Elections can often affect how federal agencies plan for the next fiscal year. With 2020 being a presidential election year, how are agencies preparing in a time of uncertainty? What challenges does the lead up to the election create? How will it affect project planning and budgets? What are they doing in anticipation of either a change in administration or continuation of the status quo? Join Market Connections President, Aaron Heffron, as he...

Overview: Executive Assistants today are called on to perform duties well beyond the administrative. They need leadership skills to manage a wide range of executives, managers, and their complex activities. Some have a team of their own. They must be knowledgeable about the business, the strategies and goals of the organization and how these impact individuals and their teams. Areas Covered in the Session : Planning and thinking strategically...

Back to school! In this "new normal", we want to make sure your school is equipped to succeed in providing a virtual classroom environment. Please make sure you have all of the necessities: Notebooks Laptop Pencils and pens Multi-container cloud security Fast and reliable remote connection that's secure and safe! Today's schools face a plethora of challenges when it comes to cybersecurity: they are prime targets for hackers, they lack the res...

Is the future of work here? As highlighted in the recent AI and Workforce white paper, technological advances like artificial intelligence are accelerating changes in the workforce and raising concerns about workplace disruption. Against this backdrop, the global response to COVID-19 has wrought unprecedented unemployment over an incredibly short timeframe while racial unrest has brought issues of workplace diversity to the forefront. As polic...

83% of organizations are looking for new monitoring approaches to handle today’s cloud complexity. IT teams are challenged with monitoring cloud services and mission-critical applications by separate tools which lead to swivel chair approaches, runaway costs, and fragmented operational data getting trapped in siloed tools. This creates blind spots that halt teams’ ability to quickly detect and resolve issues, and negatively impacts...

Government agencies throughout the country face a stark financial reality as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In just four months, state and local governments furloughed or laid off 1.5 million workers – twice as many as in all of the Great Recession. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates state budget shortfalls will total $555 billion over state fiscal years 2020-2022. To survive these challenging times and continue ser...

Join cybersecurity experts who guide you through a real-world company scenario that simulates a cyberattack. This technical workshop gives a hands-on learning experience with a security tool leveraged within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that can be deployed as part of the shared security responsibility model. Play alongside your peers and compete in teams within a controlled environment. Premium prizes will be awarded to the team w...

This is an in-depth workshop designed to give DevOps and IT teams the hands-on skills they need to deploy, scale, and optimize AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) workloads. The content will be delivered by AWS technical experts and aims to educate anyone interested in learning how to deploy and scale ECS using Capacity Providers, Auto Scaling and Spot. During this workshop, our technical experts will provide an in-depth look at ECS, EC2 Spot...

We’re all experiencing unprecedented change – in how we work, where we work and certainly our already-constrained budgets. Overcoming the uncertainty of change comes from understanding our options and having solid data-driven plans to support those options – especially as stimulus dollars become available. In this upcoming webinar, we will dive into strategic asset management (SAM) and how it will change your workflow forever...

Studies have shown that higher gender diversity is linked to lower turnover, higher creativity and more innovation. Companies are looking to strategically diversify their businesses by promoting inclusion. The Women in Tech Virtual Career Event will enable diversity-focused recruiters to connect with unique, highly-skilled professionals in a safe and inclusive space. This unique virtual career event focuses on employers committed to diversity...