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:
- Andrew Crandall, IBM Americas IAM Subject Matter Expert
- Steve Wilson, IBM Field CTO
Join us online on September 3, 2026 at 11:00am ET
Federal agencies are being challenged to manage increasingly complex network environments that span on-premises infrastructure, multiple cloud providers, tactical edge locations, and mission-critical applications. At the same time, operations teams must make sense of massive volumes of telemetry, events, alarms, and performance data across increasingly distributed environments, making it more challenging to maintain service assurance, improve resilience, and support modernization initiatives. Traditional monitoring and automation approaches often leave teams reacting to issues rather than proactively preventing disruptions.
As networks become more distributed and critical to mission success, agencies need a smarter approach that unifies planning, deployment, operations, and optimization. Network teams are under constant pressure to improve performance, strengthen mission resilience, reduce operational complexity, and support evolving Zero Trust and hybrid cloud strategies—without simply adding more tools or personnel.
IBM Network Intelligence (INI) is an AI-first platform that delivers intelligent automation and assurance across the entire network lifecycle—from Day 0 planning and design through Day 1 deployment and Day 2 operations. Leveraging intent-based design, digital twins, network-aware knowledge graphs, and agentic AI, INI helps Federal organizations accelerate modernization, improve network reliability, strengthen mission assurance, and move from reactive operations toward proactive, autonomous, self-optimizing networks.
Attendees Will Learn How IBM Network Intelligence Can:
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Accelerate network modernization with AI-driven planning and design.
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Improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation and workflow orchestration.
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Leverage AI-powered anomaly detection, event correlation, incident reasoning, and root-cause analysis.
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Improve network resilience through proactive insights, intelligent recommendations, and faster resolution of mission-impacting issues.
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Support multi-vendor, hybrid cloud, tactical edge, and large-scale Federal network environments.
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Build trust in AI-driven operations with explainable and human-governed automation.
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Establish a roadmap from network automation to autonomous network operations.
Speaker: Jason Lovelace, Outbound Product Management – IBM Network Intelligence
Join us online on November 5, 2026 at 11:00am ET
Federal agencies and system integrators struggle with managing increasingly complex IT environments while addressing cybersecurity, resilience, compliance, cost optimization, and modernization priorities. Data spread across the enterprise makes it difficult to understand risk, prioritize action, and respond at the speed mission demands. Powered by agentic AI, Concert helps teams move beyond dashboards and alerts by identifying mission impact, prioritizing risk, recommending next actions, and orchestrating governed workflows across domains.
See how IBM Concert brings AI, context, and action together to help federal organizations respond to emerging challenges like Mythos, modernize operations, strengthen cyber resilience, and accelerate mission outcomes.
Speaker: James Mellinger, IBM Chief Technologist, AIOps & Observability
