AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London

8:00 - 9:15 AM | Breakfast & Registration
9:15 - 10:40 AM | Keynote: AI in Action — Transforming Public Services Today, Shaping Tomorrow

• AI adoption across the UK public sector is accelerating — but the gap between experimentation and production-scale transformation remains the defining challenge. This keynote brings together AWS leaders, senior government voices, and frontier AI developers to address that gap directly: what's working, what's next, and what it takes to deploy AI securely and at scale for the citizens who depend on it.
• Speakers:
  • David Appel, VP, Global Government, AWS
  • Ash Thankey, Managing Director - AWS UKGI
  • Dr Laura Gilbert, Senior Director - AI and Innovation - Tony Blair Institute
  • Jason Gwartz, Head of Core Technology - AI Security Institute
  • Ash Alexander-Cooper, Head, International Public Sector - OpenAI for Government

10:40 - 11:10 AM | Coffee Break & Transition to Breakouts
11:10 – 11:55 AM | Track Session / Workshop
12:00  – 12:45 PM | Track Sessions / Workshops
12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Expo
1:30 - 2:15 PM | Track Sessions / Workshops
2:20 - 3:05 PM | Track Sessions / Workshops
3:05 – 3:25 PM | Coffee Break
3:25 - 4:10 PM | Track Sessions / Workshops
4:15 - 5:00 PM | Track Sessions / Workshops
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Networking Reception

11:10 - 11:32 AM | AI Landscape: Emerging Trends & What's Next

• Speakers:
  
  • Jon Cook, Head of AI & Specialist Sales - AWS
  • Sasha Rubel, Head of AI/GenAI Policy - AWS

11:33 - 11:55 AM | The Economics of AI: Tokenomics and the Real Cost of Scale

• Speakers:
  
  • Kevin Long, Principal FinOps Strategist - AWS

12:00 – 12:45 PM | AI Governance: Balancing Innovation, Risk, Resilience and Cost

• Speakers:
  
  • Gulu Gambhir, Director WWPS Proserve - AWS
  • Nayyab Naqvi, Head of AI Adoption - DBIST
  • Lauren Dixon, Chief Data Officer - FCA

12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Expo
1:30 – 2:15 PM | The UK’s AI Advantage: Sovereignty, Strategy, Investment and the Will to Lead

• Speakers:
  
  • Sasha Rubel, Head of AI/GenAI Policy - AWS

2:20 – 3:05 PM | From AI Ambition to Public Value: Closing the Execution Gap

• Speakers:
  
  • Tom Goodacre – Managing Director, Accenture  
  • Paul Maltby - Public Services lead for Faculty AI, Accenture  
  • Tony Josephs - Director and Programme Lead for Digital Public Contact – NPCC 

3:05 – 3:25 PM | Break
3:25 – 4:10 PM | AI Factories: Moving from Pilots to Production at Scale

• Speakers:
  
  • Steven Johnston, Lead Solutions Architect UK PS - AWS

4:15 – 5:00 PM | The AI-Augmented Civil Servant: Leadership in the Age of Agentic Assistants

• Speakers:
  
  • Alan Halachmi, Director, Technology, WWPS - AWS
  • Sqn Ldr James Palfrey MBE, DCTO, Digital Targeting Web & TF RAID - MSHQ
    
  • Jonathan Forman - Cabinet Office

5:00 – 6:00 PM | Networking Reception

11:10 – 11:55 AM | From Guardrails to Evidence: Governing and Evaluating Agentic AI Before It Reaches Production

• Speakers:
  
  • Corvus Lee, Sr AI/ML Solutions Architect - AWS
  • Alejandra Catalina Abrusci, Sr. Solutions Architect - AWS

12:00 – 12:45 PM | From Backlog to Production: AI Agents Accelerating Software Development Lifecycle on AWS

• Speakers:
  
  • Luke Batchelor, AI Specialist - AWS
  • Geoff Owen, FASTER Chief Engineer - Submarine Delivery Agency (Digi2al Ltd)
  • Sqn Ldr James Palfrey MBE, DCTO, Digital Targeting Web & TF RAID - MSHQ

12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Expo
1:30 – 2:15 PM | Accelerating .NET application modernisation with AWS Transform

• Speakers:
  
  • Dean Layton-James, Sr. Solutions Architect - AWS
  • Meredith Holborn, Sr. Technical Account Manager - AWS
  • Damien Wilson, Lead Developer - MoJ

2:20 – 3:05 PM | Building Scalable Agentic Workflows for AI Driven Drug Discovery

• Speakers:
  
  • Manos Samatas, Principal Data & AI Solutions Architect - AWS
  • Vincent Plagnol, Chief Scientific Officer - Genomics

