Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Learn. Transform. Connect.

Explore the intersection of agentic AI, distributed data, modern IT, and cloud native innovation—designed to help you meet today’s demands and scale for tomorrow. 

Over three days, get forward-looking guidance from Nutanix leadership and expert practitioners. Dive into immersive AI use cases, hands-on labs, and strategic sessions that map directly to your business goals. Walk away with actionable innovations to solve today’s challenges and build a future-proof architecture for what’s next.

The 2026 Internet2 Community Exchange (CommEX26) is where IT leaders and their teams come together to shape the future of research and education technology. The experience combines strategic foresight and collaborative problem-solving, enabling participants to advance their organizational missions through collaboration and connection.

As Internet2 celebrates 30 years of community-driven progress, CommEX26 returns to Chicago April 13-16, 2026, to mark this milestone with the global R&E community.

What Sets CommEX26 Apart

• Peer-Driven Collaboration: Engage in candid, small-group discussions that turn shared challenges into collaborative solutions.
• A Focused, High-Impact Audience: Connect with CIOs, CISOs, directors, and other leaders tackling the same strategic, technical, and policy issues.
• Real-Time Problem Solving: Gain actionable strategies for complex initiatives through conversations that happen in sessions and hallways.
• Strategic and Forward-Looking: Shape the conversations that will define the next decade of digital transformation across R&E.
• Collaborative Connections: Build partnerships that spark new ideas and lay the groundwork for progress far beyond the event.

Join your peers to inspire a hopeful future strengthened by community innovation and leadership.

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HPE & NVIDIA invite you to join us for the "AI in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environment for Utah” event on April 21st at The Element Center in Kearns, UT. This one-day event brings together government and industry thought leaders to explore how AI is shaping innovation across the state of Utah.

Enterprise IT is undergoing rapid change as major industry shifts reshape customer priorities, challenge long-held assumptions and accelerate the need for modernization. This session gives partners a clear view of these forces and shows how HPE’s Zerto and Cohesity align to the broader HPE Marketing Play—equipping you with practical, relevant talking points tied directly to customer pain points and strategic initiatives.

Rather than promoting individual products, this event highlights how Zerto and Cohesity fit into HPE’s larger portfolio strategy and how they help partners address the most urgent trends in virtualization, AI and cyber resilience. You’ll leave with a sharper narrative, stronger positioning and actionable insights to take into customer conversations immediately. 

Key topics partners will learn:

• The Great VM Reset and how Zerto supports mobility, flexibility, and cloud strategies
• How Cohesity’s GAIA unlocks Artificial Intelligence using indexed backup data
• How HPE’s Zerto strengthens security and resilience with continuous protection and rapid recovery
• How Zerto and Cohesity fit into HPE’s unified messaging for customer modernization

Virginia is among the leaders in government innovation, employing technology to raise the quality of public services and make people more involved. It involves updating data systems, AI and IT infrastructure, making digital services better while improving customer experience. At its core, this project entails setting ethical standards for managing AI and data; hence Virginia must ensure that these technologies are used responsibly even as they continue expanding their use.

Join us at the Government Innovation Showcase Virginia to explore insights in data management, modernized infrastructure, citizen-centric digital services, digital inclusion, and inter-agency collaboration. This event will highlight Virginia's innovative approaches and provide a platform for sharing ideas with peers across the state.

Secure360 is the professional conference of choice for comprehensive security and risk management education and collaboration for your entire team. Produced by the Upper Midwest Security Alliance (UMSA), the conference continues to grow in attendance and popularity each year, and we're proud to move into our 21st year.

Secure360 focuses on the following key session areas: governance, risk and compliance, information security, physical security, business continuity management, and professional development. There's content and opportunity for all, including students and career changers.

The National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) reported in its 2025 State CIO Survey that many states have been providing supplemental funding to their CIO organizations to use on IT modernization and/or innovation. Whether streamlining state DMVs or setting up digital services for courts, agencies are focusing on providing better, more streamlined services to their customers. 

Included in these modernization efforts is the continuing embrace of the cloud. All the respondents to the NASCIO survey said they have a multi-cloud strategy; their reasons were many and varied, such as modernizing their applications, optimizing their budgets, and aging (legacy) hardware. CIOs in states with federated governance structures discussed selecting software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, with the potential to build on their state’s cloud portfolio. 

