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Thursday, July 16, 2026 | 1 Hour

AI is rapidly transforming our world—from scientific discovery to business operations to national defense. At the same time, quantum computing is advancing toward a new era of computational power. As these technologies converge, they will significantly amplify one another’s capabilities, creating unprecedented opportunities as well as significant new security challenges.

This changing landscape requires such measures as deploying quantum-resistant security to safeguard data, AI models, and communications as quantum computers begin to challenge current cryptographic standards. Using AI can strengthen cybersecurity solutions through improved threat detection, accelerated incident response, and are resilient security architectures.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their thoughts on how these domains will evolve together, and the ways they both reinforce and threaten each of them.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | 1 Hour

Federal grants management has always been a complicated process. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a newly-released report that “[w]hile there are certain standard requirements, each grant program has different authorizing legislation and may also be subject to agency-specific regulations and guidance. For some aspects of grant design and administration, agencies also have more discretion to make decisions.”

As a result, the design and administration of grant programs across federal agencies vary substantially, creating friction at every step and making compliance by grantees an intense, often unmanageable process. Many participating organizations designate a CFO to manage them; many mid-sized and smaller companies, without the financial resources or manpower to manage them, don’t attempt to apply because of the burden.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss the challenges of grant management on both sides of the equation – grantors and grantees – and ways to both ease the administrative burdens and encourage broader participation by potential grantees.

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 | 1 Hour

The cloud, hybrid IT, and GenAI are reshaping the IT landscape, but they also are expanding attack surfaces and increasing cyber risk. Security tools already in place are falling behind, unable to keep up with new threats that have been supercharged by AI tools being used by bad actors, from criminals to hostile nation-states.

Rather than focusing solely on stopping attacks, using Zero Trust (ZT) segmentation tools provide a new line of defenses – east-west traffic visibility, microsegmentation, identity-based firewalling, and east-west traffic encryption in transit. By minimizing the impact of inevitable breaches through effective containment, agencies can maintain uptime during attacks and keep essential government services running.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their experiences with using ZT segmentation to protect their most important assets, and other benefits it generated, including compliance readiness and cost savings.

Monday, June 29, 2026 | 1 Hour

As IT and security deployments migrate to the cloud, security gaps in air-gapped systems can be created unless attention focuses on threats such as data transfer from external storage media – for example, USB devices. Paradoxically, many agencies continue to maintain critical systems and data on air-gapped servers or on systems running end-of-life operating systems.

The U.S. Department of War maintains critical air-gapped systems even as it transfers more of its systems and activities to the cloud. Using a positive security model, which identifies software with a known degree of trust, only allowing access to trusted resources, assumes that unknown software is not to be trusted and requires that trust be assigned before granting access and usage.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss how the evolving threat landscape requires security professionals to evaluate the risks facing both cloud-based and air-gapped systems, and the best ways to mitigate them.

Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 1 Hour

Government agencies at all levels – federal, state, local, tribal, territorial – are wrestling with ways to improve physical security through, and in collaboration with, cyber assets. This intersection of physical security and digital surveillance in government – often called cyber-physical security convergence – represents the merging of traditional facilities protection with digital IT and OT (operational technology) networks and AI tools.

By linking smart cameras, biometric access points, and IoT sensors, agencies can create unified threat detection that monitors real-world environments while compiling vast amounts of trackable, searchable data. Some cities and counties, for instance, have created real-time crime centers (RTCCs). Healthcare facilities, educational institutions, intelligence agencies, even social services agencies, also are exploring how to combine physical and cyber security.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss the convergence of these two fields, the challenges in integrating them, and the short- and long-term benefits of unified security that protects people, data, systems, and property.

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 | 1 Hour

Security, Control & Deployment in Mission Environments

As AI becomes central to critical infrastructure, national security is no longer just about physical borders but also about controlling the digital intelligence that shapes societal functions, economic stability, and defense.

The concept of AI sovereignty encourages governments to develop and deploy artificial intelligence using their own infrastructure, data, workforce, and business networks. It is intended to ensure that AI systems align with local laws, regulations, and ethical standards, reducing dependence on foreign technologies and protecting sensitive data. A global McKinsey survey of executives, investors, and government officials found that 71% consider sovereign AI an “existential concern” or “strategic imperative” to their organizational goals.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss the concept of AI sovereignty and how it can be deployed as a strategic enabler for security, turning high-level data governance into an operational capability.

