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Bringing the cloud community together to innovate, build, and learn
Join us in Ottawa on October 1, 2025 to discover how the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud can help you transform the services you provide to Canadians, while meeting your security, sovereignty, and sustainability requirements.
Explore how the cloud can help you harness data at scale, strengthen your security posture, lead digital transformation, and advance generative AI—faster and at lower cost. Returning in 2025 with all-new content and speakers, this must-attend event features inspiring keynotes from Canada’s tech leaders, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, networking hubs, and more.
With 20+ sessions, a Builder's Fair, and a full expo hall, the AWS Symposium Ottawa is the perfect place to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you're just getting started in the cloud or you're an experienced user, you'll gain key insights that you can use right away.
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This event is specifically designed to help public sector organizations 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.
The Symposium features 20+ breakout sessions across four main tracks: technical, management, security, and data.
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.
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.
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.
2023 Keynote
Across the public sector, innovation and problem-solving are more essential than ever before. Join Colonel Chris Hadfield, First Canadian Commander of the International Space Station, to discover how you can drive innovation throughout your own team, based on lessons learned from his three decades at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.
You’ll also hear from Dr. Kumar Chellapilla, general manager, AI and ML services at AWS., as he dives deep into Generative AI and the transformational role it can play in government, defence, health care, and education.
Whether you’re new to the cloud or a seasoned expert, you’ll leave this keynote with practical insights you can use right away.
In your journey to modernize your IT systems and deliver better services to citizens and customers, GenAI is the ideal tool to empower your employees, increase your organizational capabilities, as well as accelerate your migration to the cloud. In this session we look at different applied GenAI use cases, including for compliance and efficiency in healthcare, IT architecture improvements, omnichannel customer service, and stewardship in agriculture and climate change. We also provide a concise set of best practices to help you chart the roadmap of your organization in terms of data readiness for AI.
Mark Avery, Director of the NHS East of England Secure Data Environment for R&D (NHS); Katie Rose, Director, Division of Data Operations, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Kyle Pallanik, Director, Architecture and Information Systems, Ontario Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC); Abdalla Abdelrahman, Senior Data Scientist, Corporations Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED); Anubhav Srivastava, Senior Data & AI Specialist - Canada Public Sector, AWS
In this panel discussion, you'll learn how global public sector leaders are generating better insights for decision-making by building a modern data strategy on AWS, with use cases from across Canada, the US, and the UK.
Sean Roche, Director of National Security, AWS Worldwide Public Sector and former Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, CIA
Explore how organizations can transform their security culture to enable successful cloud migrations. Attendees will learn strategies to position security as a business enabler, make security everyone's responsibility, and transition the security team into a strategic risk advisory role to empower the business.
Kunaal Sharma, Head of Public Sector, Anthropic; Anthony Pitfield, Senior Public Sector Data and AI Specialist, AWS Canada
How can Canada's public sector leverage Generative AI to drive meaningful change in a secure, trustworthy manner? We'll introduce Anthropic, including its industry-leading contributions to responsible AI policy and engineering, and then turn to Canadian public sector opportunities for deployment via AWS services. Attendees will gain insights on policy, usage, and adoption of Anthropic models in ways that help inform their own thinking about where to start.
Joe Mariani, Research Senior Manager, Deloitte Center for Government Insights, Deloitte; Tanu Mohan, Digital Transformation Leader, Deloitte; Zaina Sovani, Executive Advisor, Digital Strategist, and Transformation Leader, Deloitte; Giselle D'Paiva, Partner, Government and Public Sector Digital ID Leader, Deloitte
This session will look at how Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is accelerating service delivery and shaping digital governments. A passport on your phone, taxes with a few clicks: Services that once seemed like science fiction are now realities. In this session, we'll explore use cases from multi-jurisdictional countries, and roadmaps for building platforms that transform service delivery.
