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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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This guide is designed to help DC Summit attendees plan their experience and identify breakout sessions and events of interest. It is intended to complement the summit app, which will help attendees navigate the conference onsite.

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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 Patterns and 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











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.


A W S D E E P R A C E R

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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.


Register for pre-day activities by visiting the DC Summit website.

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Join us at the AWS office for an afternoon of sharingand learning about teaching students about the cloud.Also discover the AWS Educate resources to supportyour teaching. Whether you are brand new to AWS andthe cloud, or have been teaching cloud for years, therewill be something for you.

The training will be followed by a reception/happy hourwhere you can connect with other educators and theAWS Educate team. We look forward to seeing you inDC. Register.


AWS Educate

AWS Office601 New Jersey Ave NW

Suite 900Washington, DC 20001

Pre-Day: June 10, 20191:00PM – 7:00PM

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June 11 9:00AM – 6:30PM

Student trAck

9:00AM – 11:00 AM

11:15AM – 12:45PM

12:45PM – 1:45PM

1:45PM – 2:35PM

2:45PM – 3:35PM

5:00PM – 6:30PM

4:00PM – 4:50PM

3:35PM – 4:00PM

Explore the Solutions Expo including the Developer Lounge, AWS kiosks, and Partner Theater! (Expo Hall)

AWS Keynote Address with Teresa Carlson, VP

Lunch

Breakout Session: The Future of Education, Skills, Curriculum, And Student Inspiration (Room 206)

Breakout Session: AWS Educate - Innovation and Education Lightning Talks (Room 206)

Reception

Networking Session

Breakout Session: Machine Learning – Building Highly Accurate Training Datasets using Amazon Sagemaker Groundtruth (Silent Disco Stage)








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

* Seats must be reserved in advance.


Multiple Times








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.








Breakout Sessions

Index: Education Sessions

301075 - Accelerating Time to Science Using Cloud301096 - Next Generation Biomedical Research using AWS301104 - Panel: AI for Social Good – Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency301201 - Built & Delivered in 6 Months Using Serverless Technical Patterns and Microservices301595 - A Tale of Two Pizzas: Accelerating Software Delivery with AWS Developer Tools309061 - Learn How to Become Migration Ready to Accelerate & Optimize Your Cloud Adoption309070 - VMware Cloud on AWS: The Fast Path to Cloud for Public Sector Organizations309092 - Operating Models: How does Your Operating Model Change and Scale in the Cloud?309094 - Establishing a Culture of Innovation at AWS Cloud Innovation Centers309630 - Creating a Modern Digital Engagement Platform for Mobile Students at Arizona State University324448 – The Future of Education: Skills, Curriculum, and Student Inspriation317676 - The Evolution of Large Scale Enterprise Public Cloud Adoption317694 - Building a Cloud-Skilled Workforce: Multi-sector, Regional Approaches to Workforce Development317696 - AWS Educate – Innovation and Education Lightning Talks

295085 - Staff Retainment Beyond Salary: Steps to Sk ill , Empower, and be an Employer of Choice295421 - Getting Started with Serverless Architectures295450 - Making Cloud Procurement Easy with AWS Marketplace, Automation, and Governance295461 - Take Mobile and Web Apps to the Next Level with AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify295501 - Developing and Teaching Robotics with AWS RoboMaker295502 - Using Amazon WorkSpaces to Support Compute-Intensive Curricula at a Distance 295504 - Best Practices for Migrating your Microsoft Workloads to AWS296693 - Extracting Fresh Insights from Your Data with the Latest AI/ML Tools296696 - Amazon SageMaker Deep Dive for Builders296697 - Building Intelligent Applications (No Machine Learning Experience Needed!)301009 - Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information324577 - Two Approaches to Cloud Adoption and Organizational Transformation: Emory University Details Lessons Learned from Recent Experience301064 - Blockchain for Science and Research301069 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Research









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

295085

Staff Retainment Beyond Salary: Steps to Sk ill , Empower, and be an Employer of Choice

FEATURED SPEAKER: Jeff Olson – Chief Data Officer & SVP of Technology Strategy, The College Board

Research has shown that “organizations that were comprehensively trained were 80% faster to adopt cloud.” As you build out your transformation plans and evolve the cloud skills in your organization, learn how to define your team's learning needs, introduce multimodal training approaches, and create opportunities for your team to use the skills and learning.

