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AWS Imagine for Education, State, and Local Government

AWS Imagine for Education, State, and Local Government

September 15 - 16, 2026 | Hyatt Regency Chicago

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About the event

Imagine what’s possible tomorrow, today.

Imagine for education, state, and local government is designed for leaders who are eager to learn how they can better achieve their institution or organizational mission, improve the efficiency and operations of their organization, and be inspired by the “art of the possible” through cloud and AI technology. Imagine is built around public sector leaders sharing real stories: what they did, what worked, and what they learned. Hundreds of state, local, and education leaders will be there exploring how AI and cloud technology is transforming the way agencies and institutions serve their communities, from enhancing constituent self-service experiences with intelligent chatbots, to automating document-heavy processes, to predicting student outcomes without writing code, to freeing up institutional resources through tools like AI-powered grant generators.

Bring what you learn on the main stage to life with hands-on, interactive demos with experts you won’t meet anywhere else. Think outside of what you’re doing today. How can AI-powered chat bots enhance constituent experience with improved, self-service access to information? When AI can extract, classify, and process data from documents, automating processes that traditionally rely on paper forms and records- what efficiencies will that allow your agency to explore? How can you utilize Amazon Sagemaker Canvas to predict student performance without writing any code? With a Grant Generator that creates a comprehensive outline that can be modified with ease, what resources does that free up for your educational institution? Dive in, look ahead.

Please register with your .org, .edu, or .gov email address, as the event is tailored for the public sector audience.

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Why attend

Innovation IRL

AWS Imagine is more than a conference — it's a blueprint for the future of education, state, and local government. The event is designed for public-sector leaders who are envisioning what's possible for your organizations and turning that vision into reality.

Agenda

September 15 | Welcome Keynote

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    Welcome Keynote

September 15 | AI in Action

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    Speed Without Sacrifice: Agentic AI Development at Ohio State

    No Aid Left Behind: Using AI to Fund Students

    Sponsor Session | Cognizant & Iowa

    Cleared for Takeoff: How Two Airports Rebuilt Critical Systems on AWS

    When Everyone's a Developer: Securing the Agentic AI Era

September 15 | Organizational Resilience

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    Sponsor Session with Trianz | Platinum Sponsor

    Resilience is a practice: people and process lessons from inside AWS

    How Missouri Put AI in Every Employee's Hands

    Leading Through Change: Building Adaptive Research Organizations on the Cloud

    From Curiosity to Discovery: How People and Partnerships Are Redefining Research with AI/ML

    Growing Talent, Growing Capacity: How Cross-Sector Partnerships Build the Workforce That Builds the Future

    Three Pillars of Innovation & Community Impact

    Designing for Everyone: How AI Systems Built Around Equity Expand Institutional Capacity to Serve

September 15 | AI-Ready Data

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    The Path to Unified Analytics: How NYC and Chicago Connected Fragmented Systems

    The Discipline Behind the AI: How UCLA Built a Data Foundation and a Framework for Saying No

    Building AI-Ready Architecture: Hear how Scottsdale and Cook County, Illinois Built Data Foundations that Scale

    Observing Your Data: How Do You Know Governance Is Working?

    Making Data AI-Ready at Scale: Patterns from Hundreds of Government and Education Engagements

    Protected Data at AI Speed: How UT Austin and Dallas County Built Federated Access That Works

September 16 | AI in Action

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    Migration as a Shared Service: A Cloud Platform Any State Can Replicate

    From Keywords to Concepts: Making 800,000+ Works Discoverable for Everyone

    Full Stack: Generative AI as an Operating Model at William & Mary

    Build Your Governance Blueprint: A Working Session on Breaking Down Data Silos

September 16 | Organizational Resilience

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    From Exclusive to Expansive: How AI Unlocks Institutional Expertise to Grow Entrepreneurial Talent Everywhere

    Compliance as Catalyst: Turn Regulatory Mandates into Operational Strength

    Capability Over Headcount: Building AI Fluency and the Leadership to Sustain It

    Scaling Trust: Enterprise Identity for a Million Parents on a Public-Sector Budget

September 16 | AI-Ready Data

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    From Silos to AI-Ready Through a Unified Government Data Layer

    Curating Knowledge for AI: How Dallas College and Kansas DOL Build the Foundation for Intelligent Assistants Customers

    NORC at the University of Chicago: Designing for Trust: A Controlled AI Platform for Health Communication

    Scaling Research Computing: How the University of Pittsburgh and University of Minnesota Build Hybrid HPC and Secure Data Platforms on AWS