This track is intended for leaders and decision makers in state and local governments and education. This track is not intended for AWS Partners.

Collaboration space
Open all day with activities that include: Ask an expert; AWS Partners and collaborators; co-working space; complementary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Track sessions:

Powering public sector innovation using the AWS Cloud 
Public sector continues to explore innovative methods to improve citizen service delivery and solve institutional problems. This educational session explores the increasing role cloud is playing in public sector technology plans, emerging trends, and best practices for expediting your cloud journey using the AWS Cloud.

Building trust in your cyber eco-system
This session will cover security and compliance considerations when optimizing your environment. In doing so, customers can ensure they build a more ransomware resistant environment that allows for integration with your current security architecture. Learn some of the growing trends and how security considerations like zero trust can be enabled.

Planning, procuring, and financing digital transformation
This session will discuss how procurement can partner with their finance and IT counterparts to support the transition to cloud technologies. The partnership starts during the planning and budgeting phase and continues through the procurement process and into managing the full lifecycle of implementation and optimization. The session will include insights from prior government and education leaders now working in the industry, as well as current public sector leaders that have leveraged this partnership for the benefit of their organization.

How generative AI/ML can increase government and higher institution efficiencies
This session covers how to unleash the power of AI to optimize internal processes and simplify constituent user experience.

Enabling researchers and accelerating research
A discussion session centered on sharing how AWS can complement and enhance an institution's current research capabilities and enable researchers for the challenges of the future, today. Accomplish this with a full suite of compute capabilities offering flexibility and scalability matching the breadth and depth of a researcher's imagination. Institutions can provision research environments that provide piece of mind with consistent and appropriate levels of observability, security, and compliance. From instrument workflows and high performance computing to advanced collaboration and data sharing to on-demand research workstations, AWS can help transform the research organization.

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		Jayson Dunn Executive Government Advisor, AWS Jayson served in local government for over 20 years, responsible for several city and countywide enterprise technology programs. Prior to joining AWS, Jayson was the Chief Information Officer for the City of Cincinnati and IT Director for Hamilton County, Ohio.
		Maria Thompson, Ed.D Executive Government Advisor, AWS Maria works with security and technology leadership for customers, identifying trends, best practices, and assisting them in developing holistic security strategies. Prior to joining AWS, Maria’s roles in the public sector include the State Chief Risk and Security Officer for the State of North Carolina, and the Information Assurance and Cybersecurity Chief at the US Marine Corps.
		Danielle Hinz Executive Government Advisor, AWS Danielle has more than 20 years of experience in public sector procurement including higher education and local government. As former Chief Procurement Officer for King County, Washington, she led a $3 billion procure-to-pay organization and was responsible for sponsoring multiple Lean Six Sigma transformation projects that reduced cycle time and improved customer experience.
		Jennifer Sparrow Ed.D, Executive Education Advisor, AWS Jennifer brings 25 years of higher education experience, including Penn State and Virginia Tech. She is passionate about leveraging emerging technologies to enhance student, faculty, and staff experiences at their institutions.
		Rick Friedman Head, U.S. Higher Education Research, AWS Rick leads the higher education Research Vertical team at AWS. He has over 25 years' experience partnering with researchers to leverage the use of computational technology to advance science.

Collaboration space
Open all day with activities that include: Ask an expert; AWS Partners and collaborators; co-working space; complementary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Track sessions:

AI/ML learning for your organization
Join this session to learn how AI/ML fits into your organizational goals. Learn how these managed services and tools bring value to your mission faster, at lower cost, and without requiring your own data science team. This session explains the more frequently used AI/ML services, example use cases, and examples from other organizations who have successfully leveraged these services.

Generative AI for public sector
A common public sector customer challenge is understanding the purposes and relevancy of generative AI and foundational models, as well as the implications of applying generative AI technology to public sector settings and use cases. In this session, you will learn about common public sector use cases where generative AI can be applied.

Intelligent document processing
with co-host and AWS Partner, Accenture. Learn more ›
Documents are a critical part of many government and higher education organizations. Within the massive volume of documents lies strategic data and insights. In this session, learn how your organization can process and analyze documents at scale with AWS ML. Minimize manual intervention and scope for human error with ML and reduce costs by automating manual, complex, and expensive document processing approach.

Building AI- and ML-powered applications without ML expertise
Developing data science and data engineering skills to create and maintain ML models can be time-consuming. In this session, get an introduction to AWS services which enable you to easily integrate AI/ML into your products and applications without having to write any code.

Build a bot workshop
Using ML to improve engagement with your constituents doesn't have to be data science. In this workshop, you will configure a question and answer bot to reply to common inquiries from your end users. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to engage in a hands-on exercise in this session.

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Collaboration space
Open all day with activities that include: Ask an expert; AWS Partners and collaborators; co-working space; complementary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Track sessions:

Application modernization: Monolith to microservices with containers
Large organizations have a tremendous amount of resources invested in existing monolith application. In this session, learn how to modernize the monolith; transforming your application to microservices architectures on AWS using APIs, containers, and serverless.

Security design chalk talk
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 chalk talk learn how to apply AWS well-architected security best practices to your applications, scale your security operations, and innovate while maintaining a secure environment.

One observability workshop
Join us for a hands-on exploration of the variety of tools for monitoring and observability of your applications. Whether your workload is on-premisis or on AWS, or your application is a giant monolith or based on modern microservice-based architecture, our observability tools can help you get deeper insights into your application performance and health. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.

Serverless architectures - Why is everyone moving to serverless?
By using serverless architectures, your organization can benefit from value such as reduced operational and maintenance overhead, reduced costs, improved scalability, and an improved security footprint. Learn how leveraging serverless architectures can help you achieve better outcomes.

Zero Trust workshop
This workshop demonstrates a Zero Trust architecture for service to service workloads. We will discuss the principles of Zero Trust and how AWS enables you to implement them in the most appropriate way for your workloads. This includes how a good Zero Trust architecture is not a single product, service, or architecture, but instead the application of principles and tenets to strengthen your designs. When complete, you will have had hands-on experience implementing combined network and identity controls to help eliminate lateral network mobility risk and improve the overall security posture of your workload.

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Collaboration space
Open all day with activities that include: Ask an expert; AWS Partners and collaborators; co-working space; complementary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Track sessions:

Democratizing your organization's data analytics experience
In this session, learn how AWS can democratize analytics with ease of use and better price performance, making it easier for analysts and data scientists of all skill levels to use ML.

Building a modern data strategy
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 ML to reduce the burden of manual processing and analytics.

AWS data lake and visualization workshop
Build your own visualization dashboard in minutes using Amazon QuickSight. With Amazon QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries.

AI and ML for data and analytics
with co-host and AWS Partner, Global Technology Solutions Inc. (GTS). Learn more ›
Organizations view analytics, AI, and ML as a continuum. This continuum enables them to make data-driven decisions across all levels of their enterprise and guides them in defining their customer experience. Within each of these organizations, there are multiple use cases, data types, users, and applications that require different tools. In this session, learn about the services, tools and techniques of employing AI and ML to provide an end-to-end data analytics strategy for the public sector.

AWS database migration workshop
Migrating databases can be a complex, multi-step process that involves pre-migration assessments, conversion of database schema and code, data migration, functional testing, performance tuning, and many other steps. The two fundamental steps in this process that require the most effort are the conversion of the schema and database code objects, and the migration of the data itself. In this session, learn about the tools AWS provides that help with each step.

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