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Join K-20 Educational Technology Professionals from around Florida for the FAEDS 2026 annual conference, it will be held in-person at the Caribe Royale Orlando Hotel, October 11 - 15, 2026.

Sunday is our Welcome Reception, a great Networking opportunity.

Monday and Tuesday are full days of breakout sessions, keynote speakers and numerous opportunities for you to visit vendor hall.  Please let our sponsors know how much you appreciate their commitment to our organization.  We would not be able to have a conference without their generous support.

Wednesday, we will have more breakout sessions, with the annual business meeting scheduled during lunch, plus plenty of raffle-give a ways.

More sensors. More data. The Age of AI. How do we make it all work together—at mission speed?

 

Collection capabilities are expanding rapidly. The challenge is ensuring the data, processing, and AI architectures behind them can keep pace and deliver relevance at the speed of mission.

 

Join USGIF for an interactive Mission Focus bringing government and industry together around a critical GEOINT challenge:

How do we modernize data processing, make pixels AI-ready as far upstream as possible, and bring speed with knowledge to the edge?

 

We’ll explore AI-augmented preprocessing—from auto-labeling and anomaly detection to entity resolution and summarization—along with building trust in AI through monitoring, provenance, safeguards, and mission-relevant benchmarks.

 

Then we’ll put it to work. After a moderated panel with government and industry leaders, attendees will roll up their sleeves in focused working groups, tackling specific questions and building recommendations together. Each group shares its findings with the full room before the evening closes with dedicated networking time.

 

And the conversation doesn’t end when the event does. Findings from the breakout sessions will be shared back with government stakeholders to help inform future requirements.

 

WHY ATTEND?

 

This is a seat at the table, not just a seat in the audience. Come ready to contribute, challenge assumptions, and exchange perspectives while helping USGIF:

• Build the Community — Connect government and industry around shared mission challenges.
• Advance the Tradecraft — Exchange real-world perspectives on AI, sensors, data, and mission operations.
• Accelerate Innovation — Surface ideas that can move promising capabilities toward mission impact.

WHO SHOULD BE IN THE ROOM?

 

Government and industry and academic professionals across GEOINT, AI, sensors, data processing, acquisition, and mission operations—and those shaping how these capabilities come together for the missions ahead.

 

Registration is complimentary for all attendees.

Join Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), NVIDIA, industry experts and government technology leaders for the annual Huntsville AI Technology Exchange & Expo, a training and educational forum focused on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-performance computing.

As AI continues to transform government operations, agencies and organizations are looking for secure, scalable approaches to deploying AI from the edge to the enterprise. Learn how to build and scale production-ready AI in your environment. HPE and NVIDIA have partnered to create AI factories that combine NVIDIA's accelerated computing with HPE's secure infrastructure and services. The HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio enables rapid, reliable AI deployment through turnkey, scalable and sovereign solutions, helping organizations accelerate innovation and unlock greater value from their data.

During this event, attendees will explore:

• Generative AI, LLMs and emerging AI capabilities
• Autonomous systems and agentic AI
• Secure and responsible AI deployment
• Advanced computing and AI infrastructure
• Real-world government AI use cases

The event will feature expert-led presentations, technical demonstrations, networking opportunities and a technology expo showcasing innovative AI solutions for government agencies and organizations.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Registration is required and CPE credits will be available for attendees. Please click here for more details.

Join us at HPE SLED Accelerate: Connect. Learn. Grow., an exclusive partner event focused on helping organizations expand their success within the State, Local Government and Education market. 

Throughout the day, attendees will hear from HPE and Carahsoft leaders, explore HPE's Compute, Storage and Networking portfolios, learn how to leverage available contract vehicles to accelerate sales and discover proven strategies for building a profitable SLED practice.

Whether you're looking to break into the public sector market or accelerate existing SLED growth, this event will equip you with the tools, resources and relationships needed to identify opportunities, increase revenue and drive long-term success.

