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State Procurement Policy Affairs Committee (SPPA)
Marketing for Business Committee (M4B)

Issue Summary

AeA's Government & Commercial Market Group (GCMG) exists to help AeA Member Companies increase opportunities to compete in the government procurement and commercial marketplace. GCMG has become the principal liaison between government and the IT industry in technology acquisition, trends, policies and best practices.

AeA's team of professionals work closely with Federal agencies, key Administration officials, Congressional leaders, state CIOs, and industry leaders to connect member company executives to government and commercial organizations purchasing technology.

AeA Technology for Government Dinner
The Annual AeA Technology for Government Dinner is the premier Washington, DC networking event bringing hundreds of industry, congressional, and government leaders together at one venue. Last year more than 600 people attended the dinner including Chief Information Officers and procurement officials from countless federal agencies, Members of Congress and their staff, officials from the Bush Administration, and CEOs and senior executives representing high-tech companies.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER


Steve Ballmer
Chief Executive Officer

For information on attending or sponsoring this event, please contact Juan Veizaga, Business Development Manager, Government & Commercial Markets Group, at 202.682.4437.


 

Events

5/21/2008: Go Green! AeA Midwest Council Green Technologies Program (Chicago, IL) AeA’s Midwest Council Green Technologies: GO GREEN! is a comprehensive program to help you learn best practices, laws & regulations that may affect your company, implement cost savings while greening your company, and how you can make a difference by positively affecting the environment.

Please...More

5/21/2008: AeA ISO Educational Seminar: Web Application Security (Sacramento, CA) Please join us for the next in a series of informational seminars
For Information Security Officers

Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm

6/3/2008: AeA Annual Technology for Government Dinner (Washington, DC) The Annual AeA Technology for Government Dinner is the premier Washington, DC networking event bringing hundreds of industry, congressional, and government leaders together at one venue.

Government guests that attended previous years included Mike Wynne, Secretary, Dept. of the Air Force; Scott ...More

7/9/2008: Marketing 4 Business Committee Meeting (Washington, DC) The quarterly meeting of AeA's Marketing 4 Business Committee.

The purpose of this committee is to give AeA members the opportunity to guide the programs, events, strategy, and partners that the association develops to help all AeA members win more business and offer exclusive opportunities to n...More

8/22/2008: Quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange (Washington, DC) DC's premier executive networking event that brings Federal CIO's, Program Managers and Procurement Officials together with the leaders of the high tech industry. This forum is held for Government and Industry executives to discuss their similar experiences, share insights and exchange best practice...More

11/12/2008: Quarterly Government Industry Executive Interchange (Washington, DC) DC's premier executive networking event that brings Federal CIOs Program Managers and Procurement Officials together with the leaders of the high tech industry. This forum is held for Government and Industry executives to discuss their similar experiences share insights and exchange best practices. ...More

News

March 19, 2008: (Washington, DC) AeA's sold-out Quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange focused on network security, e-discovery, and data sharing.  Speakers represented the Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Transportation, Dept of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration, National Institutes of Health,  and several high-tech industry leading AeA member companies...read more.


John Garing, CIO, Defense Information Security Agency, speaks on the Network Security and e-Discovery panel.  Additional panelists included John Harris of Adobe and Raymond Sullivan, Executive Director, Veterans Affairs' Office of Information & Technology.  The panel was moderated by Jeff Holmes, VP, Government Business Group, PRTM.

March 5, 2008:  Find out today how purchasing agents believe 2008 spending will shake out and start thinking about how you might adjust business plans accordingly after downloading this complimentary (a $300 value) report by AeA's partner Onvia...read more.

January 17, 2008: (Washington, DC) Chief Information Officers, Program Managers, and procurement officials from the Federal Government met with the leaders of the high-tech industry to discuss Telework and Identity Management solutions and best practices at AeA's offices for the Quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange...read more.


John McCumber, Symantec, moderates the telework panel that included industry speakers Nigel Ballard, Intel; Carolyn Brubaker, Microsoft; Bobby Caudill, Adobe; and David Smith, Citriz; and Casey Coleman, CIO, GSA; Tim Schmidt, CTO, U.S. Dept. of Transportation; and Mike Williams, CIO, Defense Contract Management Agency

January 16, 2008:  (Sacramento, CA)  In an event held at AeA’s Sacramento office, the newly-appointed State of California Cabinet-level Chief Information Officer (CIO), Teresa (Teri) Takai, addressed high-tech executives from AeA Member Companies, and gave an overview of her priorities for the high-tech industry writ large at her first official public appearance since becoming the state's CIO...read more.


Fred Thompson, Microsoft; Teri Takai, CA’s CIO; and Barbara Ross, Apple (L-R)

P.K. Agarwal, CA Director of Technology Services; Teri Takai, CA's CIO; and Kathy Hatch, AeA (L-R)

September 20, 2007: (Chicago, IL) More than fifty industry executives attended AeA's "Trends in State Government: Who's Buying What?" conference. Attendees networked and gained insight on trends in the IT government market and discover the best strategies for identifying, qualifying and winning government contracts...read more.


Antonio Hylton, CIO, Cook County Illinois, and Ed Longanecker, Executive Director, AeA Midwest Council (L-R)

September 19, 2007: (Washington, DC) AeA hosts a quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange on Health IT, Data Sharing, & Enterprise Architecture.


Mark E. Krzysko, Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Business Transformation, DoD, speaks with other attendees

September 19, 2007: (Santa Clara, CA) AeA's Silicon Valley/Northern CA Council hosted a training, How To Win Business in CA: A California State Procurement Event, which was sponsored by WhiteNoise...read more.


Bill Rich, Dept. of General Services, State of California

June 5, 2007: (Washington, DC) Jonathan Schwartz, President & CEO, Sun Microsystems, keynotes the Annual AeA Technology 4 Government Dinner in front of an audience of 600+ senior leaders from the private sector and government.

WATCH THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS

March 7, 2007: (Washington, DC) AeA hosts a quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange on Telework & Mobility and Wireless Solutions.


Panelists Stephan Orr, Cisco; Janice Lilja, Assistant CIO, USDA; Greg Clawson, Motorola; John Garing, CIO, DISA; and moderator Tom Wilburn, VP US-Sales Wireless, Cisco (L-R).

December 7, 2006: (Washington, DC) AeA hosts a quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange on Identity Management & E-Health.


Robert Howard, CIO, VA

August 23, 2006: (Washington, DC) AeA hosts a quarterly Government-Industry Executive Interchange on Performance Based Contracting & Enterprise Architecture.


Scott Charbo, CIO, DHS

Contact Us

Goldy Kamali
Executive Director, Government and Commercial Markets Group
AeA, Advancing the Business of Technology
601 Pennsylvania Ave NW
North Bldg Ste 600
Washington, DC 20004-2601
T: 202.682.4432
F: 202.682.9111

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