Initiate your cloud journey

Enrich the student learning experience with the cloud
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT / 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM ET

Students today have different education expectations than students a decade ago. Primary, secondary, and higher education must transform to meet new student learning needs, embracing high quality academics and communication and hands-on learning and resources.

In this session, learn how universities are adopting cloud to be more agile and responsive with AWS. The session highlights how the cloud accelerates breakthroughs in educational models and learning outcomes by providing on-demand access to powerful computing that enables dynamic content, video lecture capture, and self-paced and distance models.

Speaker:
Kristi Wellington-Baker, Higher Education Strategy Lead, Student Experience, AWS

Cultivate a culture of innovation
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT / 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM ET

K12 and higher education institutions are under constant pressure to innovate to serve students more effectively.

While cloud migration itself provides institutions an opportunity to spur innovation, partnering with AWS for cloud migration gives institutions access to the culture of innovation that has allowed Amazon to become a world leader in e-commerce and cloud computing, among other things.

You will learn how Amazon's Leadership Principles and other key aspects of its culture can be a powerful resource as you cultivate a more innovative culture in your organization.

Speaker:
Mark Hampton, Executive Education Advisor, AWS

Break
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT / 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM ET

Skills-based pathways: A cloud-ready workforce
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM PT / 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM ET

As digital transformation accelerates, the skills gap continues to widen. Yet, talent development is essential to drive growth. Employers need pipelines of cloud-ready talent, and education systems are working to build them.

In this session, we’ll explore how AWS is working with governments, education systems, and collaborating partners to build cloud-based curriculum and micro-credentials that prepare learners for the entry-level tech jobs to move the business of employers forward.

Speaker:
Rebecca Allyn, Head of United States Education to Workforce, AWS

Elevate your organization’s security in the cloud
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM PT / 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM ET

Security is a top priority at AWS. Customers use the AWS cloud to store confidential data, process sensitive transactions, and build critical services. In this session, you will get an introduction to AWS cloud security services and learn how to scale and innovate while maintaining a secure environment.

Speaker:
Maria Thompson, Executive Government Advisor - Cybersecurity, AWS

Make the economic case for accelerating your cloud journey
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM PT / 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM ET

Understanding the financial benefits from migrating workloads to the cloud is essential to accelerating your journey.

This session will walk through a best-practice approach based on factual data of existing infrastructure and its actual day-to-day utilization in running your workloads to using an evidence-based methodology to project your Total Cost of Ownership after you have migrated your on-premises workloads to AWS.

Receive practical advice to generate a business plan to make a case for change and support an executable migration plan to drive your mission.

Speaker:
Patrick Frontiera, Senior Business Development Manager, Higher Ed, AWS

Optimize engagement with omni-channel contact centers
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT / 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM ET

Both state and local government and education organizations, by their very nature, exist to deliver services to their constituents and empower their student learners.

In education, students and staff need assistance with program enrollment, requesting services, managing hybrid learning, and more.

In this session, hear how AWS cloud goes beyond the traditional contact center with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) powered omnichannel solutions and hear about specific cases in which education institutions and state and local governments have made services available 24x7 via phone, chat, and more.

Speaker:
Ankit Battawar, Solutions Architect, AWS

Secure end-user computing with scalable solutions for workforce agility
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PT / 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM ET

Organizations have a responsibility to ensure that students and employees have access to secure learning and efficient working methods whether they are at home, in the office, or on the go.

This session explores how desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) deployment modes through Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0 offer secure and scalable solutions to enable your workforce to be secure and productive from anywhere at any time.

Speaker:
Ashoo Shetty, Solutions Architect, AWS

Break
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PT / 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM ET

Deliver results with a modern data strategy
10:15 AM – 10:45 PM PT / 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM ET

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.

Speaker:
Jason Moldan, Solutions Architect, AWS

Build securely on AWS for state local governments and education customers
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM PT / 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM ET

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.

Speaker:
Hiren Deliwala, Solutions Architect, AWS

Accelerate application modernization
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM PT / 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM ET

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.

Speaker:
Alok Takkar, Solutions Architect, AWS