NIGP Forum is where the public procurement community comes together to prepare for what's next. At Forum, our member network brings together professionals at all levels and career stages to​ learn from and support one another. It’s the environment where innovative ideas are shared and​ worked on collaboratively. It’s where our profession is exposed to new thinking and prepared to​ develop new solutions that will r...

Open to Public Sector only. Government Technology’s passion is helping spread best practices and spurring innovation in the public sector. The Minnesota Digital Government Summit is designed to do just that. The summit has an advisory board that gathers public sector and private sector leaders to create an agenda that is relevant and actionable to the state and local government organizations attending the summit. Participants can take ad...

As state governments look to technology to improve service delivery to citizens, it will mean changing the way that agencies and departments operate, organize, budget, and buy in the future. These changes will be accelerated with the growing use of AI tools and capabilities. Is state government ready for the use of AI? How will the business need to change and adapt? What are the pitfalls and what policies and regulations are needed? What role...

Imagine this scenario: Your state or locality can map when and where violence is most likely to happen. With this knowledge, officials and local leaders concentrate resources in those hotspots. The additional community support results in fewer incidents requiring responder dispatch and decreased crime levels. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. In fact, this is exactly what’s happening in Wilmington, Delaware. Determined to find a...

For many years, security professionals have advocated the approach of collecting logs from all the places where they’re generated and centralizing them into one or only a few places.But now, we have much more data and many more sources of security telemetry, including from endpoints, networks, email, IAM, SaaS applications, and cloud assets in multi-cloud infrastructures.Does centralizing log data still make sense, or should we be thinki...

In this talk, Ahmed Abugharbia and Abdul Kittana will deep dive into various methodologies and options for developing applications using generative AI technologies. They will discuss the process of building ASecureCloud’s AI-powered features, lessons learned, and demonstrate how you can apply similar principles in your own environments. Objectives: Learn capabilites of current generative AI technologies Different options for building app...

IT modernization continues to be at the forefront of government agency strategy and success. What lessons have they learned and what’s next?

XChange August is the premier gathering for IT channel professionals and industry leaders. Our event offers a unique platform where IT solution providers, technology vendors, and industry experts come together to network, collaborate, and explore the latest trends and innovations one-on-one. With engaging sessions, interactive boardroom discussions, and networking opportunities, XChange August provides an immersive experience designed to foste...

Network on the greens before the 2023 National HUBZone Conference! The HUBZone Contractors National Council is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association comprised of a group of companies and organizations working together to improve and support the HUBZone program and small business community. Established in 2000, the HUBZone Council and its members have been proudly supporting the HUBZone Program and the small businesses and communities it sup...

Government procurement is complex, high-stakes, time-sensitive, and too important to be left to inefficient systems like emails, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Most digital procurement solutions on the market only offer so much benefit to agencies, though. Many of these systems can't adapt as technology changes – meaning they are challenging to update, quickly become difficult to use, and ultimately become obsolete. Modernizing procure...