Workshop Description This Potomac Forum Training Workshop provides an overview of data center consolidation in compliance with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. The Workshop provides a detailed breakdown of major components, reporting requirements and intended goals of the Federal Initiative and how to implement the initiative in the government environment to achieve an effective, cost effective and compliant data center consol...

Sun Storage: Discover Speed, Simplicity, and Savings Too often in today’s datacenter, rapid data growth results in inefficient, hard-to-manage storage with sluggish throughput, declining quality of service, and escalating costs. As part of your introduction to the new Sun family of offerings from Oracle, we invite you to join us at a FREE half-day seminar on how to overcome this challenge. You’ll discover how Sun Storage 7000 Unifi...

The goals of Industry Day are to provide situational awareness of ITA's transformation and the future contracting environment, and to increase vendor competition. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. The program starts at 9:30 a.m. ITA is a customer-driven organization dedicated to providing economical, reliable, and secure IT services. Our mission is to advance the mission success of the Pentagon community as well as customers located inside and...

CityCampDC is an unconference (a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose) dedicated to bringing people together who are passionate about building a better District of Columbia. There is a 300 person limit for this event, and 50 person limits for each ticket type. It's very simple: 1) You arrive and everyone introduces themselves, provides a 3 'keyword context' of what you're interested in, and have the opportu...

Government 2.0 Camp Rocky Mountains is the first Government 2.0 camp for the Rocky Mountian Region. This camp will bring together government leaders, policy makers, scholars, students, contractors, and government employees to discuss and work collaboratively on improving government through technology. This event is open to anyone interested in improving government. Our focus will be the use of technologies, like Web 2.0 and social media tools...

Vancouver ChangeCamp addresses the demand for a renewed relationship among citizens and government. We seek to create connections, knowledge, tools and policies that drive transparency, civic engagement and democratic empowerment. Van ChangeCamp is a unique day – a hybrid conference and unconference bringing together citizens, technologists, public sector and not-for-profits to answer two key questions: How can we help government become...

This conference will provide you with broad insight and analysis into the complex world of cyber security. Defending against and defeating cyber attacks will require the combined efforts of both the public and private sectors, working to develop new technologies and new approaches for maintaining real-time protection of their individual networks. Hear how executives expect the industry and policies to develop, plus: Find out about the technolo...

The 2010 Small Business Procurement Conference is a one-day event that focuses on small businesses and program offices from SSA. The format will include 3-4 briefings that will support collaboration from the SSA Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance and Management, Contracting officers and other SSA personnel. The purpose of this event is to have small businesses network with SSA personnel and contractors to gain a better understanding of ho...

Private Sector Strategies for Public Sector Computing Environments The Federal Government is in the process of sorting out what functions and tasks should be performed by its own employees, and what is best left to the expertise of their counterparts in industry and academia. All concerned have the same objective—to enable the delivery of effective, valuable computing strategies and services that make the most of public sector investment...

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will hold a workshop on Emergency Alerting for the 21st Century: Leveraging Multiple Technologies to Bring Alerts and Warnings to All Americans. The workshop will educate stakeholders about the status of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, including Next Generation Emergency Alert System and the Commercial Mobile Alert System and will provide FEMA, the FCC and other Federal partn...