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Events We Are Sponsoring
In this webinar, Zscaler experts will walk through a practical, policy-driven approach to securing distributed locations in GovCloud. We’ll discuss how agencies can do the following without rebuilding every location around hardware appliances:
- Standardize security controls across sites
- Enable local breakout with centralized policy and inspection
- Reduce lateral movement risk
Join us for an insightful discussion on the evolving landscape of acquisition reform, exploring how policy adapts to meet critical operational needs. Reforming Acquisition for Strategic Advantage brings together senior leaders from across defense and industry.
Attendees will gain valuable insight into the latest compliance shifts, emerging acquisition authorities, and collaborative approaches to enhancing speed, scale, and sustainment—ensuring our teams receive the capabilities they need efficiently and effectively. Whether you're a policy maker, program manager, or industry innovator, this luncheon will deepen your understanding of how to streamline procurement in alignment with the Department of War and DHS.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the Current Acquisition Landscape Identify recent and emerging policy and compliance shifts shaping Department of War and DHS procurement. Examine how these updates impact program managers, policy makers, and industry partners alike.
- Explore Emerging Authorities and Tools Assess new and existing acquisition pathways (such as OTAs and rapid prototyping) and evaluate how they can be leveraged to enable agility, scalability, and long-term sustainment.
- Navigate Challenges to Efficiency Identify common administrative challenges that slow down procurement processes. Evaluate case studies and strategic approaches where leaders have successfully balanced regulatory compliance with timely delivery.
- Analyze the Interplay of Policy and Mission Needs Discuss how evolving operational requirements drive innovation and reform. Explore best practices for fostering productive collaboration between policy makers, program managers, and private-sector innovators.
- Develop Actionable Insights for Smarter Procurement Translate lessons from defense and industry leaders into practical strategies for your own organization’s acquisition planning and execution. Identify proactive, compliant ways to modernize your procurement approaches.
The road to CMMC 2.0 compliance doesn't have to be a solo climb. Join Okta and Zscaler at the historic Army Navy Country Club for an exclusive morning of technical insight followed by 18 holes on one of Northern Virginia’s premier courses.
As the Department of Defense sharpens its focus on the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), meeting rigorous cybersecurity requirements is no longer optional—it’s a business imperative.
We will kick off the morning with a CMMC Strategy Discussion & Breakfast, where experts from Okta and Zscaler will demonstrate how a unified Identity and Zero Trust architecture simplifies your path to certification.
Agenda Highlights:
- Tactical Breakfast: A deep dive into meeting CMMC requirements through automated identity management and secure cloud access.
- The Front & Back Nine: After the briefing, we’ll transition to the links. Enjoy 18 holes of golf in organized foursomes—perfect for networking with peers and industry leaders.
- Post-Round Refreshments: Grab a boxed lunch at the conclusion of your round to refuel before heading out.
Whether you are looking to harden your infrastructure against evolving threats or simply looking to connect with fellow DIB professionals, this event offers the perfect balance of mission-critical information and relaxation.
Hear directly from current users and security experts as they discuss real-world challenges facing SLED organizations, lessons learned from emerging threats and how teams are evolving their strategies around zero trust, threat protection and cyber resilience to reduce risk and improve response capabilities.
Topics will Include:
- Securing identity as the first line of defense
- Enabling zero trust access and secure connectivity
- Detecting and responding to advanced threats in real time
- Strengthening recovery and resilience against ransomware and data loss
- Best practices for building a more unified, modern security strategy
Federal agencies have invested heavily in Zero Trust, yet many environments still rely on one-time validation at login or periodic compliance checks that quickly become outdated. Devices may be trusted in the morning, but by afternoon, unauthorized changes, configuration drift, or policy violations can silently undermine that trust without immediate visibility or response.
In this joint webinar, Cimcor and Zscaler demonstrate how agencies can evolve from static security validation to continuous trust enforcement through a modern Comply-to-Connect (C2C) approach. By combining continuous integrity validation, ongoing compliance assessment and dynamic access enforcement, agencies can continuously verify that systems remain trusted, compliant and mission-ready, not just at the moment of authentication, but throughout the entire session lifecycle.
Attendees will learn how Federal organizations can:
- Move beyond “trust once” security models
- Continuously validate device integrity and security posture
- Enforce compliance with CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs in real time
- Automatically restrict or restore access based on system trustworthiness
- Reduce operational risk while improving resiliency and cyber readiness
- Strengthen Zero Trust initiatives through continuous enforcement rather than periodic assessment
Rather than focusing on more alerts or additional security tools, this session focuses on how agencies can operationalize continuous trust as a living process that supports mission assurance, compliance and resilience.
It is widely recognized that the introduction of AI tools is a two-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. Attackers, whether profit-driven hackers or hostile nation-states, are using AI to launch faster, wider-spread and more sophisticated attacks, including AI-generated phishing and spear phishing emails, malware capable of adapting to changes in defensive responses, and deepfakes that are very hard to detect.
State and local agencies are attractive targets, since there are many more of them and often do not have the financial or IT resources of federal agencies.
