Cost Control + Access:  How CloseKnit Primary Care Supports Your Workforce 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by CloseKnit!  About CloseKnit:  Managing your health isn’t easy, and real life doesn’t slow down to make it simpler. Between everything you juggle every day, care should fit into your life, not compete with it. Our focus is on making your care more convenient, connected, and seamless, while never losing sight of what it’s all for: helping you live the fullest, longest life…

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From Complaint to Compliance: How Prince George’s County’s Strike Force is Transforming Neighborhood Quality of Life 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by Prince George's County Strike Force!  About Prince George's County Strike Force:  Project Elevate is an initiative launched on June 23, 2025, by County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy in response to the need for revitalization and beautification efforts throughout Prince George’s County. This initiative relies heavily on the support of our County agencies, particularly the Department of Public Works…

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NACo EDGE:  The County Advantage

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by the National Association of Counties (NACo) Public Promise Procurement Program!  About NACo's Public Promise Procurement Program:  As the #1 advocate for county governments, your employees & your taxpayers, the public sector professionals of NACo EDGE are here to help you do more with your resources. As a purchasing cooperative expressly for public entities, Public Promise Procurement understands the nuances of…

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The Critical Role of Existing Generation in Responsible Data Center Development 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by Constellation!  About Constellation:  At Constellation, they're building tomorrow's clean, reliable energy while generating power to meet the demands of today. Constellation is securing America's energy future by producing clean, reliable energy to meet today's demands while building capacity to meet the energy needs of tomorrow. And Constellation is committed to living their purpose every day through shared values that…

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Outpaced and Outnumbered: The Case for Autonomous Cyber Defense

 MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.!  About Check Point Software Technologies, Inc.:  Check Point Software Technologies is a global leader in cyber security solutions, dedicated to protecting corporate enterprises and governments worldwide. For over 30 years, their mission has been to secure the digital world for everyone, everywhere. From pioneering stateful firewalls to their AI-powered, cloud-delivered security solutions, they are committed…

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The Money Behind the Money: How Payment Modernization Frees Up County Budgets 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by Verity Pay!  About Verity Pay:  VerityPay is a patent-pending, SOC2-compliant platform that enables businesses to send and collect payments directly via SMS to and from customers’ mobile phones, offering a secure, efficient, and user‑friendly B2C payment experience. The platform is designed to eliminate the need for paper checks, complex registration, or banking apps, allowing consumers to manage payments on their own…

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The Future of Energy, The Affordable Bill

 MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by BGE!  About BGE:  Headquartered in Baltimore, BGE is Maryland's largest natural gas and electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.3 million electric customers in central Maryland. With a history of more than 200 years of service as the first gas utility in the U.S., BGE has a long-standing commitment to their customers and the community. It began in…

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Fun Fact: These Four Marylanders Have Historic Signatures

This year, the United States marked the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Among the 56 men who signed the document in 1776 were four Marylanders: Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase, William Paca, and Thomas Stone. Each of these men represented a different part of colonial Maryland and left a lasting mark on our state’s history. Charles Carroll of Carrollton — Anne Arundel County Born in Annapolis in 1737, Charles…

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The 5 Steps to Cyber Resilience: Maturing Your Cyber Resilience Program 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by Cohesity!   About Cohesity:  Cohesity, Inc. specializes in software that enables IT professionals to consolidate, manage, and gain insights from data across multiple systems and cloud providers, addressing challenges of data fragmentation and security. Cohesity’s main products include DataPlatform, a hyper-converged platform for consolidating workloads, and DataProtect, a backup and recovery solution running on DataPlatform. The company also offers Helios, a…

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Understanding the AHEAD Model and What Maryland’s New Hospital Rate Setting Model Means for the Future 

MACo’s 2026 Summer Conference Solutions Showcase features thought leaders and industry experts presenting resources and best practices to assist local governments. Check out this session hosted by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield!  About CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield:  As one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organizations, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield works to ensure that healthcare is easy to afford, easy to use and available to everyone. They solve problems with equal parts urgency and empathy. They simplify the complex. They step forward with new ideas. Because they are building the…

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