The Quest for Excellence XXII is the Official Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses—manufacturing and service, small and large—and to education, health care and nonprofit organizations that apply and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge mana...

Washington Breakfast Club™ (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants. For the March 2010 Washington Breakfast Club™, we are pleased to welcome Rear Admiral John W. (Bill) Goodwin, the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for the Next Generation Enterprise...

Mark your calendar for GITEC Summit 2010. The Government Information Technology Executive Council for 25 years has hosted the Information Processing Interagency Conference (IPIC). Celebrating our silver anniversary of hosting a major IT conference we have decided to create a new conference that reflects a new era for IT professionals and a new Administration. GITEC Summit (formerly Information Processing Interagency Conference) is the premier...

What MeriTalk invites government and industry IT leaders to attend this full-day conference focused on Federal IT innovation – and its potential to change the fundamental performance and economics of government IT. Lean budgets are here to stay. Uncle Sam requires government to do more with less. Innovation is the only way forward. 1,000 government and industry IT thought leaders will convene to listen, learn, and teach about innovative...

Digital Government Trends Managing in Challenging Times New Technologies Innovation Web 2.0 Security. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE •Where's Your Focus - How to Market Solutions to Business •Reaching Citizens through 2.0 •Texas Department of Information Resources DBITS Update •Texas ERP Project Update •Are You Ready to Star on YouTube? Policies to Support New Service Models •Doing the Right Things - Dashboards and Per...

WSDM 2010 WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a young ACM conference intended to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search and data mining. Indeed, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first two WSDMs, held at Stanford University and Barcelona in February 2008 and 2009, has confirmed community interest in a more focused venue. WSDM publishes ori...

Webinar: The purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve transparency, participation, and collaboration. The directive requires significant website innovation for all departments and agencies. This overview will cover how open standards and semantic web technologies can help aid transparency. The Webinar will also demonstrate how Drupal's ecosystem of features and contributors provide a rich social publishing platform for collaborat...

The KMWorld Conference and Exhibition offers a wide-ranging program especially focused to meet the needs of executives and strategic business and technology decision makers. This is a must-attend for those concerned with improving their organization’s bottom line, business processes and productivity, as well as streamlining operations and accelerating development and innovation in their evolving enterprises.

Connect with renowned health care and technology leaders in an interactive setting to discover how your organization can evolve in an ever-changing information age. The 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0) addresses precedent issues facing the industry today in regards to the future information technology to engage providers, payers and consumers in the next generation of health care delivery.

We are expecting 200 attendees from across the country at this conference to discuss key workforce development issues facing states today. This is an invaluable forum to share innovation ideas, policies and best practices that can be applied to the attendees' own circumstances and used to improve services in their home states.