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Five-day workshop from the Institute of Business Continuity Training on effective continuity planning, at the Comfort Suites Chantilly, Chantilly, Va. Contact Michael Bittle at 800-461-3095, mbittle@ibct.com or visit http://www.ibct.com. Small Business Forum for Government Contractors, with discussions on Small Business Administration size standards, training on useful tools relating to the Defense Contract Audit Agency and other issues, at the building auditorium of the Greater Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, Vienna, Va. Contact Fasika Bekele at 202-204-8014, fbekele@gwcpa.org or visit http://www.gwscpa.org. Getting Past the First Mile: Learning from Experience. TiE-DC charter members and successful CEOs speak about pitfalls to avoid and what it takes to create a successful business. To be held at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, Va. Contact Jennifer at 703-310-4209, Jennifer@tie-dc.org or visit http://quest.cvent.com. RFID Journal's 4th annual conference: Putting RFID to Work, at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. Contact RFID Journal at 514-380-5372, livehelp@rfidjournal.com or visit http://www.rfidjournal.com. 3rd Annual Security Solutions 2006 Conference for Defense Department and government agency IT professionals with keynote speaker Gen. Richard Cody, Army vice chief of staff. To be held at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina, Tampa, Fla. Contact Eric Mazzacone at 800-444-9628, erik.mazzacone@telos.com or visit http://securitysolutions.telos.com. Quarterly meeting of the IT Service Management Forum, at the University of Maryland College Park Golf Club, College Park, Md. Contact Kirk Holmes at 301-998-6108, kirk@holmes-inc.net or visit http://www.evite.com. Summit for the Future focuses on risk and its role in innovation and growth, at the HES School of Economics and Business, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Contact Felix Bopp at 31-20-4198-0254, felix@clubofamsterdam.com or visit http://www.clubofamsterdam.com. Strategies for Winning and Managing Performance-based Government Business, with senior-level government and industry executives, sponsored by immixGroup at immixGroup, McLean, Va. Contact Maria Cooke at 703-752-0623, maria_cooke@immixgroup.com or visit www.immixgroupreg.com. Network Systems Design and Implementation '06 focuses on design principles of large-scale distributed and networked systems. To be held at the Fairmont San Jose, San Jose, Calif. Contact conference assistant at 510-528-8649, conference@usenix.org or visit http://www.usenix.org. Transformation TechNet, sponsored by AFCEA at Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, Va. Free to active military and government personnel. Contact Stacey Giamber at 703-631-6128, sgiamber@afcea.org or visit http://www.afcea.org. Oasis Symposium 2006 ? The Meaning of Interoperability. Speakers will include Peter Quinn, former Massachusetts CIO and Randy Heffner, vice president, Forrester Research. To be held at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, San Francisco. Contact Jane Harnad at 978-667-5115, ext. 214, jane.harnad@oasis-open.org or visit http://www.oasis-open.org. Implementing OMB Circular A-123: Countdown to June 30, 2006. Hear how experience implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements can be used to implement Circular A-123 requirements. To be held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington. Contact Fasika Bekele at 202-204-8014, fbekele@gwscpa.org or visit http://www.gwscpa.org. 7th Annual ISSEA Conference on advancing the field of systems security engineering, including educational program on lates developments and critical issues. To be held at the Residence Inn by Marriott, Ottawa. Contact Dana McCulloch at 703-478-7615, dmcculloch@ewa.com or visit http://www.issea.org. Toward an Electronic Patient Record 2006, sponsored by the Medical Records Institute, with exhibition of more than 180 e-patient records technology vendors. To be held at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore. Contact Maddy Shedno at 617-964-3923, maddy@tepr.com or visit http://www.tepr.com.Have an event you would like to list on the calendar? Visit our Web site, www.washingtontechnology. com/events, click on "Other industry related events," then click on "Add your event" and enter the information.