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AWS Summit Washington DC agenda and session guides

June 26-27, 2024 | Walter E. Washington Convention Center

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  • Summit agenda

    What to expect

    AWS Summit Washington, DC is a no cost event that brings the public sector cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS. This event is designed to educate you about AWS products and services and help you develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications. Sessions are led by AWS experts and customers who have successfully built solutions on AWS.

    • Join Dave Levy, Vice President of AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), to explore how AWS is driving digital transformation for public sector customers. Discover how companies are leveraging generative AI and advanced technologies to accelerate their missions, deliver enhanced outcomes, and unlock new opportunities in the cloud. Learn from featured customer speakers about their experiences, agility, and resilience with AWS, and gain insights into moving faster, increasing security, and reducing costs.

    • See cutting-edge products and the latest solutions from our sponsoring partners and learn how they can help you transform your organization. Attend an array of sessions crafted to showcase the latest trends, technologies, and ideas shaping our industry. 

    • Learn from AWS experts about how AWS Training and Certification can help you gain practical experience with real-world cloud scenarios, validate your cloud expertise, and much more. 

    • Dive into 300 sessions covering technical and non-technical topics catered to attendees at all stages of their cloud journey. Discover content to accelerate your public sector mission, and hear from government, nonprofit, healthcare, education, and aerospace and satellite customers. Grow your existing cloud skills to learn how to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications learning from lecture-style and interactive sessions. Check out the session level and type guides to create your agenda.

    • Join the conversation at our reception at the end of the day. Mingle and connect with your peers to discuss topics that interest you after a day of learning.

Schedule

Schedule is subject to change.

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

12:00PM - 6:00PM Pre-day badge pick up

Wednesday, June 26th

8:00AM - 6:00PM Badge pick up
8:00AM - 6:00PM Expo open
9:00AM - 5:30PM Breakout sessions
11:00AM - 12:15PM Keynote
12:30PM - 2:30PM Lunch in Expo
5:00PM - 6:00PM Networking reception

Thursday, June 27th

8:00AM - 5:00PM Badge pick up
8:00AM - 3:00PM Expo open
9:00AM - 4:15PM Breakout sessions
12:00PM - 2:00PM Lunch in Expo
4:15PM  End of Summit

Attendee guides

With over 300 sessions available, selecting which to join during your two days at AWS Summit Washington, DC may feel overwhelming. Let us help you!

Check out the curated attendee guides featuring Summit sessions and activities based on level of technicality or industry.

 Download the Technical Builder Guide  Download the State & Local Government Guide  Download the Education Guide  Download the Federal Department of Defense (DoD) Guide
 Download the Business Leader Guide  Download the Aerospace & Satellite Guide  Download the Nonprofit Guide  Download the Federal National Security Government Guide
 Download the Healthcare Guide  Download the Federal Government Guide  Download the Federal Civilian Government Guide  Download the Federal Government Financial Services Guide

Session catalog

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  • Keynote

    KEY001

    Dave Levy Keynote

    In this era of generative AI, Dave Levy, Vice President of AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), will delve into the art of the possible, showcasing how AWS innovations and services empower customers. Join Dave as he highlights the latest advancements, customer success stories, and tools that promise to revolutionize the way we approach the world’s biggest challenges. Whether you're an established enterprise or a fast-growing startup, this keynote offers valuable insights into technological trends, AWS solutions, and why it's never been a better time to innovate.
    June 26th | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM

  • Chalk talk

    NPR201
    200 – Intermediate

    Amplifying nonprofit donor and member experience with generative AI

    Han Tran, AWS; Angela Tsai, AWS
    In this chalk talk designed for nonprofits, discover how to use generative AI to improve the donor and member experience. Learn how to use foundation models (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock to create a personalized Q&A chatbot experience. Also learn how to use Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan FMs to build a chatbot that understands your members’ intent and enriches their requests using member preferences from enterprise content to generate an accurate and personalized response. Gain practical skills in using generative AI to build personalized conversational interfaces that can help amplify donor and member experience.
    June 26th | 04:30 PM-05:30 PM

