Connected Government - Working Together to Better Serve Canadians Given the need to work horizontally across departments and jurisdictions to improve service delivery and diminishing budgets, the pressure on governments to leverage efficient, secure, and reliable technologies has never been higher. In 2011, GTEC will help you prepare for the tsunami of change ahead by gathering delegates from across Canada to collaborate and participate in dis...

Agenda Thursday, October 13 8:00 am Registration and Morning Refreshments 9:00 am Opening Remarks John Letchford, Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 9:15 am Opening Keynote Open Roads Open Minds: An Exploration of Creative Problem Solving Steve Uzzell, Renowned Photographer Steve Uzzell is a veteran National Geographic photographer and one of the nation's leading corporate photographers. Steve's award-winning approach to...

FedScoop’s FedTalks 2011 Conference, part of the FedTalks event series, will bring together leading federal government and industry experts to discuss the state of innovation in government. FedTalks 2011 is a premiere conference hosted by FedScoop bringing the most influential government leaders and business executives together to discuss how we can improve our government with technology. Watch the videos and check out the photos from F...

Innovation Summit Purpose: The purpose of the Innovation Summit is to reinvigorate public private partnership efforts and increase relationships between industry, government and academia that fosters sharing of information and collaboration on mutual Cybersecurity research projects. Listen to the latest and most relevant cybersecurity research projects Increase awareness of innovative emerging growth companies Opportunities for collaboration b...

Key Speakers and Guests: • The Adjutant General, State of Michigan, Major General Gregory J. Vadnais • Assistant Adjutant General, Michigan National Guard, Brigadier General Michael Stone • Assistant Commissioner, Technology Innovation and Acquisition – DHS, Mark Borkowski • Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) for NYPD at Ground Zero, Joseph Blozis • Michigan State Police, Fiduciary Agent for DHS Funds for the State...

To assist small business concerns with developing information and relationships that can lead to business opportunities, the Social Security Administration is hosting a complimentary subcontractor matchmaking and innovation showcase event at SSA Headquarters on Friday, September 16, 2011.Interested small businesses with current and relevant experience in technical disciplines related to the ITSSC contract have an opportunity to participate in...

To promote identifying relevant industry innovations and assisting small business concerns with developing information and relationships that can lead to business opportunities, the Social Security Administration is hosting a complimentary innovation showcase event at SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD on Friday, September 16, 2011. Panelists for the Innovation Showcase include representatives from Accenture, Computer Sciences Corporation, Lock...

The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors though a public private partnership like never before—creating a thriving marketplace for transportation solutions. The DOT is interested in (1) engaging a wide variety of stakeholders on the potential for this initiative to connect people and technology for transportation innovati...

The MeriTalk Innovation Nation Forum will focus on the three bellwether topics in Federal IT today – cloud, cyber security, and data center consolidation. In addition, we’ve partnered with Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab to co-locate the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) this year, which will feature a full track on open source. FEATURING KEYNOTE DR. ALAN GREENSPAN, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (1987-2...

NASA's second IT Summit will be held on August 15-17, 2011 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, CA. The Summit will gather 2,000 participants and feature a line-up of more than 100 speakers who will present on themes around collaboration, social networking, innovation, infrastructure, operations, and IT security and privacy. Objectives Provide an integrated forum for NASA’s IT community, including all of its working groups, enablin...