Governance & Policy Forum Overview As part of the annual CyberMaryland Conference, the Federal Business Council, Inc. will host a CyberMaryland Forum at the Dreamport Mission Accelerator in Columbia, MD in March. CyberMaryland events connect the best of academia, government, and private industry organizations to ensure the cyber-safety of today and educate the cybersecurity professionals of tomorrow. Additionally, they provide an opportuni...

Target Audience: Federal Agency and Military This comprehensive training course covers Federal Supply Schedules contracting and ordering procedures. It addresses placing orders against Multiple Award Schedules, as outlined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 8.4. In this course you will learn about the unique flexibility within the GSA Schedules program. This is a four (4) CLP credit course. Note: This webinar satisfies the FAC-C L...

This course provides Delegation of Procurement Authority Training for GSA's 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) for IT services. The training defines GSA GWACs, identifies the features and benefits of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC, provides an understanding of 8(a) STARS III ordering procedures and outlines responsibilities of ordering contracting officers. Please note: This training is limited to Federal/Military personnel. Co...

Whether you’re a first time CISO, or this is your tenth CISO gig, any cybersecurity pro can benefit from creating– or updating– an actionable plan to tackle cloud security risks. But where to begin? Our veteran panel of security professionals, including Andy Ellis, Advisory CISO, Orca Security; as well as Kathryn Kun, Office of the CSO, Akamai Technologies; and George Werbacher, Director of Information Security, Blackbaud, wi...

This comprehensive training course covers Federal Supply Schedules contracting and ordering procedures. It addresses placing orders against Multiple Award Schedules, as outlined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 8.4. In this course you will learn about the unique flexibility within the GSA Schedules program. This is a four (4) CLP credit course. Note: This webinar satisfies the FAC-C Level 1 training requirement (equivalent to FA...

The journey from training a simple model to creating a production machine learning pipeline is often seen as challenging. Typically, you have to overcome hurdles such as siloed data, inconsistent tooling and overly complex infrastructure. The key to productionizing ML is finding a solution that’s scalable, serverless and automated at every step. Join us on March 14 to learn how the Databricks Lakehouse Platform simplifies your journey by...

Join this technical product clinic to understand how to better monitor and control access for privileged users, outside vendors, and contractors accessing your OT environments. Leveraging the BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) solution, you can transform your OT security roadmap while seamlessly continuing operations, maintaining agency agility and user accessibility/productivity. We’ll show you a live demo of how PRA can: Elimin...

Doing Business With Oak Ridge National Laboratory https://www.govassociation.org/events The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Small Business Programs Office focuses daily on small business outreach, counseling, support, and advocacy. This includes attending conferences and trade shows, one-on-one meetings with small businesses, and individual problem-solving. As a contractor to the Department of Energy (DOE), ORNL works to meet annual small busine...

Mark your calendars for March 14th to join us as Dr. Freeman provides her perspective on a currently set of best practices for T&E for AI. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and statistical machine learning (ML) into complex systems exposes a variety of challenges in traditional test and evaluation (T&E) practices. As more decisions at varying levels are handled by AI-enabled systems (AIES), we need T&E processes that...

Join us for conversations with diverse voices across the nonprofit community. Presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference is a no-cost event that brings together nonprofit leaders, purpose-focused technologists, and innovators to discuss how technology can help drive a positive impact for both people and the planet. This in-person event combines inspirational thought leadership sessions, partner showcases, and net...