3:05 – 3:25 PM | Break
3:25 – 4:10 PM | Physical AI in Surgical Logistics: Scaling Scalpel AI on Amazon SageMaker

• Speakers:
  
  • Arun Madhan Sermakasi, Sr. Solutions Architect, Healthcare - AWS
  • Robert Clarke, Principal Cloud Engineer - CloudScaler
  • Shahnawaz Ahmed, Co-Founder & CTO - Scalpel AI

4:15 – 5:00 PM | Lessons learned from scaling Rufus to millions of Amazon customers

• Speakers:
  
  • George Churchill, Specialist Solutions Architect Leader - AWS
  • James Park, Principal ML Solutions Architect - Amazon

5:00 – 6:00 PM | Networking Reception

11:10 – 11:55 AM | CirrusHQ — From Strategy to Live Service: A Practitioner's Guide to Public Sector AI
12:00  – 12:45 PM | Deloitte — AI on AWS for Public Sector Transformation: Strategic Insights & Actionable Outcomes
12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Expo
1:30 – 2:15 PM | PA Consulting — Immigration at Scale at the Home Office
2:20 – 3:05 PM | Credera — Breaking the Data Deadlock: Building a Sovereign Data Lakehouse
3:05 – 3:25 PM | Break
3:25 – 4:10 PM | NiCE — AI-Powered Contact Centre: Agentic CX & Conversational AI
4:15 – 5:00 PM | IBM
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Networking Reception

11:10 AM - 11:55 AM | Proximie — From OR to Algorithm: How Generative AI Is Reshaping Global Surgery
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM | Samaritans — How Samaritans Transformed Their Service Delivery via Amazon Connect
12:45 – 1:30 PM | Lunch & Expo
1:30 – 2:15 PM | Guy's & St Thomas' — NHS Federated Learning: Training AI Without Moving Patient Data
2:20 – 3:05 PM | Doc Abode — The NHS Isn't Short on Innovation. It's Short on Adoption
3:05 – 3:25 PM | Break
3:25 – 4:10 PM | Pearson — AI Readiness: Building the Bridge from Higher Education to Work
4:15 – 5:00 PM | Sanoma Learning — Teacher Assistant on AWS
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Networking Reception

11:10 AM - 5:00 PM | Technical Workshops
There will be 8 workshops running concurrently
NOTE: Participants are required to bring their personal laptops to follow along during hands-on workshop activities

1. Ship features faster with agentic AI guardrails
2. Modernize applications with Amazon Bedrock Agentcore, Strands, & MCP
3. Operationalize agentic AI at scale with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
4. Building no-code Agentic Customer Experiences with Amazon Connect
5. Build a Multi-Agent Compliance Platform on Amazon Quick
6. From Prototype to Production with AWS - Agentic AI Evaluation and Observability
7. Kiro - Build, Operate, Transform: A Getting Started Guide
8. From strategy to action: Agentic AI for public sector executives

This event is specifically designed to help public sector organisations across government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and financial services navigate the increasingly complex and ever-evolving tech landscape.

Our goal is to empower you, the leaders and architects of public sector digital transformation, with new capabilities and insights that help you accelerate your mission and improve the lives of people and the planet using cloud technology.

The event will be held at Convene 133 Houndsditch in London, UK on September 9, 2026. Please plan travel to be at Convene by 8:00 BST on September 9. Core event programming will end at 18:00 BST.

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No. Registration is complimentary and includes access to sessions, Expo, meals, and receptions.

We do not have a dedicated hotel block for this event.

No, AWS does not reimburse or validate parking or other accommodation and travel associated costs.

There is no dress code for attendees. Attendee attire varies from business casual, suits, hoodies, and jeans. Please wear what you are comfortable in.

Yes. All attendees must be at least 18 years of age on the day they pick up their conference badge.     

Please be prepared to present a valid government-issued ID at check-in.

AWS expects all participants (attendees, staff, speakers, sponsors, etc.) to comply with the Code of Conduct and behave in such a way as to create a safe, supportive environment while at the conference and any conference-related events. Review the full Code of Conduct here.

No. We do not offer continuing or professional education credits, or a certificate of attendance.

You will receive a QR code wihin the week of the event to expedite your check-in. Note that your registration may be placed on a waitlist. You will be notified if and when you are released from the waitlist.

The event agenda will be updated on this site and posted in the AWS Events App, which launches the week of the event.

No. Space in the keynote hall is limited and registering for this event does not guarantee keynote access. The keynote will be livestreamed in breakout rooms to accommodate overflow seating.

No, there is no reserved seating. Please arrive early to sessions you are interested in seeing.

All sessions will offer live captioning and the keynote will offer sign language. Accessible restrooms will be available, as well as accessible seating during meals.

Yes, please email us at mdelmot@amazon.com to share dietary needs no later than 14 business days before the event.

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