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🌟 Live from NCMA World Congress 2024! 🌟 Our COO, Burton Tu, is currently at the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) World Congress in Seattle, Washington, engaging with top professionals in contract management, procurement, and acquisition. This key industry event is a hub for sharing insights, innovations, and best practices. Burton Tu is actively participating in discussions and exploring the latest trends and challenges facing the sector. If you're attending, look for Burton—he's eager to meet fellow professionals and discuss potential collaborations! Check out this snapshot from the event and stay tuned for more updates. #BDRSolutions #AnchorTheFuture #NCMA #NCMAWC #ContractManagement

I just finished some preparations for my upcoming speaking engagement at the Arizona RIA Summit January 23rd. I am excited to share my presentation entitled, “Gaining a Competitive Edge through Practice Management.” If you are interested in learning more about this conference from Portfolio Summits visit this link: https://lnkd.in/g62QBQkS Two weeks and counting! #wealthmanagement #riasummit

Tomorrow’s Alliance webinar “Around the World in 60 Minutes” will address best practices in #global #CPD. 🌎 Moderator Greselda Butler, CHCP, FACEHP Butler and guests Eugene Pozniak & Lawrence Sherman FACEHP, FRSM, CHCP will tackle this big world with a goal of making working around the globe easier and more efficient. https://lnkd.in/e3E6Mf2e

Learn how the #GraduateOutcomes brand was developed, our response rate strategy & the tools to help you engage graduates by watching the recent HESA & AGCAS webinar collaboration: https://lnkd.in/ed6MCccy

Interested to learn more about paths to impact in US Policy? Probably Good is hosting a webinar with Alec Stapp, co-founder of the Institute for Progress (IFP).This event is part of a series designed to give our readers and advisees a chance to interact with professionals from high impact organizations. 🗓 Date & Time: 23 Feb, 3 pm ET RSVP here (https://lnkd.in/erBF4hC5) Alec will speak to IFP's founding story, tractability across policy domains that IFP works on, how to think about functional paths within policy and more. The second half of the webinar will be audience Q&A, and people with questions can ask Alec their questions directly. If you wish to submit questions anonymously, please do so using the RSVP form.  This webinar is ideal for anyone interested in or currently pursuing a career in policy. Please RSVP to secure your spot, since we’ll look to cap attendance at 50.   

How can #ITAM professionals keep up with the unique challenges of an IT landscape that’s growing exponentially in size and complexity? With two words: Technology Intelligence. In their #WisdomEMEA session, “Technology Intelligence—More value, less risk, greater compliance,” Flexera experts Steve Tait and Marlon Oliver will dive into the benefits and best practices of Technology Intelligence and how it’s reshaping the ITAM landscape. Who: Steve Tait and Marlon Oliver What:“Technology Intelligence—More value, less risk, greater compliance” When: Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. Where: ITAM Review Wisdom EMEA 2024 The Drum, Wembley, London, Boardroom 3

NQF and Joint Commission are measuring what matters by streamlining the measurement ecosystem and changing the focus from satisfying competing measures to deploying parsimonious, outcome-oriented measure sets that significantly advance quality, safety, outcomes, equity and affordability! Members, learn more about our affiliation ▶️ https://bit.ly/4a020zg

We all know that companies collect, process, and use large volumes of personal data, some of which could reveal sensitive information. Recognizing this reality, in February of this year President Biden signed Executive Order 14117 on "Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." https://lnkd.in/e9eCpeXW In addition, during the Section 702 reauthorization debate, Congress discussed legislative proposals to restrict the Intelligence Community's collection and use of "commercially available information" (CAI). As these and similar discussions and processes have been underway, the Intelligence Community has been developing a policy framework to govern its access to, collection, and processing of CAI. https://lnkd.in/gmNgDdFi As Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said in releasing the framework: "We produced this framework in recognition of the fact that a series of developments have made CAI increasingly important to our work, while at the same time raising novel issues related to privacy and civil liberties. Today, not only is an astounding amount of CAI already available to the public, but various actors, including adversaries, also have access to increasingly advanced analytic tools that rely on, among other things, artificial intelligence, to exploit such information in new ways that exacerbate existing threats.... Put simply, the combination of an increasing amount of readily available data regarding the activities of individuals—often perceived as not especially sensitive on its own—and increasingly sophisticated analytic tools can in the aggregate raise significant privacy and civil liberty concerns."  I hope you can join us on Monday at 2pm Eastern for a timely online discussion of this new policy framework. I will be moderating a conversation with Jason Barrett, ODNI's Executive for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), David Kris, who is the author of a national security surveillance law treatise that is often cited in court opinions, and Becky Richards, ODNI Civil Liberties Protection Officer.

Do your M&A practices measure up against the market? Find out from 21 March with the CMS European M&A Study 2024.

🔊 The questions will be answered.....tomorrow 🔊. And I am calling out specifically to #africanbusinesses. Considering that more and more investors, lenders, customers, employees and society at large are really interested in a business's impacts on the environment and on society, #SustainabilityReporting is no longer a "nice-to-do" or good PR. So it will be very worthwhile listening to the why and what of The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) which is to date the most widely used Sustainability reporting framework. And to have the questions answered by the founder of the initiative.