AWS Public Sector AI Symposium Canberra

26 August 2026 | National Convention Centre Canberra

About the event

The future of public sector innovation starts here.

On 26 August, AWS Public Sector AI Symposium Canberra 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 four tracks:

Sentinel - National Security, Defence & Public Safety
Catalyst - Modernisation of Government Service Delivery through AI
Integrity - Fraud, Waste & Integrity
Forge - Human Capital Development & Digital Literacy

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Join us for our opening keynote featuring Alan Halachmi, Director Technology, World Wide Public Sector, AWS and luminary leaders from across government, industry, and AWS. This informative session will share real results and bold perspectives on AI-led public sector transformation.

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Mission Critical: Race-Day Agility for Public Sector Cloud – Red Hat
1:15 – 1:50 PM | The Mythos Moment: Cyber Threats and AI Supply Chain Disruption
1:50 – 2:25 PM | Build Faster, Stay Sovereign: AI Productivity with Claude and Bedrock
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Designing an Agentic AI Platform at PROTECTED
3:25 – 4:00 PM | ASIC Cloud Security At Scale: A Regulator’s Journey to Continuous Security

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Our Services, Our Data: Reclaiming Cloud Operational Visibility with a Lean Government Team – Dynatrace
1:15 – 1:50 PM | A World First: Migrating Oracle Cerner Millennium eMR to the AWS Cloud
1:50 – 2:25 PM | The Pebble That Made a Ripple: How Airservices Australia Securely Adopted AI
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Agentic AI for VMware Migrations with AWS Transform for VMware
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Get to Know Amazon Quick, Your New AI Assistant for Work

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Mission Velocity Meets Fiscal Discipline: Optimising AI – Apptio
1:15 – 1:50 PM | Multi-Agent Document Intelligence: AgentCore for Fraud Detection
1:50 – 2:25 PM | 75% of Legacy Apps Cleared: What One Week of AI Delivered
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Secure and Resilient Agentic AI for High-Assurance Environments
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Building and Validating Cloud Controls with Generative AI

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Getting Your Organisation and DevSecOps Teams Ready for the AI Age – GitLab
1:15 – 1:50 PM | Skilling in Practice: The ATO Cloud Capability Journey
1:50 – 2:25 PM | How NBN and the University of Melbourne Built AI-Ready Contact Centres on Amazon Connect
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Skilling the AI-Ready Workforce: Bridging the Gap Between Education, Government and Industry
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Governed by Design: How AI Can Build and Assure Public Sector Workforce Capability

12:50 – 1:50 PM | Hands-on AWS Security Agent: Proactive AppSec and Autonomous Pentesting
2:50 – 4:00 PM | AI-DLC: AWS Security Agent Playground

1:15 – 2:25 PM | The Night of Broken Magic: AWS DevOps Agent GameDay

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | From Legacy Risk to Mission Ready: Accelerating Secure Modernisation for the Australian Public Sector – Versent
1:05 – 1:50 PM | Restoring Trust and Transparency in an AI-Driven World – Smartsheet
1:50 – 2:35 PM | Engineering the Future: AI, Agentic Systems and the Next Platform Evolution – Deloitte

12:15 – 2:25 PM | Executive Exchange