  • Breakout session

    NET302
    300 – Advanced

    Networking essentials across AWS partitions

    Jeffrey Damick, AWS; Chuck Fuller, AWS; Chris Smith, AWS
    Organizations deploy workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the standard partition depending upon regulatory and compliance requirements. In this session, learn how to design and implement networking services across partitions like Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) and build your hybrid connectivity architectures for connecting your on-premises networks and remote users to AWS. Learn how Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints encrypt your DNS traffic using DNS over HTTPS to improve your privacy and security posture. This session covers key considerations, best practices, and tips and tricks for building a well-architected network.
    June 26th | 01:15 PM-02:15 PM

  • Builders' session

    NET203
    200 – Intermediate

    Secure your applications without a VPN using AWS Verified Access

    Renato Ahiable, AWS; Adam Coelho, AWS; Rakesh Raghu, AWS; Natti Swaminathan, AWS
    Join this builders’ session to dive into AWS Verified Access, a powerful solution built on Zero Trust principles to securely control remote access to your applications without the complexity of client VPNs. Learn how to build your own Verified Access environment and integrate it with AWS WAF for enhanced web application protection. You must bring your laptop to participate.
    June 26th | 09:30 AM-10:30 AM

  • Chalk talk

    MIG202
    200 – Intermediate

    How to rapidly modernize on AWS

    Mohamad Charaf, AWS; Bill Jacobi, AWS
    Learn how to rapidly modernize legacy applications on AWS. This chalk talk covers decomposing modernization into the seven modernization pathways, iterative modernization, and AWS Immersion Days that walk through the modernization process. Discover how to assess applications for modernization, choose the right modern architecture, and pick the right modernization pathways. Explore the AWS approach to modernization and how you can accelerate your modernization journey with an AWS Modernization Experience Based Acceleration (ModAx) engagement.
    June 27th | 10:45 AM-11:45 AM

  • Breakout session

    NPR205
    200 – Intermediate

    Gain timely insights and amplify impact with analytics and AI/ML

    Olena Gomozova, Fair Trade USA; Mike George, AWS
    Nonprofit, government, and socially conscious commercial organizations are focused on better measuring and externalizing their positive impact. In this session, hear from Fair Trade USA on how AWS analytics services empowered them to deliver real-time insights from consolidated, cross-functional data to key external stakeholders via an impact platform. Learn how using AI/ML can translate and automate the ingestion of data into your data warehouse. Discover how to use Amazon Bedrock to train LLMs on your data to create impact stories that internal and external stakeholders can utilize to market the value of your work on social channels.
    June 27th | 01:15 PM-02:15 PM

  • Chalk talk

    MAM202
    200 – Intermediate

    Transform Oracle ERP with AWS analytics, AI/ML & Generative BI tools

    Dan Krpata, AWS; Siva Vinnakota, AWS
    How do you unlock the value of Oracle application data? In this chalk talk, learn how to drive innovation and enhance processes like sales forecasting, financial forecasting, and supply chain streamlining by using predictive analytics and Generative BI tools. Explore how you can combine them with existing ML models by using new large language model capabilities.
    June 26th | 09:00 AM-10:00 AM

  • Builders' session

    MAM201
    200 – Intermediate

    Securing Windows workloads on AWS

    David Berger, AWS; Jagadeesh Chitikesi, AWS; Sassan Hajrasooliha, AWS; Rob Higareda , AWS
    In this session, explore options for creating a repeatable process to build secure images for Amazon EC2 instances. Learn how to use tools like AWS Config to make sure only approved AMIs are launched in your account. The session also covers other cloud-native security tools to help secure your Windows workloads on AWS. Leave this session with a better understanding of how to run Windows workloads on AWS securely by taking advantage of cloud-native tools. You must bring your laptop to participate.
    June 26th | 12:45 PM-01:45 PM

