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Keesler Air Force Base Technology Expo
2021-07-15 09:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | TX
Make your plans now to participate in the 2021 Keesler AFB Technology Expo Biloxi, MS. This expo has been serving Keesler personnel for over 25 years and is aggressively promoted to all organizations at Keesler AFB that evaluate and procure information technology and services. The 2020 event attracted over 400 personnel…The annual expo is an opportunity to influence and have access to attendees from Keesler and the Naval personnel from Gulfport as well as Stennis Space Flight Center. This exposition is highly regarded as THE way to make contact with and impact so many defense contacts from these locations in one place at one time from this important southeast region and it is the ONLY Technology Expo for Keesler each year. As one of the largest training bases for the Air Force, Keesler has tremendous training and video needs in addition to their mainstream technology environment. The Expo facility can accommodate up to 35 vendors and each year the expo is booked to capacity. The July 2021 Expo takes place at the Bay Breeze Events Center on Keesler AFB and will have outstanding support at the Command level and will be your opportunity to interact with hundreds of important personnel from Keesler and the surrounding area. Register today and secure your space in this always productive and very popular air force program. This event is scheduled to be held live and in person. Should things change due to the pandemic this information will be updated.
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Barksdale Air Force Base Technology Expo
2021-07-13 09:30 - 13:30
This highly successful event has grown into a major technology event for Barksdale in just a few short years. Barksdale AFB is home to the Air Force Global Strike Command. AFGSC was activated in August, 2009, and is responsible for the nation’s three Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Wings, two B-52 Stratofortress Wings, two B-1B Lancer Wings, the only B-2 Spirit Wing, and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. The “Mighty Eighth” Air Force, of World War II fame, is headquartered at the Barksdale. Barksdale is home to the 2nd Bomb Wing, 2nd Operations Group, 2nd Maintenance Group, 2nd Mission Support Group, the 2nd Medical Group, 26th Operational Weather Squadron, & the Reserves 307th Bomb Wing. The 2021 Expo will be a great opportunity to reach personnel from the commands and units who use and procure technology for this important Air Force Base and will be the only technology expo at Barksdale AFB this year. This very popular event always sells out with several vendors on a wait list for the most recent show there in 2020. This event is scheduled to be held live and in person. Should things change due to the pandemic this information will be updated.
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VMC on AWS
2021-07-07 11:00 - 11:45
Using VMware Cloud on AWS you can leverage your existing VMware investment by extending expertise into the cloud for immediate benefits in resiliency, scalability, and elasticity. VMware Cloud on AWS provides a conduit to ease cloud migration without the need for complete application rehauls or complex conversion processes. We’ll examine how a hybrid cloud environment looks and feels while also demonstrating an actual migration of a workload from on-prem to VMC on AWS using VMware HCX. By the end we’ll have a full grasp what a sample cloud migration takes to accomplish when using VMware as the common workload platform.

Power Block Session: NSX-T Advanced Load Balancer for Multi-Location VDI
2021-06-30 11:00 - 11:45
Dive into NSX-T Federation to deploy a resilient virtual desktop infrastructure across multiple sites while controlling ingress traffic using the NSX Advanced Load
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Cybersecurity Webinar Series- Part 3
2021-06-23 11:00 - 12:00
Mind of a Hacker

Part 3 in the Sterling Cybersecurity Webinar Series Click to register now!
Wednesday, June 23rd at 11:00 a.m. CST
Join Sterling, Stevan Bernard, Ex Senior VP of Security for Sony Pictures, and Keren Elazari, the Friendly Hacker, as they Tap into the Mind of a Hacker. This will be a thrilling webinar to see! Register today!

Hurlburt Field Tech Showcase
2021-06-23 08:00 - 17:00
Join Sterling at the Hurlburt Field Tech Show!
The Hurlburt Field Tech Showcase connects government and industry to collaborate on mission requirements and technology solutions. This event, which is open and free to all Hurlburt Field personnel, provides an opportunity to see the latest in emerging technologies and network with industry experts. Exhibiting companies are encouraged to provide live demos and hands-on training to benefit the attendees. Showcase your technology solutions to meet the ever-changing demands that their mission requires.

