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Welcome!To our guests,

On behalf of the entire Amazon Web Services (AWS) Worldwide Public Sector team, welcome to the 2019 AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC! This year’s conference is going to be our biggest yet with more than 13,000 attendees and 160 knowledge sessions.

To get the most out of the Public Sector Summit, we encourage you to take advantage of the resources outlined in this document. You can start planning your schedule at any time by logging into your account, visiting the session catalog, and marking sessions of interest.

Although the AWS Public Sector Summit DC is a big conference, the strength of the public sector community makes it feel much smaller.

We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC!

Teresa CarlsonVice President, Worldwide Public Sector AWS

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WhatAWS Public Sector Summit DC is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The event features keynote announcements, trainings, certification opportunities, and more. At the conference, you’ll have access to more than 160 sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, networking opportunities.

WhenJune 11 – June 12, 2019. Pre-day activities and the Earth & Space keynote will occur on June 10. Seating is limited, so don’t miss your chance to register. Onsite registration desk opens on June 10 at 7am.

WhereWe are taking over the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the heart of Washington, DC.

Who

HowRegister here. After you register, you will receive an email regarding booking travel and accommodations.


13,000+ attendees, including 100+ public sector professionals, and the AWS Worldwide Public Sector team.

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What’s new in 2019

Deeper technical content and more hands-on learning opportunities.

Your own mobile app guide to everything you need to know about the DC Summit.

A bigger and better partner expo with partner theatre sessions.

A new builders fair, dev lounge, and Deepracertrack!

Resources to get you started

SUMMIT HOMEPAGE EVENT CATALOG

BOOKING MEETING SPACE


EVENT CATALOG

LEARNING

SPONSORS

SUMMIT AGENDA

FAQ SECTION

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Silent Disco Sessions


Silent Disco Sessions are a new format this year at the DC Summit. In the Ballroom on Level 3, five breakout sessions will be running simultaneously across five different stagesthroughout the main conference days. Unlike regular breakout sessions, the microphones do not project, but rather feed into headphones that line the corresponding seats in front of each session’s stage.

Just like an actual silent disco, you can tune into the speaker by selecting one of the provided headphones. Stages are lit up in different colors, which correspond to the signage, the headphones, and the mobile app. Check out this new format onsite and let us know what you think in the mobile app survey!








New Tracks


This year, we have more tracks than ever. For the first time, we’re introducing the Earth & Space track, the Mobile track, and the New AWS Services track. Check out a sample of the content featured on these brand new tracks or use the mobile app to organize sessions by track. Click the link in the planet to see more.

E A R T H& S P A C E

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294880 - Leveraging Earth Observations and Cloud Technology for Global Sustainable Development

299940 - Networking Patternsand Practices: A Case Study of NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center’s Cloud Journey

301095 - Seeing the Stars Through the Cloud

299940 - Networking Patterns and Practices: A Case Study of NASA Goddard

Space Flight Center’s Cloud Journey

301095 - Seeing the Stars Through the Cloud

M O B I L E

295461 - Take Mobile and Web Apps to the Next Level with AWS

AppSync and AWS Amplify

309630 - Creating a Modern Digital Engagement Platform for Mobile

Students at Arizona State University

295466 - Driving Efficiency Through Mobile Applications at the

Kansas Department of Revenue

295501 - Developing and Teaching Robotics with AWS RoboMaker

NEW AWSS E R V I C E S

295500 - Maximize the Performance of HPC Applications with the Latest

AWS Services and Best Practices

295501 - Customer and Constituent Engagement with Amazon Connect

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Pre-Day Day 1 Day 2

Monday, June 10 Tuesday, June 11 Wednesday, June 12

REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST7:00AM - 8:00AM

BOOTCAMPS & ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES8:00AM - 5:00PM

EARTH & SPACE ON AWS KEYNOTE3:30PM - 4:30PM

EARTH & SPACE ON AWS RECEPTION5:00PM - 6:00PM

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REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST7:30AM - 9:00AM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS9:00AM - 9:50AM10:00AM - 10:50AM

KEYNOTE WITH TERESA CARLSON, VP, WWPS AWS11:15AM - 12:45PM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:45PM - 2:35PM2:45PM - 3:35PM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS4:00PM - 4:50PM

OPENING RECEPTION5:00PM - 6:30PM

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST7:30AM - 9:00AM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS9:00AM - 9:50AM10:00AM - 10:50AM

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH ANDY JASSY, CEO, AWS11:15AM - 12:15PM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:30PM - 2:25PM2:30PM - 3:20PM

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS3:50PM - 4:40PM

CLOSING RECEPTION5:00PM - 7:00PM









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Breakout Session

DC Summit breakout sessions are lecture style and 50 minutes long. Thesesessions will take place throughout the convention center and cover alltopics at all levels (200–400). Sessions are delivered by AWS experts,customers, and partners.