This makes state and local agencies’ use of AI in cyber defense critical – AI tools can operate at machine speed and scale and adapt in response to evolving threats. These tools can significantly improve threat detection and intelligence by identifying anomalies and patterns signaling attacks under way; automating incident responses such as isolating compromised devices and resetting credentials; using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to flag sophisticated phishing and social engineering attacks; and prioritizing vulnerabilities to emphasize the most critical risks.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify available AI tools to determine which best fit the security needs of your agency
- Review ways to integrate AI cybersecurity into existing defenses
- Understand the nature and magnitude of the threats posed by AI-empowered attacks
Co-hosted by AFCEA and INSA, the nation’s leading non-profit associations dedicated to public-private partnerships, the summit will bring together 2,200 leaders from government, academia, start-ups, and the defense industrial base for two days of technology-driven, mission-focused discussions.
Your registration and sponsorship don't just underwrite an event, they strengthen our mission and support the community we serve.
From a career fair and thought-provoking plenaries to breakout sessions, cutting-edge exhibits, and unmatched networking, the Summit is where connections spark ideas and partnerships that last. Registration opening Spring 2026!
The Center for Digital Government is excited to host our annual dinner and recognize our Digital States Survey award winners at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Annual Summit in San Diego!
This is a great evening to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of states in their use of digital technologies to better serve their constituents. These are the results of our 2026 Digital States survey findings.
The dinner and awards ceremony will be Sunday, September 27 immediately following the NASCIO opening reception.
Come join us to celebrate! Stay tuned for more information!
This is an invitation-only event.
NASCIO conferences facilitate relationship building, peer learning and collaborative solutioning among members
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There are no demos or an exhibit floor: the focus is relationships and partnerships centered on the needs of the states
NASCIO excels as the premier community and trusted resource for state CIOs
- Support transition planning, processes and mentoring for state CIOs
- Identify and promote leading practices and innovations to support, enable and transform the business of state government
- Promote and cultivate additional information technology communities of practice in support of the state CIO and transformational government services
- Improve the sharing of experiences and expertise among members, trade associations and strategic partners
- Curate and promote content on information technology issues, implications and solutions
AFCEA DC is pleased to bring you our 50th Annual Winter Gala, which will be hosted again at the iconic National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
We have an exciting lineup of experiences featuring the beautiful colors and ambiance of the Northern Lights planned at this year’s event. Join the who’s who in the federal IT community in enjoying all-new immersive experiences and sensory delights for your eyes, ears, and taste buds.
Combining classic elegance with modern luxury, the Winter Gala brings together more than 1,400 senior leaders from the Department of War, Intelligence Agencies, Federal IT community, and Industry together to network and welcome the holiday season in style—all while giving back to the community. We hope you will join us!
Events Where We Are Exhibiting
This gathering marks the 19th ISAC Annual Summit—celebrating nearly two decades of State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) collaboration and community defense. Government Technology is proud to partner with the MS-ISAC® in advancing an ongoing initiative that has been shaping how the public sector confronts its most urgent cybersecurity challenges.
Join us on June 21-24, 2026 at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. Engage with peers, gain insights from shared SLTT best practices, and enhance your security, resilience, and continuity strategies to better protect U.S. government networks and systems.
Registration is not yet available. Check back in the Spring of 2026.
TechNet Augusta 2026 gives participants the opportunity to examine and explore the intricacies of the cyber domain. With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry experts, the conference is designed to open the lines of communication and facilitate networking, education and problem solving. Leaders and operators also discuss procurement challenges the military, government and industry face during a time of uncertain budgets and runaway technology advances.
With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry, this three-day conference is designed to open the lines of communication between the military and commercial sector and provide a space where government and industry professionals can discuss issues and share solutions surrounding cyber electromagnetic activities and unified land operations.
Co-hosted by AFCEA and INSA, the nation’s leading non-profit associations dedicated to public-private partnerships, the summit will bring together 2,200 leaders from government, academia, start-ups, and the defense industrial base for two days of technology-driven, mission-focused discussions.
Your registration and sponsorship don't just underwrite an event, they strengthen our mission and support the community we serve.
From a career fair and thought-provoking plenaries to breakout sessions, cutting-edge exhibits, and unmatched networking, the Summit is where connections spark ideas and partnerships that last. Registration opening Spring 2026!
Registration information will become available during Summer 2026.
TechNet Indo-Pacific is the largest strategic event of its kind in the Indo-Pacific Rim. USINDOPACOM works closely with partners to enable resilient, survivable and secure collaboration across the spectrum of contingencies. TechNet Indo-Pacific, now in its 41st year, features speakers and discussions, many qualifying for Continuing Education, on how industry, academia and government can address and solve regional challenges. Exhibitors demonstrate solutions and services to meet the military services' requirements. TechNet Indo-Pacific is co-sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii.
Registration is not yet available. Check back in the Fall of 2026.
Sea Service leaders today confront profound and rapidly changing threats in a landscape of increasingly complex challenges. Join us and engage with leaders from the Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard as well as industry and academia experts in this extraordinary opportunity to explore the depths of the unique issues they confront. Engage in discussions, network with peers and be a part of devising the needed solutions to enhance operational capabilities that overcome evolving threats. Gain knowledge and forge connections while discovering the latest platforms, cutting-edge technologies and advanced capabilities crucial to supporting maritime operations.