About the event
The AWS State and Local Learning Days is an in-person education event where customers can access Amazon Web Services (AWS) training sessions, get one-on-one support with AWS experts, and enjoy co-working facilities with complimentary coffee and Wi-Fi—all at no cost. You are welcome to attend as many days and sessions as you wish. Join whichever fits your cloud education needs.
Located at Arizona State University in Scottsdale, AZ, the AWS State and Local Learning Days will host a packed program of training sessions and workshops. You can expect to learn about a range of topics tailored to your use cases, including cloud practitioner essentials, delivering innovation, and creating a security compliant cloud environment.
Recommended for both education and government IT professionals.
Agenda
Browse the high-level schedule for the AWS State and Local Learning Days, broken out by day. Check back soon for updates and detailed session information.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Tuesday, September 20 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MST
Join this full day training for an introduction to AWS Cloud concepts and AWS core services for compute, storage, database, and networking. Hear AWS technical experts who support government customers explain key features and use cases, share best practices, and walk through brief technical demos. AWS experts will also be available to answer your questions one-on-one.
Who Should Attend: This session is an entry-level class best suited for attendees with general IT technical and business knowledge. Attendees are welcome to bring a laptop to follow along with the demos.
Agenda:
Breakfast and registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Cloud Practitioner Essentials
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific role. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge. This course also helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam. Breaks and lunch will be provided.
Collaboration Space
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
At any time, join us in the collaboration space for further learning, and to enjoy co-working facilities with complimentary coffee and Wi-Fi.
AWS for your mission
Wednesday, September 21 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MST
We designed day two for those who are looking to explore the mission benefits of AWS. AWS helps you use the cloud to turn ideas into mission outcomes—creating new ways to increase efficiency and serve your community. The morning series will consist of sessions on mission-oriented topics, followed by technical sessions in the afternoon covering modern data strategy, enhancing constituent engagement, and strategies to enable remote learning and working. When you’re not in a session, utilize the co-working space or meet with your AWS account team to brainstorm implementation of what you learned.
Who Should Attend: Sessions are best suited for technical attendees to learn how to deliver on strategies to help achieve their organization’s mission with 100 to 200 level sessions.
Agenda:
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Getting started with AWS Cloud begins with learning the foundations. In this session, learn about the AWS Cloud architecture and its services in the compute, storage, database, networking, and security categories. Gain an overall understanding of AWS Cloud, such as how to build and key terminology, and advance your AWS Cloud skills.
Build the Foundation for Enterprise Innovation with AWS Compute
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
With broad and deep functionality, AWS Compute helps organizations run diverse workloads. In this session you will learn how the AWS Compute platform gets you from idea to market faster and increase cost-efficiency via instances, containers, and server-less computing.
Increase Efficiency and Reduce Risks with Storage on AWS
11:00 AM – 11:50 AM
There are numerous benefits to storing data in the cloud, including the economic upside of pay-as-you-go pricing and ease of use through self-service administration. In this session, learn how the cloud reduces risk through durability and security, while increasing benefits of speed, ability, and scale.
Lunch (provided)
11:50 AM – 12:40 PM
Maximizing Constituent Engagement
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Your customers expect intuitive, effortless, and personalized service. The power of the cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) unlocks the ability to modernize your customer engagement and empower your workforce. In this breakout session, learn how organizations leverage an omnichannel solution, along with self-service capabilities, to reimagine the customer experience. In this session we’ll explain how the power of AWS improves the constituent experience and reduces costs.
Gaining Insights With a Modern Data Strategy
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Data is growing exponentially and coming in more diverse formats than ever before. This makes it challenging to extract value. A modern data strategy can help you manage, act on, and react to your data so you can make better decisions, respond faster, and uncover new opportunities. In this session you will learn about the AWS Modern Data Strategy. How to modernize your data infrastructure, how to unify data by breaking down silos, and how to leverage machine learning (ML) to reduce the burden of manual processing and analytics.
Remote Learning/Work
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
State and local government agencies needed to support their employees remotely, in a secure and scalable way, in 2020. They put work from home policies in place and enabled a strategy to support their employees in working from anywhere. Join this session to learn how AWS helped governments with remote work. Hear how Los Angeles county used AppStream 2.0 to simplify their deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure for 30,000+ employees. Look at AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces use cases to overcome capital expenditure, secure connectivity, application management, work from anywhere, and right-sized scale challenges.
Collaboration Space
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
At any time, join us in the collaboration space for further learning, and to enjoy co-working facilities with complimentary coffee and Wi-Fi.
The AWS Cloud Journey
Thursday, September 22 | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM MST
Day three is about the path to business results through modernization. Join AWS technical experts to learn about the technology that can help you to build, govern, and secure your cloud environment. You will learn about technology that will enable you to build and migrate workloads into the cloud, and modernize your workloads to achieve your results.
Who Should Attend: These sessions are 100 to 200 level sessions best suited for technical job roles.
Agenda:
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Customers of every size and industry type are moving to the cloud to increase their security, agility, cost efficiency, scalability, and ability to deploy more easily. In this session we will cover the AWS governance strategy and the tools and services available to customer to meet their control objectives.
Security is Job 0
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. Security in the cloud is much like security in your on-premises data centers—only without the costs of maintaining facilities and hardware. In this session, get an introduction to AWS Cloud security services and learn how to scale and innovate while maintaining a secure environment and paying only for the services you use. You will also get an introduction into how to protect your organization from ransomware threats.
Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
A Practical Guide to Cloud Migration
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The path to the cloud is a journey to business results. AWS has helped hundreds of customers achieve their business goals at every stage of their journey. While every organization’s path will be unique, there are common patterns, approaches, and best practices that can be implemented to streamline the process. In this talk we will cover migration patterns and the technology to support your journey to business results.
Accelerating Application Modernization
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Modern applications are built with a modular architecture, serverless operational models, and automated software delivery processes, and they allow organizations to innovate faster while reducing risk, time to market, and total cost of ownership. Organizations are increasingly interested in modernizing applications because they need to become agile and innovate to respond to change faster. Requirements has also changed because applications now need to scale quickly to potentially millions of users, have global availability, manage petabytes if not exabytes of data, and respond in milliseconds. This requires a different kind of application than before.
Lunch
12:45 - 1:45 PM
Connect Workshop
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Deploying a secure, operational contact center can be challenging. Let AWS show you how to integrate Amazon Connect to efficiently streamline this process. In this builders’ session, walk step by step through deploying experiences using voice and chat. Additionally, see how to secure information in your interactive voice response (IVR) to help you remain compliant. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.
Data Analytics Workshop
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Public sector organizations can store data in a data lake and use purpose-built services to make decisions with speed and agility at the best scale and price/performance. This builders’ session introduces the key concepts of modern data architecture on AWS and provides detailed guidance on how to build a secure data architecture with AWS analytics services. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.
Collaboration Space
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
At any time, join us in the collaboration space for further learning, and to enjoy co-working facilities with complimentary coffee and Wi-Fi.
Information for registrants
- Payment: Not required as this is a complimentary event.
- Age requirement: You must be 18 years of age or older prior to the event start date of September 20, 2022, to register for the in-person event.
- COVID-19 vaccine requirement: The health and safety of our customers, partners, and employees remains our top priority. Face coverings are optional for fully vaccinated individuals. For unvaccinated individuals or individuals experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, face coverings are strongly recommended. Proof of vaccination will not be required.