Thursday, June 18, 2026 | 1 Hour

It has taken very little time for AI’s risks to emerge. According to Verizon’s 19th annual Data Breach Investigations Report, AI is fundamentally remodeling cyber security in real time, for everyone to see.

The benefits of AI take longer to manifest. Today’s government agencies find themselves managing a hybrid AI approach, balancing a mix of hosted provider models (like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock), open-source self-hosted models, and organization-specific fine-tuned models. When an organization scales AI, they don't just use one model; they use a hybrid ecosystem. This is one area where AI’s protective capabilities can come into play.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss ways to use AI to block or defeat AI-powered cyber attacks, such as phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA), enterprise logging and centralized visibility, and extending identity to non-human entities, including endpoints, IoT/OT devices, applications, microservices, and APIs.

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 1 Hour

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated in a 2025 report that the U.S. government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud. In its follow-up report and accompanying blog post, the watchdog agency “found that agencies still struggle with understanding whether their efforts work” to prevent fraud.

A combination of approaches provides the strongest protection against fraud, including tools to find weaknesses in internal controls, processes to assess fraud risks on an ongoing basis, analyses that determine the savings generated by antifraud investments – both justifying spending on antifraud protections and encouraging additional investments – and using AI to generate insights into emerging fraud risks or to aid advanced fraud detection.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss how a layered approach to effective fraud and risk management, such as implementing robust internal controls, using multi-factor authentication, and communicating with other agencies about their anti-fraud efforts are working, can help improve your agency’s defenses against fraud.

Thursday, June 11, 2026 | 1 Hour

Government agencies are pushing toward a more agile, high‑tech future. It requires using AI to eliminate time‑intensive operational work, strengthen foundational service and operations data, and accelerate mission‑critical functions without compromising security or compliance.

Public sector organizations are now approaching AI as an operational capability rather than a pilot, including the decisions required to retire legacy processes, establish governed data foundations, and adopt new ways of working. The challenge is moving beyond traditional "Generative AI" (which only provides answers) to "Agentic AI," which can autonomously perform multi-step tasks, navigate disparate systems, and resolve issues with human-in-the-loop oversight

Join us as thought leaders in both the public and private sectors offer their practical perspectives on readiness, collaboration, harnessing agentic AI, and how agencies are learning from one another to move faster, operate smarter, and deliver measurable impact where it matters most.

Wednesday, June 10 2026 | 1 Hour

Mission Essential Functions (MEFs) aren’t a checklist—they’re public outcomes that must be delivered when agency systems are under pressure. The hard part isn’t defining MEFs; it’s proving they can be delivered even though systems have been degraded by an incident.

Establishing a connected model that works upstream, from meeting the mission back through capabilities, applications, and necessary technologies, enables faster incident decisions, clearer resilience priorities, and defensible readiness evidence that stays current as the environment changes.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss a practical approach to move from “MEFs documented” to “MEFs deliverable.”

Thursday, June 4, 2026 | 1 Hour

Federal agencies are under relentless pressure to modernize their security posture as they face an onslaught of new, enhanced threats – from hostile nation-states, criminal networks, and hackers determined to stir up trouble.

The path forward starts with three proven principles: Least Privilege Access, which blocks users from gaining entry to data and software they are not allowed to use; Zero Trust architectures, designed to “never trust, always identify;” and microsegmentation, which allows networks to be blockaded into very small sections that can be walled off from the overall network.

Join us for an in-depth webinar where thought leaders from government and industry break down how these three concepts work together to limit exposure, stop lateral movement, and protect sensitive government data.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | 1 Hour

Public sector and enterprise organizations face increasing pressure to demonstrate compliance with evolving regulations, frameworks, and internal policies—often across complex, rapidly changing environments. Yet Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) efforts remain largely manual and point-in-time.

