Government Procurement Conference (GPC) Virtual Industry Day

June 24, 2021

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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers

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The Government Procurement Conference (GPC) is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its prime contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned businesses. Now in its 31st year, the Government Procurement Conference has become the premier event for small businesses throughout the United States.

Due to the gathering restrictions of the Covid pandemic, FBC is hosting a Virtual Industry Day in conjunction with the GPC, which will include educational conference sessions from Government Agencies and their Prime Contractors as well as Procurement Matchmaking. Government agencies will conduct their own session rooms virtually to discuss upcoming procurements and how to do business with their agency. Prime Contractors will discuss their current and upcoming subcontracting opportunities as well as how to do business with their firms.  

In addition to the educational seminars, GPC will offer its special brand of Matchmaking which accurately matches the requirements of Government Agencies and Prime contractors with Small Business Firms looking to do business with the Government. Procurement Matchmaking will be offered as a value-added opportunity to meet with buyers in special, pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with participating buyers during the conference. This portion of the event is limited in availability and is offered to small business participants registered for the overall conference on a first-come, first-served basis. Procurement Matchmaking "matches" small company "sellers" with participating "buyers" represented by government agencies and large business prime contractors. These buyers and sellers will convene for a series of one-on-one meetings that will occur throughout the event in virtual meeting rooms. Registration and scheduling for matchmaking are by company. Multiple participants from the same company share the matchmaking schedule and can attend meetings together.

If you are a small business only interested in attending you can register here  Attendee Registration

Virtual NLIT Summit 2021

June 24 - 18, 2021

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Event Manager:Dave Johnson

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Who provides our nation with its strategic scientific and technological capabilities?

It's a large, dedicated group of professionals at 17 Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories. This elite group executes long-term government scientific and technological missions, often with complex security, safety, project management or other operational challenges. And once a year, these colleagues get together for the NLIT (National Laboratories Information Technology) Summit to discuss IT and cybersecurity issues that are unique to the national laboratory system.

A multi-month event, NLIT Summit facilitates an exchange of information management, best practices, strategies and methodologies. Each day consists of presentations, panel discussions, new equipment/technology demonstrations and information sharing.


The 2020 Virtual NLIT Summit was a huge success, with more than 100 industry companies supporting and over 850 attendees from across the DOE Complex. Past summits have included the following personnel:

• IT Infrastructure Managers
• IT Security Managers
• IT Architects
• Cybersecurity Analysts
• Program Managers
• Unix Systems Administrators
• Computer Systems Engineers
• Network Engineers
• Chief Information Officers

To change the world's energy future, the DOE Laboratories will need to maintain its rapid-fire pace. They'll be looking for your products and services to help them. Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet these top DOE professionals face to face! Register now.

We are excited to announce that the 2021 NLIT Summit will feature an updated event format! Beginning June 24 and continuing through November 18, attendees will meet monthly for 3 hours for a deep dive into topics relevant to IT professionals across the DOE complex. The intention of the focused format it to increase awareness of a specific challenge and create an environment that allows for collaboration and discussion around the topic.

Dates and Anticipated Topics For 2021 Include:
June 24: External Collaboration with a Focus on Teams
July 22: Post COVID Back to OnSite Work: Hybrid Collaboration
August 26: TBD
September 23: CIO Panel
October 28: Dev/Ops
November 18: TBD

There is no event fee for DOE Personnel and U.S. Government employees.

Industry may NOT attend unless participating under one of the marketing service packages available from an FBC account representative.

Virtual Tech Day with National Institutes of Health (NIH)

June 29, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers

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The nation's medical research agency - the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - has a massive campus running cutting edge research and development, supported heavily by advanced technology and innovation. With this comes a unique audience of scientists and personnel with special applications. 

Reach them virtually at Virtual Tech Day with NIH! All personnel on the NIH campus receive FBC's wide-reaching promotions for this exciting event. Now's the time to show them that your product or service is what they've been missing.

NIH Mission and Goals:
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and to apply that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability.

To carry out this mission, NIH’s goals are: to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health; to develop, maintain and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the nation’s capability to prevent disease; to expand the knowledge base in medical science and associated sciences in order to enhance the nation’s economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research; and to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability and social responsibility in the conduct of science.

Organization:
NIH is an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for helping the Department realize its strategic goal of advancing scientific knowledge and innovation.

