Thank you to all who attended this year's Government Summit.

We hope you enjoyed the day of networking, keynotes, and technical breakout sessions on how to make better use of software tools and applications to drive efficient agency operations.

We are pleased to announce that CA Technologies has made a contribution to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Thank you to all who contributed to this donation by participating in the Sponsor Passport program.

To view all session videos from the event, visit www.cagovsummitonline.com.

We look forward to seeing you next year

Technology Innovation Briefing Opportunities:

Track 1 Making DevOps Your Agency Best Practice

10:00 — 10:45 AM   Track 1:1
Transforming Applications Development with DevOps

Attend this overview to understand how DevOps can help Federal agencies and their partners develop software using methods that focus on collaboration and quality to yield more secure and efficient applications and services. Learn how to get started with DevOps in your organization and the metrics used to measure software development progress in real-world environments.

10:55 — 11:40 AM Track 1:2
Project and Portfolio Management in the Application Environment

For decision makers, knowing your organization’s moving parts is paramount to making the most well-informed decisions. Project and Portfolio Management tools provide decision makers with transparent, enterprise-wide visibility of any and all project statuses, allowing for a real-time snapshot of an organization’s portfolio. Join this session to learn how organizations are increasing the speed and quality of their decision-making processes while improving business efficiency along the way.

12:25 — 1:10 PM Track 1:3
Strategies to Improve Service Delivery and Quality

Agencies rely on a catalog of software applications to conduct their daily operations and deliver core services.  Yet management of these software libraries is complex and ensuring consistency and quality across these public sector enterprises is challenging at best.  This session will address how specific tools can enable software release automation that allows agency software development teams to keep their focus on coordinated and timely delivery, application quality, and product reliability.

1:20 — 2:05 PM Track 1:4
Strategies for Effective IT Asset Management

Federal agencies have made significant IT investments in recent years, exceeding $70 billion annually.  Given the portfolio of IT inventory this amount of investment implies, agency professionals are challenged to understand and control the assets they have, not only IT hardware, but especially software.  The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report in May 2014 that indicated agencies could realize significant cost savings by better managing software licenses. Plan to attend this session to learn from Federal professionals who have undertaken this challenge, including how they are pro-actively managing the assets they have and effectively planning for what’s needed next to meet their agency requirements.

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Track 2 Enabling and Securing the Open Enterprise

10:00 — 10:45 AM Track 2:1
Securely Enabling Federal Business—An Overview

No government enterprise today is immune to the internal and external threats to data centers, networks, and information assets.   Agencies have no choice but to operate in dynamic environments where cybersecurity permeates every activity, transaction, and program.  Attend this session to understand how improving agency security initiatives directly facilitates government operations, builds customer confidence, enables development of IT infrastructures to meet business and mission objectives.

10:55 — 11:40 AM   Track 2:2
Prevent Cyberattacks—Focus on Enterprise Identity and Access Management

Identity and access management (IDAM) are cornerstones of any effective cybersecurity program.  Agencies are accelerating their programs for logical and physical access to government facilities, systems, and information.  Join this session to learn how improving enterprise IDAM can streamline your agency’s ability to deploy new online services quickly while ensuring your systems and data are protected from unauthorized use.  Bring your organizational experience and build your understanding of the challenges and opportunities for deploying role-based access as a first-line of protection from advanced cyber-attack.

12:25 — 1:10 PM Track 2:3
Secure Information Sharing

The growth in mobile applications, cloud services and the emerging IoT (Internet of Things) has driven enterprises to open up valuable data through Application Program Interfaces (APIs). Learn how and why to leverage tools that help your agency externalize APIs in a secure, reliable and manageable way, and how to deploy flexible implementation models for civilian and defense organizations.

1:20 — 2:05 PM Track 2:4
Strategies for Protecting Federal Data and IT Infrastructures

Federal agencies collect, manage, and protect diverse, valuable information assets—from healthcare, to advanced research and scientific data to personally-identifiable information on every American business and citizen. Plan to attend this session to hear how Federal professionals are taking steps to improve their enterprise security postures, address dynamic INFOSEC challenges, and embrace the guidance and tools recommended by the Department of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program.

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Track 3 Changing How Your Agency Manages Mobility

10:00 — 10:45 AM   Track 3:1
Strategies for Managing IT in the Mobile World

There is no doubt that mobile technology is changing how government agencies function.  This global computing phenomenon has been driven in the U.S. Government, in part, by the mandate of the Federal Digital Government Strategy to “enable an increasingly mobile workforce to access high-quality digital government information and services anywhere, anytime, on any device.”  Attend this session to understand how to move from mandate to reality with effective tools and processes to manage the diverse mobile technologies in use by government agencies. 

10:55 — 11:40 AM   Track 3:2
Monitoring Mobile Enterprises for Results

As agency networks now extend to the palm of each user’s handheld, laptop, or tablet device, new tools and strategies are essential to optimize and manage increasingly complex mobile enterprises.  Traditional approaches to monitor performance, capacity, and availability frequently do not support the wired and wireless realities of today’s infrastructures.  Fortunately, there are proven alternatives, designed for monitoring, managing and mitigating risk for even the most mobile applications and the systems, networks, and datacenters that support them.  Plan to attend this session to expand your understanding of how to ensure your IT operations and users are up, running, and resilient, whenever and wherever they are needed.  Participants will leave with practical information about how to challenge their current approaches to managing clouds, mobile applications, and enterprise IT performance management.

