Keynote

20 October | 1:00PM EST

This is an exciting time for innovation. Learn how the Canadian public sector is reinventing itself with the cloud and how public sector organizations are thriving in an era of rapid transformation.

Speakers: Coral Kennett, Education Sales Leader, AWS Canada
Stevan Beara, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS Canada

Discover Amazon’s culture of innovation

20 October | 1:30PM EST

Amazon has not only innovated across ecommerce but also introduced new businesses that at first glance do not seem to fit the model. Learn how to use Amazon's peculiar culture and other mechanisms to innovate. Explore how Amazon organizes for innovation by staying true to its leadership principles and hear how you can better apply innovation across your organization.

Speaker: James Kierstead, Solutions Architect, AWS

Building cloud foundations on AWS

20 October | 2:00PM EST

Join this session to hear an overview of AWS Cloud for beginners. Learn why the cloud is integral for the public sector, how customers are migrating there, and learn how to get started on your cloud journey.

Speaker: Maria Ellis, Partner Sales & Development Lead, AWS

Optimize costs with AWS

20 October | 2:30PM EST

Moving from an on-premises environment into AWS is just the start of the journey towards cost optimization. In this session, see a range of ways to understand your costs and increase your return-on-investment. These include building the business case; selecting the right models for the right workloads; benefiting from tiered pricing aggregation; using data to drive the choice of AWS services; and, where appropriate, re-platforming to make use of new architectural patterns such as serverless.

Speaker: David Lurie, National Business Development Manager, AWS

Building a security strategy with AWS

20 October | 3:00PM EST

Using AWS, you will gain the control and confidence you need to securely run your business with the most flexible and secure cloud-computing environment available today. Join this session to learn AWS security fundamentals, and how to get started building a cloud security strategy from the ground up.

Speaker: Tim Rains, Worldwide Public Sector Security Lead, AWS

Building a cloud enabled workforce

20 October | 3:30PM EST

Public sector organizations remain focused on delivering on their missions every day, maintaining business and educational continuity while focusing on protecting citizens, students, and patients. Organizations are learning how to effectively work and learn remotely by having access to a set of purpose-built tools that the AWS Cloud provides to help them connect. Join this session to explore how customers are using Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Connect, and other AWS services to operate in a fully remote manner.

Speaker: Sheila Smith, Principal Enterprise Sales Specialist, Amazon Connect, AWS

Keynote

20 October | 1:00PM EST

This is an exciting time for innovation. Learn how the Canadian public sector is reinventing itself with the cloud and how public sector organizations are thriving in an era of rapid transformation.

Speakers: Coral Kennett, Education Sales Leader, AWS Canada
Stevan Beara, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS Canada

Improve your organization’s security posture with AWS

20 October | 1:30PM EST

Security related AWS products and configurations can benefit every organization in the public sector. Using AWS services including, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail, enables better detection and response capabilities, making intrusion detection and incident response simpler and less costly than typical on-premises IT environments. The AWS Cloud allows customers to scale and innovate while improving their security posture. In this session, you will learn about a foundational list of AWS security recommendations that are easy to implement, accessible, low or no-cost, and potentially highly impactful.

Speaker: Brian Mycroft, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Execute quick migrations with AWS – anytime, anywhere

20 October | 2:00PM EST

Public sector organizations face high availability and disaster recovery requirements for their own on-premises applications and want to leverage the cloud to meet their needs. In this session, hear public sector use cases and learn how AWS and CloudEndure can help you migrate data and applications quickly, reliably, and securely from anywhere—simplifying your journey to the cloud.

Speaker: Shawn O’Reilly, Senior Practice Manager, AWS

Build and optimize hybrid cloud on AWS

20 October | 2:30PM EST

The implementation of highly scalable, simple-to-deploy technology is transforming the public sector, but it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. Organizations begin their cloud adoption journeys in many ways. Some start with pilot projects and others jump into mission-critical programs. But they are all starting with an existing infrastructure. Adopting the cloud doesn’t mean scrapping it all and starting over. In this session, learn how public sector organizations have created a hybrid cloud environment with AWS through the VMware Cloud service. Learn how to take advantage of cloud functionality and deliver full lifecycle engagement.

Speaker: Talha Kalim, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Fast-track insights with big data and analytics

20 October | 3:00PM EST

In this session, learn how to understand what data you have, how to drive insights, and how to make predictions using purpose-built AWS services. Discover the common pitfalls of building data lakes and discover how to successfully drive analytics and insights from your data. Also learn how services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon ML services work together to build a successful data lake for various roles, including data scientists and business users.

Speaker: Fabrizio Napolitano, Specialist Solutions Architect, Databases & Analytics, AWS

Accelerate machine learning to achieve your mission

20 October | 3:30PM EST

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hold the promise of transforming industries, increasing efficiencies, and helping to spur innovation. In this session, learn how AWS customers have been successful in introducing AI and ML to power their mission. Hear how public sector customers are working with AWS to align teams, drive ML adoption, and improve citizen services.

Speaker: Tulsi Garg, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

20 October| On-Demand within the platform

Defend your high performance web applications with AWS and Fortinet

Secure your entire infrastructure with Amazon CloudFront and Fortinet Web Application and API Security Solutions. You need applications to provide the scale and performance that your customers demand. Watch this session to learn how Fortinet Web Application and API Security Solutions for Amazon CloudFront secure your entire infrastructure, protect against known and unknown vulnerabilities, and provide high availability and low latency for data, apps, and APIs.

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Save money with cloud-native applications

Qalius will explain how applications achieve very low operating costs when they are assembled from cloud-native AWS services. Cloud-native AWS services offer the security and scaling to support many millions of transactions per month, but they also deliver very low transactions costs when scaled down to use cases with low traffic.

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Driving change in the public sector

Join us to hear advice on driving change, and your own career growth, in the public sector from Mac Campbell, former chief digital architect for the province of BC. This intimate retrospection will offer insights and tips from a 21 year IM/IT career, including 14 years of public service. Mac’s service included driving one of BC’s largest cloud enabled business transformation programs, built on top of Salesforce and AWS. Mac, is now a director of technology enablement, at Slalom, and Western Canada’s leader of strategic architecture and technology advisory where he brings his experience to bear to help clients reach their goals and deliver on their vision.

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VMware Cloud on AWS

What is VMC on AWS, customer Advantages and Use cases.

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Migrating to the cloud with precision, speed, and scale

Identifying the right cloud solution and migrating business-critical apps can be slow and complicated without clarity on your data and architecture. Join Accenture as they walk you through how to build value cases for the cloud, their migration methodology, and the tools and techniques to ensure a successful migration.

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