Welcome to what’s new and next in Modern Data Protection for the U.S. Federal Government. Join us for an evening of learning and networking as we explore a future vision of cyber-resiliency, IT modernization, and data protection for mission-critical applications. We'll discuss: Prevent, Detect, and Restore– modern backup best practices across your on-prem, cloud, and SaaS workloads. Ransomware Resiliency- how to ensure your data is...

Confluent, AWS, Databricks, and MongoDB are coming to New York. Today’s customers expect real-time data from businesses. To rise to these expectations, modern organizations are deploying data streaming technology, the most popular of which is Apache Kafka. Join us to talk through what “a day in the life” of data professionals who work with Kafka looks like now, and what Confluent’s cloud-native, Kafka-based platform can...

Shift Your Organization's Strategyinto Actionable Game Plans This Briefing is Co-Chaired by ICIT and MFGS, Inc. an ICIT Fellow Program Member. Securing our national security and critical infrastructures requires innovation and savvy leadership. Strategic planning transcends conceptual planning to provide organizations with tactical plans for innovation and governance. The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), in partnership...

Our organizations and agencies work in a wide-ranging ecosystem involving multiple missions, locations, systems, and data sources. Orchestrating a robust security program, or executing a critical mission requires leaders to consider multiple sources of data at a near-real-time pace, resulting in potential information overload or risking mission failures. Implementing analytic automation to analyze and synthesize information enables leaders to...

Moving to the Cloud can help introduce significant innovative capabilities, but many are having trouble finding costs savings after their cloud migrations. However, one of the largest mistakes that agencies make is not doing the proper due diligence prior to migrating their workloads. In these cases, not only does the customer not experience the cost savings they were expecting, but they also end up increasing their overall costs. Azul and UM...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date- information! AGA is the member organization for government financial management professionals. We lead and encourage change that benefits our field and all citizens. Our training events, professional certification, publications and ongoing education help members build their skills and advance their careers. Who we are Our members work in government financial management across sectors and worldw...

Every day, government agencies must process millions of applications, claims forms, tax documents and other pages to respond to constituent requests and keep operations running. To keep up with demand, government agencies are upgrading their existing document process workflows with the latest in AI-powered automation. Forward-thinking agencies at all levels are looking beyond OCR, RPA and other legacy technologies and turning to intelligent a...

To quantify the cybersecurity talent shortage, Forbes reported nearly a half a million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in America. An ongoing debate is what leaders can do to close this talent gap and a recurring recommendation is providing training and skills development. Gamification at the simplest level is a neuroscience “hack” that encourages ongoing participation with subject matter because of the release of dopamine from rewards...

Emerging technologies promise new abilities to make our increasingly fragile global society more resilient. To sustain this progress, nations must invest in research, expand their digital infrastructures, and increase digital literacy so that their people can compete and flourish in this new era. Yet, at the same time, no nation or international organization is able to keep pace with the appropriate governance structures needed to grapple with...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date- information! AGA is the member organization for government financial management professionals. We lead and encourage change that benefits our field and all citizens. Our training events, professional certification, publications and ongoing education help members build their skills and advance their careers. Who we are Our members work in government financial management across sectors and worldw...