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This is an updated Encore Training Workshop based upon a very successful and highly acclaimed Workshop in May 2016. Student rated the Workshop as “Excellent” and requested a repeat workshop to permit additional staff to attend. This updated “Encore” Workshop is scheduled at the request of previous students! The White House set a goal of raising the government wide engagement score to 67% by the 2016 Federal Employee Vie...

FedScoop's 8th Annual Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit will bring government and industry IT leaders together to discuss the best ways government can become more efficient and save money through the use of innovative technologies. The discussion will focus on agile development, cybersecurity, cloud and a variety of other best practices for lowering the government's cost of doing business. 8th Annual Lowering the Cost of Gov with...

In October 2015, the Office of Management and Budget released its much-anticipated Cybersecurity Implementation Plan (CSIP), a multi-pronged initiative aimed at getting agencies up to speed on cybersecurity. The strategy reflects the dual realities of the cybersecurity challenge: The increasingly diverse and sophisticated nature of today’s cyber threats, and the increasingly complex nature of the federal enterprise to be protected. A str...

The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the Government Chair of this educational, one-day symposium featuring government speakers and panels examining the practice of DevOps - and the complementa...

Overview: With the current headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the upcoming deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementation. Detailed review and analysis of the directive will be...

Federal agencies have only begun to explore the benefits of the cloud. Without a doubt, five years into the federal government’s “Cloud First” policy, cloud is delivering important results—most notably the ability to quickly deploy IT resources and scale up operations as requirements change. But in most agencies, the greater potential for transformation remains largely untapped. With the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Ac...

The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enable the absolute best next generation of government. Whether you’re a millennial just entering the government workforce or a manager tasked with retaining and developing talent, or a seasoned public servant looking for new resources or challenges, the NextGen Summit is where you want to be. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 4,000 federal, state and local govies to be positi...

Overview: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reaso...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud computing subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. DevOps vs NoOps: Managing Public Clouds2. Secur...