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Events We Are Sponsoring
Government cybersecurity has officially entered a new era - one that is dominated by AI-powered threats. The stakes are higher, the attacks are smarter, and agencies are racing to modernize without missing a beat.
Join us online Wednesday, March 18 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT for a sharp, high‑impact look at how AI is transforming cybersecurity across the public sector. We’ll cut straight to what matters: faster threats, smarter defenses, and the emerging tools helping agencies stay ahead of adversaries.
You’ll learn:
- The biggest AI‑driven shifts reshaping cyber defense across government.
- How agencies can harness AI to detect, respond, and recover with greater speed and precision.
- What it takes to deploy AI securely and responsibly — without adding new risks or complexity.
Join your regional cybersecurity community for a day built on connection, learning, and real-world impact. SecureWorld brings together local leaders, national experts, and practitioners from across the industry for 15+ interactive sessions, insightful keynotes, and engaging panel discussions—all curated with guidance from regional CISOs.
Earn 6-12 CPE credits, explore innovative solutions from trusted providers, meet with association chapters, and build relationships that last well beyond the event. Designed to be accessible and deeply relevant, SecureWorld delivers the practical knowledge, collaborative energy, and peer support you need to strengthen your skills and secure what matters most.
The Defense Department has made maintaining its competitive edge in an increasingly software-defined battlespace a central focus of its most recent transformation efforts. A major theme of this wide-ranging effort is to transform how it delivers software by modernizing its processes, empowering teams and fostering innovation throughout the lifecycle.
Federal News Network will devote March 24 and 25 to exploring the programs currently underway to achieve these transformation initiatives.
Our journalists will talk to DoD and industry leaders about how the department intends to:
- Accelerate capabilities in their cloud environments to take advantage of artificial intelligence; low-code, no-code development platforms; and secure data accessibility.
- Establish, staff and mature departmentwide and agency-specific software factories and use DevSecOps and agile pipeline approaches to development.
- Transform development processes to enable resiliency, security and speed to deliver capabilities.
- Explain the security risks unique to D-DIL environments
- Describe how hardened container repositories reduce supply chain vulnerabilities
- Identify core ICAM capabilities required to enforce Zero Trust at the tactical edge
- Assess strategies for maintaining authentication and policy continuity during disconnected operations
- Evaluate methods for aligning identity services with DevSecOps and hybrid cloud security frameworks
Today’s public sector cybersecurity landscape is defined by rapid change, rising risk, and mounting resource constraints. The nation's top cyber and IT leaders will share real-world solutions for breaking through complexity, closing security gaps, and enabling mission success—faster at The Federal Cybersecurity Executive Summit.
Rooted in the belief that nothing should stand in the way of making government secure, this summit brings together experts in identity, AI, and modern cyber infrastructure to discuss how federal agencies can move beyond compliance to truly operationalize security. Backed by Optiv + ClearShark—the unique combination of the nation’s largest pure-play cybersecurity company and the federal government’s top cybersecurity and IT solutions provider—the solutions we’ll discuss are proven, mission-aligned, and engineered to deploy in the most sensitive of customer environments.
This event will explore practical strategies for integrating identity protection, operationalizing data and AI security, and accelerating security operations infrastructure to operate at machine speed. It will feature keynote addresses, fireside conversations, and expert insights from technology leaders across the government and public sectors.
Join us for clear-eyed discussions and high-impact networking with the country’s top tech innovators.
Agentic AI is opening the door to a new era of digital government — one where services don’t just respond to constituent needs, but anticipate them, simplify them, and help people get things done faster. The question isn’t whether this shift is coming — it’s how ready is your agency to take advantage of it?
Join us on Wednesday, April 8 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT for a lively, practical discussion on how agentic AI can strengthen your digital experience. We’ll break down what this emerging capability really means for government, how it can empower your teams, and how to introduce it responsibly and transparently.
You'll learn:
- Simple, actionable ways to start using agentic AI to improve day‑to‑day operations.
- A clear view of your most important digital touchpoints and where AI can add value.
- Practical ways to measure whether AI‑driven improvements are truly helping your constituents.
Join your regional cybersecurity community for two days built on connection, learning, and real-world impact. SecureWorld brings together local leaders, national experts, and practitioners from across the industry for 30+ interactive sessions, insightful keynotes, and engaging panel discussions—all curated with guidance from regional CISOs.
Earn 12-18 CPE credits, explore innovative solutions from trusted providers, meet with association chapters, and build relationships that last well beyond the event. Designed to be accessible and deeply relevant, SecureWorld delivers the practical knowledge, collaborative energy, and peer support you need to strengthen your skills and secure what matters most.
With over 7,000 individual and corporate members, our chapter boasts the largest membership in the AFCEA International community. Our chapter is blessed with the hometown advantage of having the Pentagon in our back yard, the Nation's Capital right next door, and the backbone of the Internet at our center. This means that our Monthly luncheons, IT Days, Breakfast and special events connect you with Government speakers that provide current policy and future program technology content with relevant business connections to meet your bottom-line goals.
We connect with our membership through a variety of meetings and events to enhance your experience and provide an ethical setting to connect with Government. These include our popular monthly luncheons that run September through June featuring leading Government speakers on how information technology enables National Security and other relevant DOD topics. We also hold larger one Day IT Day conferences featuring speakers on information technology from the Army, Navy, USMC, Air Force, DOD and other Federal agencies. We also provide our members with more intimate settings to connect one on one with Industry and Government leadership including: Small Business Breakfasts, Annual Golf Outing, Women in NOVA speaker series and our popular Young AFCEAN social events.
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Events Where We Are Exhibiting
Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) is proud to announce the 27th Annual Information Security Forum (ISF) on May 20-21, 2026 (Wednesday-Thursday) at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas. As the premier cybersecurity event for Texas state and local government and public education institutions, ISF 2026 brings together decision-makers, IT professionals, and security leaders from across the state for two days of learning, collaboration, and innovation.
ISF will feature engaging presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities designed to foster collaboration between public-and private-sector security experts.
Registration information will become available during Summer 2026.
TechNet Indo-Pacific is co-sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii. It is the largest event in the Pacific Rim focusing on regional defense issues. Keynote speakers, panel moderators and panelists will discuss defense policies and challenges in the Indo- Pacific region and their relevance to both industry and government. Industry exhibitors will demonstrate products and solutions to meet the services' requirements and needs.