Every federal agency recognizes that being audited is an often painful, always time-consuming process. The Department of Defense, for instance, has failed four audits in a row – but it is making progress after decades to keep its financial house in order. A Government Accountability Office report in 2020 identified several challenges that make it harder for agencies to earn clean fiscal bills of health, including problems with their fina...

Join OPSWAT on January 20th at 2:00pm ET for part 1 of this exclusive webinar series. During this series, we will focus on utilizing next-generation sandbox technologies to build your zero trust strategy for both IT and OT environments. This webinar will feature guest speakers Bob Gourley, former CTO of the DIA, and Bob Flores, former CTO of the CIA. Gourley and Flores are frequently called upon to build improvement plans for large commercial...

At Shopify, we have over 1.7 million merchants across over 175 countries, with hundreds of millions of consumers shopping at their stores. We’re focused on leveraging the scale of our data to not only empower Shopify, but to create new experiences for our merchants that are impossible without data. In our daily operations at Shopify, we are highly data informed. Some of the ways we’re leveraging advanced analytics is by building an...

Find out about Scotland’s AI Strategy: Trustworthy, Ethical and Inclusive. Scotland’s AI Strategy sets out a vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. It sets the principles that will guide us, including the OECD’s AI Principles, and UNICEF’s Policy Guidance on AI for Children and identifies the actions we’ll take develop and strengthen our AI ecosy...

International travel with government funded equipment (GFE) mobile devices is expected to pick up in early 2022 as we recover from COVID-19 and travel restrictions open up. As domestic and international travel picks up, GFE mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets) will facilitate government employee work productivity during foreign travel, including remote connections to office enterprise networks and databases. However, their portabilit...

Data quality is of the utmost importance when it comes to actionable insights and model performance. In this presentation, Vinay Malkani, Figure Eight Federal's Chief of Engineering will discuss why quality data is critical, opportunities and challenges associated with data, and how to integrate multiple data sources to produce consistent, accurate, and useful information. Jack Hild, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Hall of Famer...

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Of all the consequential potential applications for artificial intelligence, nothing may rival its use by military operations. The very idea of life-and-death decision-making by AI-enabled weapons systems has induced fear in the collective social imagination for decades – the first “Terminator” movie was released in 1985.Hollywood’s deployment of special effects is lightyears beyond the capabilities of today’s AI....

Far too often, agencies, organizations, and consulting firms are running data and AI projects without taking the right steps to ensure their success. Agile and iterative approaches have become adopted best practices for application development projects, but why don’t we have something similar when it comes to advanced analytics, big data, and AI projects? Without using best-practices approaches that standardize steps for data preparation...

Adoption of AI can bring many benefits, but it can also expose organizations to new risks that require management, including bias, operational risks, and vulnerabilities to malicious threats like tampering. Deloitte speakers will discuss a framework to address these risks. We’ll discuss: Current regulatory landscape of AI usage and outlook Developing an AI risk strategy Approaches to proactively monitoring for AI risks Leading capabiliti...