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OMB: No More Lavish Government Conferences

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Originally posted by Elizabeth Flock on U.S. News

New guidelines from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget say it's time to cut back on conference spending in light of the sequester. In a document, the agency said it had "taken aggressive steps to curtail conference spending," such as ensuring conferences that cost more than $100,000 were approved by the head of an agency, hotel costs were within per diem rates, and that a cyber conference was considered before any in-person event was planned.

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More Event Cancellations + Something to Share with the Corporate Office

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Originally posted by Allan Rubin on immixGroup

First, here's some news on continued government event cancellations. Word on the street is that GFIRST 2013 will not take place this year "due to all of the budgetary/travel restrictions." Scheduled from August 25 to 30, the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (GFIRST) "is a group of technical and tactical practitioners from incident response and security response teams responsible for securing government information technology systems and providing private sector support." There's no official posting yet, but expect one soon. That's too bad, as this has been a successful event for many of our clients in the past. Hopefully it will be again in the future.

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1,090 New Conferences, Training Events, & Webcasts Posted on GovEvents So Far This Year

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Although conference cancellations continue to trickle in, don't get discouraged. For every one cancellation, there are hundreds of new event opportunities that can provide the valuable training and education often garnered at these large conferences.  In fact, as of today (March 14, 2013), 1,090 new conferences, training events, and webcasts have been posted to GovEvents since the start of 2013, and thousands more will be added throughout the year.

A frequent request from our members is an updated list of event cancellations and postponements, so here is the latest list we have.  If you know of any others, please shoot us an email: info@govevents.com

Postponed:

Cancelled:

Cancelled Events Earlier this Year:

Takeaways from AFCEA DC’s 4th Annual Cybersecurity Symposium

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Originally posted by Shamun Mahmud on DLT Solutions' Technically Speaking

The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's (AFCEA) DC chapter hosted the 4th Annual Cybersecurity Symposium on Friday February 22nd.  Industry experts joined federal officials from cybersecurity agencies in interactive panels and keynote speeches.  This was a joint update on the status of our nation's cybersecurity efforts.

The key takeaways I found relevant to the public sector cybersecurity community are:

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AFCEA’s Homeland Security Conference Returns To Washington, D.C

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Originally posted by PR Newswire

Under Secretary Rand Beers and other federal, state and local officials confirmed to speak

AFCEA's twelfth annual Homeland Security Conference, "Securing the Homeland: Working Together, Keeping the Nation Safe", will be hosted at the Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, D.C., February 26-28, 2013.  Attendees include government and industry leaders, CIOs, and program managers involved in operations, policy and procurement. Additionally, the Conference will include several roundtables this year, focusing on Chief Information Officers, Procurement Executives, and Collaboration when Disaster Strikes.

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