What’s needed to achieve successful digital innovation across government? It’s all about the technology, vision, and culture. Adelaide O’Brien, research vice president, IDC Government, explores how AI, cloud, and cybersecurity leverage, scale, and protect data, and how scalable approaches to technology and a culture that accelerates capacity to learn and accountability for value enables agencies to successfully deploy digital innovation. In this opening keynote, listen as she shares her perspective on why new ways of thinking and working at scale are critical for digital innovation.

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What are the critical phases of a cloud transformation journey in government? Join this discussion to learn how to quickly procure, implement, and optimize mission-focused cloud environments that reduce risk and support missions from the edge to the enterprise. Hear real-world stories for overcoming complex multi-cloud performance issues and optimizing the financial management of multi-cloud environments.

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Struggling to operationalize artificial intelligence (AI)? Join this discussion to learn real-world innovative sourcing strategies that combine mission understanding and continuous co-creation that can help operationalize key aspects of your AI journey, including zero trust data, data enablement, AI deployment, model operationalization, and insights visualization. This panel will also address the unique ethical considerations AI and use of data present in this rapidly evolving technology domain.

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Is innovation a mis-defined or over-used term in your organization? Do your teams confuse and conflate innovations that yield incremental and small wins with large, game-changing transformational impacts? Diversity and collaboration are keys to unlocking innovation, no matter your definition and desired outcomes. Dive into a lively discussion among a diverse panel to understand and implement approaches for innovation. Learn how collaboration is a catalyst for driving innovation and transformation in your own agency and program.

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Join this panel discussion to explore agile enterprise IT and managed service solutions for enterprise infrastructure projects that offer cost savings and financially stable IT services that are flexible, scale rapidly, and minimize operational risk. Hear customer examples on digital workspace, cloud management, cybersecurity, and application services, and how successful partner collaborations have delivered IT workflows that optimize and automate services, lower total cost of ownership, and dramatically improve user experiences.

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With increased focus on designing and building government systems from the ground up based on digital engineering and model-based systems engineering, this panel will explore the phases of a successful digital engineering journey that crushes legacy silos, including evolving mission transformation to the digital thread and digital-first approach, building ecosystem requirements, exploring interoperability solutions, and implementing successful execution approaches. Learn best practices and procurement tips, and see how collaboration with industry partners can achieve success in the digital engineering domain.

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This session will dive into a new evolving challenge – the accelerating pace at which government IT teams are being asked to deliver on mission objectives that require modern technology and services. To meet objectives and timelines, agency leaders are beginning to procure products and services differently. Hear examples of how the government has achieved mission success by leveraging cutting edge offerings using new, faster acquisition methods that increase speed to value, while drastically reducing timelines and budget risk.

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