12:25 — 1:10 PM   Track 3:3
Identity and Mobility—Using Risk-Based Access and Advanced Authentication

In today’s mobile computing environment, it is an ironic reality that we might trust and share information with individuals located outside of the organization while we suspect the motives of select individuals located inside the enterprise.  Consequently, many believe the network edge has receded and the new perimeter is defined by effective advanced authentication and risk-based access to systems, networks, and data.  Do not miss this session if you are responsible for mobile security and data integrity in your agency and learn how commercial and government organizations are facing these real-world 21st century cyber-defense challenges.

1:20 — 2:05 PM   Track 3:4
Keys to Secure and Manage APIs for the Mobile Workforce

External APIs are changing how public and private sector organizations do business, and at last count, there were more than 11,000 published external APIs. The access to government data through lightweight and agile applications is indeed compelling, but requires agencies to understand how they can and must implement effective initiatives to secure and manage APIs.  Attend this session for practical information, case examples, and recommendations on how to get started, regardless of where your organization is in the process.

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2:05 — 2:45 PM
Main Stage Interview: Enabling Next-Generation Agency Operations

Despite the issues and obstacles, agencies are progressing to consolidate IT assets, eliminate redundancy, leverage virtualized environments where practical, and integrate wireless and wired networks over time.  This plenary panel will focus on accomplishments and IT advancements at the close of GFY 2014, and what they are planning as the new Government Fiscal Year begins.  This session is an excellent opportunity to hear from those who are doing, being creative, and moving forward with the available staff, funding, and technology to “Invent Tomorrow’s Government, Today.

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3:15 — 3:35 AM
Main Stage Interview: How Software is Transforming Business: An Industry Perspective

Federal agencies often are encouraged to adopt commercial products and methods to enable diverse mission requirements. Yet often their technology demands and processes do not mirror those of industry and may not be so easily adapted.  But there are significant areas of common ground for enterprise management where public sector professionals can leverage the expertise of industry.  This industry executive panel will share individual and collective experiences about the tools and techniques used to optimize performance and resources for lean, integrated, and informed organizations.

CDW

CDW is a leading provider of integrated information technology solutions in the U.S. and Canada. We help our 250,000 small, medium and large business, government, education and healthcare customers by delivering critical solutions to their increasingly complex IT needs. A Fortune 500 company, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs more than 7,100 coworkers. In 2013, the company generated net sales of more than $10.8 billion.  

Our broad array of offerings range from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions such as mobility, security, data center optimization, cloud computing, virtualization and collaboration.

For more information, visit www.cdw.com
 

CompSec

Working with proven IT solutions providers, CompSec is the Intelligence Community’s most trusted resource for solving complex IT problems for the last 19 years.  CompSec’s extensive expertise in the unique environment ensures efficient solutions to the most perplexing challenges. We solve the problems, so you can focus on your mission.

For more information, visit www.compsecinc.com

FedResults

FedResults is a Herndon, VA-based value-added distributor and government partner for many IT solutions companies, providing federal, state and local governments with technologies needed to support their missions. Offering a range of contracting vehicles, vendor-focused technical and sales support, and deep experience in the government marketplace, FedResults is dedicated to helping organizations get the most from their IT systems and investment.

For more information, visit www.fedresults.com
 

immixGroup

immixGroup helps technology companies do business with the government. immixGroup’s unique platform of services enables software and hardware manufacturers and their channel partners to grow their public sector business and accelerate the sales cycle. Government agencies trust immixGroup to provide leading IT products through their preferred contracts and business partners.

For more information, visit www.immixgroup.com
 

Merlin

Merlin provides comprehensive information technology solutions to the US federal government and is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts in Cyber Security offerings. Supporting clients across Defense, Civilian, and Healthcare agencies, we deliver customized technology systems and operational support services that address the complex challenges of networking, communications, applications, and data systems across federal enterprises.

For more information, visit www.www.merlin-intl.com

Radiant Logic

As the market leader for a federated identity service based on virtualization, Radiant Logic delivers one global identity to drive business in a distributed world. The RadiantOne federated identity service enables customizable identity views built from disparate data silos, driving critical authentication and authorization decisions for WAM, federation, and cloud deployments. Fortune 1000 companies rely on RadiantOne to deliver quick ROI by reducing administrative effort, simplifying integration, and building a flexible and highly-scalable infrastructure to meet changing business demands.

For more information, visit www.radiantlogic.com
 

Three Wire Systems

Three Wire Systems LLC - a service-disabled, veteran owned small business - is a dynamic and multi-faceted IT consulting and solutions firm founded in 2006. We are the leader in eliminating wasteful spend through disruptive technologies. Particular areas of focus include reduced telecommunication spend, effective IT asset management, identification of un-deployed/underutilized software assets, and reduced power consumption. Professional services capabilities include project and program management, enterprise server and active directory support, and web application development. Our engineering expertise is centered on the IT infrastructure - compute, storage, networking, and cyber security.

For more information, visit www.threewiresys.com

World Wide Technology (WWT)

World Wide Technology (WWT) is an award-winning systems integrator and supply chain solutions provider that brings an innovative and proven approach to how organizations evaluate, architect and implement technology.

For more information, visit www2.wwt.com