Government Technology

Industry Insider – California members are invited to attend this in-person exclusive briefing with CalPERS and CalSTRS.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is the largest public pension system in the United States, providing defined benefit retirement and health programs for more than 2 million California public employees, retirees, and their families. CalPERS’ mission is to deliver long-term financial security for its members through retirement, disability, and health benefits while managing a diversified investment portfolio valued at hundreds of billions in assets to support those obligations. This briefing will give technology partners direct exposure to CalPERS’ strategic IT priorities, modernization challenges, and where innovative solutions can help enhance secure, efficient pension administration and member services.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) is the largest educator-only public pension fund in the world, providing retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to more than one million California public school educators and their beneficiaries. CalSTRS’ mission focuses on securing financial futures and sustaining trust for educators through reliable lifelong benefits funded and invested prudently. This briefing will let IT vendors hear firsthand from CalSTRS leaders about their current systems, modernization goals, and technology needs that support efficient member experiences and long-term operational resilience.

As AI tools become more powerful and accessible, they’re raising the stakes for cybersecurity — especially when it comes to human behavior. Attackers are using AI to craft more convincing phishing attempts, target government staff with greater precision, and exploit gaps in employee awareness faster than ever before. 

In this environment, relying on periodic security awareness training just doesn’t cut it anymore.

This webinar explores why agencies need a unified human risk management platform — not just for training, but to gain a full picture of how human behavior is affecting their cyber posture. From real-time coaching to phishing simulations and behavior analytics, we’ll look at how governments can better understand risk across the workforce and respond more effectively. 

What You’ll Learn:

• Why human behavior is still the leading cause of cyber incidents — and how AI is accelerating the problem
• Why awareness training alone isn’t enough to manage risk in today’s environment
• What a unified human risk management platform includes, and how it helps agencies respond faster and smarter
• Practical steps for building a more adaptive and proactive security culture across your organization 

Join us for a practical conversation on how agencies can take a smarter, more strategic approach to protecting their people and their systems. 

The Harris County Regional Digital Government Summit is where innovation meets impact!

Bringing together the brightest minds in state and local government, this summit empowers public-sector leaders to explore cutting-edge technologies, modernize operations, and solve pressing challenges. From cybersecurity and AI to data governance and digital service delivery, sessions are designed to spark insight, foster collaboration, and accelerate real-world results. Whether you're shaping strategy or implementing solutions, the Summit delivers valuable peer connections and actionable guidance to help move your mission forward.

Open to Public Sector only.

The Center for Public Sector AI’s AI 50 Awards provide an opportunity to highlight the impactful work being done in artificial intelligence across public sector. The program enables participants to benchmark progress with peers and help identify trends shaping the future of AI adoption. This year’s awards recognize leadership in organizational strategy, project innovation, and industry partnership, with a focus on measurable outcomes, ethical practices, and replicable use cases.

Please join our team as we walk through the AI 50 Awards program, including the overall structure, eligibility requirements, what we are looking for in strong nominations and guidance to assist you throughout the submission process. We will also outline key dates and opportunities to connect with us if you have questions as you complete your nomination.

Join the webcast to learn:

• The objectives and intent of the AI 50 Awards
• An overview of the three award categories and eligibility criteria
• What makes a strong nomination, including measurable impact and responsible AI practices
• How to navigate the nomination process and key submission timelines
• Answers to your questions

State, local, tribal, and territorial government leaders, public education institutions, nonprofit organizations and private sector partners supporting government AI initiatives are encouraged to attend.

AI is already embedded in government systems, often outpacing policy. When AI influences eligibility decisions, enforcement actions, or access to public services, the stakes are high—public trust, regulatory risk, and security. Responsible AI frameworks address this by enabling explainable decisions, strong governance, and bias mitigation, showing that structure and oversight accelerate innovation rather than slow it. As a result, leaders are increasingly expected to clearly explain how AI is monitored, controlled, and justified.

Join Government Technology, Pegasystems, and AWS for a live webinar where industry experts explore what responsible AI looks like in practice. Drawing on AWS’s governance framework, Pega’s principles of transparency, fairness, empathy, and robustness, and leading AI safety research, the panel will show how intentional design, practical controls, and lifecycle governance help agencies manage risk and maintain accountability.

What you’ll learn:

• How responsible AI is applied in everyday systems 
• Practical ways to manage risk in high impact AI use cases as systems evolve 
• How agencies can meet public and regulatory expectations around AI governance 

From HHS to transportation to workforce programs, state and local government leaders are striving to expand access to essential services and improve outcomes in rural communities.

