Zero Trust and Privilege Access Management with BeyondTrust and Friends

MACo’s 2025 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 Beyond Trust! About Beyond Trust:  BeyondTrust fights every day to secure identities, intelligently remediate threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and protect organizations around the world. Our vision is a world where all identities and access are protected from cyber threats. Our innovative approach goes beyond just PAM…

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Cybersecurity Strategies for County Government

MACo’s 2025 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 Comcast! About Comcast:  Comcast Business offers a suite of Connectivity, Communications, Networking, Cybersecurity, Wireless, and Managed Solutions to help organizations of different sizes prepare for what’s next. Powered by the nation’s largest Gig-speed broadband network, and backed by 24/7 customer support, Comcast Business is the nation’s largest cable provider to…

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Real-World Solutions for Digital Challenges in County Services

MACo’s 2025 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 Revelo Software! About Revelo Software: Revelo is a data management platform that handles your Big Data needs through collection, analysis and reporting. It automates and streamlines the most complex parts of data management so you can focus on results, while protecting subjects’ privacy and meeting federal guidelines on security…

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Social Security: The Choice of a Lifetime

MACo’s 2025 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 Nationwide Retirement Solutions! About Nationwide Retirement Solutions:  On Your Side. Nationwide is a market leader in providing supplemental retirement savings programs for public employees. Nationwide has been serving public sector employees and their families for over 40 years. Nationwide’s programs include 457(b), 401(a), and Post-Employment Health Plans, and are comprehensive –…

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Summer #MACoCon Book Club to Reveal “Who Is Government?”

MACo’s “good government” Book Club will renew in August – with a book called Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service. Join us for the conference and this discussion, with a free advance copy of the book. At the MACo Summer Conference, county officials and other guests can join a discussion on a book affecting public service and best practices as officials, employees, and colleagues. The selection for August 2025 is Who Is Government?:…

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Building Resilient Networks: A Workshop for Business Continuity

MACo’s 2025 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 FirstNet/AT&T! About FirstNet/AT&T: FirstNet, Built with AT&T, is the only network built with and for first responders – when and where they need it most. We are accountable for keeping your lines of communication open with dedicated mission critical solutions to modernize public safety.  SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE SESSION: Title: Building…

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Public Amenities: Leveraging Your Public Spaces to Improve the Quality of Life in Your Community

MACo’s 2025 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 Sparks@Play! About Sparks@Play:  Sparks@Play is making communities a better place through play. With expertise and a passion for Playgrounds, Parks and Sports Infrastructure, ther team provides consulting, design, installation, construction and maintenance services to a wide variety of commercial and governmental clients. No matter the size or complexity of your…

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AI in the Building Department: Hype, Help, and How To Trust It

MACo’s 2025 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 Ichi! About Ichi: Ichi is an AI-native platform that delivers instant building code answers, helps plan examiners write high-quality code comments, enables architects to interpret comment letters, and supports building officials in training new staff—all within a web-based experience accessible anywhere, for any project, of any size, in any…

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See What’s in Store for Summer #MACoCon – The Registration Brochure Is HERE!

MACo's 2025 Summer Conference Registration Brochure is here! Learn what we have in store for "Funding the Future: The Evolving Role of Local Government," on August 13-16. From PFAS to housing to ransomware to green space...there's something for everyone. MACo’s Summer Conference brings together approximately 3,000 leaders from all levels of government and the private sector. With four days of educational sessions, along with 2 exhibit shows (over 300 vendors!), and numerous briefings, meetings, and…

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Summer #MACoCon Scam Alert

Every year, scammers contact individuals who are likely to attend MACo’s conference. Please read on for information about the most frequent scams and the most recent - and very convincing - version currently circulating. The two main scams are “buy MACo’s attendee contact list” and “we’re a housing authority who can help you get a room at a sold-out hotel in Ocean City.” THESE COMPANIES ARE NOT AFFILIATED WITH MACo – please do not engage…

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