{"id":1613,"date":"2013-03-27T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2013-03-27T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:06:49","slug":"1105-meet-up-sequestration-government-events-mobile-government-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/1105-meet-up-sequestration-government-events-mobile-government-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"1105 Meet-Up: Sequestration & Government Events, Mobile & Government Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

We participated in a great meeting with top notch leaders in the information technology community. With all the buzz around sequestration and \u00a0potential effects on events, we thought this was a timely piece. This guest post from GovEvents<\/a>\u00a0recaps the insights and discussions.\u00a0The original posting of this blog can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.
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1105 Meet-Up: Sequestration & Government Events, Mobile & Government Workforce<\/h1>\n
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Vienna, VA\u20141105 Media Group, organizers of the FOSE and GovSec Conferences & Expos, hosted a FOSE 2013 Blogger & Speaker Meet-up Thursday, March 21 at 1105 Media Group offices in Vienna, VA. Invitation-only and held specifically for government technology influencers, the FOSE 2013 Blogger & Speaker Meet-up is the fifth in an ongoing series of high-level meetings, where FOSE speakers and bloggers are given an opportunity to discuss significant topics including sequestration and government events, mobile and the government workforce, cybersecurity and more.<\/p>\n

This meet-up included influencers Brand Niemann, Ph.D., Director and Senior Enterprise Architect \u2013 Data Scientist at\u00a0Semantic Community<\/a>, Ghadi Ben-Yehuda,\u00a0 Director of Innovation and Social Media\u00a0for\u00a0IBM Center for The Business of Government<\/a>., Brad Barker, Director of Professional Services at\u00a0Master Key Consulting<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Young AFCEANs\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>National Capitol Region President , Ajay Budhraja, Chief Technology Officer, EOIR at the\u00a0United States Department of Justice<\/a>, and Nick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief at\u00a0Washington Technology<\/a>. The meet-up was also attended by representatives from the\u00a0Capital Area Food Bank<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0GovEvents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After brief introductions, the topic of sequestration and government events was first to arise. Program Manager for GovEvents, Stacie Flynn, provided details on how the government events industry is currently being affected by sequestration. She noted that while sequestration will not help the already ailing events industry due to travel restrictions and continued backlash of conference overspending, only a few conferences have been cancelled since it actually took effect on March 1. Stacie also announced that GovEvents will soon be rolling out a new program aimed at assisting event organizers with delivering content through a virtual conferencing platform (keep an eye out for details!).<\/p>\n

This announcement led into a discussion of virtual conferences and webcasts, praising them for their cost-cutting abilities, while also sharing the challenges of online events, such as lack of interaction and captivation of viewers. In brainstorming, the group came up with several ways webcasts and virtual conferences could be enhanced to create an extensive engagement span of viewers:<\/p>\n