7 August 2024   |   8:00 AM – 5:00 PM AEST

The National Convention Centre Canberra (NCCC)

AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra is back and we look forward to seeing you again this year!

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AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

Bringing the cloud community together to innovate, build, and learn

Join us for AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra 2024, and discover how organisations of all sizes are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate innovation and drive their missions forward.

Explore how the cloud can help you enhance security, analyse data at scale, advance sustainability, and achieve your mission—faster and at lower cost. Returning in 2024 with all-new content and speakers, this must-attend event features inspiring keynotes from Australia’s tech leaders, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, networking hubs, and more.

20+ sessions will cover topics ranging from generative AI and big data analytics to cybersecurity and citizen service transformation. Whether you’re new to the cloud or an experienced user, you’ll gain key knowledge that you can use right away. Join us and discover how to accelerate digital transformation today. 

Event highlights

45+ sessions

Lecture-style and interactive sessions to learn from, join us no matter where you are on your AWS journey.

Experiential zones

Join AWS experts to discover trends and possibilities for your data and experience the latest in innovation and live demos.

Ask an AWS expert

Speak to an AWS team member one-on-one and ask the questions you have on your mind.

AWS training

Get equipped with the knowledge it takes to move your company—and career—forward.  

D I S C O V E R  W H A T ' S  N E W

Keynote

Join Dave Levy, Vice President of AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), to learn more about the generative AI explosion and why the cloud is the foundation for this emerging technology. Discover how AWS customers of all shapes and sizes are unlocking generative AI's potential to make the world safer and healthier, reimagine citizen services, and realise their boldest missions.

Why attend?
Leave with a firm understanding of how AWS empowers you to be at the forefront of the generative AI revolution while maintaining the resilience, scalability, and security required in the public sector. Hear from featured customer speakers about their experiences, agility, and resilience with AWS, and gain insights into moving faster, increasing security, and reducing costs.

Speakers

Dave Levy

Dave Levy

Vice President of AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), Amazon Web Services

Iain Rouse

Iain Rouse

Director for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Public Sector, Amazon Web Services 

Donna Hutchison

Donna Hutchison

Executive Lead, Australian Epilepsy Project (AEP)

Chief Operating Officer, Neuroscience Trials Australia (NTA)

Abbey Hogan

Abbey Hogan

Solicitor for Public Prosecutions, Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) Victoria

Agenda

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

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.

  • See cutting-edge products and the latest solutions from our sponsoring partners and learn how they can help you transform your organisation. Engage, connect and collect coupons to redeem a delectable treat.

  • The Symposium features 20+ breakout sessions across three main tracks: build, security & data protection, and transform. 

    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.

  • Join us for an informative and interactive demo of two generative AI use cases: text generation and image generation using the SageMaker playground. The text generation use case will highlight how SageMaker can be used to automatically generate text summaries for government documents, such as reports, policies, and legislation. The image generation use case will demonstrate the potential of SageMaker in generating realistic images, which can be applied in areas such as public awareness campaigns, product or service imagery and diagrams to accompany technical reports or documentation.

  • 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.

  • 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. Put your knowledge to the test during grand quiz for a chance to win exciting prizes.

Planned schedule for 2024

08:00AM - 09:00AM AEST: Registration
09:00AM - 10:40AM AEST: Breakout sessions
10:40AM - 11:00AM AEST: Break
11:00AM - 12:00PM AEST: Keynote
12:00PM - 01:00PM AEST: Lunch
01:00PM - 02:40PM AEST: Breakout sessions
02:40PM - 03:00PM AEST: Break
03:00PM - 04:30PM AEST: Breakout sessions
04:30PM - 05:30PM AEST: Closing reception

Agenda is subject to change.

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N E W  T H I S  Y E A R

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Panel

More than a metric: regrets, successes, lessons and reflections

Time: 10:00 AM
Where: National Convention Centre Canberra | Swan Room (Level 1)  

Hear from influential and impactful leaders from Public Sector and Industry address key issues in diversity and how they’ve skillfully and successfully navigated the industry. They will also discuss how increasing diversity creates an advantage and builds a high performing team and a culture of empowerment. The panel will share life experiences, reflections and lessons learned.

The panel will feature: 

  • Gerry van Leeuwen AM CSM, Air Vice-Marshal, Head Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance, Department of Defence
  • Alison Wegg, Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Protective Command, Australian Federal Police
  • Jeff Goedecke, Chief Information Officer, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications & the Arts
  • Melissa Osborne, Head of National Security & Defence, Amazon Web Services
  • Kate Monckton, Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte Australia, Awarded “Australia’s most outstanding woman in IT Security” in 2021

Session level guide

Level 100: Introductory

Sessions are focused on providing an overview of AWS services and features, with the
assumption that attendees are new to the topic.

Level 200: Intermediate

Sessions are focused on providing best practices, details of service features and demos with the assumption that attendees have introductory knowledge of the topics.

Level 300: Advanced

Sessions dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has
some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience .

Level 400: Expert

Sessions are for attendees who are deeply familiar with the topic, have implemented a
solution on their own already, and are comfortable with how the technology works.

2024 session catalog

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  • Expo Theatre

    PRT211

    AI success in the public sector: Overcoming the top 5 pitfalls, sponsored by Qlik

    Charlie Farah, Field CTO, Analytics/AI

    This presentation is where leaders passionate about innovation and progress unite to illuminate the path forward in public sector AI. Dive deep with us into the critical insights that unveil common missteps, enabling you to forge ahead with strategies that spell success. This is your chance to learn and evolve alongside peers equally committed to excellence. Enrich your toolkit and empower your organisation to navigate the complexities of AI, transforming potential challenges into opportunities for impactful innovation. Join us, and let's lead the way – together.