Modernizing GRC involves shifting from siloed processes to automated, integrated, and predictive systems. New GRC platforms can provide real-time reporting, AI-driven risk analytics, and continuous control monitoring to enhance agencies’ agility, strengthen security posture and improve regulatory compliance.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share how organizations are modernizing GRC by using authoritative asset intelligence to continuously validate controls, align policy with operational reality, and reduce audit burden – shifting compliance from documentation exercises to ongoing, defensible assurance.

Friday, May 8, 2026 | 1 Hour

City and county governments across the country are facing tighter budgets. Accompanying the financial pressures, these smaller government entities are facing rising service demands and trying to cope with chronic staffing shortages. In this turbulent landscape, agentic AI offers a way to improve services, cut legacy IT debt, and provide assistance to overwhelmed employees.

Counties and cities already use AI to improve public safety, optimize urban planning and transportation, and streamline internal operations. Using pilot programs, they can experiment with AI-generated public agents to identify constituent-facing solutions and scale them as needed.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their experiences in using agentic AI at the city and county level to provide better services while working within strict resource constraints.

Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 1 Hour

Federal agencies are working hard to respond to budget and headcount cuts imposed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in 2025, especially regarding cybersecurity.

A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Carahsoft and Broadcom found that 52% of respondents say budget constraints have had a moderate or significant negative impact on their department’s ability to maintain core security operations. The same number also rank workforce reductions as one of their top three challenges.

Join us as a Forrester analyst walks through the study’s key findings, and thought leaders from government and industry discuss the current state of government cybersecurity, the challenges agencies are facing, and ways they are responding to address their needs.

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 1 Hour

The race to make smaller, lighter, yet ever-more powerful laptops and tablets has cast a long shadow over desktop PC sales. But the advent of AI is showing a more inclusive future.

As agencies address workers’ need to utilize AI to increase their productivity, new environments such as the “dynamic edge” require an assessment of the best hardware and software platforms for different types and locations of work. Laptops equipped for field work require connectivity and greater memory for on-site AI use. Desktops are generally considered the best choice for in-office AI work because they provide superior heat management, higher performance, and easier, more cost-effective hardware upgrades. An AI-enabled computer of any type allows for local data processing, which increases privacy, reduces latency, and works without being connected to the cloud.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss the impact of bringing AI into the government workspace, strengthened by using the right classes of computers to empower those using AI.

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 1 Hour

Almost all (95%) government agency leaders at all levels say they plan to invest in emerging technologies over the next five years, including generative AI (35%), yet only a fraction achieve measurable and sustainable service improvements.

Part of the challenge is reexamining the metrics used to track improvements in customer service (CX); after all, what is measured should change depending on whether government customers are being assisted by human agents or agentic agents.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss how they are connecting high-level transformation goals with intentional tactics. Panelists will share their strategies for modernizing operations, building resilient teams, and advancing service quality in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 1 Hour

Microsegmentation is a critical security strategy for state and local law enforcement agencies aiming to comply with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy. This policy mandates strict security, encryption, and access controls for protecting sensitive Criminal Justice Information (CJI).

The security policy ensures that law enforcement agencies and their partners securely manage biometric, biographical, and case data throughout its lifecycle. Microsegmentation helps meet stringent requirements for controlling access to Criminal Justice Information (CJI) by breaking networks into small, secure zones to restrict lateral movement of threats. Key aspects of microsegmentation for CJIS compliance include limiting “east-west” movement between systems; implementing Zero Trust architectures; and automating the classification of protected assets and creating dynamic security policies.

Join us as thought leaders from state and local governments and the private sector discuss the role of microsegmentation for their law enforcement IT systems, its challenges and benefits, and how to implement it.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | 1 Hour

In today’s zero-trust world, federal systems integrators (FSIs) operate in some of the most complex environments — distributed workforces, partner connectivity, subcontractors, and teams supporting multiple agencies with different requirements. That complexity makes it harder to ensure the right users have the right access to the right application without relying on broad network trust.

A modern approach pairs strong identity signals with application-level access enforcement and continuous verification after login. This helps SIs reduce over-privileged access, limit lateral movement, and improve audibility — while enabling secure collaboration across employees, subcontractors, and mission partners.

Join us as thought leaders from Okta, Zscaler and the federal systems integrator community explore how FSIs can strengthen their own security posture to meet evolving compliance mandates and support the missions of those they support.