The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) in the popular imagination tends to be pretty frightening – from HAL, the rogue computer in 2001, to the Terminator movie franchise. The public doesn’t realize that AI is already being used, such as powering the chatbots they use when they talk online with government agencies or their favorite vendors. And the potential exists to remake delivery of services at all levels of government. Th...

Iowa-Illinois Safety Council's Annual Professional Development Conference and Expo (PDC) brings together Safety, Health, and Environmental professionals from Illinois, Iowa, and even nationwide! IISC's PDC is unique to Illinois and Iowa and continues to meet the needs of SHE professionals. Education is the focal point with over 30 sessions providing the very best educational opportunity in Illinois and Iowa in relation to safety, health, and e...

Acquisition Training for the Real World Spring 2021 Why: Become an expert on the tools and digital services available on the Acquisition Gateway and how they can help improve your acquisitions Gain skills to improve the government’s buying power and reduce contract duplication Find out the latest information on Federal Marketplace initiatives Earn CLPs to maintain your certifications Acquisition Training for the Real World Spring 2021 is...

DGI’s 21st annual Government Customer Experience Conference will explore the policies, applications and technologies involved with improving customer and employee experience with the ultimate goal of improving citizen services. This annual event is focused on improving customer experience and citizen engagement through all aspects of serving citizens: onsite, online, social media, mobile, contact center operations, and more. The 2021 Gov...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, all 2021 summits have been moved to a virtual platform due to COVID-19 concerns. The Official Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts. These events maintain as much of the traditional tradeshow experience as possible with a v...

MAS Consolidation is one of the four Cornerstone Initiatives of GSA’s Federal Marketplace (FMP) strategy, GSA’s plan to modernize and simplify the buying and selling experience for customers, suppliers, and acquisition professionals. GSA’s new single Schedule solicitation features a simplified format with streamlined terms and conditions, new large categories and sub-categories, and updated Special Item Numbers (SINs) that wi...

Advancing digital services is the #2 priority for states in 2021, second only to cybersecurity, according to the National Association of State CIOs annual survey of top 10 priorities. In the 2021 Technology Forecast, state CIOs listed efforts to respond to and recover from the effects of the pandemic as major drivers of their priorities. When COVID-19 subsides, buildings may reopen and employees return to the workplace, but citizens will be ac...

Agencies at all levels are under pressure to evolve their cybersecurity posture from a passive to a more active strategy. To accomplish that, they must modernize from static, on-prem, physical IT to a multicloud strategy - taking advantage of the power that public and private cloud can provide. However, multicloud modernization comes with complexities - from budgets to workforce to security requirements. For example, while cloud vendors secure...

The COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in its tracks, but not your work. City, county, and state services are in higher demand than ever before, and your team's workload may have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. To make things even more complicated, you're now dealing with countless remote work hurdles. Join our complimentary webinar to discover how Workfront brings together remote work capabilities to help government teams manage IT por...

Alan Lightfeldt, the Senior Principal of Data and Analytics at Slalom joins Shawn Pfaff, the Director of Solution Engineering at Tableau in leading a discussion on the transition from Descriptive to Predictive Analytics. Join us for this webinar, where attendees will: Review current approach to NGO analytics - looking back to determine a plan forward Learn new ways to apply Business Science to your fundraising and programmatic data Understand...