With increasing social problems and shrinking funding, alternative sources of funding are essential. Forward-thinking Non For Profit organisations are looking for new ways to get the funds they need to achieve positive outcomes. Social Finance – has emerged as a way to attract these much needed funds. Join us at the Social Finance conference in March in Sydney and learn how your organisation can get involved in this growing area and acce...

GIGAOM STRUCTURE DATA 2014 The world's biggest and most innovative companies are using data to make better products, build bigger profits and even change the world. Join 900+ big data practitioners, technologists and executives as they examine how big data can drive business success. From grand new uses to the nuts and bolts of capturing, storing, analyzing and serving it, get the bottom line on big data now. Come find out what's next. At Stru...

The Argus European Base Oils Markets 2014 conference will take place on 19-20 March, in Istanbul, Turkey. After a successful inaugural event in 2013, the second Argus European Base Oils Markets conference will once again bring together key market participants representing the entire base oils and lubricants value chain. Attendees will have the chance to network with refiners, lubricant manufacturers, additive companies and original equipment m...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

"A Deep Look within the Intelligence Community (IC)". During the National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) 2014 National Intelligence Symposium (NIS 14') we will explore the current state of the Intelligence Community in terms of current realities. We will place particular emphasis on how the "Big 5" and Service "2's" will address meeting dynamic demands on intelligence in face of our country's fiscal challenges. We will examine what i...

The Gulf of Guinea and wider African waters have become increasing areas of concern for all nations. A proliferation of illegal activities in the region, manifesting in piracy, armed robbery at sea, oil theft and illegal bunkering, illegal harvesting of fisheries, arms smuggling, drug trafficking and other nefarious acts are blighting a region which is rich in resources and economic promise. The Ghana Navy, official partners of Coastal and Mar...

Since 2009, the conference became eventful, and we are happy to present the 5th edition of Europe’s Innovative Advanced Testing event of the year, in the heart of historical Bruges, Belgium. The Belgium Testing Days Conference goes outside the usual conference "box", daring to delve into problematic areas in controversial ways! At the same time, the conference supports diverse testing communities. The main theme for 2014, in conversation...

Joint Base McGuire/Dix/Lakehurst is home to more than 80 mission partners and 40 mission commanders providing a wide range of combat capability. The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure legislation Recommendation 146 directed the relocation of installation support functions for New Jersey's Fort Dix and Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst to McGuire Air Force Base. JB MDL is home to the 87th Air Base Wing, which provides installation manageme...

The event is being sponsored by the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce and will be a 1/2 day event (0800-1300) on 19 March 2014. There will be approximately 2 hours of presentations by guest speakers, with the final 2 hours being Speed Dating/Matchmaking. Meet local Government representatives, Large Business Diversity Managers, Agency Small Business specialists and Contracting Officers. Registration is not required, being that this event is at n...

Dan Doney, Chief Innovation Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), will deliver the morning keynote at this year's event. Doney will explore the Big Data challenges facing the DIA and other elements of the Federal Government. He will also highlight how new technologies, related to Big Data, are creating new opportunities for technical breakthroughs, and the principles that DIA is using to foster technical innovation and put ideas i...