  • Lightning talk

    PRT208-S
    200 – Intermediate

    Infrastructure and security lifecycle management in the cloud era (sponsored by HashiCorp)

    Tim Silk, HashiCorp

    Learn how HashiCorp and AWS, along with a powerful ecosystem of partners, help you accelerate your cloud deployments by standardizing and securing workflows across your AWS Cloud services and on-premises systems. Discover how your organization can accelerate the learning curve and streamline provisioning while securing your hybrid environment. Learn how to conquer the challenges of cloud migration, create new workflows that empower you to scale your hybrid environment, and strengthen your cloud-native and Zero Trust architectures. This presentation is brought to you by HashiCorp, an AWS Partner.

    June 26th | 01:45 PM-02:00 PM
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Level guide

100: Foundational

Level 100 sessions are designed to give an overview or introduction to AWS services. These sessions focus on features, functions, and benefits, with content that highlights basic use cases and showcases how a service or feature can be used in your applications and how it can be integrated with other services.

200: Intermediate

Level 200 sessions assume a general knowledge of the topic and provide a technical deeper dive into a service or use case. This content typically includes architecture, integration, and configuration of common use cases. Level 200 content provides tips and tricks, best practices, or high-level troubleshooting guidance.

300: Advanced

Level 300 sessions assume proficiency of the topic and typically cover in-depth architecture, development, deployment and migration examples. Level 300 content drills into how a service can be used and dives deep into customer use cases. Level 300 content covers complex design, development, and deployment best practices that address the needs of experienced AWS users.

400: Expert

Level 400 sessions are for advanced or expert AWS customers. These sessions are geared toward super-skilled users who want to learn the deep inner workings of AWS services. Level 400 content demonstrates complex design, development, and deployment strategies.

Session type

Breakout Session

Lecture-style sessions that feature one or more speakers presenting on an educational topic. Breakout sessions include an optional group Q&A at the end as time allows.

Builders' Session

Small-group sessions led by one AWS expert providing interactive learning on how to build on AWS. Each builders’ session begins with a short explanation or demonstration of what attendees are building. There is no formal presentation; once the demonstration is complete, attendees use their own laptops to experiment and build with guidance from the AWS expert.

Chalk Talk

A highly interactive content format. Chalk talks begin with a short lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by an open-format Q&A session using a whiteboard to encourage discussion from attendees. Chalk talks foster technical discussions about real-world architecture challenges.

Code Talk

Engaging, code-focused sessions with a small audience. AWS experts lead an interactive discussion featuring live coding and/or code samples as they explain the “why” behind AWS solutions. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and follow along.

Dev Chat

Community-led sessions where attendees hear directly from AWS customers and AWS Heroes about how they are innovating, expediting, and scaling real-world solutions.

Keynote

A talk given by high-level AWS leadership and/or AWS Partners and customers that establishes an underlying theme.

Lightning Talk

Short and focused theater presentations that are dedicated to a specific customer story, service demo, or AWS Partner offering (if sponsored). Lightning talks are typically set up on a stage located in an Expo booth theater or other public space. As such, audience interaction such as Q&A may be limited.

Self-paced Labs

Your event registration gives you access to unlimited self-paced labs with support from AWS experts. These labs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, range in level from introductory to expert, and take approximately 40 to 120 minutes to complete.

Spotlight Labs

An expert AWS instructor guides you step by step through a real-world scenario, teaching as you go.

Workshop

Interactive sessions where attendees work in small groups to build a solution to a problem using AWS. Workshops encourage interaction and provide attendees with opportunities to learn from and teach each other. Each workshop starts with a short lecture by the speaker, followed by solution-focused building. Additional AWS experts in the room make sure every group gets the assistance they need. Attendees must bring their laptops to participate.

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