SAS Government Leadership Summit 2012 The SAS Government Leadership Summit (#SASgov) is targeted at mid-tier to executive level decision makers in Government. This year's theme is "Analytics on Point: Sharpen the focus on brighter possibilities." Everybody is talking about big data, but what is it really, and how do you keep it from overwhelming you? As the amount of data pouring into your organization grows in volume, variety and velocity, ho...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

SANS returns to Denver for SANS Rocky Mountain 2012, June 4-9! We're offering the following 6-day cybersecurity courses in security and IT project management. Set yourself apart from others in the field by taking the training and certification that will prepare you to defend your organization. When you attend SANS Rocky Mountain 2012, you will see the SANS promise in action - what you learn in the classroom you will be able to use immediately...

Benefits Discover how to navigate the minefields of public contracting and procurement code with ease. Do you want to know how to minimize the looming pitfalls inherent in public contracting? Now you can - attend this seminar and enhance your knowledge of the complex and always changing system of laws and regulations involved in public contracting and procurement. You will find out not only how to effectively coordinate the public procurement...

Spoken interactions between teachers and students and among students are at the heart of learning. Our oral language is the model upon which students build as they learn to articulate their ideas, explore questions and explain their thinking, yet we don’t often stop to scrutinize our discourse with students. In this seminar, we’ll explore ways in which we can make relatively minor modifications in our oral language patterns that wi...

WHAT'S COVERED The vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining, but are fully mystified about where to begin or even how to prepare. Of those who did initiate a modeling initiative, a recent data mining industry survey of predictive modeling practitioners reports that 51% of data mining projects either never left the ground, did not realize value or the ultimate results were not measurable. Despite its elus...

New Special Reduced Registration Feeand Team Rates$795 for Government New Special Reduced Registration Fee$895 for Industry Overview of the Workshop: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it was especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more c...

In 2011, Cricket Liu spoke just before World IPv6 Day about the need to deploy IPv6. Finally, the world was beginning to embrace the next-generation Internet protocol. Now, with World IPv6 Launch calling upon major ISPs, manufacturers of home networking equipment and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services, we have assembled Infoblox’s IPv6 Center of Excellence to continue educating thos...

The Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) is the world leading forum for the humanitarian aid, relief and development sectors which facilitates partnerships, addresses global humanitarian and development issues and encourages the sharing of expertise. AIDF brings together decision makers from UN, government, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs and the corporate sector who are involved in the delivery of humanitarian aid relief and...