Q4 Spending Spree Success (and Beyond!) The fourth quarter spending spree is a recognized fact of life in the government contracting market. Customers need to buy and buy fast as the fiscal hustles to its end but how and what they are buying is evolving. The strategies and assumptions you used just a few years ago won’t bring you the same success today. In this morning event, you’ll hear from government and industry experts as they...

The Mobility Hack: Engineering the Secure Mobile Workforce Across the federal government, mobility has become a way of life, as the line between office employees and mobile employees is blurring and might soon disappear altogether. Federal employees expect to have access to the information they need no matter where they are what device they are using. Such capabilities are essential to improving the efficiency of the workforce and the quality...

The U.S. government market for the Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to take shape. Across government, agencies are exploring how they can harness the countless networked devices already embedded in their operations to gain new insights into their existing services—and to create new services to support their missions. The opportunities for government contractors and suppliers will grow substantially over the next couple of years, wit...

Federal agencies cannot afford to wait to bring innovation to their operations. Traditional approaches to managing operations and delivering services have left agencies hamstrung, with too much of their budgets tied up in maintaining legacy systems that lack the flexibility to adapt to ever changing requirements and citizen expectations. What if technology was not an inhibitor? Innovation does not require waiting on modernization. A new genera...

This workshop will bring together IT leaders from government and industry to explore the future of DevOps in government. The sessions—which include both agency case studies and tech discussion—will look at key issues that agencies must consider when adopting the DevOps methodology and highlight emerging best practices in incorporating DevOps into an agency’s IT planning and management processes. The concluding session—t...

Advanced Capabilities for Better Decision-Making Department of Defense and intelligence organizations have only just begun to tap the potential of advanced analytics to strengthen national security. Early efforts have demonstrated the ability of analytic tools to collect and sift through large volumes of diverse data and gain better insight into a given problem or environment. But so much more can be done. Government and military leaders have...

The Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!™) Code Tour continues in Washington, D.C., June 12 – 15, 2017. VSLive! is taking the code train to the nation's capital for practical, unbiased, Developer training, and we're doing it in style. We're offering four days of sessions, workshops and networking events – all designed to help you elevate your code-writing abilities to write masterful applications across all platforms. Brush up with t...

When it comes to modernization, it is not enough to update or replace legacy systems and the underlying infrastructure. Rather than merely playing catch-up, agencies should be positioning themselves to meet future unanticipated requirements, with the ability to pivot quickly and effortlessly. Automation is key. Whether tightening security operations, optimizing the data center, or implementing DevOps, agencies need to reduce the complexity of...

The Route Fifty Navigator Awards identify and highlight individuals and teams of state and local innovators, technologists, leaders, and rising stars who have demonstrated their ability to conceive and implement great ideas. In 2017 we are traveling across the country to talk with exceptional individuals about their collaborative skills, leadership styles, and innovative programs. On May 23, Route Fifty will be in Salt Lake City to highlight t...

Rock YOUR Code in Austin this May with Visual Studio Live! VSLive!™ is bringing back its unique brand of practical, unbiased, Developer training to the deep heart of Texas. From May 15 - 18, we're offering four days of sessions, workshops and networking events – all designed to help you elevate your code-writing abilities to write masterful applications across all platforms. Code with the best in .NET, listen intently to industry i...