Tag: AWS Public Sector Summit

“The earth is breathing, the earth is speaking, but are we listening?” said Dr. Dava Newman, Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From the warming of Earth over the decades to the resulting melting of the Greenland ice shelf (which can correspond to a 6-meter rise in sea levels), the Earth’s vital signs are real. “But we need to understand the Earth to save it,” said Lori Garver, CEO of Earthrise Alliance. What can we all do to address these issues?

A record number of attendees will be at this year’s AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. There are a few key reasons for this – here’s what you should know.

Have you heard who will be at the AWS Public Sector Summit DC? The Summit is only a few days away! Head to the keynote early on Tuesday, June 11, to hear from innovators who are revolutionizing how we work and live.

NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover is heading to the red planet. Submit your name by September 30, 2019, and fly along! NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) launched their serverless website on AWS – Send Your Name to Mars. People around the world can now submit their names to be inscribed on the Mars Rover and sent 313 million miles away to Mars in 2020.

There will be 160 sessions, an Earth and Space keynote, a fireside chat with Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, and more at this year at this year’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. Your challenge is to decide what activities you don’t want to miss! Here are a few suggestions to get on your calendar.

The AWS Public Sector Summit Washington, DC, is a chance to get inspired, dive deep, and begin to build. Register today. Join the innovators who are building the future with secure, AI-ready cloud services. Connect with colleagues and peers, see what digital transformation looks like, and discover how cloud-based skills empower the workforce of today and tomorrow.

For the second year, AWS hosted our AWS Public Sector Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, April 9. This year, we welcomed over 700 attendees from across the European Union. The Summit focused on key public sector themes across the region including training and workforce development, migration and transformation, data privacy and security, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.

AWS hosted its first-ever Latin America AWS Public Sector Summit in Bogota on Thursday, March 28th, 2019. More than 800 attendees from Colombia and the region joined us to learn about innovation across the public sector, sustainability, database migrations, and the next generation of tech talent. The President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, helped kick off the keynote presentation with a fireside chat discussing the technology opportunities and initiatives that Colombia is pursuing.

The AWS Public Sector Summit in Ottawa saw snow, but the cloud prevailed. Government, education, and nonprofits joined us in the Canadian capital city to learn how early adopters are innovating with the cloud and the benefits seen coast to coast.

The second annual AWS Public Sector Summit in Singapore took place on Tuesday, October 2, at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Center in Singapore. More than 1,100 attendees showed up from across the public sector. The event kicked off with the keynote presentation and was followed by 17 sessions that were offered across two tracks. And, for the first time, there was also a student track.