Plan to join your colleagues at the Smart Facilities Forum to discuss the current mandates, opportunities, and challenges as agencies move toward smarter, greener operations. Attendees will learn how the convergence of digital and physical infrastructures is enabling better facilities management at the city, base, and building level. This is your opportunity to learn how infrastructure integration will help your agency identify efficiencies, e...

The Obama administration has pledged to ensure that every single taxpayer dollar is managed as efficiently as possible. The administration has kicked off initiatives to address contract management, performance management, information technology management and human capitol management, among other issues, but administration officials and agency leaders are facing many of the challenges which thwarted progress by their predecessors. Join us for...

FedTalks is this year’s premiere conference bringing 500 of the most influential government leaders and business executives together to discuss ways to improve our government with technology and citizen engagement. The full day event will feature mini keynotes from C-Level executives from the high tech industry, Sr. Government leaders, media giants, authors and academics. Diamond Sponsors: Intel, Microsoft, HP Platinum Sponsors: Symante...

Fall 2010 Telework Exchange Town Hall MeetingFlex Your Telework MuscleTelework Exchange will host the Fall Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, October 7, 2010, focused on how the workforce is changing and agencies need to be more efficient, productive, and agile. The President is clear on telework. The Federal government must no longer trail, but lead by example in the Flexibility Revolution. The Federal government needs to hit the gym and flex its...

Congress has established a National Office for Cybersecurity at the White House, now requires federal agencies to conduct independent audits of their information security programs, and has established new policies for agency acquisition and procurement. Two years ago, Congressman Mike McCaul co-founded the first-ever House Cyber Security Caucus to address these areas of oversight and inconsistency. Join Congressman McCaul in a moderated discus...

The importance of IT in solving information-sharing and open-government issues is putting federal CIOs in the driver's seat at many agencies. With a new focus on data, cloud computing and information security, federal CIOs are increasingly given a major role in executing their agencies' missions.Join Allan Holmes, Executive Editor of Nextgov, and a panel of top federal CIOs as they explore how federal Chief Information Officers are impacting y...

Since the beginning of humankind, there has been an economic connection between people and land. Whether it's for food, water, shelter, or economic reasons, people rely on land to survive. By understanding their relationship with geography, a society's people can make informed decisions about how its land can fulfill basic human needs and serve as a stable economic foundation. Today, geographic technology data and analysis are being applied to...

Workshop Description This Potomac Forum Training Workshop provides an overview of data center consolidation in compliance with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. The Workshop provides a detailed breakdown of major components, reporting requirements and intended goals of the Federal Initiative and how to implement the initiative in the government environment to achieve an effective, cost effective and compliant data center consol...

8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Welcome and review of objectives for this meeting As the capital needs of the federal government are better understood, the issue of federal budget scoring procedures has become a point of discussion among policy makers within the Administration and on Capitol Hill. Simultaneously, the modification of FASB 13 will likely have an impact on the underlying way that the principles of budget sc...

Workshop Description This workshop is led by subject matter thought leaders and business consultants Mark Stein and Lilith Christiansen (authors of Successful Onboarding: A Strategy to Unlock Hidden Value within Your Organization; McGraw-Hill). The workshop is designed to help you improve, design, plan for and implement an Onboarding program for your Government Organization. Why You Should Attend Federal executives, managers and staff attendin...