Sterling Live Demo: Dell Technologies PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
2021-06-22 11:00 - 11:45
PowerProtect Cyber Recovery protects and isolates critical data from ransomware and other sophisticated threats. Machine learning identifies suspicious activity and allows you to recover known good data and resume normal business operations with confidence.

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VMware Public Sector Innovation Summit
2021-06-22 09:00 - 12:00
Public sector organizations are navigating through digital transformation, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital-first is now essential to continuity and resiliency in citizen, employee and student experiences. As a result, leveraging the cloud to manage agency application portfolios is a priority for every CIO.
For public sector organizations, the app and cloud modernization journey, and enabling their teams to accelerate this journey from virtually anywhere, have become key drivers of improved citizen engagement and mission outcomes. In the coming years, the government will face the constant demands of this new journey and modernized applications will continue to drive transformational infrastructure strategies from the data center to the cloud to the edge.
At the 2021 Public Sector Innovation Summit, the most influential IT leaders from government and industry will gather to discuss the trends, best practices and lessons learned in the ongoing app and cloud modernization journey. As part of that conversation, top public sector decision-makers will explore the importance of application modernization, the move to multi-cloud and the need for unified security in this new environment to support a distributed workforce.

Eglin AFB Tech Showcase
2021-06-22 08:00 - 17:00
Join Sterling at the Eglin AFB Tech Show!
The Eglin AFB Tech Showcase connects government and industry to collaborate on mission requirements and innovative solutions. This event, which is open and free to all Eglin AFB personnel, provides an opportunity to see the latest in emerging technologies and network with industry experts. Exhibiting companies are encouraged to provide live demos and hands-on training to benefit the attendees. Showcase your technology solutions to meet the ever-changing demands that their mission requires.

Power Block Session: Tanzu with PowerStore (Reference Architecture)
2021-06-16 11:00 - 11:45
Learn how vSphere with Tanzu can leverage efficient, scalable, and high speed storage in Dell’s PowerStore platform to backup and contain persistent data for your applications running on Kubernetes
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Power Block Session: vRealize Automation and SaltStack
2021-06-09 11:00 - 11:45
How can organizations maintain the standards of their environments, and protect them? Learn how SaltStack Config can be used along with vRealize Automation to configure workloads deployed into your environment and maintain those standards from drift. We will use vRealize Automation to deploy our template, and then configure the workloads and maintain them using SaltStack Config.
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Sterling Live Demo: Dell Powerstore & Powerscale
2021-06-08 11:00 - 11:45, 2021-05-11 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for a demo on Dell’s leading storage solutions – PowerStore and PowerScale

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Power Block Session: Exploring the New Virtual Machine Service within Tanzu to Support Complete Infrastructure as Code
2021-06-02 11:00 - 11:45
In a recent update VMware has announced the Virtual Machine service within the Kubernetes based vSphere with Tanzu capability set. This VM service allows operators to provide self-service functionality to their consumers using a common Kubernetes API for any workload desired such as vSphere Pods (containers), Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters, and now Virtual Machines. We’ll explore how this added benefit helps consolidate deployment platforms for all workloads to create a seamless infrastructure as code based environment.

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Power Block Session: Horizon on VxRail
2021-05-26 11:00 - 11:45
VxRail with Horizon delivers a turnkey solution enabling organizations to cost-effectively and quickly transform physical desktops into secure digital workspaces with a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) that is easier to procure, deploy, manage, and scale as demand grows. VxRail nodes come pre-configured with ESXi server, vCenter Server and Virtual SAN for all nodes, streamlining the onboarding of your Horizon environment. We will demonstrate the how the VxRail infrastructure is pre-configured for Horizon, and how Horizon provides on-demand virtual desktops via the web or Horizon desktop client.
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Sterling Live Demo: Dell Technologies PowerProtect Backup Services
2021-05-25 13:00 - 14:00
PowerProtect Backup Service is a cloud data protection solution designed to deliver SaaS based protection without increasing IT complexity white ensuring predictable, controllable costs. PowerProtect Backup Service deploys in minutes and provides unlimited on-demand scaling to ensure growing data volumes are always protected.

