AWS Public Sector Day Brussels 2025

Registration & Breakfast

Join us as we explore how cloud technology is helping forge a resilient, innovative, and sovereign digital future for Europe.

Speakers:

Max Peterson, VP Sovereign Cloud, AWS

Barbara Baeyens, Head of Public Sector BeLux, AWS

Abby Daniell, Director Intergovermental Organizations, AWS

Dmytro Zadorozhnyi, Head of Cloud Governance IT, Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Break

This sessions serves as a roadmap for public sector leaders who want to modernize and strengthen their organizations while staying true to their core mission of public service. We'll explore how public institutions must adapt to serve a digitalized society, while navigating uncertainty and the never normal. Peter Hinssen will share how public organizations should revise their structure and processes, offering valuable insights for public sector leaders who want to succeed with their digital transformation and meet the evolving citizen expectations.

Speaker: 

Peter Hinssen, Global keynote speaker, author, board member

Lunch

This session explores digital sovereignty and AWS's approach to sovereign guarantees across its global infrastructure. It examines AWS's sovereignty features in commercial regions through a practical example of eu-LISA’s Rocket.Chat Secure Collaboration Platform deployed in the Frankfurt region serving eu-LISA's requirements, demonstrating how organizations can meet stringent security & compliance requirements while maintaining operational efficiency. The Talk will compare AWS commercial regions with the upcoming AWS European Sovereign region, highlighting key differences and expected capabilities. We aim to provide insights for navigating digital sovereignty requirements while leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.

Speakers: 

Mo Mansour, Sr Solutions Architect, AWS

Pedro Figueira, Head of Solutions Quality Assurance Sector, eu-LISA

Navigate the implementation of AI within European regulatory frameworks. Discover the core dimensions of responsible AI and how you can start adopting responsible AI best practices with a people-centered approach. Find out how Alliander is successfully deploying AI across their organization while ensuring compliance, transparency, and privacy.

Speakers: 

Remco van Leeuwen, Alliander 

Sara van de Moosdijk, Sr. GTM Specialist AI/ML, AWS

Break

Discover how public sector organizations can successfully transition from AI experiments to enterprise-wide platforms that drive real value. Through the lens of successful implementations, learn how to build model-agnostic AI platforms that centralize prompts, ensure governance, and promote responsible adoption across departments. Explore practical strategies for managing multiple AI models, including AWS Bedrock integration, while maintaining compliance with public sector requirements. The session will cover key success factors including user adoption, measuring impact, and creating shareable resources that benefit the entire organization.

Speaker: Abdu Mahmoudi, Sr Partner Solutions Architect, AWS | VRT

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This technical presentation explores AWS's sovereign-by-design cloud architecture and capabilities,. This covers AWS's approach to digital sovereignty, including technical measures, operational controls, and infrastructure design that enable organisations to maintain control over their digital assets while leveraging the full power of AWS cloud services. The presentation details how AWS implements location control, data residency, and security measures without compromising on performance, agility, or scale, making it particularly relevant for technical architects and cloud engineers working within evolving regulatory frameworks.

Speaker: Yohan Wadia, Solutions Architect Team Lead, AWS | Kathy Liu, BDM Digital Sovereignty, AWS

As generative AI adoption accelerates, securing these applications is critical. This session introduces a practical mental model to assess risks, governance, and controls for GenAI deployments. Learn a structured approach to evaluate and mitigate risks based on your application’s scope. Explore compliance considerations aligned with emerging regulations like the EU AI Act for responsible AI development. Understand common threats associated with GenAI workloads through industry frameworks like OWASP Top 10 for LLM and MITRE ATLAS. Discover strategies to build resilient architectures that can withstand operational disruptions and security events. Join us to empower your security strategy, ensuring your generative AI initiatives are innovative, secure and responsible.

Speaker: Abdu Mahmoudi, Sr Partner Solutions Architect, AWS | Cassandre Vandeputte, Solutions Architect, AWS

Break

Many organizations struggle with getting value out of existing applications and the data locked in them. This talk explores how AWS is simplifying the most complex migration and modernization tasks to accelerate transformation of legacy systems and unlock cloud innovation. Learn about breakthrough AWS services that will change the way you discover, plan, and execute migration and modernization opportunities across teams to upgrade, replatform, and refactor applications to modern architectures. Discover ways to efficiently move and improve your mission-critical applications and data in the cloud to reduce operational costs and licensing fees, accelerate innovation, and mitigate the risks in delayed maintenance of legacy codebases.

Speaker: Jose Rui Teixeira Nunes, Solutions Architect, AWS | Kevin Azijn, SA Manager, AWS

This session will explore how public sector organizations in today's cloud-centric world face an unprecedented acceleration of cyberattacks, driven by determined nation-state actors, ransomware groups, and cybercriminals. Attacks are happening at an increasingly rapid pace, with AI now reducing median exfiltration times from days to mere minutes. Adversaries are increasingly exploiting the human factor and the cloud supply chain to compromise identities, often leveraging mechanisms like SSO, exploiting misconfigurations, and rapid lateral movement and data theft.

This session delivered from Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42's Cyber Defence Advisory Team, will dissect these evolving threats, showcasing techniques seen in the wild on how attackers utilize AI to accelerate various stages of their operations and provide actionable frameworks for building resilient cloud security that stays ahead of evolving threats.

Speakers: 

Stuart Peck, Director EMEA Cyber Defence Advisory, Palo Alto Networks

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