Join us online on April 23, 2026, at 11:00 am ET.

Federal agencies have invested billions in cloud modernization, yet many still struggle to answer a fundamental question: what are we actually paying for? A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted widespread cloud cost overruns across civilian agencies, driven by duplicated services, idle “zombie” workloads, and limited visibility into unit-level economics. At the same time, CFOs face mounting pressure from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prove fiscal accountability, while CIOs work to align cloud investments with mission outcomes. The result is a growing credibility gap that puts future modernization funding at risk.

The challenge is structural. Cloud costs are dynamic, multi-dimensional, and dispersed across teams that lack a shared financial framework. Legacy budgeting models built for on-premises environments simply cannot keep pace. Without real-time cost transparency, agencies overprovision resources, miss rightsizing opportunities, and allow inefficiencies to compound quarter after quarter.

IBM’s FinOps portfolio delivers a unified financial control plane purpose-built for this environment:
- Apptio: IT financial management and cost transparency
- Cloudability: Multi-cloud cost intelligence and optimization insights
- Turbonomic: AI-driven resource performance and cost optimization
- Kubecost: Granular Kubernetes cost allocation and visibility

Together, these solutions connect every dollar to a workload, team, and mission outcome—enabling agencies to move from reactive cost-cutting to proactive financial governance and establish the unit economics framework OMB now expects.

Attendees will leave with:
- A practical FinOps adoption roadmap aligned to federal procurement realities
- Real-world agency examples demonstrating 25–40% cloud waste reduction
- A clear blueprint for building the financial transparency layer leadership needs to protect and defend modernization budgets

Speaker: Bob Carter, Apptio Vice President Of Public Sector

Join us online on June 4, 2026 at 11:00am ET.

The federal government maintains the largest real property portfolio on earth, over 300,000 buildings and structures, yet deferred maintenance backlogs now exceed $370 billion. Aging HVAC systems fail without warning, elevator inspections are tracked on spreadsheets, and facility managers juggle disconnected systems for work orders, parts inventory, and compliance reporting. When assets break, agencies react. They rarely predict.

This reactive posture is expensive and dangerous. Unplanned downtime at a VA hospital delays veteran care. A failed generator at a border facility creates a security gap. The core problem is not negligence but fragmented data: condition assessments live in one system, maintenance history in another, and IoT sensor feeds in yet another. Without a single pane of glass, reliability engineering remains guesswork.

IBM Maximo Application Suite brings AI-powered predictive maintenance, IoT-enabled condition monitoring, and unified asset lifecycle management into a single FedRAMP-ready platform. Maximo’s forthcoming SaaS offering for federal environments eliminates the infrastructure burden of on-premises deployments while maintaining the compliance posture agencies require. With embedded AI models specifically designed for predictive maintenance that learn from historical failure patterns, Maximo shifts agencies from reactive break-fix cycles to condition-based maintenance strategies that extend asset life and reduce total cost of ownership.

Attendees will gain a hands-on understanding of how predictive maintenance reduces unplanned downtime by up to 50%, and how peer agencies are transforming their real property management from a liability into a strategic advantage.

Speakers:
- Kal Gyimesi, IBM Product Manager Asset Lifecycle Management
- Erin Horbach, IBM Real Estate and Facilities Management Sales Leader
- Michael Forristall, IBM Sustainability Software Sr. Sales Leader Federal Market 

Join us online on July 9, 2026 at 11:00am ET

Most major federal breaches stem from compromised credentials, yet agencies still rely on fragmented identity systems, inconsistent MFA, and legacy applications that cannot support modern authentication, creating exploitable gaps despite Zero Trust mandates. As OMB and CISA push toward phishing‑resistant MFA and continuous identity validation, agencies struggle to establish a unified, risk‑aware identity posture across workforce, contractor, and citizen-facing environments.

IBM Verify delivers an adaptive identity fabric that unifies authentication and access governance across hybrid infrastructures, combining AI-driven anomaly detection, context‑aware adaptive MFA, and deep ICAM integration to close gaps perimeter tools cannot address. By aligning identity controls to Zero Trust requirements and enabling real-time risk evaluation, Verify helps agencies strengthen access assurance and reduce credential-based threats.

Attendees will gain practical guidance on mapping Verify to CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model, deploying phishing‑resistant MFA, and unifying identity governance across the federal enterprise

Speakers:
- Bob Kalka, IBM Security Automation Global Leader
- Alex Kemenov, IBM Americas Identity Leader

Join us online on August 20, 2026 at 11:00am ET

Federal network engineers manage highly distributed environments that span classified enclaves, multi‑cloud deployments, legacy on‑prem infrastructure, and tactical edge sites—yet many still rely on tools not built for today’s scale or complexity. When mission‑critical services degrade, operators often lose time navigating siloed vendor dashboards, allowing issues to escalate before the root cause is found.

SANO delivers carrier‑grade, multi‑vendor visibility that scales to millions of metrics per second, unifying performance data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Its AI‑driven anomaly detection identifies issues early, while automated capacity insights help teams shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive engineering. Built for federal scale and security, SANO integrates seamlessly with ITSM workflows and supports Zero Trust observability requirements.

Attendees will learn how SANO reduces mean‑time‑to‑resolution by up to 70%, streamlines multi‑vendor tool consolidation, and transforms network operations into a mission enabler.

Speakers: Handi Bondi, IBM Network Management Sales Leader, Americas

Join us online on October 1, 2026 at 11:00am ET

A single federal benefits determination can require data from five agencies, three legacy mainframe systems, two cloud platforms, and a manual email approval chain. This is not an edge case—it is the daily reality across civilian government. Decades of siloed system procurement have created integration debt that directly impacts citizen service delivery. Applications that should exchange data in milliseconds instead rely on batch files, manual re-keying, and point-to-point interfaces that break with every system update.

The consequences are measurable and painful. Veterans wait months for benefits adjudication because VA and DOD systems cannot share medical records in real time. Grant disbursements stall because financial systems cannot communicate with program management platforms. Every new mandate—whether FedRAMP, FISMA, or Section 508—adds another compliance layer that custom integrations must accommodate, further straining already-overstretched development teams.

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration (IWHI) provides a comprehensive integration platform that connects legacy mainframes, modern APIs, cloud services, and SaaS applications through a unified, governable layer. Combined with IBM API Connect for full API lifecycle management, IBM App Connect for no-code integration flows, IBM MQ for guaranteed message delivery, and IBM DataPower for API security gateway enforcement, agencies gain an integration backbone that is both agile and auditable. AI‑driven orchestration, observability, and governance features streamline complex integrations, reduce troubleshooting time, and optimize performance across hybrid cloud environments. This platform approach replaces brittle point-to-point connections with a managed, reusable integration fabric that accelerates every future modernization initiative.

Attendees will learn how to assess their integration debt, see reference architectures for common federal integration patterns, and understand how a platform approach reduces integration project timelines from months to weeks.

Speakers: Manoj Bandagonda, IBM Solution Architect