PLUG IN AND DEMONSTRATE YOUR REAL-TIME OPEN STANDARD SOLUTIONS!

PlugFest is a dynamic area on the exhibit floor that highlights the Rapid Integration Innovation Process (RI2P) and demonstrates to government decision makers’ the best practices when sourcing open standard solutions.  Industry, academia, and government will have an opportunity to showcase their collaborate efforts to solve use cases in a competitive environment using the RI2P approach at the AFCEA International Cyber Symposium 2013 in Baltimore, June 25-27.

A plug fest is a demonstration of IT interoperability using pre-integrated standards based components, from a variety of providers, which run in open standards based run-time environments across a particular enterprise - - a Rapid Innovation Integration Platform.  First, government, industry and/or academia subject matter experts (SMEs) develop the use cases. Second, the Plugfest Steering Committee publishes use cases, software development kits (SDK), incentives, and terms of competition. Third, technology providers (i.e., industry) collaborate with the SMEs to improve the use cases and identify technology solutions. Fourth, challengers (e.g., web/mobile application developers) collaborate to obtain the updated use cases and technology solutions to develop and implement interface RI2P solutions at the PlugFest Competition event. Lastly, government, industry and academic judges rank each challenger’s solutions and select a winner based on their ability to provide a software application that solves the use cases’ problem, leverages the technology stack, and collaborates with other challengers.