Breakfast and registration

8:30 AM–9:00 AM | Room: Atrium

Modern data strategy

9:00 AM–9:50 AM | Room: Stadium 
Suggested self-paced pre-learning: AWS Database Offerings SkillBuilder Course

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.

Break

9:50 AM–10:00 AM

Intelligent document processing

10:00 AM–10:50 AM | Room: Stadium 

Documents are a critical part of many government and higher education organizations. Within the massive volume of documents lies strategic data and insights. Learn how your organization can process and analyze documents at scale with AWS machine learning. Minimize manual intervention and scope for human error with machine learning and reduce costs by automating manual, complex, and expensive document processing approach.

Break

10:50 AM–11:00 AM

Connect workshop

11:00 AM–12:00 PM | Room: Stadium 
Suggested self-paced pre-learning: AWS Database Offerings SkillBuilder Course

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.

Lunch and learn session

12:15 PM–1:00 PM | Room: State and local government location: Li’l Tex Auditorium & Education location: Balcones

Speaker: Rackspace

Lunch will be provided. Learn more about our APN Partner Rackspace Technologies ›

Unleash the power of AI/ML by carefully selecting your use case

1:10 PM–2:00 PM | Room: Stadium 

Successful business outcomes coming from the application of machine learning technology are strongly associated to the careful selection of its use case. In this session, you will be presented to the most common and impactful artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) use cases across different customer industries, and learn how to leverage AWS services, teams and partners to transform your business while optimizing your costs.

Break

2:00 PM–2:10 PM

Remote learning and working

2:10 PM–3:00 PM | Room: Stadium 

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.

Build a bot workshop

3:10 PM–4:30 PM | Room: Stadium 

Using machine learning 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 learn in order to participate in this session.

Collaboration space

8:30 AM–4:30 PM | Room: Atrium

At any time, join us in the collaboration space for activities that include: Ask an Expert; co-working space; discover case studies; AWS Jam competition; complimentary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Breakfast and registration

8:30 AM–9:00 AM | Room: Atrium

Building and governing your cloud environment

9:00 AM–9:50 AM | Room: Balcones
Suggested self-paced pre-learning: Getting Started with AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance SkillBuilder Course

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.

Break

9:50 AM–10:00 AM

Cost controls on AWS

10:00 AM–10:50 AM | Room: Balcones 
Suggested self-paced pre-learning: AWS Foundations: Cost Management SkillBuilder Course

Learn about the best practices and tools available to control cost and effectively manage your cloud budget.

Break

10:50 AM–11:00 AM 

One observability workshop

11:00 AM–12:00 PM | Room: Balcones

Join us for a hands-on exploration of the variety of tools for monitoring and observability of your applications. Whether your workload is on-prem 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.

Lunch and learn session

12:15 PM–1:00 PM | Room: State and local government location: Li’l Tex Auditorium & Education location: Balcones

Speaker: Rackspace

Lunch will be provided. Learn more about our APN Partner Rackspace Technologies ›

Security is top priority

1:10 PM–2:00 PM | Room: Balcones

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

2:00 PM–2:10 PM 

Zero trust workshop

2:10 PM–4:30 PM | Room: Balcones 

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. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.

Collaboration space

8:30 AM–4:30 PM | Room: Atrium

At any time, join us in the collaboration space for activities that include: Ask an Expert; co-working space; discover case studies; AWS Jam competition; complimentary refreshments and wifi; and more.

Breakfast and registration
8:30 AM–9:00 AM | Room: Atrium

Application modernization: Monolith to microservices with containers
9:00 AM–9:50 AM | Room: Lil Tex

Large organizations have a tremendous amount of resources invested in existing monolith applications. In this session, learn how to modernize the monolith by transforming your application to microservices architectures on AWS using containers.

Break

9:50 AM–10:00 AM

Getting started with serverless

10:00 AM–10:50 AM | Room: Lil Tex 

This session introduces serverless services at AWS. How we define "serverless" and the services that customers often utilize in building workloads in this space. Includes a deeper dive on AWS Lambda as the glue between many of these services.

Break

10:50 AM–11:00 AM 

Building serverless architecture

11:00 AM–12:00 PM | Room: Lil Tex  

By using a serverless architecture, your developers can focus on their core product instead of worrying about managing and operating servers or runtimes. In this chalk talk, walk through design patterns for building serverless applications on AWS.

Lunch and learn session

12:15 PM–2:00 PM | Room: State and local government location: Li’l Tex Auditorium & Education location: Balcones

Speaker: Rackspace

Lunch will be provided. Learn more about our APN Partner Rackspace Technologies ›

Build AI and ML powered applications without machine learning expertise

1:10 PM–2:00 PM | Room: Lil Tex 

Developing data sciences 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

Break

2:00 PM–2:10 PM 

Derive value from your data with Amazon Quicksight

2:10 PM–4:30 PM | Room: Lil Tex 

In this workshop, learn how you can build AWS-native business analytics to provide your users with ML-powered interactive dashboards and allow them to ask conversational questions about your data using natural language query (NLQ). We will provide step by step instructions starting with how to connect to and prepare data, how to build visuals, and finally how to share and enable further self service using Natural Language Query. Come prepared with your own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.

Collaboration space

8:30 AM–4:30 PM | Room: Atrium

At any time, join us in the collaboration space for activities that include: Ask an expert; co-working space; discover case studies; AWS Jam competition; complimentary refreshments and wifi; and more.