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In a fast-changing world, everyone is an explorer whether they know it or not, particularly in government IT. We are constantly traveling across uncharted terrain: the economy, social media, the cloud, and on and on. Was Steve Jobs any less of an explorer than Ferdinand Magellan? They definitely had one thing in common: they always looked forward and rarely looked backward. The spirit of exploration and adventure lives on, now more than ever because technology makes it possible for anyone to be an explorer in their own right. In this fascinating and rousing session, noted explorer Josh Bernstein shows us how to turn one's career into an adventure and the survival skills needed along the way.

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Employee mobility is an issue that has taken on a whole new meaning as the nature of the workplace continues to evolve. Employees today are commonly asked to take assignments outside the traditional office. These kinds of opportunities are seen as benefits by many employees who enjoy being mobile. Yet managing employee mobility is important because without the right training and planning, a mobile workforce will not be prepared to meet the challenges such an environment presents. Your agency does not want to find itself faced with loss of productivity, or worse, loss of its best managers because of lack of planning. Join this session to examine how to address the issues related to employee mobility and what should be included in an agency's strategic planning.

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As the news reminds us almost daily, the security environment is becoming increasingly complex due to factors such as transparency, shared services, data sharing, mobility, cloud computing and social networking - all of which contribute to a wide variety of risks and vulnerabilities. From cyber-warfare to anarchists to organized crime, the old saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has never been more true. This session discusses some of the approaches and solutions that are being used successfully in both public and private sectors.

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Supercomputers play a significant and growing role in a variety of areas important to the nation. They are used to address challenging science and technology problems. To fulfill the potential supercomputing offers, the United States needs to maintain a competitive advantage and, more importantly, the national competence needed to achieve national goals. This session aims to provides an assessment of the current status of supercomputing in the United States including a review of current demand and technology, infrastructure and institutions, and international activities.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are an indispensable part of government services, yet its powerful potential can go untapped. This session will take you on a brief stroll through the evolution of GIS before turning toward the future. As data and location are increasingly integrated into services and software, the role of GIS in government is poised to grow to epic proportions. Find out what lies ahead for GIS and how you can take advantage of this powerful tool to transform service delivery. This session will also explore how those at the executive level can leverage GIS to enact real and powerful change.

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Getting the attention of citizens in today's world is a challenge, to say the least. Government organizations can struggle in vain to get their messages heard through the blare of a social media culture that enables anyone to have a voice regardless of credibility. Ordinary "government speak" - no matter how critical to your audience - doesn't stand a chance. What if being considered "cool" could help government reach and retain a much broader segment of the public? Or even help you personally communicate better to your leadership, staff or peers? Learn the art of the cool factor and how to communicate with style. In this lively and eye-opening session, Kristy Fifelski (aka GovGirl) shows us how to stay visible and relevant in today's ultra-competitive and uber-noisy environment.

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The time has come to take mobile apps to the next level with true, real-time connectivity. From real-time, multi-user interaction and collaboration to building apps using HTML5, government must keep pace with the mobile web as citizens perceive it. Whether your mobile app is transactional or purely informational, this session will bring you up-to-speed on live apps, peer-to-peer mobile apps, mobile-desktop interaction, and how to turn a smartphone into a 21st century conduit for true citizen-government engagement.

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Creating a website takes a range of skills. Simply having the ability to put content online is not enough. Just as a writer needs a creative and production team to put an article into print, websites need to be crafted with an understanding of content, design, and usability. Web designers also need to be able to measure the effectiveness of their creations. This session will examine current concepts in web design while focusing on designing for today's multiple platforms - PC, mobile, tablet and more. In addition, this session will feature discussion on metrics to help you identify where your website succeeds and where it does not.

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Kids are growing up in a world filled with ubiquitous mobile devices and access to the world's knowledge literally at their finger tips. We are seeing students who are mobile and connected. Tech-savvy kids are growing up to be tech-savvy adults who are connected, social and will bring with them a new paradigm of gesture bias and interaction preferences with technologies, media and privacy. This session will break down how technology is transforming education and what that transformation means for the future. How will this bias for gesture/touch over mouse/keyboard influence the adoption of technology? How will the classroom and teaching change? How will government adapt and change to meet the new expectations of the digital kids?

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The current trajectory of the security landscape demands a high level of vigilance. Security experts must apply a new set of fundamentals to protect the always-on, always-connected enterprise of the future. Learn what IT professionals must do today to prepare for what is on the horizon tomorrow and how strategies must change to account for all threat vectors.

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Hopefully your agency is already in the social media space and might be interacting with citizens, but how meaningful are your engagements? How do they translate on and offline, and how do your engagements contribute to your social media [and business] goals? This session will tackle those questions and others relating to how you can create, track and measure engagements in the social media space. Join this session and learn how to define and determine a "meaningful" engagement; creative ways to generate more meaningful engagements; and new ways to measure the efficacy of engagements and interactions.

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Accessibility of online content is an increasingly important topic. This includes more than just websites; it includes any document that you put on the web for people to access. The variety of technologies that we use to create these files and the number of accessibility considerations as they apply to each tool can be confusing and overwhelming, making it hard to know where to start. This session will examine considerations for accessibility as they apply to all web content and discuss these considerations as they relate to the most frequently used technology tools. Join us to learn how to apply accessibility principles and best practices to Word files, PowerPoint presentations, and PDF files providing practical knowledge and skills that can be applied right away.

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