    7-Aug | 15 mins
    16:00 - 16:15
  • Breakout

    BCT106

    AWS Storage: The backbone for your data-driven business

    Subroto Das, Principal Tech BD Storage, AWS, Patrick Tsui, Speciality Solution Architect - Storage, AWS

    AWS offers reliable, scalable, and secure storage services to power your applications, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. In this session, discover how organisations are driving a competitive advantage by enabling faster data access, simplifying data lakes, and supercharging AI/ML initiatives using high-performance storage from AWS. The key takeaways will be how AWS storage acts as the backbone for your data-driven business—supporting security, governance, analytics, and applications.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    15:55 - 16:40
  • Breakout

    INO103

    AWS for VMware: Transforming people, process, and technology

    Tamara Grigg, AWS Solution Sales Lead - APJ, Sawab Ahmed, AWS Senior Solution Architect - APJ

    Choosing the right cloud destination to run and operate your VMware-based workloads is a critical decision point for your business. Join this session to learn how AWS is partnering with our customers to navigate this journey with the right mix of migration, modernization, and innovation to meet your business goals today and in the future. From purpose-built services that offer prescriptive guidance for rapid migration and modernization to specialized programs to train and upskill your teams, AWS and our partners are committed to helping you transform your VMware environments.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    15:00 - 15:45
  • Breakout

    SEC101

    AWS for digital sovereignty

    Jess Modini, Senior Technologist, AWS, Brian Farnhill, Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS

    Digital sovereignty and data protection requirements are evolving around the world. Join this session to learn how AWS can help you address these requirements through technical, legal, and operational controls for data residency, access restriction, encryption, and resilience. Explore how the AWS Cloud has been designed for digital sovereignty and learn how we're expanding our capabilities to help you meet your needs with new innovations.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    09:55 - 10:40
  • Expo Theatre

    PRT204

    Accelerate AWS cloud migration & modernisation with AI observability, sponsored by Dynatrace

    Adam Gardner, Product Manager I, GTM

    Organisations shifting to the cloud face challenges in digital transformation, especially as more companies look to leverage generative AI. Discover how Dynatrace's solutions integrate with AWS, expediting migration, ensuring smooth adoption, and optimising resource usage. This session provides real-time insights to accelerate cloud migration and modernisation.

    7-Aug | 15 mins
    12:30 - 12:45
  • Breakout

    INO104

    Accelerating AI skills: Preparing Australians and the workforce for the jobs of the future

    Aarthi Natarajan, Senior Technical Instructor, AWS

    In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries and reshaping the job market. To ensure Australia's workforce is well-equipped to navigate this changing landscape, it is crucial to invest in upskilling and reskilling initiatives. This session will explore strategies for accelerating AI skills in Australia, with a specific focus on preparing individuals and the workforce for the jobs of the future.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    13:00 - 13:45
  • Breakout

    INO105

    Achieving next level of resilience on AWS

    Islam Ghanim, Principal Technical Account Manager, AWS, Lei Jiang, Snr Enterprise Support Manager, AWS

    In an era of increasing disruption, it is crucial to build resilient, highly-available workloads for critical infrastructure assets. Whether you're managing mission-critical government infrastructure or vital health services, this session will guide you through the key architectural concepts and design patterns that enable organizations to create resilient, fault-tolerant applications that can withstand failures, sudden spikes in traffic, and other adverse events.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    09:55 - 10:40
  • Breakout

    SEC106

    Architecting for sovereign resilience with AWS

    Siew Hoon Lim, Senior Business Development Manager (Digital Sovereignty), AWS, Steve Gillard, Senior Technologist, AWS

    Organisations who think holistically about resilience are able to achieve greater system availability and survivability in the face of threats including natural disasters, network disruptions, or malicious cyber activity. Join this session to hear about how you can leverage AWS purpose-built services, controls and best practices to design for resilience, visibility and control of your data and workloads in support of all-hazard risk management goals. We will introduce the SEEMS model for resilience threat identification, and show you how the concept of fault isolation boundaries such as AWS Regions and Availability Zones can be used to protect your data and simplify recovery. To enforce stronger sovereign resilience posture, we will also introduce the new AWS Control Tower purpose-built controls for digital sovereignty.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    15:55 - 16:40
  • Expo Theatre

    PRT207

    Beyond virtualisation: A new approach to app modernisation, sponsored by Red Hat

    Johan Swanepoel, Principal Solutions Architect, Public Sector

    Modern app development offers improved security, easier management, and, cost savings - but maintaining legacy apps can stifle adoption of new paths. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables innovative development for both cloud-native and traditional workloads through a single platform approach to networking, security, and lifecycle management. As a managed service on AWS, OpenShift Virtualisation provides a simple path to modern and AI-enabled applications while mitigating virtualization risks. Enable your teams to pioneer the future while maximizing current investments. Experience the transformative potential of OpenShift Virtualization.

    7-Aug | 15 mins
    14:00 - 14:15
  • Breakout

    INO101

    Business value - Maximising the return on investment on your cloud investment

    Sidd Jolapara, Principal FinOps Strategist, AWS, Zoe Holdenson, Sr Customer Solutions Manager, AWS, Rhiannon Ross, Senior Cloud Program Director, ATO

    Establishing robust financial governance over the cloud is essential, and understanding the key elements of Cloud Financial Management is critical during your cloud journey. Cloud Financial Management helps ensure that cloud expenditure is efficient and prioritized to deliver the greatest business value, particularly given today's challenging macroeconomic environment. In this session, we'll explore the journey ATO has taken to build a cloud financial management program and learn about their efforts to maximise the return on their cloud investment.

    7-Aug | 45 mins
    15:55 - 16:40
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