Bob Champlin, Cloud Security Territory Manager, Tenable
As organizations adopt complex multi-cloud environments, the requirement for improved automation to implement and scale crucial controls has become essential. Exposure Management provides a transformative approach that harmonizes security initiatives across on-premise and cloud teams, and decreases complexity by minimizing the number of tools essential to protect the entire attack surface. The three primary areas this session will cover include: 1: Attaining comprehensive visibility across all your organization's public domains. 2: Integrating web scan data with cloud assessment results to detect critical weaknesses and hazardous combinations. 3: How adopting a unified approach to governing cloud configurations and access controls eliminates critical blind spots.
Chris Hennesey, Enterprise Strategist, AWS, Former VP of Finance, Capital One; Helen Braiter, Executive Director, Cloud Operations - Benefits Delivery Modernization, Employment and Social Development Canada; Erin Kelly, IT Senior Advisor - Benefits Delivery Modernization, Employment and Social Development Canada
What does good cloud financial operations (cloud FinOps) look like in the public sector? This session will review cloud financial management best practices and how to implement them, through the lens of a large Government of Canada department. We'll share concrete lessons learned about implementing cloud financial management practices and how cloud fin ops can accelerate time to value.
Brian Mycroft, Enterprise Technologist, AWS Canada
Explore key considerations for high-value asset deployment on the AWS cloud, including best practices for ensuring high integrity and high availability.
Join our AWS Partners sponsoring the AWS Public Sector Symposium Ottawa. Find inspiration from customer stories and learn how AWS Partners can build solutions to achieve your mission. Hear from organizations like yours on how and why they migrated to the AWS Cloud.
Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you can learn something new at AWS Public Sector Symposium Ottawa. The AWS Public Sector Symposium Ottawa will help you develop the right skills to design and deploy solutions in the cloud to accelerate your mission.
We designed the AWS Public Sector Symposium Ottawa for an in-person audience. You will be able to access a select number of sessions on demand following the event.
We'll have several sessions available to view on the AWS Public Sector Symposium Ottawa agenda page. As we confirm more sessions, we'll add them to the agenda.
Many services can be made available at the Symposium upon advance request. To inquire about any of these services or to request a service you don't see listed, please reach out to customer support at wwps-symposiums@amazon.com.
ASL (American Sign Language)
CART (Communication Access Real-time Translation)
VI (Visual Interpretation)
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Assistive listening Translations for keynote and leadership sessions
Dispersed and designated seating
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Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Clint Crosier is Director of the AWS Aerospace and Satellite business, established to help accelerate innovation in the global aerospace and satellite industry. Prior to joining AWS, Crosier served for 33 years in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. Before retiring from military service as a Major General, he was the lead planner and architect of the U.S. Space Force, leading the stand-up of the first new military service in 72 years. He has also served in staff assignments in the U.S. Senate, Secretary of the Air Force's Action Group, U.S. Air Force Office of Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Air Force Space Command and US Strategic Command.
Ross Ermel assumed the role of Assistant Deputy Minister for Digital Services and Defence Chief Digital Officer for the Department of National Defence/Canadian Armed Forces on May 1st, 2024. Before his appointment, Mr. Ermel served as the DND/CAF ADM for digital transformation, where he spearheaded digital modernization efforts to ensure operational advantage. Previously, he served as ADM for Digital Talent and Leadership in the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada, where he developed an enterprise-wide digital talent strategy. Additionally, he held the position of Assistant Commissioner of the Western Region at the Canada Revenue Agency, overseeing regional operations and leading strategic change initiatives.
Mark Messier played in the NHL for twenty-five years, won six Stanley Cups – five with the Oilers and one with the Rangers – and is the only player to have captained two NHL franchises to championships. He is second on the all-time career list for playoff points and third for regular season games played and regular season points. In 2007, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. That same year, the NHL instituted the Mark Messier Leadership Award, given annually to the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities on and off the ice.
