State and local governments lose billions of dollars a year through fraudulent claims and abuse of government services and benefits. Efforts to fight fraud often focus on combatting external threats, ignoring the very real threat of internal fraud. While this has always been a challenge for state and local governments, significant amounts of new federal funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and other pandemic relief...

Is your district ready for what comes next? After several years of pandemic-related disruption and crisis response, district leaders are confronting a new challenge: Determining what the future will look like — and understanding its long-term impacts on people, processes and technologies. The Fall Special Districts Summit will offer unique insights on these critical questions. You’ll hear how innovative districts are: Building tech...

The Center for Digital Education (CDE) will collaborate with Spectrum Enterprise to create a webcast focused on the future of K12 education and its impact on district/campus technology. This webcast will assess how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing teaching and learning today, as well as the potential long-term effects on technology planning and priorities that will result. We will do this by assembling a panel of current and former K12 IT lea...

Cyber insurance has become a big part of an overall cybersecurity strategy for many state and local governments. But cyber insurance is changing quickly. Premiums will likely increase significantly in the coming months and years. Policies are changing what incidents they cover, and in what circumstances. They may not offer the protection officials think they do. And cyber insurance does nothing to protect an organization against another attack...

Student needs and expectations are evolving. They’re carrying more devices than ever. They may be learning in hybrid environments — part classroom and part remote. Maybe they’re trying to catch up after two years of pandemic-driven disruption. This conversation will explore essential technology tools to support teaching and learning in this shifting landscape. Join the Center for Digital Education on September 20 at 10 a.m. P...

From almost day one, edtech company Instructure has leveraged the cloud from Amazon Web Services (AWS) on its way to becoming the biggest learning management system (LMS) provider in the country. After successfully scaling up its main platform Canvas, Instructure faced the new hurdle of integrating various acquisitions and growing into different business lines. Collaborating with AWS, the company overcame these challenges and established a bur...

The long-term shift to remote and hybrid work means government agencies need to view virtual collaboration in a new light. The first step was supporting virtual connections among employees and their supervisors to keep critical government functions operating during the pandemic. Now, the next challenge is enabling cross-functional teams to seamlessly collaborate on everything from project management and project deliverables, to complex procure...

Reduced budgets and limited resources aren’t new problems. Between the Great Resignation, the move to remote work and the increased resources it takes to support a mobile workforce, most IT service desks are understaffed and overburdened. Mundane, repetitive tasks not only steal hours from your team, they also hurt job satisfaction and morale, making it even harder to retain staff. How can you put more time in the day for your organizati...

State health departments are swamped with their responses to COVID-19 and the recent monkeypox outbreak, making it difficult to map out data modernization strategies. But two public health agencies, the Iowa Department of Public Health and Maryland Department of Health, have successfully adopted a "working backward" approach to strategic development. With the assistance of Amazon Web Services (AWS), these agencies have crafted roadmaps to thei...

The GovX Summit is the premiere Center for Digital Government annual event that showcases and recognizes the latest trends, best practices and ideas around the evolving experience of government. Bringing together a diverse set of leaders from industry and government, the GovX Summit provides a unique opportunity to learn from and network with those directly at the forefront of the government experience movement.