To strive toward racial equity in schools, district leaders and educators are doing the important and challenging work of examining both structural racism and unconscious bias. In this conversation with district leaders from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.) and Metropolitan School District Lawrence Township (Ind.), we’ll discuss how district leaders are centering equity in their social-emotional learning initiatives for students...

Revenue Forecasting Under COVID-19. Accurate revenue forecasting is key to a successful budget, but COVID-19 has made it much harder to create such forecasts, especially for jurisdictions that are heavily dependent upon sales taxes or tourism. This webinar will discuss current economic indicators and forecasts by state agencies and provide considerations for forecasting 2021 and beyond.

The events of the past several months have shaken the core of law enforcement, leaving many officers questioning their roles and even their career choice. The main threats facing officers used to be violent criminals, roadway operations and personal health risks. Today, the public, the media, bosses, elected officials and even family and friends can seem to pose a threat. How do you deal with the deluge of opinion, anger and confusion and stil...

Medical device companies are on the cutting-edge of advancing health care. Along with facing relentless pressures to innovate and release quality products, they also must comply with regulations and standards to remain competitive. In this webinar, specifically designed for product and engineering teams building medical devices, you’ll learn how to move beyond the frustrations of disconnected, document-based requirement systems, streamli...

Key Take Away: This training session covers THREE advanced features of Excel that provide automation within the application. PivotTables make building reports a breeze. You will be introduced to the basic task of building, formatting, and refreshing PivotTables. Formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate the contents of other cells, test conditions, and more. Explore what is considered the top 10 funct...

The pandemic recession will clearly cause US tech spending to contract — the question is by how much and in which areas. Drawing on the latest data, this webinar provides Forrester’s forecasts for the US tech market in 2020 and 2021. Our forecast covers the major tech categories as well as the outlook for specific software, services, and hardware products. Key takeaways: Scenario A of a sharp but short drop in tech spending in 2020...

The budget is the most important policy your city, town, county or agency will develop each year. As the demand for accountability and better outcomes become a higher priority, you want to make sure you are using the right tools for preparing, managing and reporting your budget. Join us for a 60-minute webinar to learn about Questica Budget Government Solutions — multi-user budgeting software designed specifically for the public sector f...

Barriers to information exchange due to lack of interoperability is an ongoing challenge for healthcare. The CMS’s release of FHIR Rules coinciding with the pandemic has forced health care payers to prioritize this problem. Interoperability facilitated by the FHIR implementation fosters deep integration of clinical, financial, administrative and other data across the ecosystem driving Longitudinal Patient Record. The practical challenge...

Data and analytics platforms are the foundation of your company’s digital transformation strategy. Yet many on-premises big data users struggle with its system complexity, unscalable infrastructure, and DevOps burden. In this webinar you’ll learn why successful organizations are switching to modern, cloud-based platforms like Azure Databricks to drive innovation, productivity, and business outcomes. Leave with a best practice frame...

This webinar introduces a comprehensive toolkit for identifying energy-saving opportunities in data centers, in furtherance of statutory and administrative requirements that federal agencies reduce their energy use and ensure energy resilience for critical infrastructure. Putting these tools in the hands of federal data center operators and energy managers enables achievement of those objectives. The most sought-after resources at the Federal...