Today’s cybersecurity threat landscape means Federal professionals must take a proactive and practical approach to defending agency personnel, systems, networks, and data. IT infrastructures need resiliency that is built in, understood by the workforce, and prepared to work beyond the next threat. Creating a resilient IT architecture is not an admission of anticipated defeat. Rather, it’s insurance against probable events and incid...

Join us again in 2023 to hear from leading digital experts and discover key strategies for making your digital efforts a success. Explore the critical technologies and approaches needed to improve customer engagement and drive your organisation’s digital culture. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore this innovative technology and its impact on a range of industries including; manufacturing, transport, supply chain, government, fin...

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Throughout this event, topic experts from government, academia, and industry will discuss the new and evolving technologies that are driving real change and innovation in the public sector. Learn more about the future of the Federal workforce, and the emerging technology that will help progress the transition. Also, join us for several panels focused on managing infrastructure and systems in Federal government with discussions hosted by Federa...

The Quantum Science Center (QSC) is a national quantum information science research center sponsored by the Department of Energy to overcome the key challenges facing the development of scalable quantum technologies. This talk will highlight accomplishments from the QSC partnership of 16 institutions working toward three scientific goals: (1) accelerating quantum information processing through new qubit and device designs, (2) creating predict...

Federal regulations and agency policies can slow down the procurement processes. This stops an organization from being able to utilize the newest technologies. How can an organization deliver goods and services faster, more accurately, and with more predictable outcomes while following the needed guidelines? Tune in to this session to hear the challenges and successes of operating within the parameters of an organization’s requirements....

Government efforts to modernize saw substantial advancements in 2022: An overwhelming 91% of federal IT workers report their agencies have gained ground on digital modernization efforts in the past year, according to a recent survey of federal employees conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of ICF. But while optimistic, these employees say their work is far from done. Just 30% have achieved continuous improvement in their modernization jou...

Approaching the one-year anniversary of the Office of Management and Budget’s memorandum on “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles,” this session will reflect on how agencies are meeting the specific criteria while utilizing ZT architecture. OMB’s memorandum involves centralizing identity management to provide enterprise identity and access management services to reduce the burden on agen...

Cyber threats are evolving at such rates that Federal training of cybersecurity practitioners are struggling to keep up. The continued cybersecurity push across government and industry, it is increasingly important for organizations to have proactive cyber plans in place. As the nation looks to recover from a once-in-a-century pandemic and increasingly more sophisticated cyberattacks, the U.S. government must ensure that it can secure its netw...

Modern productivity means getting work done whenever and wherever needed. The evolution of mobile devices and networks has enabled agencies to accomplish more. Mobility has also brought together an ecosystem of interconnected networks, operating systems, mobile applications, cloud services, and data. This, coupled with efforts to shift towards zero trust architectures, requires agencies to be more diligent than ever in how they adopt and imple...