Workforce strategy is more critical than ever for public sector organizations to meet evolving demands, attract top talent, and foster a resilient workforce. Join us for our monthly demos, where we’ll showcase how LinkedIn’s innovative solutions can address your HR challenges—whether it’s talent acquisition, upskilling your team, or enhancing employee engagement. Discover how LinkedIn can empower your organization to:Bu...

OverviewThis FREE webinar will offer attendees an overview of the Service Contract Act and the regulatory requirements that determine compliance for federal service contractors. The session will explain which contracts are subject to the SCA, how to correctly classify service employees, and what contractors must do to meet wage determination, fringe benefit, and recordkeeping obligations. Participants will gain practical guidance on addressing...

This course provides Delegation of Procurement Authority Training for GSA's 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) for IT services. The training defines GSA GWACs, identifies the features and benefits of the 8(a) STARS III GWAC, provides an understanding of 8(a) STARS III ordering procedures and outlines responsibilities of ordering contracting officers. Please note: This training is limited to Federal/Military personnel. Co...

Federal agencies face enormous pressure to integrate AI into their operations. But they also face immense challenges to do so securely – both that the AI is accurate and trustworthy, and that it does not introduce new risks. Much of the current risk arises from legacy infrastructure and systems. Agencies’ data pipelines have undergone massive growth, including structured, unstructured and streaming data, yet legacy infrastructure i...

Please join BENS members and guests for a luncheon discussion on how the lessons of a small group of world class trauma experts who joined forces with America’s best combat medics to rewrite the rule book on how battlefield medicine can save lives and impact trauma throughout the United States. At the start of the first Gulf War, there had been very little progress in battlefield trauma care since the Civil War. The concepts embodied in...

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ top technology priorities encompass cybersecurity, modernization and veteran experience, emphasizing a shift from compliance-driven cybersecurity to a risk-based, assume-breach model anchored in zero trust and operational resilience. Join Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller for an exclusive conversation with the Eddie Pool, the acting assistant secretary for information and technology an...

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI have inherent limitations, such as outdated knowledge, lack of private data access, and the potential for hallucinations. In this session, we will introduce a strategy for overcoming these challenges: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Attendees will see how a GenAI RAG application can provide access to real-time, private data stored in an external knowledge base without needing to fine-tune th...

Many organizations still apply IT-style assumptions to industrial environments, creating blind spots that put safety and operations at risk. In this webcast, SANS Principal Instructor and ICS418 co-author Dean Parsons shares the most common leadership pitfalls he encounters across sectors like energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, logistics, and food & beverage, and how to avoid them. Dean will show how to anchor governan...

Delivering real-time insights is a challenge. Traditional data pipelines create lags, and databases are often optimized for either transactions or analytics, but not both. Join us to learn how the Spanner Columnar Engine addresses these issues, enabling you to run real-time, high-performance analytical queries directly on your live operational data. We'll explore how Spanner accelerates workloads with in-database analytics (HTAP), serves intel...

Join us in New York City (or virtually) on December 9th to hear from industry experts and practitioners and network with your peers as we explore critical data management and advanced analytics topics. DataVision 2025 is COMPLIMENTARY for members, prospective members, guests and all data management professionals. This year’s theme is AI for Data Management – Culture, Ethics and Best Practices. We’ll explore AI’s role in...