As the world’s largest customer, the U.S. government is a reliable client with an endless need for products and services and has a goal to set aside 23 percent of all expenditures for small businesses and 5 percent for women-owned businesses. Government contracting can be a lucrative growth strategy for women business owners that are willing to dig in and work hard. In fact, a recent American Express OPEN survey found that while women be...

Offshore Energy is the fastest growing gathering of offshore industry professionals and addresses the technical, operational, commercial and managerial challenges associated with sustainable industry growth.Founded in 2008 Offshore Energy convenes annually in Amsterdam RAI, breaking attendance records year after year. The 7th event in 2014 is expected to attract over 10,000 visitors from around the world. Over 500 supply chain companies will s...

The 50th annual TechAmerica Foundation Vision Conference will deliver a rich, comprehensive and widely referenced analysis of federal spending and business opportunities for the future. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE: It is the only non-profit forecast that addresses the Defense, Civilian, and Federal Information Technology markets. Qualitative and quantitative analysis from 200+ industry member volunteers who participate in the forecasting proc...

Do not miss out on our unprecedented interactive roundtable format designed to equip with you the critical information and networking contacts that you need to construct and execute your FLNG project. Global FLNG projects are set to witness increased investments and activity from 2014 to 2020, with expenditure forecasted at USD$64.4 billion according to the latest report from Douglas Westwood. As the industry and the world waits on the highly...

The longest established, premier quality, bestselling mining introductory training course in Australia now available& modified for South African mining, delivered by a South African trained mining engineer. Key Learning Outcomes Understand the make-up of the African mining industry Discover mine exploration techniques Understand mine geology and ore body modelling Analyse resource/reserve estimation and statutory requirements: SAMREC Learn...

Powering The Cloud is Europe's most established Cloud Computing and IT Infrastructure Conference, which sees a new format for 2014, with an enhanced conference programme and an enlarged exhibition. PTC covers the important cloud topics - from hybrid cloud, to infrastructure, from security through to software defined data centres and networks. This year also marks the inaugural Data Centre World Germany, which will run alongside Powering the Cl...

The Federal Business Council is proud to be helping to coordinate the Annual United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cyber Security Summit & Expo at the USDA HQ.The Summit will provide participants with information and resources on today's vulnerabilities, incidents, security lifecycle, risks and mitigations; it will also identify ways to work together and build a solid security foundation program to meet future challenges and trend...

At the Telecoms Social Network Summit, make the most of 2 days of case studies and interactive sessions, led by the telecoms industry's social pioneers, to find out how to leverage social networks and connect with your customers. Discover how to align your corporate branding and customer care objectives to ensure the greatest impact from your most visible customer communication channel, and identify and generate advocacy from the social influe...

A 1 day introduction to the high level principles and formal methods of risk assessment and analysis in design, developed by engineers, and its application to design in the rail industry. Key Learning Outcomes: On completion of the course, participants should be able to: Examine and address topical issues of design safety risk in the rail industry.Discuss the current and developing legislative requirements for rail design risk State how risks...

Big Data TechCon features practical, how-to classes and tutorials for IT and Big Data professionals, including data and business analysts, developers, software architects, data scientists, and project managers. Big Data TechCon is the how-to Big Data training conference for professionals implementing and analyzing Big Data. Attend Big Data TechCon to get practical Hadoop training, classes on MapReduce, R, Hive and Pig. Take a Big Data analytic...