Dev Chats are 30-minute talks from the AWS community to developers ontechnical topics. Learn from and network with your peers, AWS Heroes,AWS User Groups, and other members of the AWS community,

Hands-on labs allow you to work with AWS solutions step-by-step on anAWS Console in a live practice environment. There are over 100+ lab topicsto choose from, and each take between 30-60 minutes to complete.

Dev Chats

Hands-on Labs

Types of sessions

Workshop

Workshops are two-hour, hands-on sessions where you work in teams tosolve problems using AWS. Workshops organize attendees into smallgroups and provide scenarios to encourage interaction, giving you theopportunity to learn from and teach each other. AWS will provide credits.

Chalk talks are a highly interactive content format with a smaller audience. They begin with a 10–15-minute lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by a 45–50-minute Q&A session with the audience. The goal is to foster a technical discussion around real-world architecture challenges.

Bootcamps provide an opportunity to dive deep into existing and new ways to work with AWS. These full-day and half-day training sessions will be delivered by experienced AWS instructors and solution architects.

Chalk Talk

Bootcamps

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New this yearA W S C O M M U N I T Y

D E V L O U N G E

B U I L D E R S F A I RO B L I T E R I D EC H A L L E N G E

The DC Summit developer lounge engagesdevelopers with an interactive learningexperience and casual environment forattendees to relax and network. Developerscan share their learnings via 30-minutechats in the small theater in the lounge.

Attendees will be able to learn how tomake machine learning modules throughworkshops on the pre-day, put their codesto the test with virtual simulation tracks,and compete for a chance to win a trip tore:Invent 2019 to compete in the finals.

Join us for eight live demonstrations thathighlight how AWS spurs innovation. Therange of technology on display includesanalytics, virtual reality, serverlesscomputing, Amazon Connect, and AI/ML.Meet the builders and ask questions!

It’s the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s annual road cycling fundraiser that supports lifesaving cancer research. Interested attendees will be challenged to cycle on stationary bikes for 5 minutes or 1 mile (whichever comes first). AWS, VMware, and other sponsors will donate per cycled mile to support the Hutch’s research.


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MondayH A C K A T H O N

F O R G O O DE A R T H & S P A C E

K E Y N O T ES A G E M A K E RW O R K S H O P

D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N S E P R E - D A Y

P U B L I C S E C T O RA W S O M E D A Y

B O O T C A M P S

Hackers will have 14 hours to build asolution to one of four public sectorcustomer challenges and present to thejudges. Solutions architects will hold 60-minute labs to learn a new skill that can beimplemented in your solutions.*

Join Dr. Dava Newman, Apollo ProgramProfessor of Aeronautics and Astronautics atMIT and Lori Garver, CEO of Earthrise Alliance.Hear from each leader how tech is acceleratinginnovation across Earth and space, the value ofpublic-private partnerships, the importance ofelevating women in aerospace and biomedicalengineering, and more.

Learn how to solve a real-world case withmachine learning and produce actionableresults using Amazon SageMaker. Thiscourse will teach you how to use AmazonSageMaker to cover the different stages ofthe typical data science process.*

Attend this half-day session for theDepartment of Defense (DoD) ITprofessionals, architects, and administratorsto learn how AWS acceleratestransformation for DoD via AWS Cloud.*

This one-day training will introduce AWSCloud concepts and AWS core services forcompute, storage, database, and networking.This is an entry-level course run by AWStechnical experts who support public sectorcustomers.*

AWS technical bootcamps offer a chance to learn about AWS services and solutions through immersive exercises and hands-on labs. They are run by AWS instructors and solutions architects.*

8:00AM – 11:00PM 3:30PM – 4:30PM9:00AM – 11:30AM; 1:00PM-3:30PM

1:00PM – 5:00PM 8:00AM – 4:30PM Half/Full Day

* Seats must be reserved in advance.


