Digital India: Technology to transform a connected nation

India is rapidly shifting to a digital ecosystem in hope of enabling positive socio-economic change. This effort is a combination of government and private sector initiatives with an ever-increasing awareness of the benefits of digitization. Leave no one behind; AWS help organizations accelerate their digital transformation with scalable, on-demand cloud services in areas such as high-performance computing, big data, AI & ML, and IoT. At AWS, we believe technology has the power to make a positive impact on every Indian citizen. Listen to inspiring stories from our customers on how technology is use to deliver seamless citizen services, connect people in new ways, and unlock innovative digital outcomes. Together, we are building India’s digital future and delivering a new generation of growth and opportunity for all.

Speaker: Rahul Sharma, President, WWPS, AWS India and South Asia (AISPL)

Re-shape how governments work

In a world of constant change, governments will need to be more intuitive and responsive to new technological opportunities, social challenges, and citizen needs. This panel brings together two Indian transformation leaders who have been pivotal change agent and transformation accelerators for government digital policies and initiatives in their roles as senior government officers. Join this fire side chat to understand how cloud strategies is delivering common citizen services at large, how citizen-centric platform empowers people to connect with the government and radically transform the quality of life of its billion-and-more citizens to shape mission-ready governments.

Moderator: Rahul Sharma, President, WWPS, AWS India and South Asia (AISPL)

Panelist 1: Shri Abhishek Singh, CEO MyGov; President & CEO NeGD; MD & CEO Digital India Corporation (DIC), Government of India

Panelist 2: Shri Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments, Government of Telangana

Design citizen scale application in the cloud

Scaling to match citizen scale application with zero downtime and ensuring the application runs 24X7 is not a trivial job. Discover how to design a resilient and highly available architecture that supports unprecedented load concurrency that increases to 10X in a matter of few seconds. Join this session to learn how AWS collaborate with its customers to build a population scale system that serves the nation in the most crucial Covid times.

Level: 200

Speaker: Gaurav Singh, Solutions Architect, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Achieve durability and redundancy with AWS storage

Disasters, failures, and threats are not planned and can significantly impact a company’s business. AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon EFS are design to be highly available and durable. This session covers business continuity using storage gateway, backup centralization with AWS Backup, databases backup with Amazon EFS, and long-term data retention with Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. Join us to learn how you can protect your data and apps to meet your business and regulatory compliance requirements.

Level: 100

Speaker: Vikas Bhardwaj, Sr. Solutions Architect, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Build and optimize hybrid cloud on AWS

Discover what workloads to consider for your first hybrid cloud deployment and what advanced workloads to consider as you extended your environment to the cloud. You will receive an introduction to VMware on AWS Cloud and the software-defined data center toolsets, such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server. Find best practices for migrating virtual machines from on premises to VMWare Cloud. Join this session to learn how VMware Cloud and AWS Outposts a unique on-premises hybrid cloud solution simplify and accelerate the cloud migration process.

Level: 200

Speaker: Shikha Saxena, Sr Specialist Solutions Architect, Hybrid Edge, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Execute quick migrations with AWS - anytime, anywhere

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. Join us in this session to hear public sector use cases and learn how AWS and CloudEndure can help you migrate data and applications quickly, reliably, and securely from anywhere.

Level: 100

Speaker: Mainak Chakraborty, Partner Solutions Architect, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Improve your organization's security posture with AWS

Security related AWS products and configurations can benefit every organization in the public sector. Use AWS services such as AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and AWS CloudTrail to enable 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.

Level: 100

Speaker: Prashant Priyam, Solutions Architect, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Transform citizen services through frontier technologies

The world is changing around us. Citizens rely more on technology to access healthcare services, educate their children, farm, collaborate with co-workers, and even travel safely. In this session, you will hear how cloud is enabling public sector organizations in India to digitally transform and advance on their mission by embracing citizens at the center of their solutions.

Level: 100

Speaker: Manu Shukla, Head – Strategy, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Bridging the digital divide: Technology as key enabler

Digital empowerment is helping citizens in rural areas aspire for better quality of life and livelihood. In this session you can learn how AWS startup customers and partners help provide latest technology for trading commodities, building demographic dividend and rapid soil testing and agronomy advisory with the aim of bridging the divide with AWS technology as an enabler.

Level: 100

Moderator: Deepti Vikas Dutt, Head – Strategic Initiatives, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Panelist 1: Sandeep Kondaji, Founder and CEO, Krishitantra

Panelist 2: Ravindra Shevade, Chief Operating Officer, NeML

Demystify cloud: Break down innovation barriers in government with the cloud

Digital transformation calls for changes in how government work with policies, procurement, and develop talent. In responds to the growing demand for better, faster, integrated, and personalised digital services, public sector organizations are face with budgetary and operational challenges as they enhance their infrastructure to deliver impact. This session will help you demystify cloud, break down barriers, adopt new capabilities, and build momentum for digital governance and adoption.

Level: 100

Speaker: Narayana Birakayala, Principal Cloud Advisor, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Enabling builders to deliver outcomes: India for the world

On a mission to tackle big opportunities and support national priorities, various organizations across India are rapidly adopting, adapting and inventing novel technology and business models. These solutions provide glimpse of what India has to offer to the world. In India, AWS team has worked with hundreds of organizations to create and deliver replicable and scalable solutions capable of solving the world’s biggest challenges. In this session, we cover how AWS is working with our key customers Common Services Centers (CSC) and The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) to build these solutions to reach the last mile in India and how these shape the future of the world.

Level: 100

Moderator: Kanishka Agiwal, Head – Service Lines, WWPS, AWS India (AISPL)

Panelist 1: Rishikesh Patankar, Chief Operating Officer – Education, CSC e-Governence Services India Ltd.

Panelist 2: Dr. Sanjay Sood, Head of Department, Health Informatics, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)

Unleash price-performance advantage for AI on Intel

Demand for AI workloads continue to increase worldwide leading to greater need to optimize cost and time in training models. Discover how Intel compute on AWS platforms to help drive extreme performance for AI with fastest time to insights. Join this session to learn how AI customers across industries unleash their potential across use cases and business impact. Also hear from Intel and Habana about their recent EC2 instances announcement that include up to 8 Gaudi accelerators to deliver up to 40% better price performance.

Level: 100

Speaker: Akanksha Balani, Regional Alliance Head, APAC & Japan, Intel

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