LIVE! Via streaming videoor satellite downlinkNo travel! No cost training! Discover the Potential of the Expanding BioEconomy! Business opportunities abound in the manufacture and sale of biobased products. Learn about Federal programs that offer assistance in meeting business goals. This FREE training seminar is ideal for small businesses, entreprenerus, agriculturally based organizations, U.S. manufacturing companies, R&D, and Federal ag...

Purchases made under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) accounted for over 800,000 contract actions in FY2011. How many did your company win or even know about? In FY11 (a compressed fiscal year), federal agencies purchased in excess of $16 billion dollars in goods and services using streamlined acquisition procedures, a more than $4 billion dollar increase over FY10 spending. According to the Federal Procurement Data System and USASp...

Benefits Discover how to navigate the minefields of public contracting and procurement code with ease. Do you want to know how to minimize the looming pitfalls inherent in public contracting? Now you can - attend this seminar and enhance your knowledge of the complex and always changing system of laws and regulations involved in public contracting and procurement. You'll find out not only how to effectively coordinate the public procurement pr...

Benefits Uncertain how public records and open meetings laws apply to you? Find out what Iowa law has to say about balancing the public's right to information with the individual's right to privacy. If you're involved with a public entity or if you represent the media, you need to know the ins and outs of federal and state public records and open meetings laws. Join us for this seminar and you'll get updates on recent developments in the inter...

Benefits Technology is driving organizations to reassess the way they work. Technology is allowing us to do things we have not been able to do before. Employees, partners and constituents have changing expectations of how they want to work with you. Are you listening? Resiliency is function of leadership. Learn to listen, live, and lead in the Networked Age. Leadership is communication. Gain an understanding of what the Networked Age means to...

Agencies across Federal, state, local, and tribal governments are working to promote more efficient spending to support essential operations, while reducing or eliminating unnecessary investments or ongoing expenditures that have outlived their usefulness. Needless to say, spending on information technology and related services is under review and agencies have combined to identify billions that will be cut from their operating budgets in the...

PRICING is a major component of any proposal. Please join the Fort Detrick Business Development Office (FDBDO) in a free, 1 hour training class that covers elements involved in pricing a federal contract. Presentation will cover: Components of Price Components of Pricing Strategy Good Pricing Practices Some winning tips

Government Employees: $995 (Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID) EARLY BIRD Special Rates in Support of Government Budget Reductions: Now $895 Industry and Contractors: $1,095 (Including contractors on-site and in direct support of government agencies). Special Rates: Now $995 Registration Includes: Presentations, Workshop Notebook with presentations, Continental Breakfast, Hosted Working Luncheon at the Willard, and AM and PM refresh...

In response to fears at seaports and terminals over access to sufficient detection and container scanning solutions to combat the maritime CBRN threat, SMi is proud to present the inaugural CBRN in the Maritime Environment conference. This must-attend event will focus upon detection, response and recovery at sea for Naval and Government practitioners. Whilst the hazardous materials remain the same, combating the threat that these materials pos...

The Case for Intervention, Stronger Targets, and the Backloading Proposal Building on the success of previous years, Platts 4th Annual European Emissions Markets conference will provide market participants with a comprehensive overview of the European emissions market, its policy and current challenges faced. The industry's leading analysts, policy makers, compliance companies, traders, and observers will debate and discuss the case for market...