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TuesdayW O R K I N G

B A C K W A R D SK E Y N O T E

F T . T E R E S A C A R L S O ND E E P R A C E RW O R K S H O P

O P E N I N GR E C E P T I O N

At Amazon, we start with the customerand work backwards. In this two hourworkshop, we will share the five workingbackwards questions that we answer tosolve a customer's problem or develop anew initiative. *

Teresa Carlson is the founder and leaderof the AWS Worldwide Public Sector.Today, tens of thousands ofgovernment agencies, educationinstitutions, and nonprofit organizationsaround the world use AWS. Don’t missher keynote speech!

Join us at the AWS Public SectorSummit in Washington, DC, where wewill help you build and train a model ata workshop, or you can bring one youhave trained at home. You can then putyour model to the test and compete onthe track in the AWS Summit Expo.*

Join us at the opening reception to welcome all and bring together partners and attendees to connect and learn.

9:00AM – 11:00AM 11:15AM – 12:45PM 5:00PM– 6:30PM

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WednesdayF I R E S I D E C H A T F E A T U R I N G A N D Y J A S S Y

C L O S I N G R E C E P T I O N -A L I C E T H R O U G H T H E L O O K I N G G L A S S : T H E F U T U R E O F A I / M L

AWS CEO Andy Jassy will join Teresa Carlson for a fireside chat on Wednesday, June 12 focused on the latest trends in public sector cloud adoption and how AWS is innovating to help customers drive innovation ahead of mission. Andy Jassy is founder and CEO of AWS, the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

11:15AM – 12:15PM

5:00PM – 7:00PM


Every year, we end the DC Summit with a bang at our closing reception. Last year, our reception featured human bowling, ice sculptures, laser tag, acrobatics, and entertainers on stilts. This year, we invite you step through the looking glass to join us in Wonderland and spend the evening in the future. Dressing up for the theme is encouraged. After all…we’re all mad here.


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Breakout Sessions

Index: Nonprofit Organization Sessions

296694: Innovating Humanitarian and Disaster Response with AI/ML301009: Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information302789: SpaceNet: Accelerating Machine Learning for Foundational Mapping Challenges317697: Using AWS to Enable Data Driven Decision Making at the Nation’s Cultural Center316639: Enabling Resilience Through the Cloud: AWS Disaster Response Program294880: Leveraging Earth Observations and Cloud Technology for Global Sustainable Development295084: Stages and Changes: How your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) Organization will Evolve During your Cloud Adoption295461: Take Mobile and Web Apps to the Next Level with AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify295465: Mission Mobility – Changing How and Where Real Mission Work is Done295440: Improving Information and Communication in a Disaster Scenario with AWS Snowball Edge295502: Using Amazon WorkSpaces to Support Compute-Intensive Curricula at a Distance295511: Customer and Constituent Engagement with Amazon Connect296690: AI for Good: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to Transform Your Mission and Literally Save with World296697: Building Intelligent Applications (No Machine Learning Experience Required!)301064: Blockchain for Science and Research301069: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Research301104: Panel: AI for Social Good – Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency301075: Accelerating Time to Science Using Cloud301061: Learn How to Become Migration Ready to Accelerate & Optimize Your Cloud Adoption301084: Challenges to Cloud Adoption which are not technical

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© 2019 | Amazon Web Services. All rights reserved. Breakout Sessions

296694

Innovating Humanitarian & Disaster Response with AI/ML

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Maggie Carter –Principal, Disaster Response, WWPS, AWS | Luke Wells – Solutions Architect, AWS | Leila Nouri – AWS | Tony Frazier – EVP of Global Field Operations, Maxar Technologies | SajitJoseph – CIO, American Red Cross | Zach Ferdana – Geospatial Information Officer, The Nature Conservancy

Learn how nonprofits, non-governmental agencies, and governments are using AI/ML to predict disasters before they happen, and take action earlier to save lives. Harnessing existing weather forecast data, food price data agricultural production data, satellite imagery and other data pipelines, and mobilizing responses faster is transforming how disaster response can be coordinated. See how Amazon SageMaker models are identifying patterns early, along with AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, and image analysis.Link to session

301009

Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information

The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a nonprofit member organization supported by NASA, NOAA, and USGS, with a belief that the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet are enhanced by regular use of timely, scientifically sound Earth science data. In this session we highlight several lab projects, including how one team is leveraging the Pangeo project on AWS to build an open-source pipeline to infer snow cover at meter-scale resolution from CubeSat data, using machine learning.

