The U.S. Department of State's Office of eDiplomacy is pleased to announce it's 11th Tech@State event, Tech@State: Moneyball Diplomacy, at GWU's Jack Morton Auditorium on Friday, June 7th. Please join us for a day of stimulating presentations and engaging discussion on how new and creative data analysis using economic thinking can better inform diplomacy and development. Featured speakers include: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of 'The Black Sw...

President Obama has declared that the "cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation" and that "America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity." Federal employees are invited to join us for an interactive discussion on security of information systems, which is rapidly becoming one of the foremost focal points of the United States and other countries. Critic...

Join us for a series of one-hour training sessions to examine to the current policies, trends, executive orders and technology for establishing an interactive dialogue with constituencies and effective online collaboration. May 28: Developing Insights from User Analytics Analytics can help your agency better understand user activity, as well as uncover patterns that can save money—or even a life. From social analytics to monitoring busin...

In recent years, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) has tasked Government agencies with consolidating Data Centers for reducing costs, improving efficiencies, promoting the use of Green IT, and creating an infrastructure that is fast, nimble and cost effective. Come hear from government and industry practitioners who are at the forefront of developing the next generation government data center. Attend this webinar and lea...

The Big Data & Analytics in Government Innovation Summit is exclusive to government professionals and agencies. This is a private summit which will address the latest government challenges, strategies and initiatives relating to Big Data Analytics. Hear from those closest to these developments to learn what’s actually happening on the ground. - 20+ industry expert keynote presentations - 100+ Big Data Leaders attending - Over 25 hour...

Government and military users across the spectrum of strategic and tactical roles and missions are clamoring for more and better means to collect, analyze, exploit and share full motion video. And while the deployment of a fleet of unmanned systems has led to a significant increase in the amount of video that can be captured, the means to exploit that video for near-real time analysis and dissemination lags behind. Multiple, competing video fo...

Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a developme...

Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a development “science project.” V...

EMC will blow the lid off EMC World once again in 2013—back in Las Vegas, May 6-9. Businesses and careers are made by how well we ride the exploding wave of data. The leaders go to EMC World to find out where that wave is taking us, and how to navigate it like a pro. Register for EMC World 2013 to take your business into the cloud, learn Big Data analytics, secure your data, and glimpse the future in virtualized, software-defined data ce...

Despite sequestration, tight budgets and changing workforce, all agencies are under severe pressure to meet mission goals on their critical programs while trying to improve cost, schedule and performance. Agency CIOs, Federal Program Managers and Acquisition Executives recognize what needs to be done while trying to be more agile in managing & executing programs. Learn the simple steps for achieving an effective and successful Agile Transf...