Whether it’s to address cybersecurity risks or improve network infrastructure, agencies must build the operational and technological foundation necessary for long-term success in rural environments.

Join us for an insightful and solution-oriented conversation on how state and local governments can improve service delivery, strengthen cybersecurity and scale operations more effectively in rural settings. We will explore how improved data access and automation can empower resource-constrained teams, support mission-critical systems and ensure sensitive programs remain resilient and secure.

You’ll learn:

• What it truly takes to scale digital services in rural government environments
• How cybersecurity tools and automation are helping reduce risk without overwhelming limited staff resources
• How collaboration between state-level support, local agencies and community organizations can drive more equitable outcomes

K-12 leaders are navigating an increasingly complex safety landscape. Districts are managing evolving security concerns, stretched staff resources, aging facilities, and multiple campuses across their communities. In this environment, disconnected security systems can no longer provide the visibility, responsiveness, or efficiency that modern campuses require.

This executive-level webinar will explore how K–12 districts can modernize physical security with a cloud-managed, AI-powered approach. Drawing on real-world district examples, including multi-site deployments managed with limited IT staff, we’ll examine how schools can improve safety outcomes while reducing operational complexity.

What attendees will learn:

• Best practices for achieving end-to-end visibility across campuses, from classrooms and hallways to parking lots and district facilities
• Ways to turn video and environmental sensor data into actionable intelligence, including vape detection, occupancy monitoring, air quality tracking, and faster incident resolution
• How AI-driven analytics can enhance safety and efficiency, from proactive alerting to pattern recognition and resource optimization
• Strategies to simplify infrastructure and lower total cost of ownership, eliminating legacy servers and enabling remote management across multi-site districts

This webinar is designed for Superintendents, CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Facilities Leaders, School Resource Officers, and District Safety Teams responsible for protecting students and staff.

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The Georgia Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit is where government defends the future.

This public sector-focused event brings together IT security leaders, risk managers, and public officials to tackle the evolving cyber threats facing state and local government. Through expert-led sessions, peer exchange, and real-world case studies, attendees gain practical strategies to strengthen cyber resilience, protect critical infrastructure, and lead with confidence in an age of constant risk. Designed specifically for the public sector, this summit delivers insights you can act on and alliances you can trust!

Open to Public Sector only.

Managing today’s device fleets is only growing more complex. Government and education IT leaders are under pressure to support increasingly diverse device environments while navigating refresh cycles, budget constraints and rising user expectations.

In this webinar, we’ll explore what it truly means to manage your device fleet strategically and why a platform-based approach is critical for modern government and education environments.

You’ll see how solutions like HP’s Workforce Experience Platform (WXP) help IT teams move beyond fragmented tools and surface meaningful, experience-level insights across OEM-agnostic environments. Our experts will show how organizations are using platform solutions to:

• Shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive fleet optimization
• Gain unified visibility into device health, OS performance, and security posture through experience scoring and analytics
• Identify and resolve issues before they impact users or generate tickets
• Make data-driven refresh and investment decisions that balance performance needs with budget realities
• Quickly surface actionable insights using AI-driven queries and real-time workforce data

The session will include a live demonstration of tools in action — highlighting fleet monitoring, alerting, ticket visibility and analytics — so you can see how modern IT teams simplify complexity and plan confidently for AI-enabled environments.

Reserve your seat to learn how proactive, experience-driven fleet management can help you reduce risk, justify smarter investments, and deliver better outcomes for both IT and end users.

Identity fraud is not a single threat with a single definition. It’s an evolving spectrum of attacks that range from opportunistic misuse of personal information to highly coordinated, AI-enabled operations designed to exploit systemic vulnerabilities at scale.

In this webinar, experts from Socure and the Center for Digital Government will break down the stages of identity fraud and examine the tools, controls and governance strategies required to mitigate risk at each level of sophistication. They will examine trending and emerging attack vectors such as contact center fraud, fake job applicants and fraudulent job postings, and coordinated identity manipulation powered by automation and AI. You will gain insight into how modern fraud schemes operate in practice and how agencies and organizations can strengthen their defenses without sacrificing user experience or equitable access.

We’ll cover:

• How identity fraud evolves — from basic misuse to highly sophisticated, coordinated attacks
• The mechanics behind common and emerging fraud schemes
• How to evaluate your organization’s position on the fraud maturity spectrum
• How to adopt a structured, proactive approach to manage identity risk in a complex digital environment

This invitation-only gathering brings together state and local IT executives, emerging leaders, and visionary thinkers for candid conversations on the future of public-sector technology. Focused on leadership development, innovation, and strategy, the Forum goes beyond the tech to address the people, policies, and practices shaping digital government. Through peer exchange and practical sessions, participants gain the insights, relationships, and skills needed to lead their organizations and communities into the future.

