The purpose of the second Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop is to report on the status of these efforts and to socialize the NIST strategy to collaboratively develop a Cloud Computing Roadmap among multiple federal and industrial stakeholders, and to advance a dialogue between these groups. To frame the discussions, the United States Chief Information Officer and Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will present th...

The 6th Annual IT Security Automation Conference, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, and Defense Information Systems Agency, will focus on the breadth and depth of automation principles and technologies designed to support automation requirements across organizations in multiple sectors. This 3-day event includes tutorials, conference...

Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDtrust) is devoted to research and deployment experience related to making good security decisions based on identity information, especially when public key cryptography is used and the human elements of usability are considered.

Quest is the leading conference to learn best performance management practices from Baldrige Award recipients and how to: improve your organization's performance results enhance leadership effectiveness build customer and employee engagement increase organizational innovation to gain and sustain competitive advantages improve process management create an environment that fosters social responsibility and ethical behavior increase organization...

In many countries, an aging population, increasing obesity and more people with impairments are bringing new challenges to the management of routine and emergency people movement. These population challenges, coupled with the innovative designs being suggested for both the built environment and other commonly used structures (e.g., transportation systems) and the increasingly complex incident scenarios of fire, terrorism, and large-scale comm...

The conference is intended to detail the latest developments in how systems are being tested and certified, rather than on the latest testing results. Also will address what performance criteria are being specified in procurement and selection processes. The talks will respect operational needs, and will give emphasis to what operators require from test and evaluation activities. The conference aims to identify how the accumulated experience...