Innovative and progressive financial models are essential in supporting the growth and supply of affordable housing in Australia. Government, providers, developers and institutions are all interested in exploring ways to deliver affordable housing in a restricted fiscal environment. This conference will continue the discussion, promoting progressive financial strategies to support the longevity and availability of affordable housing within Au...

This is an updated Encore Training Workshop based upon a very successful and highly acclaimed Workshop in May 2016. Student rated the Workshop as “Excellent” and requested a repeat workshop to permit additional staff to attend. This updated “Encore” Workshop is scheduled at the request of previous students! The White House set a goal of raising the government wide engagement score to 67% by the 2016 Federal Employee Vie...

Overview: With the current headlines regarding government email retention and e-discovery, it is important to understand how the upcoming deadlines will impact your agency. This one-day Potomac Forum Workshop will focus on the activities mandated by the NARA/OMB Records Management Directive. Key executives from NARA and government agencies will discuss the directive and its implementation. Detailed review and analysis of the directive will be...

Overview: Hiring federal employees was never an easy process, and so it is especially frustrating to both line managers and HR offices when a new hire might leave after just a year or two. In today’s budget environment, with hard or soft hiring freezes, and early out and buyouts becoming ever more common, it is especially important that once a job offer has been accepted that the hiring manager be able to retain the new hire for a reaso...

Overview: This one day Potomac Forum workshop will focus on taking organizational CDO/EDEs to the next level within their respective organizations, based on lessons learned and best practices. In order to be effective, CDOs require specific prerequisites or risk becoming casualties. Paramount among these is the need for an organizational data strategy. Without a well understood and organizationally accepted data strategy, governmental organiz...

Overview: On January 20, 2017 there will be a new President of the United States, but beneath the surface the transition period really has already begun. The last year of a President’s term poses both great dangers and opportunities for career civil servants, and the higher rank of those civil servants, the greater are both the opportunities and the risks. As outgoing political appointees focus intensely on both getting a new job outsid...

Incorporating draft OMB Circular A-123 requirements that defines management’s responsibility for internal control with an emphasis on integrating Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)This workshop is limited to government employees only to permit candid discussion In anticipation of the revised OMB Circular No. A-123 being issued early in Calendar Year 2016, this will be an advanced level internal control workshop focusing on the draft requi...

With the Washington, D.C. Metro SafeTrack, a year-long repair of the Metro System will cause increased delays and stop closings. OPM has asked Federal Government Employees to increase their use of Telework to reduce the load on the Metro and streets due to increased auto traffic. Therefore, there will be an increased level of Telework within the Federal Government. This 9th offering of this very successful program will help you to improve you...

SMi Group are proud to announce the launch of the inaugural MilSatCom USA which will take place in Arlington, Virginia on 28th-29th June 2016. With growing external threats to US Space Assets, greater focus on streamlining the MilSatCom acquisition process and a greater desire for international partnering in the US, there will be a great opportunity for the US SatCom community and allies to meet and discuss how greater progress can be made. Th...

Eastern Europe Defence Week 2016 will focus on increased procurement activity of defence equipment of countries in Central and Eastern Europe – many of the CEE countries have been modernising their militaries and increasing defence budgets, creating the ideal platform for international defence companies to support through international cooperation, co-production and joint-ventures. A 2016 outlook on the defence industry in Central and Ea...