Learning Objectives:

• Outline how using modernization toolkits can speed the delivery of better services to citizens
• Identify the forms of hybrid cloud (such as public bolstered by private cloud) that best suit your agency’s requirements
• Understand the integration of SaaS platforms into your agency’s cloud choices

At its annual conference in October 2025, the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) focused on “measurable modernization” facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI). Intelligent, AI-powered tools can streamline IT, converting slow, manual legacy system upgrades into faster, cheaper, and more secure processes by automating code analysis, testing, data migration, and even generating code, ultimately making systems more efficient, scalable, and future-proof while freeing humans for higher-value tasks. 

There are several ways AI is suited to improve operations. To name just a few:

• By analyzing legacy code, such as COBOL, to understand its structure, find inefficiencies and even rewrite it into modern coding languages, AI reduces legacy debt and eases manpower needs for obsolete coding skills.
• AI tools can automate testing and quality controls, significantly speeding up quality assurance and moving apps to more easily supported operations.
• Using AI can generate predictive maintenance, identifying potential system failures and enabling self-healing capabilities.

Learning Objectives:

• Delineate places in your agency’s IT systems where AI can serve as a bridge between legacy systems and new services for citizens
• Establish priorities for tasks and processes that can be streamlined through the use of AI tools
• Outline metrics that can measure improvements, such as improved accuracy in testing, cost savings through reductions in outside labor costs (such as coding), and faster turnaround time in updating apps

Join your regional cybersecurity community for two days built on connection, learning, and real-world impact. SecureWorld brings together local leaders, national experts, and practitioners from across the industry for 30+ interactive sessions, insightful keynotes, and engaging panel discussions—all curated with guidance from regional CISOs.

Earn 12-18 CPE credits, explore innovative solutions from trusted providers, meet with association chapters, and build relationships that last well beyond the event. Designed to be accessible and deeply relevant, SecureWorld delivers the practical knowledge, collaborative energy, and peer support you need to strengthen your skills and secure what matters most.

AFCEA is a professional association that connects people, ideas, and solutions globally. We do that by developing networking and educational opportunities and providing them worldwide in an ethical manner. This enables military, government, industry, and academia to align technology to meet the needs of those who serve in critical areas, which include defense, security, cyber, and intelligence.

Why Attend?

• Understand the New Acquisition Structure
  • The purpose of attending ABID 2026 is to gain a comprehensive, real-time understanding of the Department's rapidly evolving acquisition modernization efforts, the demand signals driving them, and how industry must adapt to accelerate capability delivery for the Warfighter.
• Learn How WAS Changes Everything
  • The new Warfighting Acquisition System dramatically accelerates:
    • Requirements approval
    • Funding flexibility
    • Commercial technology adoption
    • Modular, iterative development
    • Speed to capability delivery
    • Hear directly from DoD leaders executing these reforms.
• Stay Ahead of Emerging IT, Cyber & Enterprise Priorities
  • Get briefed on shifts in:
    • Cloud modernization & data integration
    • Zero Trust & cybersecurity acceleration
    • Network transformation & transport upgrades
    • AI/ML governance
    • IT procurement reforms

Registration information will become available during Summer 2026.

TechNet Indo-Pacific is co-sponsored by AFCEA International and AFCEA Hawaii. It is the largest event in the Pacific Rim focusing on regional defense issues. Keynote speakers, panel moderators and panelists will discuss defense policies and challenges in the Indo- Pacific region and their relevance to both industry and government. Industry exhibitors will demonstrate products and solutions to meet the services' requirements and needs.

Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for the HPC community. The Program is designed to share best practices in all areas of high performance computing. Become a contributor and share your excellence. Presenting at SC is extremely rewarding.

Here’s your opportunity to meet and interact with industry, research organizations, universities, and startups joining us from across the globe. As an exhibitor, showcase your cutting-edge technologies, products, and services to thousands of attendees.

The Students@SC program offers a broad range of volunteer experiences, cluster competitions, and networking opportunities. Put your professional development into overdrive and identify the possibilities within the field of high performance computing.

Industry, academia, and government experts volunteer to design, build, and administer the cutting-edge SCinet infrastructure, providing internet connectivity for attendees and pushing the boundaries of network innovation through research and demos.