Please join BENS members and guests for a luncheon discussion on how the lessons of a small group of world class trauma experts who joined forces with America’s best combat medics to rewrite the rule book on how battlefield medicine can save lives and impact trauma throughout the United States. At the start of the first Gulf War, there had been very little progress in battlefield trauma care since the Civil War. The concepts embodied in...

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ top technology priorities encompass cybersecurity, modernization and veteran experience, emphasizing a shift from compliance-driven cybersecurity to a risk-based, assume-breach model anchored in zero trust and operational resilience. Join Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller for an exclusive conversation with the Eddie Pool, the acting assistant secretary for information and technology an...

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI have inherent limitations, such as outdated knowledge, lack of private data access, and the potential for hallucinations. In this session, we will introduce a strategy for overcoming these challenges: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Attendees will see how a GenAI RAG application can provide access to real-time, private data stored in an external knowledge base without needing to fine-tune th...

Many organizations still apply IT-style assumptions to industrial environments, creating blind spots that put safety and operations at risk. In this webcast, SANS Principal Instructor and ICS418 co-author Dean Parsons shares the most common leadership pitfalls he encounters across sectors like energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, logistics, and food & beverage, and how to avoid them. Dean will show how to anchor governan...

Delivering real-time insights is a challenge. Traditional data pipelines create lags, and databases are often optimized for either transactions or analytics, but not both. Join us to learn how the Spanner Columnar Engine addresses these issues, enabling you to run real-time, high-performance analytical queries directly on your live operational data. We'll explore how Spanner accelerates workloads with in-database analytics (HTAP), serves intel...

Join us in New York City (or virtually) on December 9th to hear from industry experts and practitioners and network with your peers as we explore critical data management and advanced analytics topics. DataVision 2025 is COMPLIMENTARY for members, prospective members, guests and all data management professionals. This year’s theme is AI for Data Management – Culture, Ethics and Best Practices. We’ll explore AI’s role in...

"Equitable Growth Presents: Reimagining the Federal Government" is a virtual discussion on how to reimagine the federal government in the wake of the radical transformations the Trump administration has made to public services through mass firings of civil servants, unwinding of regulatory agencies, centralization of decision-making, and other major changes. The event will feature a discussion with K. Sabeel Rahman, professor of law at Cornell...

Please join us for a BoD Social on Friday. December 12 from 5:30-7:00pm at Creighton Farms in Aldie, VA

Organizations are searching for a simpler and more secure way to modernize virtual machines and move toward cloud ready operations. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure provides a unified platform that brings VMs and containers together so teams can streamline management, reduce complexity and accelerate modernization with confidence. Join Red Hat experts for a deep dive into how OpenShift Virtualization helps you run migrate and manage V...

Government organizations are past strategy and deep into execution. Privileged access now sits at the center of every Zero Trust program, and leaders need a practical way to reduce risk, satisfy audits, and move faster. This virtual session showcases Zero Trust PAM from BeyondTrust, the FedRAMP authorized solution, that replaces VPN exposure and standing credentials with brokered, encrypted sessions and time-bound access that aligns with Zero...