Sponsors

Adobe Systems, Inc.
For 25 years, Adobe Systems has been a trusted partner to government organizations around the globe. With consistency, government organizations look to Adobe to help better create, edit, visualize and share information with practically everyone in the world. In the quest to become open and transparent, government organizations use Adobe solutions to more efficiently and effectively interact with citizens, employees and other constituents. Whether faced with publishing official government documents, providing citizens with a forum to participate in policy review, or reducing the complexity of enrolling for benefits, agencies turn to Adobe for trusted solutions to a wide variety of people-centric, government challenges.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for nearly a century. Today, the firm provides professional services primarily to US government agencies in the defense, security, and civil sectors, as well as to corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen offers clients deep functional knowledge spanning strategy and organization, technology, operations, and analytics-which it combines with specialized expertise in clients' mission and domain areas to help solve their toughest problems. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 22,000 people, and has annual revenues of approximately $5 billion. To learn more, visit www.boozallen.com.

ESRI
ESRI is providing the geospatial platform to enable Gov 2.0. Geographic information system (GIS) professionals are advancing their systems to include GIS server technology, create new applications, and spread geographic knowledge everywhere. Maps and GIS are becoming richer and more pervasive with new styles, patterns, and techniques. As new media is integrated with GIS services, Web 2.0 applications, real-time data, mashups, user-generated content, mobile applications, social networks, and geodata, a complete platform for Web knowledge integration is developing. ESRI is providing leadership in this evolving Web world with foundation technology, online map services, and professional services.

Microsoft
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions. Microsoft and its industry partners help government better serve citizens, providing familiar, easy-to-use software that seamlessly and securely connects people, information and systems. Microsoft offers agencies the flexibility to use existing technology investments while helping them meet the demands of the next generation of government. Gov 2.0 is an opportunity to embrace today's engaging Web 2.0 technologies to respond to citizens with increased efficiency, transparency and openness. Microsoft is working to make Web 2.0 practical for government with an enterprise IT strategy committed to security, scalability, and interoperability.www.microsoftgovready.com

Palantir Technologies
Palantir's mission is to create a ubiquitous software platform for data analysis in the Information Age. Palantir's products leverage human analytic capabilities with advanced computational power to enable the intuitive analysis of large amounts of complex data. Our technology is revolutionary in it's ability to integrate, scale and secure data for use in tactical, operational, and strategic analysis. Additionally, Palantir is the only analytic software platform that simultaneously enables collaboration across organizations while protecting civil liberties. Widely deployed in many key government agencies, Palantir is helping solve mission critical problems in the fields of intelligence, defense, cyber defense, regulation and oversight, healthcare, and financial services. To learn more visit www.palantirtech.com

Google
Google provides innovative technologies that help government agencies organize information and make it accessible & useful to the citizens & to authorized government employees. Google's solutions for search, geospatial data, and communication & collaboration are easy to use, quick to deploy, fast, and scalable. Learn more at www.google.com/federal

Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest business software company. Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 solutions span leading enterprise content management, enterprise search, business process management, and presence capabilities - and have certified integrations with Oracle's Database, Identity Management, Business Intelligence, Applications and several third-party applications. For more information about Oracle's enterprise and government 2.0 solutions, please visit our Web site at www.oracle.com/goto/webcenter and getsocial.oracle.com

EffectiveUI
EffectiveUI is an award-winning, user-centered design and development agency that specializes in the creation and implementation of user-friendly Web, mobile and desktop applications. From strategy and conception, to development and execution, EffectiveUI's tailored applications merge innovative technologies with user-experience strategy to help today's most respected brands deepen customer engagement through more compelling and meaningful interactions that deliver competitive advantages and produce measurable results. EffectiveUI has developed groundbreaking applications for organizations including eBay, GE Health, NBC Universal, Viacom, InVisM and Discovery Channel and has earned the distinction of being named an Adobe Gold Partner and a member of Microsoft's Global Agency Partners.

