The Wikimania 2012 conference will be held July 12-15 at George Washington University. Meet the wiki community in Washington. Join us for a gathering of experts, enthusiasts, and those who are just curious, in a center of academia, culture, and technology. Engage at the official annual conference of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Relish a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. → Subm...

Building An Agile Defense:Next Steps for Your Program The face of warfare is changing, and you need to make sure your program is prepared. Areas like disaster recovery, cyber security, and piracy are reshaping the DoD’s mission. At the same time, pressure to cut spending is increasing. To meet these challenges, Defense leaders are working to create an agile DoD - a smart, fast, adaptive, collaborative and accountable organization. Join...

Leveraging Technology to Improve Agency Customer Service Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:00 PM EDT The Obama Administration’s Executive Order 13571 - Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service – calls for agencies to establish signature initiatives using technology to improve the customer experience. In the year since the order was issued, have agencies delivered on the goals? How has customer service improved? Learn w...

The National Defense Industrial Association, supported by the NDIA Great Lakes Chapter, is hosting the 9th National Small Business Conference at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Chicago IL on June 20-21, 2012. This 9th National Small Business Conference comes at a time when the world and our country is experiencing vast change. We need to accelerate our learning curves, our ability to respond quickly, and our strategies to provide unp...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey is the top military adviser to President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. General Dempsey is responsible for managing the drawdown of our Afghanistan commitment, and for preparing the military for tomorrow's wars. We face a "security paradox," he says: while worldwide violence has declined, destructive technologies are proliferating among potential enemies among state and non-state...

The 2012 Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations (SSTRO) Conference will look at stability efforts through the entire spectrum. We'll look at completed operations that show successes that are being replicated in other situations, current trouble spots, and what we can expect in the future. Although Afghanistan and Iraq will continue to be of tremendous importance and considerable challenge, there are other countries which...

Smarter Defense Contracting: Managing in an Era of Cutbacks Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:00 PM EDT In an era of tight budgets and program cuts, the Defense Department has to produce mission results while facing increased scrutiny and oversight. How is DoD delivering the best value to the warfighter and to the citizen? Learn about key defense acquisition strategies which include: reaching out to small business and promoting competition, improving...

Under pressure to save $5 billion a year by moving systems to the cloud, the federal government is banking on a game-changing security program for obtaining cloud services. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, also known as FedRAMP, is aimed at enabling agencies to leverage security authorizations across government. This "do once, use many times" approach will save agencies and cloud service providers valuable cost, time and...

Enterprise IT's Two Biggest Game Changers Under One Roof – Cloud Computing & Big Data Join Us at Cloud Expo New York in June – Introducing Our All-New Big Data Expo! Recent IDC research shows that worldwide spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold, reaching $44.2 billion by 2013. And a recent Gartner report predicts that the volume of enterprise data overall will increase by a phenomenal 650% over the next five ye...

Government Executive’s Government Business Council invites you to be among the first to see new research findings in a complimentary webcast: Keeping Up: Are Agencies Equipped to Meet Mobile Needs? Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:00 PM EDT The federal workforce operates in an increasingly mobile environment, requiring secure communication tools to stay connected and maximize productivity. Many agencies have found success leveraging advanced...