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295421

Getting Started with ServerlessArchitectures

Join this session to learn about serverless architectures, their benefits, and the basics of the AWS serverlessstack (e.g., AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Step Functions). We will discuss how to use serverlessarchitectures for a variety of use cases. Learn practical tips and tricks and take home architecture patterns to implement immediately.

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295450

Making Cloud Procurement Easy with AWS Marketplace, Automation, and Governance

FOCUS ON

AWS MARKETPLACE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ray Chang – Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS | Sandy Hider –Senior Software Engineer, Johns Hopkins University

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mathew Soltis –Global Head, MP Public Sector, AWS | Brent Bain – Systems Engineer | Aaron Wright – Systems Engineer Professional OIT-CTS/Platform Services

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 Development, Mobility and Smart Cities, Arizona State University

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.

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SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURES

FOCUS ON

CLOUD SKILLS

FOCUS ON

AWS APPSYNC, AWS AMPLIFY

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, and deploy third-party software and services customers need to run their enterprise. Discover how AWS public sector customers use AWS Marketplace and AWS Service Catalog to enable rapid turnaround time for software purchasing with better visibility into AWS spending, usage, and governance. Learn best practices for how public sector customers and partners are using AWS Marketplace to simplify procurement to accelerate speed to mission.

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Sessions and schedule are subject to change.

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295501

Developing and Teaching Robotics with AWS RoboMaker

FEATURED SPEAKER: Doug Fulop | Yinong Chen – Professor, Arizona State University

From the 1966 creation of SHAKEY, the first modern mobile robot, to the 2007 creation of ROS, the most common robot development framework, university classrooms and research labs have created the leading hardware platforms, algorithms, tools and best practices for robot development. In this session, learn how educators use AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale, to help train the next generation of roboticists and enable research labs to continue developing state of the art robotics capabilities.

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295502

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

295504

Best Practices for Migrating your Microsoft Workloads to AWS

FOCUS ON

MICROSOFT WORKLOADS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Andrew Defoe | Eric Rzeszut – Associate Director of Client Services | Bryan Lewis

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mike Hall – Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

296693

Extracting Fresh Insights from Your Data with the Latest AI/ML Tools

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ann Merrihew –Director, US Education, WWPS, AWS | Brian Knotts – Senior VP and Chief Architect, Ellucian | Noah Rowland – Sr. Software Engineer/Cloud Architect | Jeff Olson – Chief Data Officer & SVP of Tech Strategy, The College Board

Make more sense of your data and harness the power of AI to turn content into insights, with text extraction, semantic search, sentiment analysis, metadata extraction, and predictive intelligence. Learn about advanced AI/ML services including AWS Textract, Amazon Rekognition image processing, AWS Comprehend Natural Language Processing (NLP), AWS Translate, and AWS Transcribe.

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AMAZON WORKSPACES

FOCUS ON

AWS ROBOMAKER

FOCUS ON

AWS APPSYNC, AWS AMPLIFY

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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In this session you will learn best practices for customers migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS. We will discuss Active Directory, Sharepoint & application migrations running on Windows Server, and the impending End of Support of 2008r2 and how AWS can help. Additionally, you will learn how AWS can help reduce costs by reusing licensing, incorporating Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon FSx, AWS License Manager, and AWS Systems Manager to help you manage those workloads. We will also demo a server migration using AWS Server Migration Service (SMS).

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296696

Amazon SageMaker Deep Dive for Builders

FEATURED SPEAKER: Kumar Venkateswar – Principal Product Manager, SageMaker, AI Platforms, AWS | BalajiIyer, AWS

Learn how to get started with Amazon SageMaker—our fully-managed service that spans the entire machine learning (ML) workflow—so you can build, train, and deploy models quickly. Use Amazon SageMaker to label and prepare your data, choose an algorithm, train it, tune and optimize it for deployment, make predictions, and take action. Get your models to production faster with Amazon SageMaker SDKs, builder tools, and APIs tailored to your programming language or platform. Also, discover how Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth can aid in the adoption of ML technology for your organization.

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296697

Building Intelligent Applications (No Machine Learning Experience Needed!)

