Don’t Miss Wisconsin Digital Government Summit

The Wisconsin Digital Government Summit will be held December 3^rd & 4^th at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin. V-Soft is proud to be a sponsor for the event. This year there will be industry representatives from AT&T, Oracle, VMware, and several other big names, sharing their knowledge on how to help increase safety and productivity, raise technology awareness, and bring efficiency into the public sector. Registration is $25 per person, and more information about joining the event can be found at the Wisconsin Digital Government Summit home page.

Some of This Year’s Topics

Cyber Security
Enterprise Analytics
Mobile Apps the Smart Way
Document Management and Workflow
What Can Agile Do For You?
Cloud Today – What It Means for the Business of Government
How to Create a Successful Open Data Initiative
High Density Wi-Fi Networking
“Game of Drones”
Shared Services across the Enterprise

Directions to the Wisconsin Digital Summit

The Wisconsin Digital Government Summit is being held at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The Monona Convention Center is located in downtown Madison, 3 blocks from the Capitol. The address to the Convention Center is: 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI 53703

Parking will be available in their parking garage, which can be accessed by E. Wilson Street and John Nolen Drive. Parking is $1.50/hour until 5:00 PM or $12 daily. Get more details here on this amazing convention center designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright.

What to Do in Madison, Wisconsin

Once you’ve had your fill of technology, you can ease away from the action to explore the city some. There are quite a few hidden gems in the city. Here’s our bucket list:

Try Some Cheese Curds

Cheese curds are a product of the cheese making process that do not turn into aged cheese. They can also be referred to as “squeaky cheese” due to the squeaking noise they make when you bite into them, but do not let that scare you away. They are a delicious snack either fresh or beer battered and fried. The place to give them a try is at The Old Fashioned, a tavern located on North Pinckney Street.

Enjoy a Kringle

If you find yourself wandering around Madison and looking for something to cure a sweet tooth, stop by Lane’s and get yourself a kringle. What is a kringle, you may ask? It is a large, flaky Danish pastry that is filled with fruit or nuts and covered in icing. It is a Wisconsin staple, and is now the Official State Pastry as of 2013.

Take a Brewery Tour with Hop Head Beer Tours

Hop Head Beer Tours offers weekly bus tours to different breweries, and now more recently they have started to include wineries and distilleries.

Watch a Piano Duel at the Ivory Room

Everyone’s heard of dueling banjos, but what about dueling pianos? The Ivory Room is a piano bar, following after the trend of piano bars in Chicago. If a night out on the town is up your alley, stop in for some classy and cozy entertainment as pianists play solo, or play or against one another. Duels happen Thursdays at 9 PM, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM.

Madison’s Best Restaurants

delicious madison wisconsin italian pasta for the wisconsin digital summit We asked a few of our team members what their favorite restaurants were in the Madison, Wisconsin area, and they were quite eager to supply this list of their choices. Our mouths are watering just thinking about them.