade customer experiences these leading providers deliver to their customers is the same experience the Army is now delivering to its customers. Join ServiceNow and SOFtact Solutions for...

There’s no bigger federal contract opportunity this year than Services MAC, the GSA’s new super IDIQ for professional services with a 20-year period of performance. Services MAC will cover more than 120 NAICS codes and 13 size standards, with eight domains debuting in 2022 and five more slated for 2023. Billions of dollars will flow through the vehicle, which will replace GSA’s OASIS, BMO, HCaTS and other federal contracts. T...

Boomers retiring. Gen Xers ascendent. Millennials stepping into new roles. Gen Z looking for the right skills to enter the marketplace. Workforce demographics are shifting rapidly across all industries, including state and local government. As agencies look to hire new employees – and keep current workers motivated and engaged – they need new strategies to address new challenges. In this virtual conversation on April 21, part of a...

Join Granicus online from Tuesday, April 19th - Tuesday, April 26th, from 12:00 - 12:30pm Eastern, for their upcoming demos on govMeetings, the cloud platform that scales and adapts to support the full legislative process. govMeetings Peak Agenda Demo April 19th Learn how 2,400+ local governments use govMeetings to manage their public meetings processes more efficiently. Ensure public meetings run smoothly, increase internal efficiency, and do...

Some say that data is the new oil, and like oil, data needs to be collected, refined, and distributed to gain value from it. However, unlike oil, data tends to lose its value the longer we wait to use it. So, what if we could hook up a pipeline to the source of the data, and transform it in near real time, on its way to the end-users? That's precisely the capability of Apache Kafka. Confluent provides the leading Kafka-based streaming platform...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine started with cyber attacks shortly before tanks crossed the border. Data-wiping malware infected a number of government systems, while many official websites were downed by DDoS attacks. The problem is, malware released into the wild rarely stays in one place. While Ukrainian systems may have been the target, it did not take long for the malware to show up in Latvia and Lithuania. Times of uncertainty trigger he...

Spreadsheets and visualizations are good, but when you need to verify and validate data in multiple formats and sources the process to get data ready to generate insights is cumbersome, manual, and time consuming.As several Canadian Federal Department agencies move from cash-based to accrual-based budgeting they can face some of these very critical challenges around data integrity and accrual calculations in support of investment planning and...

Join Dcode’s acquisitions superhero, J.R. Mullis, in conversation the next day, April 21, as we unpack all of the changes. We’ll talk through any submission tweaks, new topics, and (cross your fingers! hopefully) an open topic for you.

As organizations continue to scale their cloud adoption, teams struggle to enforce governance policies consistently, so they meet regulatory requirements and avoid potential breaches. Further, they find it even more difficult to address these governance requirements without impeding development productivity. Cloud Governance as Code is a new paradigm that enables organizations to use code to manage and automate various aspects of governance, i...