At Microsoft, we understand that in the current economic climate you are being asked to enhance your business by leveraging data to make critical business decisions in an efficient, precise and effective manner. Power BI is a business analytics service that gives you a single view of your business data, with the ability to monitor the health of your business using live dashboards, create rich interactive reports and access your data on the go,...

Chief marketing officers (CMOs) enter 2023 with an imperative to drive efficient growth in a volatile environment. Customer demand and buying behaviors continue to fluctuate unpredictably amid pandemic waves, supply chain disruption, inflationary price increases and geopolitical instability. At the same time, strategic marketing priorities — such as innovation, customer experience (CX) and digital commerce — transcend functional bo...

When it comes to staying on top of your organization’s security needs, it is vital to make connections and learn from experts. Attend the Minneapolis Cybersecurity Conference with thought leaders and luminaries face-to-face and gather insights on the latest trends and threats in cybersecurity. These conferences gather IT professionals from the local community and feature extensive training sessions, live Q&A panels, access to solutio...

The cybersecurity landscape for the U.S. government is continuously evolving. The U.S. government is embracing DevSecOps and paving the way for digital transformation. Free and readily available open source components allow federal agencies to save time and money and in many cases improve quality empowering innovation velocity. In today’s world, understanding what’s in your open source software supply chain is critical to national...

The federal workplace has seen unprecedented change since the pandemic started challenging agencies to manage through that change quickly and drive agency missions. During this exclusive webinar, moderator Jason Miller will discuss management strategies driving workplace evolution with agency and industry leaders. Learning objectives: The workplace evolution Managing culture change Innovation use cases

AFFIRM sustaining partners are the foundation of our work, contributing to AFFIRM’s scholarship program, supporting AFFIRM’s scholarships to STEM students, and helping deliver educational forums to our government members. In appreciation of these philanthropic efforts by our Sustaining Partners companies, AFFIRM is hosting a networking event to meet the 2022-2023 government leadership, engage with invited Federal CIOs, and meet you...

Remote work has upended security. Sadly, in reaction, security vendors have developed two substandard solutions: VPN and ZTNA. VPN server ports must be open to the internet and anyone on the internet can try to hack it. ZTNA suffers degraded performance while obfuscating identity creating a huge security blindspot. In this webinar, learn about Zero Networks’ ZNConnect which combines the best aspects of VPN and ZTNA while eliminating thei...

IT teams are under increasing pressure as the shift to remote work, an evolving cybersecurity landscape, and higher data volumes present new challenges that make their environments less secure. Making things even more complicated for IT professionals are the array of threats they are required to deal with, whether that be careless employees, attackers, or malicious insiders. IT professionals looking to mitigate and prevent these vulnerabilitie...

Security teams are intensely focused on protecting their organizations, often leading to friction with developers who need to build and produce applications quickly. How can organizations speed up product releases and shorten innovation cycles while also improving security and working in tandem with development? To understand how successful organizations do this, we have partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an independent IT analysi...

Cutting Through Complexity to Deliver Clarity for Actionable Insights Public sector data professionals have tremendous influence in shaping an equitable society. Whether this means properly contextualizing public health statistics, analyzing demographic data, or identifying economic disparities, the power of data is revolutionary. If, however, the public sector operates without coordination, meaningful progress can be challenging. How can publ...