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302789

SpaceNet: Accelerating Machine Learning for Foundational Mapping Challenges

FOCUS ON

SPACENET

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joe Flaster –AWS | Adam Van Etten | Ryan Lewis – Sr. VP, In-Q-Tel CosmiQ Works | Todd Bacastow

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Xiang Shen – Sr. Specialist SA, AWS

317697

Using AWS to Enable Data Driven Decision Making at the Nation’s Cultural Center

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jamie Shover | Nicole Weaver – Chief Strategy Officer & CIO, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Kennedy Center’s strategic plan calls for much more rigorous and comprehensive data informed decision making than we have been capable of in the past. Faced with an existing data warehouse that was outdated in design, housed on aging hardware and which performed poorly, the Kennedy Center undertook a “giant sprint” modernization project. This solution not only alleviates the risk associated with aging hardware and a single instance, but also provides a foundation for a massively more flexible and adaptable ecosystem for exploration, analysis, reporting, and predictive modeling.

Link to session

FOCUS ON

EARTH SCIENCE DATA

FEATURING

AI/ML

FOCUS ON

AWS ON DECISION MAKING

SpaceNet is a nonprofit LLC designed to accelerate machine learning against geospatial problems. SpaceNet has developed and administered four data science challenges to solve the problem of extracting building footprint and road networks from satellite imagery at scale. We will discuss the challenges of deploying these machine learning algorithms in operational timelines and how AWS products be used to accelerate delivery of timely information derived from satellite imagery after a natural disaster. We will also highlight upcoming analytic challenges.

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316639

Enabling Resilience Through the Cloud: AWS Disaster Response Program

FEATURED SPEAKER: Maggie Carter –Principal, Disaster Response, WWPS, AWS | Joe Hills – Information Technology Disasater Resource Center | Jeffrey Schweitzer

The AWS Disaster Response Program, launched in August 2018, is focused on helping public sector organizations (governments, NGOs, educational institutions) leverage AWS technology before, during, and after disasters. In this session, we will discuss how AWS services, such as AWS Snowball Edge, are enabling secure access to critical workloads and datasets in limited or disconnected environments to improve our customer’s response capabilities. We will share with you how Amazon Connect provided a scalable, virtual call center solution to ensure hurricane survivors can speak with volunteers about information on critical aid services.

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294880

Leveraging Earth Observations and Cloud Technology for Global Sustainable Development

295084Stages and Changes: How your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) Organization will Evolve During your Cloud Adoption

FOCUS ON

CLOUD SERVICES

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ana PinheiroPrivette – Amazon | Aditya Agrawal –D4DInsights | Anne Hale Miglarese – CEO, Radiant Earth Foundation | Steven Ramage– Group on Earth Observations

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Shirley Ivan – Sr. Cloud Advisor, WWPS, AWS | Samir Shah – Director Enterprise Integration, AARP | Morgan Reed – CIO, Arizona

295461

Take Mobile and Web Apps to the Next Level with AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Xiang Shen – Sr. Specialist SA, AWS | Chris Richardson – Deputy CIO, IT Dev, Mobility & Smart Cities, ASU

In this session, learn how the latest features of AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify enable you to use GraphQL for real-time data streams to client apps, along with advanced caching and offline operations. See the latest techniques for automatic backend provisioning and discover capabilities for advanced querying.

Link to session

FOCUS ON

CLOUD TECHNOLOGY

FOCUS ON

AWS DISASTER RESPONSE

FOCUS ON

AWS APPSYNC / AWS AMPLIFY

The recently launched Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative significantly reduces the cost, time, and technical barriers associated with analyzing large datasets to generate sustainability insights. In this session we will hear from the Radiant.Earth Foundation, the Group on Earth Observation and Digital Earth Africa on ways Earth observations and AWS cloud technology are supporting governments, NGOs, businesses, and individuals to make more informed decisions and manage challenges such as climate change, soil and coastal erosion, deforestation, desertification, and water scarcity.

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Your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) is foundational to your organization's culture shift and cloud journey. This session will provide insights into how organizations at different stages of adoption have evolved their CCoE. From small cloud teams to cloud enabled organizations, hear from public sector organizations how they are using their CCoE organizations to meet their mission at every stage of adoption.

