Understand how to manage conflicts of interest in the public sector. All board members, business leaders, public officials, and professionals have some type of conflict issue in their employment, even if it appears as a mere remote issue. This topic is intended to provide you with a better understanding and awareness of what is or may constitute a conflict of interest and how to avoid them. Topics will include: What constitutes a conflict of i...

Ed Caso and David Kriegman bring their collective expertise and leadership experience to this complimentary executive briefing for government contractor CEOs and CFOs. The objective of this course is to provide a thought provoking prospective to the way leaders focus on their finances and their business. Ed Caso, Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, considered one of the leading IT/BPO services equity research...

NCMA will be hosting its first "Spotlight Series on Buying Information Services" webinar series. Earn 3.0 CPE hours by attending the two webinars or 1.5 CPE hours for each individual webinar. There is no limit to the number of people who can participate in each webinar. This discounted series allows an entire staff to be trained for one low cost, and with 14-day unlimited access to the webinar streams. Sign up now! April 20: Contracting for Ag...

Make sure you are up-to-date with recent changes to Minnesota employment laws. Maintaining best employment practices is critical to the success of every organization. Each year brings new and amended rules and regulations that govern the employer-employee relationship. These constant changes can challenge employers in keeping up with the law and ensuring their practices are compliant. Learn about recent changes to Minnesota and federal law; en...

Government agencies face complex choices when moving to the cloud, but the benefits are compelling. Budgetary pressures are driving the need to lower operations and maintenance costs and cybersecurity concerns are escalating the need for modernization. This webinar will explore the techniques government can use to optimize their IT operations, consolidate data centers, improve governance and compliance, and chose the right approach for their a...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Mobile Health Forum on Thursday, April 20th at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, D.C. Mobile Health Apps and Telehealth applications have the potential to transform the standard approach to treating, monitoring, and educating the patient populations. These bi-directional initiatives – via voice, text, data, camera images and or video f...

New and unexpected challenges await grants-funded organizations in 2017. The Southern Grants Forum 2017 will help all members of the grant-funded community (nonprofits, governmental entities, colleges and universities, tribal organizations, hospitals, and others) face those challenges with confidence. This year's special edition of the Southern Grants Forum will feature nearly two dozen workshops over three days that will prepare both new and...

The government technology refresh efforts continue with a goal to improve, retire, or replace existing information technology systems to enhance cybersecurity and improve efficiency and effectiveness. The CIO Council’s State of Federal IT notes that the rapid transformation of how Americans interact with business, news, entertainment and other services has radically changed citizen expectations of how they interact with government. This...

Increase Security and Control with Multi-Factor Authentication Join F5 Networks and ClearShark for a complimentary lunch and TechTalk on Wednesday, April 19th, 2017. The term multi-factor authentication is used widely in the DoD. What is it and how can F5 fill this need? Jonathan Spigler from ClearShark will be demonstrating how Big-IP's Access Policy Manager (APM) can fill this multi-factor authentication for a multi-vendor enterprise. With...

Join F5 Networks, Splunk, and ClearShark for a complimentary training on the integration capabilities between F5's BIG-IP appliances and Splunk's Big Data analytics software via the "F5 Networks - Analytics App" on Splunk. The "F5 Networks - Analytics App" on Splunk gives in-depth visibility to various components of your BIG-IP infrastructure, covering modules such as Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Access Policy Manager (APM), Application Securi...