Gain the knowledge you need to deliver business value and competitive advantage with data Join us at TDWI San Diego for end-to-end coverage of the most important and complex topics, skills, and disciplines that are essential to succeed in today’s data-driven world of business. Unlike any other conference experience, TDWI San Diego gives you the depth and breadth of knowledge and hands-on experience needed to deliver a cohesive data strat...

Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States later this month, please join ITIF on September 17 for an expert panel discussion exploring the ramifications of China’s economic and trade strategies and delving into potential remedies and responses. Despite commitments China made when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 to embrace key tenets of rules-governed, market-based trade, it remains wedded to...

Federal Information Technology Reform Act Symposium Series The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) represents the most comprehensive overhaul of Government IT since Clinger-Cohen. OMB is preparing implementation guidance for the requirements of the law, however, each Federal agency will need to develop their own implementation policies and processes. FITARA changes the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) role si...

GITEC Presents "The Power of Two" Join GITEC for "The Power of Two" an upcoming local event and reception as a special follow-up to Summit 2015. This session was originally scheduled as the closing session for Summit 2015, due to travel difficulties into Baltimore at that time, this particular session was cancelled. We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring these two speakers together to present this much anticipated session as its own e...

Department of the Army Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASAALT) is holding an Industry Day on May 28 to engage industry and academia in discussion on a Cyber Innovation Challenge that leads to an OTA-based funding award. The Industry Day addresses how the Army plans to use the Section 845 Prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) authority to access new cyberspace capabilities that build upon, re-use and augment...

The promise of big data is great, but the gap between promise and reality may be even greater. Getting value from big data begins with a business case that drives choices of the right data among many big data possibilities—social media data, machine-to-machine data, e-commerce data, geospatial data, and more. This TDWI Seminar in Washington, DC, offers a sequence of carefully selected courses to help you do just that. Join us to understa...

ADAPT Open Meeting Agile and EVM in DoD: Progress and Challenges April 17, 2015 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Navy League Building2300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA Continental breakfast at 8:00 AM Purpose A discussion with two senior DoD leaders of the changing IT policy towards adoption of Agile, and the challenges of applying EVM to acquisitions that are now employing Agile methods. Speakers DoD IT Policy Update - Efficiencies and Acquisition Reform...

Envisioning the Future of Battlespace Awareness AFEI is hosting an event bringing together key government and industry leaders together to discuss the future of Battlespace Awareness. They will address National priorities and DoD and Intelligence Community initiatives for evolving our Battlespace awareness systems to meet the requirements. Who is attending? ASA (ALT), 1st Bde - 75th TC, Army Cyber Institute, ARL, British Defence Staff, DARPA,...

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir Digital connectedness makes us vulnerable. Cyber threats are one of the defining perils of our time. They threaten national and economic security and are aimed at governments, corporations, organizations of all types, and individuals. Personal devices, shopping, entertainment, telecommunications, manufacturing, supply chains, enterp...

Bending the Cost Curve: PlugFest PLUS In a June 13, 2014 speech at the Atlantic Council, Dr. William LaPlante, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions, announced that the Air Force is launching an initiative to improve acquisition processes by "Bending the Cost Curve." (Watch Video) He explained that Air Force Acquisition processes are too rigid and too slow to keep pace with emerging global technologies. The result is higher...