Welcome to our third installment of the 2022 Roadmap to Modernization Series! 

Citizen demand for efficient and effective government services relies on the best technology, leadership, and most of all, collaboration. Over the past decade, the Pew Results First initiative has worked with 27 states to better understand just how impactful collaboration really is, and more importantly, what it looks like. Nextgov's Aaron Boyd kicks off this installment of Roadmap to Modernization alongside expert Sara Dube, with an evidence-based discussion on how collaboration across the different branches can lead to more sustainable and impactful work. 

A simple ransomware attack has the power to shut down an entire industry, putting innocent lives at risk and devastating the critical continuity of operations. Endpoint security is the key battleground at play to protect against these attacks. By stopping malware from getting in, the potential power of ransomware is immediately interrupted. In this session, HP + Intel further explore the priority of endpoint security efforts and their role in bolstering protections against looming ransomware threats.

Broadband has quickly become an integral part of everyday life as critical access to everything from work to education, health care to government services, have all moved online. Just as quickly, this shift left a deep divide between those with and those without access. The need to expand high-speed internet access is clear, but the path forward varies among experts. In this session, we explore the necessary integration of approaches between the federal, state and local governments to ensure an effective and efficient expansion of broadband access.

Data-sharing and interconnectivity significantly improves the speed and effectiveness of military planning and decision making, but can also open networks to a host of cybersecurity risks. U.S. state and local governments, federal agencies, and the military must remain vigilant of vulnerabilities and embrace new paradigms of cybersecurity. In this session, Defense One sits down with defense cybersecurity experts to discuss how the U.S. defense community in particular is improving their cybersecurity efforts through Red Teaming, and the implications this has for all services.

Listen as Dan Kent outlines the value propositions and differences between IT Modernization and Digital Transformation and how agencies adapt and change processes to add capabilities to meet their goals.

Data can be a powerful tool for local leaders to inform their decision-making process. Understanding how to use data in a meaningful way requires officials to not only develop strong capacity and skills to understand what their data is telling them, but also how to work across different agencies and levels of government to act accordingly. In this session, Route Fifty will sit down with local officials who are leading the way, modernizing their use of data and building a data-driven future for their cities.

IT modernization efforts continue to be at the forefront of government priorities. Across all missions and security standards, leaders are focused on accelerating outcomes and driving innovation. The question remains: where to start. In this session, GovExec sits down with WWT and NetApp to better understand the road ahead for IT modernization, all with data at the steering wheel.

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