Key Topics Include:

• Understanding the SLED market opportunity
• HPE Compute solutions for modernization and AI readiness
• Data protection and resilience with HPE Storage
• Secure connectivity with HPE Networking
• Leveraging HPE and Carahsoft contract vehicles
• Building a repeatable SLED go-to-market strategy
• Partner success stories and best practices
• Networking with HPE, Carahsoft and industry peers

Reserve your seat today and take advantage of this opportunity to connect with industry experts, gain actionable insights and develop a roadmap for growth in the Public Sector market.

Historically data storage has been considered a rather stodgy topic, all about capacity, retrieval speed, and data organization. But as AI data demands grow and change, the role of storage has evolved. This makes sense as AI risks and incidents are becoming more common, and agencies with invaluable data assets recognize they are significant and pose an ongoing challenge for federal and state agencies.

Today storage is rapidly becoming an active data layer where the value of data is realized and having the right data foundation is key for activating an AI strategy

As deployments become more agentic, concurrent, and context-intensive, the data foundation must do more than store information. It must deliver data fast enough to keep expensive AI infrastructure productive, protect essential information against disruption or loss, and help agencies put more of their existing data to work.

Learning Objectives:

• Build a stronger data foundation for scaling public-sector AI initiatives.
• Improve the value of AI investments through greater performance and efficiency.
• Strengthen operational resilience by protecting and recovering critical AI data.
• Unlock greater value from existing data, including protected historical information, for future AI initiatives.

State, local government, and educational institutions are facing growing demands to modernize IT infrastructure, control escalating virtualization costs, and implement AI securely within strict budget and compliance frameworks.

As “the cloud” has become a fundamental part of IT operations, many state and local agencies actually have moved to a that tailors data, apps and storage to the conditions that provide the security, scalability and cost controls needed to optimize performance.

The challenge becomes maintaining visibility and access across hybrid cloud environments – using public cloud, private cloud, even on-prem infrastructure – through one governed control plane. Providing unified control allows streamlined provisioning and automation across VMs, containers, clouds, and AI-era infrastructure, so organizations can modernize faster, reduce costs, and avoid vendor lock-in.

Learning Objectives:

• Review your agency’s IT environment to determine whether it is a hybrid and, if so, what you have to do to ensure visibility and security across the entire space
• Outline the steps to implement a single control plane, where it will replace existing tools and what has been insufficiently visible to date
• Establish metrics that can evaluate performance and automation requirements for the agency’s entire hybrid environment, including cost savings

The Gartner New York CDAO Community Executive Summit is the community’s signature event, bringing together CDAOs for a full day of immersive, peer-driven discussions and curated networking. Connect with peers who share similar priorities, exchange real-world experiences and gain data-driven insights from Gartner analysts. Walk away with practical solutions, validated strategies and valuable connections, giving you greater confidence to lead through change.

Participate in discussions on the most critical issues impacting CDAOs today:

• Prove and scale AI to deliver measurable business value
• Build trusted governance and context for enterprise AI
• Empower your workforce, evolve operating models and accelerate data-driven decision-making

Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for the HPC community. The Program is designed to share best practices in all areas of high performance computing. Become a contributor and share your excellence. Presenting at SC is extremely rewarding.

Here’s your opportunity to meet and interact with industry, research organizations, universities, and startups joining us from across the globe. As an exhibitor, showcase your cutting-edge technologies, products, and services to thousands of attendees.

The Students@SC program offers a broad range of volunteer experiences, cluster competitions, and networking opportunities. Put your professional development into overdrive and identify the possibilities within the field of high performance computing.

Industry, academia, and government experts volunteer to design, build, and administer the cutting-edge SCinet infrastructure, providing internet connectivity for attendees and pushing the boundaries of network innovation through research and demos.

With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, Augusta University, 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, academia, and industry professionals can discuss issues and share solutions surrounding cyber electromagnetic activities and unified land operations.

With a focus on enhanced warfighting outcomes, TechNet Augusta 2027 will explore how to accelerate the delivery of innovative and interoperable systems, which are crucial for decisive action in joint operational environments. We will deepen the military and private sector partnerships required to deliver advanced C2 and counter-C2 capabilities to our warfighters with unprecedented speed and efficiency.