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Navigating Your Federal Funding Roadmap
2021-10-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | FL
There are billions of dollars in funding accessible to you due to the COVID-19 pandemic. E-rate, ESSER, CARES Act, American Recovery… the list goes on. But do you know how to navigate the available funds and make the best use of these dollars for your organization?
Join Sterling and Fortinet for a virtual deep dive into the available funds and how to lay the foundation, next steps, and long-term educational technology success.

16th Annual Nebraska Cyber Security Conference
2021-10-19 08:00 - 16:00
In today’s world, we rely on technology and the Internet for a variety of transactions, communication and information – at home, in school and at the workplace. While we are familiar with the myriad of conveniences provided through Internet use, it is difficult to stay abreast of all the changes and the potential risks presented by the Internet. We are all “virtual neighbors” in cyberspace, and what we do, or don’t do, can affect many others.
The Nebraska Cyber Security Conference will assist in raising our awareness of cyber security and help in protecting all of us in cyberspace. If we do our part individually, we can have a tremendous positive impact collectively on our state’s cyber security.
This will be valuable time learning from skilled industry experts. The day will be filled with a variety of breakout sessions that will encompass different areas of information security and technology.

MOREnet Annual Conference 2021
2021-10-18 08:00 - 2021-10-21 17:00
We are BACK in person and cannot wait to see your faces! It is also time to celebrate MOREnet’s 30th Anniversary. Join us for learning, networking and celebrating this year at
Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 18 & 19)
The first two days of conference takes a deep-dive into new applications, devices and ideas to benefit both the administration-side of the organization as well as teachers and faculty for K-20 grade levels. This time will provide ways for you to discover new technologies, network with your peers and walk away with new ideas you can adopt in your classroom and organization.
MOREnet Technical Conference
Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 20 & 21)
The Technical Conference is designed for higher education institutions, K-12 schools, libraries or anyone wanting to discover the latest in the world of technology management and infrastructure. It brings together attendees ranging from newly assigned tech administrators from small schools, to veteran CTOs and CIOs from large schools, libraries and universities.

Iowa Technology & Education Connection Fall 2021
2021-10-11 08:00 - 2021-10-12 17:00
The ITEC IT Conference is a chance for IT professionals and district technology leaders to connect and learn about the latest hardware and software developments for schools.

Offutt AFB Technology Expo 2021
2021-10-07 09:30 - 13:30
This event is scheduled to be held live and in person. Should things change due to the pandemic this information will be updated. Coming off the largest and most successful Technology Expo held for Offutt AFB in 2019 this will be an outstanding opportunity for Offutt personnel to interact with Industry Vendors and is a Must Do event. Offutt Air Force Base is home of the 55th Wing, featuring STRATCOM and a variety of tenant units. Offutt’s diverse missions and global responsibilities put it on the cutting edge of the Air Forces transformation. Each branch of the US military is represented among the approximately 12,000 military and federal employees assigned there. The 55th Mission Support Group provides vital mission support for Offutt AFB through engineering, security, mission support, services, supply, transportation, contracting & deployment readiness programs. The Annual Technology Expo will attract personnel from commands and organizations from the entire base including: 55th Civil Engineering Squadron 55th Contracting Squadron 55th Force Support Squadron 55th Security Forces Squadron 55th Logistics Readiness Flight Logistics Distribution Division 55th Communications Squadron 55th Strategic Communications Squadron 55th Mobile Command and Control Squadron. Register now and make sure to be part of the Annual Expo for this important air force installation.

Wyoming Innovations in Learning 2021
2021-09-30 08:00 - 2021-10-01 17:00
Join us virtually for the 5th Annual Wyoming Innovations in Learning Conference on Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2021.
The Innovations Conference is an opportunity for educators from kindergarten through higher education, to share and explore innovative teaching and learning practices for classrooms and distance learning environments.
This conference is hosted by the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE), the Wyoming Distance Education Consortium (WyDEC), the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming community colleges, the Wyoming State Library, school libraries, and the Wyoming Arts Council.

2021 National Cyber Summit
2021-09-28 08:00 - 2021-09-30 17:00
National Cyber Summit is the nation’s most innovative cyber security-technology event, offering unique educational, collaborative and workforce development opportunities for industry visionaries and rising leaders. NCS offers more value than similar cyber conferences with diverse focus-areas, premier speakers, and unmatched accessibility. Our core focus is on three things: education, collaboration and innovation.

MISAC Annual Conference 2021
2021-09-26 08:00 - 2021-09-29 17:00
Every year since 2002, with the exception of 2020 (COVID-19), the Municipal Information Systems Association of California (MISAC) has held an annual conference. 2021 will see the resumption of the association’s live and in-person conference.
As in 2018, the host hotel will be the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, California. Conference dates are September 26-29. Attendance is anticipated to be around 600 with approximately half being MISAC members and other government IT personnel and the other half being vendors and suppliers who will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the event.
The 2021 MISAC Annual Conference will feature four General Sessions with outstanding keynote speakers lined up for all four. In addition, the four day event will include twenty-eight hour-long breakout sessions where other members, vendors, and suppliers will pass along helpful information and experiences to those in attendance.
The conference also features a 90 booth exhibit hall where IT vendors share their goods and provide product and service information to those in attendance. Below are some helpful links.

Air Space Cyber Conference 2021
2021-09-20 08:00 - 2021-09-22 17:00
The Air Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference will return as a live, in-person event Sept. 20-22 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Md. With most COVID-19 restrictions now lifted by national, state, and local authorities, we can once again look forward to greeting each other in-person this September.
A full agenda of speaker presentations and a robust technology exposition will greet thousands of visitors. AFA is working closely with the Department of the Air Force leadership to create a truly memorable event for Airmen, Guardians, and their industry partners in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of AFA’s founding.
AFA’s Air, Space, & Cyber Conference is the leading professional development event for Air Force and Space Force officers, enlisted members, civilians, veterans, and defense industry leaders and representatives. Our conference brings together top Air Force and Space Force leadership, industry experts, and government officials to discuss challenges facing the aerospace and cyber communities today and in the future.
This year’s conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Air Force Association and will build on AFA’s successful recent events featuring record-breaking attendance and speakers, including the Vice President of the United States, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Cuban.
AFA is excited to host you for our 2021 Air, Space & Cyber (ASC) Conference at Gaylord National! ASC will be a live in-person event with key events video-streamed globally. Like you, AFA continues to closely monitor the Covid-19 situation. Please plan to adhere to health guidelines as they evolve (CDC, DoD, Prince George’s County).

AFITC 2021
2021-08-30 08:00 - 2021-09-01 17:00
How can you gain access to the one of the largest Air Force training and trade show events of the year? Department of Defense personnel, military retirees, government contractors, local and state employees, and members of academia are all invited to register to attend. However, the Air Force Information Technology & Cyberpower Education and Training Event is not open to the general public.

TechNet Augusta
2021-08-16 - 2021-08-19
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

Keesler Air Force Base Technology Expo
2021-07-15 09:30 - 13:30
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
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

Register for this free virtual webinar!

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
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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