The Public Sector Coffee Hour series is a bi-weekly videocast featuring luminaries from technology, society and the world of STEM. Topics for discussion will include governmental and societal impacts of technology, open source in Sci/Tech/Med., as well as the role of technology and work/life balance. Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI’s most wanted hacker. Mr. Mitnick was arrested for what Sun Microsystems would later do themselves - publishing...

The recent shift towards DevOps makes it clear that Federal agencies are moving forward with adopting this operational model to facilitate the practice of automating development, delivery, and deployment of mission-critical software. While the traditional idea of a software release dissolves into a continuous cycle of service and delivery improvements, agencies find that their conventional approaches to software security are having a difficult...

Are you trying to build a new application that needs to incorporate location services? You are not alone. With the rise of COVID and other critical topics, there is an increasing need for applications using location and geospatial data. How do developers serve up geospatial data in a cloud native way? Come to this session to find out how. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) members and international community are creating Open APIs for cloud...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 7/14-7/30/2020 Women in Tech Summit (WITS) is the tech conference for women working in technical and non-technical roles. WITS includes hands-on tech workshops, discussions about trending topics in tech, and information on thriving through tech career phases and facets. WITS connects women working on the business and tec...

In almost any conversation about DevOps (or DevSecOps), the topic of culture will come up. Why is culture so important when it comes to technological paradigms like DevOps, Cloud Native, SRE, etc.? In this edition of DNF: Deconstructed, we talk with Nathen Harvery of Google to better understand the role of culture in adopting a technology shift.

The recent shift towards DevOps makes it clear that Federal agencies are moving forward with adopting this operational model to facilitate the practice of automating development, delivery, and deployment of mission-critical software. While the traditional idea of a software release dissolves into a continuous cycle of service and delivery improvements, agencies find that their conventional approaches to software security are having a difficult...

Today, agencies are striving to improve their application security programs, while at the same time, not slowing down the development, delivery, and deployment of their software applications. Can a balance be achieved between security and an organization’s (or agency’s) daily business requirements? We know it’s possible. Application Security (AppSec) Awareness Programs that are specifically focused on the development communit...

The evolution of technology presents innovation and challenges, in both public and private sectors. Legacy systems, workforce transformation, technical debt, security updates, infrastructure demands have all become common vernacular. Deciding what to prioritize and how to manage the changes can define the success of technology transformation and set the stage for future improvements. This webinar, featuring Emily Fox, NSA; Loris Degioanni, Sys...

Forging the Future of Government Together We hope that you are staying safe and healthy during these difficult times. Now more than ever, there is a need for society, business and government to respond to change with agility and unity. To help provide the tools and education needed to accelerate essential recovery and transformation, we invite you to join us July 1 for IBM’s Think Gov Digital Event Experience. Choose from multiple sessio...

During this unclassified webinar we will discuss; what happened, why it occurred, what could have been done to prevent it, and strategies to prevent another occurrence in all government facilities.