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Government teams are improving digital experiences every day. Gain insights from their stories, case studies, and innovations.

This summit brings together the federal community to share success stories and best practices for utilizing federal source code and open source software, and examine the implementation of the Federal Source Code policy.

In this workshop, we’ll address how to pull reporting and conduct analysis through the lens of your analytics strategy.

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Tim Lowden

Freddie Blicher

When legacy is used to define systems less than five years old, an agency can still encounter DevOps adoption challenges where you least expect them.

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Brian Fox

Rayvn Manuel

Program managers, IT acquisitions leads, and business-minded IT professionals will receive in-depth guidance to improve cloud efficiency, optimization, and effective cost controls.

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Ron Williams

Join U.S. Web Design System Product Lead, Dan Williams, as we talk about the three new components for the design system.

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Dan Williams

James Mejia

Learn how federal agencies can leverage The Opportunity Project’s adaptable toolkit to engage cross-sector collaborators and rapidly prototype digital products powered by federal open data.

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Anna Valuev

Radhika Bhatt

Samantha Spilka

Sarath K. Ganji

Improvements to the US Web Design System Banner Content and Code

Improvements to the US Web Design System Banner Content and Code —We improved the security banner that’s featured on many government websites and we encourage teams to update to this new security language as soon as possible. — via U.S. Web Design System

Sep 11, 2020

Take this three-hour online workshop to learn how to write and edit in plain language.

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Katherine Spivey

6 Ways Government Innovators Are Building Stronger Public Services

Learn how federal agencies are using AI, data, cloud computing, customer experience, and the TTS tech stack to improve civic resources for all Americans.

Aileen McGraw

Sep 9, 2020

A Federal Guide to De-risk Government Technology Projects

A Federal Guide to De-risk Government Technology Projects—Written for cross-functional teams delivering IT services to their users, the Federal Field Guide to De-risk Government Technology offers guidance to federal agencies on how to structure software development teams, write contracts, and oversee agile software activities to reduce risks and improve outcomes for end-users. — via 18F

Sep 9, 2020

FAS Works to Enhance Competition

Have you heard? The Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is making exciting progress through the Federal Marketplace Strategy towards implementing new authorities and flexibilities that enhance competition in acquisition. — via General Services Administration

Sep 1, 2020

In this workshop, we’ll address how to assess your web analytics strategy to ensure you’re pulling the most impactful and relevant data to enrich your analysis and understanding of your website performance.

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Tim Lowden

Freddie Blicher

2 Lessons Tech Leaders Can Learn From Unprecedented Health Research

Presidential Innovation Fellows believe that representation, communication, and data fuel a strong product launch. Here’s how we put them to work at the National Institutes of Health.

Adele Luta

Georgeta Dragoiu

Aug 21, 2020

Join U.S. Web Design System Product Lead, Dan Williams, as we talk about the design system and answer your questions.

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Dan Williams

Suran De Silva

In this webinar, we discuss how to embed crowdsourcing into the culture of a program to the benefit of the project team, and its participants.

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Dr. Ku McMahan

Dr. Jarah Meador

Code.gov Better Know an Engineer: Rayvn Manuel

Code.gov Better Know an Engineer: Rayvn Manuel—We’re back with another installment of Better Know an Engineer. We are pleased to feature a friend of Code.gov and all-around amazing person, Rayvn Manuel; senior application developer and DevOps engineer at the Smithsonian Insitute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). — via Code.gov

Aug 13, 2020

Take this three-hour online workshop to learn how to write and edit in plain language.

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Katherine Spivey

Panelists will discuss the importance of developing the next generation of women leaders in IT and in the Federal government.

David Shive

Using DevOps to help change entrenched behaviors in organizations.

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Brian Fox

Andrew Clay Shafer

Measure Performance to Make Continuous Improvements

This week, we’re exploring what it means to measure performance, and we’re taking a look at how listening to customers is the best way to continuously improve websites and digital services.