Long gone are the days of questioning if your organization requires Artificial Intelligence to drive competitive advantage. 84% of businesses say AI will enable them to obtain or sustain the competitive advantage [Forbes]. AI offers highly data-driven insights, automates mundane processes, enhances customer experience, and hence increases overall efficiency. 36% of executives say their primary goal for AI is to free up workers to be more creat...

Companies count on their data and analytics platforms as the foundation of their innovation and digital transformation strategy. However, many on-premise users struggle with high costs, system complexity, unscalable infrastructure, and DevOps burden. Join us in this virtual conference, where you’ll learn about why companies are switching to modern cloud based platforms like Databricks, and how they use them to drive innovation, productiv...

The Children’s Equity Project and the Bipartisan Policy Center invite you to join us for a virtual event series to announce the release of our new report, Start with Equity—From the Early Years to the Early Grades: Data, Research, and an Actionable Child Equity Policy Agenda.  The report reviews the state of the equity data, research, and policy landscapes from the early years to the early grades in key areas—like disci...

Please join CSIS and the United States Naval Institute (USNI) for a Maritime Security Dialogue online event featuring a discussion with VADM James W. Kilby USN and LtGen Eric M. Smith, USMC. The Maritime Security Dialogue series brings together CSIS and USNI, two of the nation's most respected non-partisan institutions. The series highlights the particular challenges facing the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, from national level maritime...

How do you keep the power of Hadoop from overpowering your IT costs and data center overhead? You can’t toss it out but you can control while optimizing it for your company’s goals. In this session, we will discuss new strategies for Hadoop modernization by non-disruptively optimizing the data you use less frequently. We’ll guide you through a deep dive into Lumada Data Optimizer to show you how to enable exponential big data...

We have joined up with the Data Protection World Forum to bring you a webinar on the rise of virtual care and how to embed trust in technologies. In this webinar, you will learn about: The virtual care trends and what they mean for providers and patients The opportunities they present to reshape care delivery The building blocks for ensuring patient trust and safety in technologies: Embedding privacy and data protection in technologies Ensurin...

When uncertainty strikes, establishing a change management plan can help limit disruption for your business. As many organizations are beginning to implement changes that will impact their workforce, such as shifting to remote work, it is more important than ever to plan and execute a change management plan that can effectively manage risk, measure success, and support employees. Join this webinar with Chas Fields, HCM strategic advisor and ch...

The latest version of DCA is packed with new features and integrations all designed to deliver even more value to our customers. Join us in this webinar as we discuss what's new in DCA 2020.07. We'll cover a range of topics from integrations that simplify the user experience and make onboarding of new resources quicker and easier, to the new reporting features found in DCA. We'll also cover some recent analyst materials about DCA. There's plen...

You are invited to attend a virtual panel discussion on the global space launch enterprise, hosted online by the RAND Space Enterprise Initiative, on August 6 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific. The event is the first in a series of periodic discussions on topics of interest to space enterprise policymakers and stakeholders. During the panel, we'll consider the following questions: How will U.S. Space Force decisions affect domestic lau...

The ability of Federal IT operations to adapt almost overnight to support citizens and workforce amid the unique challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic is one of the few bright spots in the past months of turmoil. The drivers of that performance are neither easy nor accidental, and depend on steadfast leadership. Tune in on Thursday, August 6 at 2:30 p.m. EDT for a complimentary webinar to hear from Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat, who will...