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Cybersecurity Webinar Series- Part 2
2021-05-25 11:00 - 12:00
Ransomware: no limits, no borders, no fear

Part 2 in the Sterling Cybersecurity Webinar Series Click to register now!

Tuesday, May 25th at 11:00 a.m. CST

One ransomware attack happens every 14 seconds. 55% of small businesses pay the ransom demand, but data is recovered intact only 8% of the time. Not only are attacker’s objectives for financial gain, but they are carrying over into a physical impact.

Cyber-attacks are a matter of individual, local, regional, national, and international security. In this era of cyber-attacks, hackers will stop at nothing, there are no limits. What is your cyber defense strategy?

Join industry thought leaders Stevan Bernard, former Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment; Chris Cyr, Sterling CTO; and Mindy Schweitzer, Sterling Director of Marketing and moderator, as they look at the cybercrime crises happening now and what you must do to safeguard your world.
• Magnitude and escalation of ransomware: From Sony Pictures to recent attacks
• Urgent strategies for cyber protection
• Continuous monitoring and the zero-trust model
• Preparedness as the only means of survival

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Power Block Session: Capacity Planning with vROps
2021-05-19 11:00 - 11:45
We’ll be discussing the building blocks for capacity planning with vRealize Operations Manager to help better understand the numbers behind the capacity values. We’ll also be demonstrating how to optimize capacity for saving resources and costs in your data centers.

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TechNet Augusta
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-19, 2021-04-20 - 2021-04-21
Attend TechNet Augusta and take advantage of these opportunities:

Continuing education sessions to maintain cybersecurity certifications
Special programs for small businesses
Insight into upcoming business opportunities
Demonstrate technology solutions: The Cyber Center of Excellence wants your solutions.
Network with potential partners

Leaders and operators also discuss procurement challenges the military, government and industry face during a time of uncertain budgets and runaway technology advances.

Power Block Session: Threat Hunting and Incident Response in the New Threat Landscape - Carbon Black
2021-05-12 11:00 - 11:45
Last December, the security industry was stunned by the magnitude and sophistication of the SolarWinds breach. Today, efforts are still underway to assess the impact of the more than nine-month-old cyberespionage campaign. While the task might seem daunting, looking for anomalies like SUNBURST in your data becomes easier with additional intelligence. Please join VMware Carbon Black for this Power Block session as they cover what normal looks like and how to find the abnormal, dig to the root cause, quickly respond and destroy on-going APTs, and set yourself up to automatically detect emerging threats like SUNBURST moving forward.

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Power Block Session: vRealize Automation Extensibility
2021-05-05 11:00 - 11:45
vRealize Orchestrator is the Anything-as-a-service(Xaas) that can be utilized for API management, SSH/Winrm connection, LDAP connectivity and so much more. This demo will show just a fraction of the many ways this can be used to enable users to run automation from the Service broker, as well as combining with infrastructure deployment.

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Power Block Session: Getting Started with vROps
2021-04-28 11:00 - 11:45
For those who have never used vRealize Operations before we’ll be taking a high level look at some of the key tenets of vROps including Troubleshooting, Capacity adjustments for performance and cost savings, and taking a look at the Dashboarding and Reporting features in the tool.

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Cybersecurity Webinar Series
2021-04-27 11:00 - 12:00
The average cost of a cyber breach is $3.68 million. It’s not a matter of “if” and it’s not a matter of “when”; it is whether you will survive the cyber-attack.
Since the early days of the pandemic, we’ve seen an accelerated and unprecedented digital transformation that would’ve taken years but instead happened in months or even weeks.
Have you looked ahead at what safeguards will be needed to counter the emerging threats? Can you guarantee the security of your data? Our dependency on the digital economy is irreversible. The systemic risk we face includes vulnerabilities to all things connected.
Industry thought-leaders Stevan Bernard, former Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures; Chris Cyr, Sterling CTO; and Jeff Moore, Sterling Senior VP of Business Development and Contracts, take a look at cybersecurity past, present, and future:
• Sony Pictures’ story of surviving North Korean cyber-attacks
• Present global-scale threats and dark-web risks
• Importance of a secure supply chain
• Future threatscape
• The proactive approach your organizations can take
Register for this free virtual webinar!