301009

Increasing the Use and Value of Earth Science Data and Information

FOCUS ON

EARTH SCIENCE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ben Snively, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joe Flasher, AWS | Amanda Tan, University of Washington | Annie Burgess – Lab Director, ESIP

324577Two Approaches to Cloud Adoption and Organizational Transformation: Emory University Details Lessons Learned from Recent Experience

FEATURED SPEAKERS: John Ellis, Deputy CIO, Emory University

In this session, hear from Emory University as they walk through best practices for organizational development, in preparation for a large scale cloud migration. John Ellis, PhD and Deputy CIO will detail a unique migration strategy consisting of two implementation teams. The first team utilized a separate team approach to develop a secure framework that our researchers use for AWS, while the second team leveraged existing methodologies coupled with the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, to work through migration readiness and planning for our data center migrations. In this session we will share our lessons learned along the way and discuss the advantages/disadvantages of both approaches.Link to session

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AI/ML

FOCUS ON

AWS SAGEMAKER

FOCUS ON

MIGRATION

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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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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301064

Blockchain for Science and Research

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

‘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 Blockchain technologies 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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301069

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Research

301075

Accelerating Time to Science Using Cloud

FOCUS ON

CLOUD POWER

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

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

301096

Next Generation Biomedical Research using AWS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: James Wiggins –Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS | Vivien Bonazzi – NIH | Nick Weber – NIH | Sanjay Padhi - AWS

With advancements in cloud-based technologies, we are closer to translating basic scientific research into novel therapeutic strategies. This session will emphasize AWS Architectures for Biomedical Research through the stories of two institutes making waves in the research world….(Interested? Click the link the below to learn more).

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MACHINE LEARNING

FOCUS ON

AWS BLOCKCHAIN

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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

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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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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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 | Azer Bestavros –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. Link to session

301201

Built & Delivered in 6 Months Using Serverless Technical Patterns and Microservices

301595

A Tale of Two Pizzas: Accelerating Software Delivery with AWS Developer Tools

FOCUS ON

AWS DEVELOPER TOOLS

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Len Henry –Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Jack McGurk – Executive Director, The College Board

309061

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

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Rodney Grilli –Principal Consultant, AWS | Sam Smith –Senior IT Project Leader, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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. We will discuss the importance of driving organizational change, establishing foundational readiness planning, and present our iterative AWS ProServe approach to migration. 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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FOCUS ON

SERVERLESS MICROSERVICES

FOCUS ON

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

FOCUS ON

CLOUD ADOPTION

Zero in on serverless microservices using Lambda, DynamoDB, and Amazon S3-based, single-page applications with direct data storage access via AWS Identity and Access Management and Amazon Cognito. The College Board also joins the stage to discuss its experience launching a new major serverlessapplication in just over six months – with its first day of operation also being its peak day of activity. The organization will showcase its serverless journey, successes, and lessons learned along the way.

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Organizations at the leading edge are continuously delivering high-quality software at a fast pace. We showcase how you can accelerate developer productivity by implementing continuous integration and delivery workflows. We also cover an introduction to AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, and AWS CodeDeploy - the services inspired by Amazon's internal developer tools and DevOps practices.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS: Mike Kuentz –Amazon Web Services














309070

VMware Cloud on AWS: The Fast Path to Cloud for Public Sector Organizations

FEATURED SPEAKER: Perry Peterson –PDM, WWPS VMware SLED

With VMware Cloud on AWS, organizations can simplify their hybrid architectures by using the same VMware Cloud Foundation technologies across their on-premises data centers and on the AWS Cloud without having to purchase any new or custom hardware, rewrite applications, or modify their operating models. Join this session to hear how George Washington University created a hybrid cloud environment with AWS through the VMware Cloud service.

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309092

Operating Models: How does Your Operating Model Change and Scale in the Cloud?

309094

Establishing a Culture of Innovation at AWS Cloud Innovation Centers

FOCUS ON

INNOVATION

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Cemil Browne –Senior Practice Manager, WWPS, AWS | Nic Buihner – Systems Analyst, Huntington Beach Union High School District

309630

Creating a Modern Digital Engagement Platform for Mobile Students at Arizona State University

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Jason Hoog -AWS | Chris Richardson – Deputy CIO, IT Dev, Mobility and Smart Cities, ASU

Arizona State University shares their design and delivery of the ASU Mobile App, a React Native based application that provides a digital engagement platform centered around student needs. The ASU Mobile app is served by the AWS platform, built on micro-services, and uses cloud native services. Learn how the student experience is being enhanced through real-time app capabilities and notifications and deepening their connection to the University.

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FOCUS ON

OPERATING MODELS

FOCUS ON

VMWARE CLOUD ON AWS

FOCUS ON

STUDENT EXPERIENCE

In this session, we share different facets of existing operating models changes and associated benefits of the cloud through organization, autonomy, and stewardship. These customers will discuss large scale change, speed to delivery for the organization, and resulting staffing model changes with cloud adoption. These allowed the presenting organization to keep up with customer demand, build internal aptitude, and reduce costs for the organization.

