AWS Public Sector Day Wellington

As organisations grow, security would not scale unless it becomes everyone's job. Organisations can optimise their security capabilities by allowing product teams to manage their own security, and evolving the central security team’s role to enable product teams to deliver securely. Join this session to learn key optimisations techniques to scale your organisations security, and deliver your workloads faster.

Join us to learn how AWS helps customers build digital twins and spatial simulations of real-world systems to improve safety, social inclusiveness, and develop sustainable solutions for a better tomorrow. Public sector organisations can benefit from using digital twins to optimise operational performance and accelerate time-to-value and time-to-scale for their citizens. Large scale spatial simulation technologies allow simulation workloads to seamlessly scale across multiple instances without worrying about infrastructure, networking, or data management. Developers can now simulate dynamic 2D and 3D environments with millions of dynamic entities for use cases such as crowd simulations, emergency response, city-sized digital twins, and public safety.

This training is intended to provide people with the foundational knowledge required to successfully plan and perform lift and shift migrations to the AWS Cloud. In this training, you will learn about methodologies for discovering, planning, performing, and tracking migrations by using various AWS tools and services.

Digital sovereignty is a hot topic right now, with verifiable control over data being a key concern. At AWS, we recognise that protecting customer data and earning trust are key priorities. Join this session to learn about digital sovereignty controls and features, which allow organisations to meet evolving regulatory requirements anywhere they operate, without compromising on the capabilities, performance, innovation, and scale of the AWS Cloud. Discover how AWS is sovereign by design in key areas of data location controls, resilience, verifiable control over data access, encryption, and transparency and assurance auditing.

This session will delve into the realm of International Data Spaces (IDS) and the pivotal role they play in facilitating secure and collaborative data exchange. The session will explore the concepts, technologies, and frameworks that underpin IDS, highlighting their potential for promoting data sovereignty, privacy, and trust. Through real-world use cases and technical deep-dives, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how IDS can be built on Amazon Web Services to foster seamless data sharing and interoperability between organisations, while safeguarding data ownership and compliance

We find ourselves in a society where the line between what is created by humans, and what is created by machines, is increasingly blurred. Generative AI has been a turning point in how we create, design, and interact with technology. But how does it work, what are the benefits beyond novelty, and what are the risks? Join us for an understandable and approachable deep dive into how generative AI works and how we can use this technology not just as a standalone tool, but in collaborative partnership to responsibly drive innovation and transformation.

Tāhuhu o Mātauranga (The Ministry of Education) shapes an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes for Aotearoa. In support of the government's “Connected Ako,” a Digital and Data for Learning 10-year strategy to guide the direction of New Zealand government education agencies, Tāhuhu o Mātauranga drove a cloud strategy to migrate 99% of workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS. Learn how and why they adopt VMware Cloud on AWS and explore the business drivers that influenced their journey of cloud adoption.

"I feel the need... the need for speed.” Tom Cruise dominated the sky with his speedy fighter plane and tradecraft in Top Gun. Come and find out how Trellix is going to dominate threat detection and response using Snowflake on AWS. Stop searching for threats in your network, let Trellix and Snowflake advanced analytics technology automatically detect them for you.

Cloud financial management (CFM) allows finance, product, technology, and business organizations to manage, optimize, and plan costs as they grow their usage and scale on AWS. The primary goal of CFM is to allow you to achieve your business outcomes in the most cost-efficient manner and accelerate economic and business value creation while finding the right balance between agility and control. Join this session to learn on your organization can leverage CFM to transform through cost transparency, control, forecasting and optimization.

Most citizen-centric databases store natural language annotations and documents in addition to relational data. This text can often provide deep insights into the operation of the agency. However, simple text search methods can only provide superficial access to this potent resource. Join this session to participate in live demonstrations on how Amazon Comprehend, a natural language processing artificial intelligence service, can unlock this resource at scale. And, see how it’s being used in practice by agencies to amplify the value of analytics pipelines—ultimately improving citizen outcomes.

Join Datacom as we share our journey in constructing a resilient global landing zone for Mak-Systems, a world leading provider of advanced healthcare software. Explore how we revolutionized the cloud experience, bolstering scalability, security, and operational efficiency. Additionally, discover how NZBlood maximized the benefits of Mak-Systems' SaaS offerings on AWS.

Adversaries continue to be relentless and persistent as they increase in speed and sophistication. Stopping breaches requires understanding the adversaries targeting your organisation. Join this session to explore the evolving threat landscape and gain actionable intelligence on the tactics and techniques used by today’s adversaries. We will cover some of the best practices around responding to incidents and learn about the challenges for security teams with protecting cloud workloads, and discover cyber security best practices, which you can implement in your organisation.

Amazon has not only successfully innovated across eCommerce, but also introduced new businesses, like AWS and Amazon Kindle, which at first glance do not seem to fit the original model. Dive deep into Amazon's culture, and other mechanisms we use to maintain our focus and pace of innovation. Explore how Amazon organises for innovation by staying true to Amazon’s leadership principles, and learn how you can apply Amazon's Culture of Innovation to solve challenges within your organisation using the Working Backwards Mechanism.

Now more than ever, it’s crucial for technology manufacturers and government customers to make Secure by Design a focal point of product design, development processes, purchasing, and integration activities. To accomplish Secure by Design, manufacturers need to prioritise the integration of security principles as a critical prerequisite to consider, alongside features and speed to market. Equally, government customers should be aware of what to look for in products to ensure they are built using Secure by Design principles. Join us in this session for guidance on how Secure by Design can be implemented in products and development lifecycles, particularly using AWS products.