To accomplish this, NIH consists of 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs), along with Program Offices, which collectively are referred to as ICOs. These ICOs have individual strategic plans and specific research agendas, which are aligned with the legislative mandates that are often related to specific diseases or body systems. To support these missions, most of NIH’s ICOs receive a specific appropriation from Congress, and support research and research training through extramural funding awarded to universities, academic health centers and other research institutions. Most also conduct research and research training in their own intramural laboratories, the majority of which are located on the NIH’s main campus in Bethesda, MD.

From the NIH Strategic Plan:
NIH supports a broad, balanced portfolio of basic research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, a portfolio that will be complemented by vigorous support of innovations in technology and data science. By maintaining and strengthening its already impressive foundation of fundamental science, biomedical research will be poised to identify and capitalize upon potential opportunities for revolutionary breakthroughs with the potential for preventing, treating and curing disease.

Technological innovations will also be instrumental for research aimed at making advances in the early detection, diagnosis and prevention of disease. At the forefront of this effort will be the NIH-led PMI cohort. Taking advantage of emerging biomedical tools and technologies, such as availability of electronic health records, DNA sequencing and exposure monitoring, PMI’s longitudinal research cohort of 1 million or more U.S. volunteers will establish a base of scientific knowledge that can be used to develop prevention and screening strategies tailored to individuals at the most opportune times across the course of their lives.

PMI will also take advantage of the latest methods and approaches in data science, including advances in large-scale databases, computational tools and -omics methodologies to characterize individuals. In addition, PMI will offer researchers the ability to test whether mobile technologies are useful in adapting preventive strategies to individuals’ needs and preferences, enhancing delivery of interventions and improving monitoring of compliance and outcomes. PMI will pioneer efforts to merge, integrate and analyze data from a wide variety of sources with implications for prevention, including basic biological data, health status NIH-Wide Strategic Plan 26 information from electronic health records, individual data on environmental exposures, geospatial data on community environmental exposures and so on.

PNNL Virtual TechFest 2021

July 20, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Dave Johnson djohnson@fbcinc.com

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TechFest 2021 is a campus-wide virtual event to promote collaboration among various departments and strengthen staff relationships at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Senior management, sector management and project management office directors from across the research directorates will be visible at the event.

In 2019, more than 700 PNNL employees participated in the live event. Employees are strongly encouraged to interact with exhibitors and gain an education on emerging products/services that can be utilized within the laboratory setting. Industry exhibitors are invited to attend the seminars.

About PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a Department of Energy (DOE)-affiliated national laboratory, is an international leader in computing capabilities. The skills of the lab’s world-class technical staff support the overall laboratory mission to prevent and counter acts of terrorism through applied research in information analysis, cybersecurity and the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Please visit the PNNL TechFest website to view the agenda and other event information.

CMS CyberWorks

July 22, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Lindsay Nussbaum LindsayN@fbcdb.com

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In response to cyber-criminals stepping up their attacks, healthcare industry IT departments are bolstering their budgets. A recent survey by Healthcare Informatics noted that not one health system expected their budgets to decrease. In fact, half the respondents expect an increase in spending of 5% or more over the next 12 months.

Hosted by CMS's Information Security Privacy Group (ISPG), CMS CyberWorks: Cybersecurity & Privacy Day is the perfect chance to demo your product or service to healthcare leadership. This year's theme is "Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection that Inspires, Innovates, and Illustrates."

This year's virtual CyberWorks will include breakout sessions and a video training library consisting of content geared toward all CMS cyber professionals and other employees with significant security responsibilities (SSR's). In 2019, over 500 attendees participated in person, and we expect even more in the virtual format! 

Are you in cybersecurity, telehealth or interoperability? Coming off of COVID-19, this is a vital time in these fields. According to a recent article, CMS has increased telehealth services as virtual visits skyrocketed in 2020. Read the full article. 

Don't wait! This event will fill up quickly. Register now!

 

About CMS & ISPG:

The Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) CMS works in partnership with the entire health care community to improve quality and efficiency in an evolving health care system and provides leadership in the broader health care marketplace. CMS covers 100 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

ISPG provides leadership to CMS to manage information security and privacy risks appropriate for evolving cyber threats. Their mission is to enable the safe use of sensitive and privacy data while servicing the healthcare needs of the nation.   

DISA/Joint Service Provider (JSP) Virtual Cybersecurity

July 29, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers

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Calling all technology providers!

DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) and JSP (Joint Service Provider) are seeking "trusted partnerships" to better manage all the IT and cybersecurity services inside the Department of Defense.