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295440

Improving Information and Communications in a Disaster Scenario with AWS Snowball Edge

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joe Flasher –AWS | Dan Pilone – CEO, Element 84

FOCUS ON

AWS SNOWBALL EDGE

We'll dive into the results of our disaster response user needs study and invite Element 84 on stage to exhibit their prototype disaster response pipeline for field data management. The serverless, cloud-based pipeline combines public and private data sources with open source software. It can provide the field with a ruggedized remote data center (SBE), preloaded with critical information, including reach-back capabilities. You'll see how this works firsthand and learn ways first responders can update data from in-situ sources such as drones.

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295465

Mission Mobility – Changing How and Where Real Mission Work is Done

FEATURED SPEAKER: John Ditomasso –Business Dev Manager, Mobility, AWS | Chris Gorman – COO, Monkton

This session, will discuss the intersection of Mobile and Cloud computing and how custom solutions are transforming work at the edge. The USAF BRICE project was the first native DoD enterprise mobile app to connect via LTE to AWS GovCloud and a legacy mainframe system of record. As a result of this project, any Government Agency now has a proven, repeatable path to extend their sensitive workloads from the Cloud to Mobile devices, while maintaining compliance with DoD and NSA security policies.

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MISSION MOBILITY

295502

Using Amazon WorkSpaces to Support Compute-Intensive Curricula at a Distance

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Andrew Defoe | Eric Rzeszut – Associate Director of Client Services, McIntire School of Commerce, UVA

FOCUS ON

AMAZON WORKSPACES

Increasing market demands for data analytics skills are producing a greater need for hands-on analytics coursework; this, in turn, is dramatically increasing high-end computing requirements at many institutions. To address this, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce extended its desktop environment to the cloud using Amazon WorkSpaces, deploying preconfigured environments that are accessible on personal devices and from a distance. Join this session to learn how Amazon Workspaces can support your compute intensive curricula at a distance.

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295511

Customer and Constituent Engagement with Amazon Connect

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jason Shaffer | Mike Vozas | Benny Chacko – Deputy GM, IT Services, County of LA, California

AWS Customers can revolutionize their engagement and service of customers and constituents powered by the same technology and tools used for Amazon.com. Amazon Connect is an easy-to use, cloud-based contact center solution for governments and businesses that want to deliver a personalized, customer-centric experience. Join Mike Vozas and Jason Shaffer, Public Sector Amazon Connect Experts who will share some of our public sector customer success stories, partner solutions, and best practices for using Amazon Connect in the State and Local Government, Nonprofits, and Federal Government.

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296690AI for Good: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to Transform Your Mission and Literally Save with World

FEATURED SPEAKER: Ranji Das –Director, Amazon Rekognition, AWS | Akanbi Wale – Co-Founder & CTO, AellaCredit | Emily Cashman Kirstein – Sr. Manager of Gov Affairs, Thorn | Ray Davis – Sr. Director of Technology, Compassion International

See how AWS AI/ML has the power to transform how you address your mission and solve your biggest challenges, by saving lives, eradicating crimes such as human trafficking and child abductions, and ending future famines.

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301064

Blockchain for Science and Research

FOCUS ON

BLOCKCHAIN

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Junseok Park – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | Felipe Millon - AWS

FOCUS ON

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

‘Blockchain in science’ is a new data-handling paradigm that offers data privacy and a reward system associated with a blockchain network. In this session we introduce AWS Blockchaintechnologies and its use across various domains. We also highlight Korea's Collaborative Research for Us Program, which provides blockchain-based rewards to citizens who share critical information for research. Come learn how blockchain technology can provide an encrypted reward system that is vital for security and transaction integrity.

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296697Building Intelligent Applications (No Machine Learning Experience Required!)

FEATURED SPEAKER: Ben Snively, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Find out how public sector organizations just like yours are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models for wide-ranging use cases. The need to transform internal processes and deliver enhanced user experiences is universal; intelligent apps can make that a reality regardless of your organization's size or mission. Discover the quickest way to improve efficiency and innovation using ML applications, speech and language services, forecasting and recommendation engines, and more.