EveryBlock
EveryBlock is an innovative local site with a twist: it offers news down to the block level. EveryBlock, founded in 2007, was awarded a grant from The Knight Foundation for its unique development of platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news. Acquired by msnbc.com in August 2009, the site offers a news feed for every city block in 16 cities. Users can visit www.everyblock.com or download the free iPhone app (http://www.everyblock.com/about/iphone/) to join a discussion of what's happening in their neighborhoods. Municipalities can make data available, learn more and contact the EveryBlock team at (773) 321-8146.

Intuit QuickBase
Online database applications from Intuit QuickBase offer an efficient - low cost, low risk way for teams to collect, manage and share information. With QuickBase, it's easy to streamline the way data is accessed and shared within and across your agency - while maintaining the privacy required for sensitive, non-public information. Quickly customize templates or create your own applications from scratch to match the way you and your teams work. Thousands of organizations rely on QuickBase to access important information - anytime, anywhere via the web.

JackBe
JackBe® delivers enterprise mashup software that empowers organizations with the right information at the right time for the right situation. Our innovative enterprise mashup platform, Presto®, creates new insights and understanding by rapidly and securely combining previously unconnected information in new ways without the complexities, costs and risks of traditional information integration projects.

MarkLogic
Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is headquartered in San Carlos, California.

NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver both outstanding cost efficiency and business performance breakthroughs. Our dedication to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for server-to-storage virtualization, business applications, data protection, and more. Our solutions and virtualized storage technologies can provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so organizations can deploy new capabilities with confidence. Discover our passion for helping organizations around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

NIC
NIC is the nation's largest provider of eGovernment services and secure payment processing solutions. The company's innovative eGovernment services help reduce costs, simplify time-consuming processes, and increase efficiencies for government agencies, citizens, and businesses. NIC builds, manages, and markets online solutions for the U.S. government, 23 states, and hundreds of cities and counties across the country. NIC has developed more than 4,000 user-friendly services that allow constituents to conveniently interact with government via Web, mobile, and point-of-purchase channels. For more information, please visit http://www.nicusa.com.

OpenText
Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), combines the expertise and solutions to help customers embrace Enterprise 2.0 within the context of their ECM strategies. With Open Text's solutions, customers can transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools-blogs, wikis, forums, tagging, moderation, communities, and real-time collaboration-delivered behind the firewall as a natural extension of current ECM initiatives or to Web 2.0-enable public Web sites, intranets, and extranets. Open Text offers customers two decades of ECM expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. For more information, visit www.opentext.com

Sapient
Sapient Government Services, a division of Sapient, is a leading provider of consulting, technology, and marketing services to a wide array of U.S. governmental agencies. Focused on driving long-term change and transforming the citizen experience, we use technology to help agencies become more accessible and transparent. With a track record of delivering mission-critical solutions and the ability to leverage commercial best practices, we serve as trusted advisors to government agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Library of Congress, National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and United States Department of Homeland Security. For more information, visit www.sapientgov.com.

Spigit
Spigit is the leading provider of purpose-built innovation software for government, connecting citizens, employees and administration for idea management and government transparency. Using enterprise-grade social technology and behavioral science techniques, Spigit's software taps into the collective intelligence within an organization and transforms it into actionable, predictive information. By incorporating incentives, idea graduation, idea trading and real-time analytics, Spigit allows government entities to get the most out of their organization. Our technologies are used by the largest and most innovative companies in the world including: Pfizer, AT&T;, Southwest Airlines, Allstate, AAA, and Lloyds TSB. For more information, visit http://www.spigit.com/partners/spigitforgovernment.html

Synteractive/Smartronix
Smartronix and Synteractive have partnered to deliver next generation Government 2.0 innovation for government agencies. Smartronix and Synteractive collaborated in the successful launch of Recovery.gov, which has been described by Newsweek as "perhaps the clearest, richest interactive database ever produced by the American bureaucracy." Smartronix is a global professional solutions provider specializing in Network Operations, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software Solutions, Mission Focused Engineering, and Health IT. Synteractive is a global strategy and business solutions firm committed to solving the really big problems in the world involving connecting people and information. Synteractive delivers solutions to clients through consulting and enterprise products.