AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London
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# AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London
9 September 2026 \| Convene 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX \| Thank you for your interest in the AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London. At this time registration is closed
## About the event
The future of public sector innovation starts here.
On 9 September, AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London will bring together a community of forward-thinking leaders and innovators from government, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organisations --- all exploring how AWS can accelerate your mission. This complimentary, one-day event is your opportunity to see what's next in AI, learn how organisations like yours are building responsibly with AWS, and foster connections with peers who are turning cloud ambition into measurable outcomes. Come together for an inspiring keynote featuring real world use cases, then dive deeper in breakout sessions. Engage with AWS partners in the expo, get hands-on with demos, and explore cutting-edge technologies that are revolutionising industries and empowering you to lead in the digital era
This event's agenda will be segmented into three tracks:
1. Executive Track: Strategic sessions for senior leaders on AI governance, responsible adoption, and driving transformation.
2. AI in Action (Technical): Deep-dive technical sessions, live demos, architecture patterns, and hands-on workshops.
3. Vertical / Industry Track: Sector-specific sessions for government, healthcare, education, and nonprofit with tailored case studies.
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## Schedules
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#### General Agenda \| 8:00AM -- 6:00PM
* 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:**
* Ash Alexander-Cooper, Head, International Public Sector - OpenAI
* Ash Thankey, UKGI Managing Director - AWS
* Chris Hayman, Head of UK\&I Public Sector - Anthropic
* Caroline Gorski, Director, Digital Commercial Centre of Excellence
* David Appel, VP, Global Government - AWS
* Holly Ellis, Director, WWPS UK Tech Team - AWS
* Jason Gwartz, Head of Core Technology - AISI (AI Safety Institute)
* Laura Gilbert, Senior Director - AI and Innovation - Tony Blair Institute
* Maggie Philbin, Technology reporter and CEO - TeenTech
* Hacer Evans, Managing Director Health \& Public Service Lead - Accenture UKI
* 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
#### Executive Track: Breakout Agenda \| 11:10AM -- 6PM
* 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 \| Legacy Modernisation: Trends, Technology, and the Path Forward
* **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
#### Technical Track: Breakout Agenda \| 11:10AM -- 6:00PM
* 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
#### Partner Track: Breakout Agenda \| 11:10 AM -- 6:00 PM
* 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 --- From government data deadlock to consumable, scalable, AI-ready data 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 --- From AI Ambition to Secure Delivery: Scaling Government Digital Services 5:00 -- 6:00 PM \| Networking Reception
#### Industry/Vertical Track: Breakout Agenda \| 11:10AM -- 6:00PM
* 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
#### Workshops \| 11:10AM -- 5PM
* 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
9. Diving Deep into OpenAI Models and Codex on Amazon Bedrock
## Speakers
### Ash Alexander-Cooper
 Head, International Public Sector - OpenAI
### Ash Thankey
 UKGI Managing Director - AWS
### Chris Hayman
 Head of UK\&I Public Sector - Anthropic
### David Appel
 VP, Global Government - AWS
### Holly Ellis, Director
 WWPS UK Tech Team - AWS
### Laura Gilbert
 Senior Director - AI and Innovation - Tony Blair Institute
### Maggie Philbin
 Technology reporter and CEO - TeenTech
### Jason Gwartz
 Head of Core Technology - AISI (AI Safety Institute)
### Caroline Gorski
 Director, Digital Commercial Centre of Excellence
### Hacer Evans
 Managing Director Health \& Public Service Lead - Accenture UKI
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## FAQs
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#### Who should attend the AWS Public Sector AI Symposium London?
* 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.
#### When and where is the event?
* 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.
#### How can I get to the event?
* Coming soon
#### Is there a price to attend?
* No. Registration is complimentary and includes access to sessions, Expo, meals, and receptions.
#### Is there a hotel to reserve for the event?
* We do not have a dedicated hotel block for this event.
#### Can I get reimbursed by AWS for parking and travel costs?
* No, AWS does not reimburse or validate parking or other accommodation and travel associated costs.
#### What is the dress code for attendees?
* There is no dress code for attendees. Attendee attire varies from business casual, suits, hoodies, and jeans. Please wear what you are comfortable in.
#### Is there an age requirement to attend?
* Yes. All attendees must be at least 18 years of age on the day they pick up their conference badge.
#### What is required to obtain my badge?
* Please be prepared to present a valid government-issued ID at check-in.
#### What is the AWS Code of Conduct?
* 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](/codeofconduct/).
#### Do you offer continuing education credits to attendees or a certificate of attendance?
* No. We do not offer continuing or professional education credits, or a certificate of attendance.
#### Where can I get my registration confirmation?
* 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.
#### Where can I find the event agenda?
* The event agenda will be updated on this site and posted in the AWS Events [App](/events/summits/mobile-app/), which launches the week of the event.
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#### Does registering guarantee me access to the keynote?
* 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.
#### Do sessions have reserved seating?
* No, there is no reserved seating. Please arrive early to sessions you are interested in seeing.
#### What accessibility services are available?
* 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.
#### Are you able to accommodate dietary restrictions?
* Yes, please email us at mdelmot@amazon.com to share dietary needs no later than 14 business days before the event.
#### How can I contact the event organizers?
* Coming Soon