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FOCUS ON

AI/ML

301069

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Research

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Sanjay Padhi –AWS | Lise St Denis – Research Scientist, University of Colorado | Cornelia Caragea– Professor of CS, University of Illinois

FOCUS ON

AI/ML

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are undergoing revolutionary changes that will affect wide swaths of our society. And the applications of this technology are increasingly diverse. Join us as we narrow in on how researchers in AL and ML are using AWS to identify and prevent financial market manipulation in a high-volume, high-velocity stock market. We also explore how to use natural language processing to aid emergency response organizations in real time during deadly disasters such as hurricanes and catastrophic wildfires.

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301104

Panel: AI for Social Good – Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency

FEATURED SPEAKER: Sanjay Padhi – AWS | Prem Natarajan – VP Alexa, AWS | Patricia Flatley Brennan – Director, National Library of Medicine, NIH | Tomas Diaz de la Rubia –VP Discovery Park, Purdue University | AzerBestavros – Director, Hariri Institute for Computing | Jim Kurose – Assistant Director CISE, NSF

As we begin to harness the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science in our everyday lives, it also raises complex ethical and social questions. How can we balance the need for efficiency and exploration with fairness and sensitivity to users? How do we ensure that individuals and communities can trust these systems? Join our discussion to enrich your understanding of human-AI interaction and how these questions will be answered in AI research, education and policies as we strive to improve the human condition.

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309061

Learn How to Become Migration Ready to Accelerate & Optimize Your Cloud Adoption

FOCUS ON

AWS SEVERLESS

FOCUS ON

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Michael Dobe –Sr. Consultant, Advisory, WWPS, AWS | Sam Smith – Sr. IT Project Leader, The Wharton School at UPenn

Join this session to learn more about the AWS cloud migration framework, explore what it means to be ready to migrate, and how to establish a foundation to save time and prevent roadblocks. Hear how The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania leveraged a migration readiness plan to help create a strategy around the implementation of AWS Organizations and DNS resolution in a hybrid environment. We will also demonstrate the new the AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool, designed to provide users with a cloud migration assessment.

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301075

Accelerating Time to Science Using Cloud

FOCUS ON

CLOUD POWER

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Sanjay Padhi –AWS | Demian Arancibia –Astroinformatics Program Director, Chiliean Ministry of Economy | Manish Parashar – Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | Christopher Wood –Assistant Director Information Science and eBird Lead , Cornell University

Can cloud power ground-breaking research? This session provides a deeper understanding of ways cloud computing can accelerate scientific discoveries. The National Science Foundation is changing research communities in fields ranging from biology to astronomy to education, through its Harnessing the Data Revolution. Join us to witness firsthand how cloud computing is revolutionizing the future of research, and see for yourself what this future really looks like.

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CLOUD SERVICES

309084

Challenges to Cloud Adoption which are not technical

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Elizabeth Boudreau – Healthcare Executive Advisor, AWS

FOCUS ON

CLOUD ADOPTION

Cloud adoption tends to start with technology and the IT team. However, to enable change, cloud adoption should be considered as an organizational transformation and all facets of the organization must be engaged. This organizational change is beyond the technology. This session shares lessons learned from customers who continue to work with cross-functional teams from human resources, finance, legal, licensing, and other groups in order to scale organizational change.

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Index: Other Recommended Sessions


Breakout Sessions

Chalk Talks

316638: Advancing IT Modernization in Government317697: Using AWS to Enable Data-Driven Decision Making at the Nation’s Cultural Center317702: We Power Tech: Recruiting, Engaging, & Retaining Diverse Technology Talent317703: Battling the Opioid Crisis with Help from the Cloud317964: Developing a Digital-Savvy Public Service319697: We Power Tech: Exploring Unconscious Bias

316597: Serverless Infrastructure for Operationalizing ML on AWS316600: Container Security and avoiding the 2 AM Call316601: Pushing Amazon RDS to the Limit316602: From Data Silos to Data Domains – Bringing data Together Through Accelerated Data Lake Deployment301094: How to Create a million-core HPC Cluster using AWS316607:Architecture Patterns of Serverless Microservices

Check out the We Power Tech sessions on diversity and exploring unconscious bias.







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316638 Advancing IT Modernization in Government

317697 Using AWS to Enable Data-Driven Decision Making at the Nation’s Cultural Center

317702We Power Tech: Recruiting, Engaging, & Retaining Diverse Technology Talent

317703 Battling the Opioid Crisis with Help from the Cloud 317964 Developing a Digital-Savvy Public

Service 319697 We Power Tech: Exploring Unconscious Bias

Can you think of a time when your agency started a procurement process and by the time good or service was available to your team, it was out of date? Or perhaps there was a next generation version already available? How about when the fiscal year ended and you had money left in a budget line item that you wished you could invest for the following fiscal year… (Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).