This is an invitation-only event, open to Public Sector only. For more information or to request an invitation, please contact Sherri Tidwell.

The Higher Education Artificial Intelligence Summit is an invitation-only gathering of senior academic and technology leaders hosted by the Center for Digital Education and the Center for Public Sector AI. This closed-door forum brings together institutions and industry innovators to explore the rapidly accelerating role of AI across academic, research, and operational domains.

The summit begins with a networking dinner, followed by a full day of candid, strategic dialogue. Discussions reflect the most urgent priorities facing higher education leaders as they navigate AI’s impact on campus, including:

• Institutional readiness, governance models, and responsible implementation
• Agentic AI and its potential to streamline repetitive, rules-based work
• Faculty development, instructional innovation, and academic integrity
• AI’s role in student success, engagement, and personalized support
• Research considerations, compliance, and data governance
• Emerging pilot programs, proof-of-concept initiatives, and shared best practices

This is a working session—not a conference. Council members and invited guests leave with clear insights, peer-tested strategies, and a stronger network to guide their institutions through the opportunities and responsibilities of AI adoption.

Cybersecurity teams across the public sector face a shared challenge: legacy workflows that weren’t designed to manage today’s complex and rapidly evolving threat landscape. Traditional approaches require more time, more people, and more resources -- yet still leave critical gaps.

In this upcoming webinar, we’ll explore how government agencies are modernizing and strengthening their security operations. By combining real-time endpoint visibility with intelligent automation, IT and cybersecurity teams can reimagine how they manage assets, prioritize vulnerabilities, and respond to threats.

You’ll hear directly from John Godfrey, CISO of the State of Kansas, who led a transformation of cybersecurity and IT operations across more than 40 state agencies. His team’s shift to automation aligned to enterprise governance frameworks has enabled real-time incident response, accelerated patching, and upgrades, and strengthened audit readiness -- all through smarter automated workflows. 

What You’ll Learn:

• Why real-time visibility and automation are critical enablers for modern cybersecurity in government
•  How to rethink legacy workflows to improve speed, visibility, and control
•  How real-time data and automation can reduce manual overhead while supporting scalable, risk-based response

As insurance premiums rise and budgets tighten, leaders across government and public service organizations are under growing pressure to control costs, reduce liability exposure, and protect their workforce.

Vehicle-related incidents are one of the most common — and costly — sources of claims, litigation, reputational risk, and operational disruption. Yet many organizations still rely on reactive approaches to managing road risk.

Join us for a data-driven conversation on how organizations are using AI-powered video and telematics to strengthen financial resilience, reduce claims exposure, and improve operational accountability.

Recent research shows that 89% of organizations report seeing ROI within the first six months of implementation.

In this session, we’ll explore:

• The hidden cost drivers behind vehicle-related risk: How claims, disputes, injury payouts, insurance increases, and administrative burden impact budgets far beyond the fleet department.
• Risk mitigation as a leadership priority: Why finance, HR, legal, and executive teams are taking a more proactive role in road safety and liability reduction.
• Operational visibility that protects both people and budgets: How AI-driven video insights reduce false claims, support employee exoneration, improve driver behavior, and provide defensible documentation.

Whether you oversee operations, finance, risk, HR, or executive strategy, this session will provide practical insight into turning one of your largest liability exposures into a controllable, measurable risk management strategy.

State and local governments face a harsh cybersecurity reality: Ransomware threats are escalating, staffing is tight, and most agencies don’t have the capacity to monitor endpoints and respond to incidents around the clock.

At the same time, the vendor landscape is crowded — and not every security solution is designed for the operational, compliance, and resource constraints that government organizations face.

This webinar explores why partnerships anchored in public-sector expertise and trusted operational models are becoming essential. We’ll discuss how agencies can strengthen detection and response by working with providers aligned with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and what it means to pair government-focused MDR services with proven endpoint protection.

You’ll learn how government organizations can:

• Extend cybersecurity coverage without expanding internal headcount
• Improve ransomware readiness with 24/7 monitoring and rapid containment
• Simplify endpoint security and threat response across complex environments
• Gain confidence in solutions built around government-specific requirements and trust frameworks

This session is designed for state and local IT and security leaders looking for practical ways to strengthen cyber resilience through partners that understand public-sector realities.