ODSC is the best community data science event on the planet. There are other events that cover special topics, or industries, etc., but ODSC is comprehensive and totally community-focused: it's the conference to engage, to build, to develop, and to learn from the whole data science community. ODSC East 2021 is one of the largest applied data science conferences in the world. Our speakers include core contributors to many open source libraries...

Featured Guest: Dan Hoffman, City Manager, City of Winchester, VA All too often public opinion regarding science and technology is informed by fictional TV shows and not by reality. Combine this with a historically low trust in government compared to past generations and the ability of public administrators to implement new technologies appears hindered. Although AI, machine learning and other data-fueled tools promise to help make government...

U.S and international special operations leaders will once again gather, with COVID19 safety precautions, at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay. The event will include limited expo opportunities, Professional Development (Pro-Dev) sessions, and a line-up of engaging speakers. Highlights Include: Robust agenda to include a Professional Development Day, SOF for Life Transition Seminar, Speed Networking (exclusive to Corporate Partners), interactive panel...

Fraud impacts everyone—including government agencies. Traditional rules-based systems may have been effective in the past in identifying fraud, but they become ineffective and stale as fraudsters learn how to bypass those rules. It becomes even more challenging due to the large volumes of data that need to be processed and examined to detect fraud, in addition to the constantly changing tactics for committing fraud – those activiti...

Rapid global digital growth has drastically changed the way we conduct business, consume products and services, and interact at personal, enterprise and government levels. Each new avenue of connection and transaction puts volumes of more sensitive information at jeopardy with tremendous short and long term consequences. Reducing sensitive data exposure in the Federal Government is often hampered by limited human resources, lack of central mon...

Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, transforming internal business processes to make federal employees more effective and efficient, or improving the citizen experience on federal websites, digital government aims to enable better government. New tools and technologies are an essential part of these efforts, but the true transformation takes place in the analog world -- rethinking business processes, changing the workplace cultur...

Empower your analysts and agency to optimize the audit preparation process with Monarch for Data Transformation. Preparing for and conducting an audit can be a labor intensive, cumbersome, and error prone process. However it doesn’t need to be that way. By leveraging Monarch, analysts and agencies can leverage their disparate data sources in a no-code environment to optimize audit readiness. During this session, we'll cover how to: Apply...

The course will survey the history of decisive military technologies that have caused a Revolution in Military Affairs, resulting not only in new tactics and strategies but changing the course of civilization and world history. For example, ancient Macedonia’s King Phillip II (382-336 BC) introduction of the sarrisa—a spear measuring about 18 feet in length, much longer than those used by any other army of antiquity—became th...

The future of warfare rests on the ability of the armed forces to extract and unlock actionable insights from data to gain an advantage over adversaries on the battlefield wherever it may be--land, air, sea, cyberspace, or Space. To that end, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is working on tools to help in joint, all-domain operations. JAIC officials have reported the center is involved in the Air Force’s A...

Public health agencies have many technologies at their disposal to help address society’s growing mental health crisis. However, many of these technologies are single point solutions that do not cover all the challenges facing patients and caregivers. Additionally, these technologies do not integrate easily into the whole care delivery lifecycle or existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems that are critical in delivering and coordi...