Discover how your government peers are using video, social, & digital channels to increase audience involvement & engagement to achieve mission objectives. Participate in your choice of 3 hands-on interactive pre-training workshops, and hear over 10 real-world case-studies from your government peers. Join an audience of 40 - 50 government communications, marketing, and public affairs professinoals as you benchmark best practices. You w...

The communications playing field continues to evolve, but is your communications and outreach strategy evolving as well? Visual communications – social, video, mobile, and more – are providing government agencies with the opportunity to reach citizens with the right message, at the right time, in the right way. Benchmark best practices with your government peers as you see first-hand how you can use visual communications, including...

IDGA is proud to announce the return of our 10th Operational Energy Summit this January 23-25, in Washington, D.C. This summit will provide a forum for policy makers and technology leaders to come together to solve some of DoD's operational energy challenges. We will examine and explore critical focus areas such as energy harvesting and storage, waste management, next generation power sources, reviewing the 2016 Operational Energy Strategy and...

Additive Manufacturing – Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense Innovation, Production, Logistics, and Readiness Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, additive manufacturing takes raw materials, feeds them through a digital manufacturing system and creates a customized object from that material, eliminating excess material waste. This potential ability to exchange AM desi...

Join INSA’s Intelligence Champions Council for “Beyond the Big 6: Careers in the Intelligence Community.” This panel will explore national security enterprises outside of the major intelligence agencies with a discussion focused on how these careers contribute to national security. The panel will also focus on what types of specialized skills individuals should obtain to advance in this environment. The Intelligence Champions...

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to network with power generators, utilities, and operators and to learn about new transmission planning developments. AT PLATTS 2016 TRANSMISSION PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT YOU WILL HEAR DISCUSSIONS ON: Delays in the transmission planning process due to FERC Order 1000 competition ROE — Finding the right balance between attracting investment, stability of returns, and current interest rate environmen...

Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, additive manufacturing takes raw materials, feeds them through a digital manufacturing system and creates a customized object from that material, eliminating excess material waste. This potential ability to exchange AM design and manufacturing capabilities via file sharing has enormous potential ramifications for reducing shipping and prod...

Service to the Flag Award: Bestowed annually, the Service to the Flag Award recognizes extraordinary leadership, strategic impact and potential to inspire other women to serve in national security. Each year, it is awarded to two women who identify and address some of our nation’s most vexing national security challenges through their work in and outside of government. 2016 Service to the Flag Honorees: The Honorable Christine E. Wormuth...

The Microgrid Markets Summit East will provide a platform for military, government and utility policy makers and procurement managers to share business and technical wants, needs and requirements for new microgrid projects with renewable energy developers, energy services companies, system integrators, EPCs, energy storage companies, microgrid enabling technology companies and financiers.

The 6th Defense Renewables Summit will bring senior-level DoD, Air Force, Army, Marine Corp and Navy decision-makers together with renewable energy developers, utilities, system integrators, financiers, EPCs, cybersecurity, energy storage, IoT, ISP and smartgrid experts in order to meet the renewable energy goals and security needs of the DoD. The summit will provide the latest on emerging guidelines and processes that merge the complexities o...