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Customers often ask us how they can innovate like Amazon. We will describe how we use this mental model and mechanisms to help innovate in the Public Sector with the Cloud Innovation Center (CICs) Program. We discuss how Amazon organizes for innovation with its mechanisms, architecture, culture, and organization. As an update from previous years, our customers, Cal Polytechnic University and now Arizona State University, will exhibit initiatives currently underway at their CIC that are Powered By AWS. Link to session

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Ben Butler – St. Manager, Accelerators/CIC, AWS | John Rome | Paul Jurasin – Director, Digital Transformation Hub, California Polytechnic State University














324448

The Future of Education: Sk ills Curriculum, and Student Inspiration

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Students from George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College, Bowie State University and Georgetown University

Thinking about a degree to prepare you for one of the most in-demand skill sets? Or looking to shift career paths requiring cloud skills? In this session, students currently seeking degrees in cloud computing share their experiences with cloud curriculum and best practices for those who are considering a future in this field.

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317676

The Evolution of Large Scale Enterprise Public Cloud Adoption

317694

“ The Future of Work” is in the Cloud: Think ing Big about Workforce Development

FOCUS ON

AWS EDUCATE

FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dave Levy – VP, US Gov, AWS | George Mansoor – Chief Information Systems Officer | David Catanoso – Director, Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office | Peter O’Donoghue – VP – Application Services, Unisys Federal

317696

AWS Educate – Innovation and Education Lightning Talks

Three 10 minute powerful talks from leading higher education educators on topics related to AWS Educate, Education, Innovation, and Cyber, Voice AI, ML, or Deep Learning.

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FOCUS ON

PUBLIC CLOUD ADOPTION

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AWS EDUCATE

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AWS EDUCATE

Moving ‘onesie twosie’ workloads to public cloud can be tricky enough. So how do you drive public cloud adoption for a massive organization charged with providing excellent service to their clients? How do you address the technical, security and most of all the people aspects of such a large scale transformation? Getting executive buy-in and commitment, establishing a cloud organization, setting primary migration goals and building a secure foundation are all vital elements of driving successful adoption at scale.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS: Joyce Williams –Associate Vice Chancellor, Dallas County community College District | Julia Von Klonowiski – Digital Director, Career College | Michael Hecht – President & CEO Jo, Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Cloud and distributed computing skills have been rated as the most sought-after by employers for the past four years running, according to LinkedIn. As the demand for cloud-skilled talent expands, so does the need for communities to develop effective pipelines that drive economic growth and opportunity. AWS Educate has worked with leaders from across the country and the globe to develop a workforce development strategy that brings together stakeholders from multiple sectors to build pathways into cloud jobs across entire regions, states, and even countries... (interested? Click the below link to read the entire abstract online).

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FEATURED SPEAKERS: Dr. Shanika Hope – Head of Content & Research, AWS | Jamie B. Goldstein - Director of Strategic Projects and Innovation Grants, Harvard University | Dr. Jennifer L. Bayuk –Cybersecurity Professor, Quinnipiac University | Kim Kieras – Associate Director, Northwestern University | John Rome, Deputy CIO, Arizona State University












Index: Other Recommended Sessions


Breakout Sessions

Chalk Talks

324287 – Speeding Up Scientific Computation in Astrophysics with Amazon Web Services317697 - 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.








324287Speeding Up Scientific Computation in Astrophysics with Amazon Web Services

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).

.Link to session | Breakout Session

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.









https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=88617









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 316607Architecture 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).

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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 | Chalk Talk

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.


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. .


















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








Main Day Keynote Speakers

Teresa CarlsonVP, WWPS AWS

Tuesday, June 1111:15am – 12:45pm

Andy JassyCEO, AWS

Wednesday, June 1211:15am – 12:15pm




Agenda Education Sessions






Yellow:Breakout Sessions

Green:Speaker Ready Room (Room 102AB)

BluePrivate Offices

Red:Workshops & Ancillary Meetings

Grey:Chalk Talk Room(Salon F)

Purple:Executive Program Room

Walter E. Convention Center: Level 1








Explore the Walter E. Convention Center campus: Level 2


Yellow:Breakout Sessions

Blue:OfficesAnalyst Interview Room (210)Press Interview Room (209B)Pres Room (209A) Analyst Relations Room (209C)








Explore the Walter E. Convention Center campus: Level 3


Yellow:Silent Disco Breakout Sessions

BlueEBC Rooms








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