The most expansive explosion of innovative activity in federal acquisition in a quarter of a century is continuing to gain power as it spreads across the government, bottom to top, and side to side. The theme of this year’s Acquisition Excellence (AE) Conference is Acquisition Innovation in Action. The impact of successful acquisition innovation is truly remarkable, and the opportunities continue to multiply. AE will focus on how we are...

This forum will provide government and industry with a much clearer understanding of Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intelligent Automation. To set the stage for this half-day forum, we are providing a short description of these terms. RPA promises to speed up and automate routine processes while reducing the amount of errors, which in turn will enable human team members to pursue higher value tasks that can...

Join the ACT-IAC Federal Insights Exchange on December 5, 2018 at the City Club of Washington DC featuring Rod Turk, Acting Chief Information Officer, Department of Commerce. Mr. Turk's discussion will focus on Department of Commerce’s modernization efforts to improve the security posture of IT to align with ongoing mission work to improve services, technology solutions, and advance security across the Federal enterprise. In response to...

In the Federal IT workforce, success often depends on discerning professionals who are adept at juggling responsibilities that require both strong technical knowledge and excellent interpersonal skills. ACT-IAC's NexUS community will host the final forum of 2018 focusing on the skills required for success in this career field. This forum will feature experts from industry and government who will share insights on what it takes to thrive and ex...

Don’t miss this opportunity between Thanksgiving and the Holidays to get caught up on the latest developments in the ACT-IAC community. Stay afterwards for the reception and networking! Thomas Michelli, Department of Defense Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity will be our featured guest speaker. Mr. Michelli is responsible for ensuring the department has a well-defined and well-executed $8 billion cybersecurity prog...

ACT-IAC is planning a “Shark Tank” event focused on the viability of solutions that use Blockchain technology in addressing potential healthcare agency use cases (needs). Potential blockchain use cases have been pre-vetted by a variety of health sector participants from the ACT-IAC Blockchain Working Group, government representatives from HHS and its Operating Divisions (OPDIVs), the VA and DHA.Our health agency participants, alo...

This forum seeks to bring together people from the data, analysis, financial, policy and public communities to better understand the challenges and solutions to financial integrity. This forum is looking to provide cases of how using seemingly disparate data led to company or agency success. We want you to imagine the possibilities and provide you with a couple of tools along the way. Keynote Speaker:Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Of...

INVENTING THE FUTURE OF MISSION DELIVERY TOGETHER For three days in October, forward-thinking leaders of government and industry will converge in Philadelphia to network, share, learn, collaborate, and forge actionable approaches and practices that maximize the value we provide to our nation’s citizens. Covering the Most Important Topics at Imagine Nation - ELC 2018 Acquisition: Innovations in Acquisition, Other Transaction AuthoritiesB...

Is Your Workforce Up to the Challenge? New This Year at Imagine Nation – ELC 2018: Full day of Training Sunday, October 14, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA! Add training to conference registration or purchase separately Immersive training led by experts in their field: Training participants are eligible for up to eight (8) Continuous Learning Points (CLPs), four for each half-day course and eight for a full-day course. Training fee applies and...

Deep Dive into NASA SEWP's Acquisition Tips, Tools and Innovations Get a Deep Dive into NASA SEWP - this session starts with a quick overview of the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) contract vehicle and promptly moves to an interactive web-based demonstration with participant engagement activities. You will learn in-depth details on SEWP as an IT acquisition vehicle that provides simplified acquisitions using customer frie...