At DISA/JSP's 2021 Virtual Cybersecurity Forum, attendees will examine the agencies' cybersecurity readiness, learn better security practices, complete trainings, and look for technologies that can connect and protect warfighters in cyberspace. Can you help DISA/JSP:

• Modernize the technical infrastructure that supports their 38,000 customers in the National Capital Region?
• Advance their full range of IT equipment, services, solutions and customer support for the Office of the Secretary of Defense?
• Standardize their servers?
• Migrate the Pentagon's networks to the joint regional security stacks?

Then, this is an unequaled opportunity to meet with the top talent at DISA and JSP, who are the gatekeepers to defensive IT choices and spending.

Help DISA/JSP with their vision to enable every mission: Sign up today.

About DISA

DISA provides IT and secure communications services across the DOD and military service branches. It is in charge of the funding and personnel that offer most of the IT services for the Pentagon and other DOD offices inside the National Capital Region, and has superior mission- and budget-authority.

About JSP

Established in 2015, JSP is a subcomponent of DISA that reduces redundancies and unifies/improves the way that IT capabilities are delivered around the Pentagon. It is the go-to IT service provider for the defense community inside and around the Capital Beltway. Their holistic approach to IT management delivers dependable IT services, enhances network security, and reduces overall IT costs. JSP’s support ultimately ensures that efforts and resources are appropriately allocated toward the Department’s mission success.

Convergence 2021: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

August 12, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Lindsay Nussbaum LindsayN@fbcdb.com

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is holding its sixth Information Technology (IT) Conference, “Convergence 2021” virtually on Thursday, August 12, 2021. This conference provides a single forum where technology efforts, including lessons learned from recent projects are shared across the organization. The Office of Information Technology (OIT), hosts this annual event in order to maintain open communications within the agency and to provide visibility into technology efforts by various components within the organization. This forum enables collaboration, facilitates communication, and provides the opportunity for technology alignment throughout the agency. Business components throughout CMS are presenting the material for each of the information sessions.

Why Exhibit:

• Over 700 people attended Convergence in 2019.
• Some of the most popular job titles included Chief Growth Officer, Director, Information System Security Officer (ISSO), IT Specialist, and Technical Advisor.
• Exhibitors can attend sessions.
• This is one of our most popular events (the last event sold out in just 5 minutes after being released)!

Arizona Regional Virtual Industry, Technology & Cybersecurity Day

August 26, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Dave Johnson

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FBC is excited to announce the Arizona Regional Virtual Technology & Cybersecurity Day! Given the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, FBC has come up with a unique and effective way for your company to educate and network with your customers from throughout the federal government.

The Arizona Regional Virtual Technology & Cybersecurity Day will be a one-day event comprised of educational presentations from industry to government. This event will be promoted to various government and military agencies located throughout Arizona, with a focus on the military and contractor personnel from Fort Huachuca.

FBC has a very successful history of events with each of these organizations, with previous attendees having extremely diverse technology related job functions, from Help Desk to CIO, Sergeant to General Officer and everything in between.

Why should your company participate? Agencies are looking for capability providers who can help them with their IT and technology needs.

The format of this event includes 8 sessions that will be made available to attendees for up to 30 days after the event! Attendees will also have the ability to win a spot in a cyber-escape room hosted by an industry sponsor (sponsorship information below). There will be no live exhibit booths.

Regional MD/NoVa DoD Virtual Industry Day with Ft. Meade, Ft. Belvoir, Aberdeen, and Ft. Detrick

August 31, 2021

Virtual
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Event Manager:Bob Jeffers

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Join FBC for Regional MD/NoVa DoD Industry Day, which will be a live, "in-person," online event using the FBC Virtual Event Venue. The purpose of the event is to provide updated information and resources to U.S. Army personnel in support of 2021 mission requirements and beyond.

The format for this event will be presentation-style, anchored by several keynote addresses by leadership personnel. The presentation format allows a select group of industry contractors to brief the audience on the topic of their choice. Each presenting participant will have 20-30 minutes. Live presentations will be recorded for on-demand viewing for 30 days. Briefings may also be pre-recorded and added to the agenda. Participating companies will also be included on multiple promotional emails sent to personnel at four U.S Army bases leading up to the session. 

This event will be promoted to the following U.S. Army bases: Fort Meade, Fort Belvoir, Aberdeen Proving Ground and Ft. Detrick.