Sterling Live Demo: VMware Cloud on AWS
2021-04-27 11:00 - 11:45
Using VMware Cloud on AWS you can leverage your existing VMware investment by extending expertise into the cloud for immediate benefits in resiliency, scalability, and elasticity. VMware Cloud on AWS provides a conduit to ease cloud migration without the need for complete application rehauls or complex conversion processes. We’ll examine how a hybrid cloud environment looks and feels while also demonstrating an actual migration of a workload from on-prem to VMC on AWS using VMware HCX. By the end we’ll have a full grasp what a sample cloud migration takes to accomplish when using VMware as the common workload platform.
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Power Block Session: Using NSX-ALB as an Ingress for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
2021-04-21 11:00 - 11:45
Utilize the NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Formerly Avi Networks) to provide Ingress services for Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters to distribute traffic to applications based on application context aware, layer 7 routing.

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TIE Virtual Conference
2021-04-18 - 2021-04-19
TIE curates lesson resources, provides instruction for the best uses of online tools, and offers customized support on the best pedagogical strategies for learning. TIE empowers educational communities to respond productively and responsibly in a networked global society. Our professional development incorporates current technologies with traditional strategies to provide participants with experiences focused on their current practice, meeting learners where they are and taking them to where they want to be.

Power Block Session: vRealize Automation with ABX
2021-04-14 11:00 - 11:45
vRealize Automation, enables additional automation through ABX(Action Based Extensibility) to run functions as a service (FaaS) code that does additional configuration and management based off the lifecycle of the deployment. This demo will focus on how it can be utilized and enabled.

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Sterling Live Demo: Horizon on VxRail
2021-04-13 11:00 - 11:45

Iowa Technology & Education Connection (ITEC)
2021-04-10 - 2021-04-16
ITEC stands for the Iowa Technology & Education Connection. ITEC promotes the use of technology in education by demonstrating to its members, other educators and the public, developments in educational technology and how its appropriate use supports teaching and learning.
ITEC serves its members by:

conducting an annual educational technology conference in the Fall
conducting an annual technology infrastructure conference in the Spring
providing a network of educators available to share their expertise
making contact with legislative groups, department of education, user groups, and other professional organizations
displaying information about the organization at statewide conferences
providing leadership on how technology can impact teaching and learning

ITEC Spring 2021 will be a little different this year as we transition to a virtual conference format. We still aim to provide a truly effective learning experience for all attendees but with a few changes:

All regular sessions will have an asynchronous part (30 minute recorded video that will be released on the Saturday of the conference week) and a synchronous part (an up to 30 minute live Q&A session that will be scheduled between Monday and Friday of the conference week)
Keynotes and Featured Speaker sessions will be live and accessible through the Whova application
Vendors will be available through either a hosted session or through the Whova app in the Exhibitor Center
There will be multiple ways in the Whova app to connect with other educators in order to make those connections that are so impactful and are a key to any educational conference.

ITEC Spring 2021 will start on Saturday, April 10th and the projected schedule is as follows:

Saturday: Asynchronous sessions available in the Whova application
Monday: Q&A sessions 12pm – 8pm (last session starts at 7pm)
Tuesday: Featured Speakers: 9am – 12pm, Q&A live sessions: 12pm – 8pm
Wednesday: Keynote: 9am – 11am, Featured Speakers and Keynote sessions: 11am – 3pm, Q&A live sessions: 3pm – 8pm
Thursday: Q&A live sessions: 12pm – 8pm
Friday: Q&A live sessions: 12pm – 4pm