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The Kennedy Center’s strategic plan calls for much more rigorous and comprehensive data-informed decision making than we have been capable of in the past. Faced with an existing data warehouse that was outdated in design, housed on aging hardware, and which performed poorly, the Kennedy Center undertook a “giant sprint” modernization project…(Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).

Link to session | Breakout Session

Decades of research shows that inclusive and diverse teams produce better business results. But how do we prioritize inclusion as we build our technical teams? What can leaders do – from cultivating the pipeline, to hiring, to internal strategies – to make the future of tech more diverse and inclusive? Join this group of expert technical leaders during these lightning talks to explore inclusion around race, gender and gender identity, ability status, and other underrepresented and intersectional communities. Attendees will leave with solutions on how to prioritize inclusion and drive results.Link to session | Breakout Session

This session will reconvene founding members of the AWS Opioid Crisis Council, as well as new members and supporters, to discuss how AWS has been teaming with governments and technology partners to collaboratively address the Opioid Crisis since its declaration as a national public health emergency in 2017…. (Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).


Public service has traditionally been an employer of choice across countries, offering opportunities to serve coupled with job security, benefits, and career advancement. However, some governments today struggle to attract and upskill their digital workforce. This panel will shed light on the challenges governments face in recruiting talent. It will use the Canadian and US governments as case studies and provide strategies to address those challenges.


This session uncovers how hidden biases affect organizations and inspires participants to reflect on their own biases. Attendees will experience how bias functions in the brain, shaping our perception of reality, recognize the negative impacts of bias and the business case to mitigate it, and identify ways to apply the learnings of this session individually and organizationally.



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316597 Serverless Infrastructure for Operationalizing ML on AWS 316600 Container Security and avoiding the

2 AM Call 316602From Data Silos to Data Domains –Bringing data Together Through Accelerated Data Lake Deployments

316601 Pushing Amazon RDS to the Limit 316607 Architecture Patterns of Serverless Microservices 301094 How to Create a million-core

HPC Cluster using AWS

Research and development in Machine Learning and AI differs in some key ways from traditional software engineering, and many factors affect the complexity of infrastructure, maintenance, and DevOps for ML in organizations. This Chalk Talk will cover serverless infrastructure for training, tuning, deploying, serving and maintaining ML models on AWS…(Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).

Link to session | Chalk Talk

Containers are becoming one of the new normal infrastructures for deploying applications. One of the challenges that customers encounter is how to secure their applications. Traditional security practices and tools are designed for applications running directly on the hosts whereas containers are virtualized and multi-tenant… (Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).

Link to Session | Breakout session

We will look at data from various sources (e.g. systems, APIs, SFTP and batch) and determine how to utilize a data lake so it can be securely and easily consumed by a wide range of users using AWS services. We will cover how to think of data as a domain rather than from a source system and demonstrate how to use a data lake approach to bring customer data into a single domain.

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Is Amazon EC2 is the only option for your legacy customized Oracle DB on AWS? Do you want to move your legacy Oracle database on AWS but are not sure that RDS can handle all custom developments you have on top of your business-critical database? In this session, we will discuss how Amazon Oracle RDS can be leveraged to accommodate specifics of your legacy database in the cloud… (Interested? Read the entire abstract in the link to the session catalog below).


In this chalk talk, we describe the architecture patterns you can use to deploy serverless microservices, the design considerations, and best practices.


Learn how to dynamically create a large scale high performance computing cluster of more than a million cores utilizing AWS spot instances. .



Sessions and schedule are subject to change.













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Earth & Space Keynote Speakers

Lori GarverCEO

Earthrise Alliance

Monday, June 103:30pm – 4:30pm

Dr. Dava NewmanApollo Program Professor of AstronauticsHarvard-MIT Health, Sciences & Technology

Monday, June 103:30pm – 4:30pm







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Main Day Keynote Speakers

Teresa CarlsonVP, WWPS AWS

Tuesday, June 1111:15am – 12:45pm

Andy JassyCEO, AWS

Wednesday, June 1211:15am – 12:15pm




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