The Federal Government Procurement Conference (GPC) is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its prime contractors and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone and women-owned businesses. GPC is the largest and longest-running conference for small businesses looking to do business with the government and its prime contractors. This unique one-day event attracts more...

Mental Health America’s (MHA) 2022 Annual Conference, Forward Together: Recovery, Healing, Hope, will take place in Washington, DC from June 9-11, 2022. The event will bring together hundreds of MHA affiliates, peers, providers, government officials, media, and key stakeholders from across the country to explore the intersecting equity issues that exist in mental health.

Data, Saving lives, and…Cornhole?! Qlik’s Public Sector Summit is back in person on June 2nd. And we are bringing together data, analytics, Veterans, and cornhole. Yep – you read that right, cornhole! Join us for a full day of: Everything data integration & analytics for U.S. Federal, and State and Local government agencies, as well as K-12 and Higher Education, and Healthcare organizations. Collaboration with VETSports....

The DC Blockchain Summit is the premiere gathering of the most influential people who are focused on public policy for digital asset and blockchain innovations. Blockchain technology offers immense opportunities for business, government, and consumers. It’s ability to improve processes, increase cost-efficiency, and promote transparency in numerous industries is transforming the ways in which we do business. The DC Blockchain Summit brin...

Sudden demands in agency services often require strategic infrastructure approaches to managing those surges. This event will draw insight from agencies and federal IT leaders at the cutting edge of IT modernization trends to transform how their teams are processing health and benefits claims, managing grants, financial systems and more.

The past two years have brought about a decade’s worth of change to federal technology, from rapidly pivoting to and sustaining a remote, virtual-enabled workforce, to revitalizing customer experience at the heart of government’s biggest missions – all while defending against increasingly sophisticated attacks and making big bets on next generation technologies like cloud, AI and automation. And these transformations are only...

The Marine Military Expos are the primary and proven venues for product developers to demonstrate their capabilities to service members, acquisitions specialists, and service leaders eager to identify best of breed solutions which preserve Marine Corps dominance in every domain of the littoral operating environment, and a competitive overmatch for all currently “engaged in the fight!” Modern Day Marine is the premier military equip...

Law enforcement and public safety professionals are constantly challenged in responding to crises. Over the past two years the COVID pandemic has created opportunities for criminal organizations to exploit new vulnerabilities. At the same time, our law enforcement public safety agencies have gained new capabilities to work remotely. These experiences are accelerating a mobile workforce, which is enabling law enforcement and public safety to ac...

With cyberattacks on the increase at all levels of government, The White House issued a new executive order at the end of January that requires agencies to have a zero trust architecture in place by the end of FY 2024. The Office of Management and Budget followed with a memorandum (M-22-09) that laid out the requirements agencies must meet and the deadlines for completing the tasks outlined in the document. OMB identified five areas of focus--...

Over the past several weeks, the IJIS Team has been diligently monitoring the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic and the recent surge of the Omicron variant. Given what we understand from ongoing conversations with our members or what is the experience of our peer organizations, we have ultimately decided to postpone this winter's National Symposium to Tuesday, May 3rd and Wednesday, May 4th, 2022. This rescheduled event will be held at the Ritz Carlto...