A two-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion, Cassie Campbell-Pascall is the only hockey team captain, male or female, to lead Canada to two Olympic gold medals in the sport. She’s also the first woman to provide colour commentary on Hockey Night in Canada. Cassie is the only player to win the Esso Women’s National Championship and the NWHL Championship in back-to-back years, and is the first female hockey player to be inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. She is also the first woman to receive the Order of Hockey in Canada, joining the ranks of Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, and Jean Beliveau.
David Lehanski is the Executive Vice President of Business Development & Innovation for the National Hockey League. He leads the NHL’s internal Innovation Team, made up of internal experts from business development, strategy and information technology, which helps to advance the game of hockey by developing and implementing technology-driven solutions. Lehanski has been instrumental in building the most advanced technology solutions in sports, including the development and implementation of the NHL’s innovative EDGE (Puck and Player Tracking) technology, which received a prestigious Alpha Award for Best Sports Innovation at the 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
Kirsten Robinson is a senior business leader with 25 years’ experience in sales, consulting, and business operations. Having joined AWS in 2018, she currently serves as Federal Government Leader, where she focuses on shaping and delivering strategies to enable government digital transformation. Prior to joining AWS, Kirsten held senior leadership positions with both public and private sector organizations, spanning multiple roles within tech startups, enterprise firms, and academia.
Kirsten is the past co-chair of Technation’s Cloud Working Group, and the co-author of a Government of Canada whitepaper titled “Governments Embracing Cloud: An Opportunity for Modernization, Innovation and Transformation”. An avid gardener and traveler, she lives in Ottawa with her husband, son, and dog, Bailey.
As an Enterprise Finance Strategist, Chris works with executives across the globe to share financial management expertise and strategies for optimizing cost, speed, and agility in the cloud. With over 20 years of work experience in the finance industry, he has held various leadership roles at Capital One, where he managed financial planning and analysis, technology finance, and operations finance for a range of business units. Chris aims to empower organizations by delivering strategic insights that drive operational efficiency, and by catalyzing partnerships with cross-functional teams—and he has helped teams across Government of Canada departments and agencies to achieve these goals.
As an Enterprise Finance Strategist, Chris works with executives across the globe to share financial management expertise and strategies for optimizing cost, speed, and agility in the cloud. With over 20 years of work experience in the finance industry, he has held various leadership roles at Capital One, where he managed financial planning and analysis, technology finance, and operations finance for a range of business units. Chris aims to empower organizations by delivering strategic insights that drive operational efficiency, and by catalyzing partnerships with cross-functional teams—and he has helped teams across Government of Canada departments and agencies to achieve these goals.
A visionary leader spearheading transformative change, Sean pioneered groundbreaking digital capabilities as CIA's first Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation (2015-2019). In that role, he revolutionized intelligence operations spanning cyber, open source, communications, data systems, and data science. With unparalleled expertise driving mission-critical initiatives across IC, DOD, and private sector, he has been the lead architect of next-generation solutions that have driven successful transitions from legacy models, propelling organizations to unprecedented mission execution and operational excellence.
A visionary leader spearheading transformative change, Sean pioneered groundbreaking digital capabilities as CIA's first Associate Deputy Director for Digital Innovation (2015-2019). In that role, he revolutionized intelligence operations spanning cyber, open source, communications, data systems, and data science. With unparalleled expertise driving mission-critical initiatives across IC, DOD, and private sector, he has been the lead architect of next-generation solutions that have driven successful transitions from legacy models, propelling organizations to unprecedented mission execution and operational excellence.
Since 2023, Tom Soderstrom has served as an Enterprise Strategist at AWS, coaching executives on their transformation and innovation strategies and actions. Previously, he served as the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2006 - 2020, where he helped define, support, and implement innovative Space missions, emerging IT trends, and mentor the next generation of IT and Space explorers. Prior to JPL, he led teams working on large scale IT technologies, best practices, tools development, and change efforts in small startups, large commercial companies, international venues, and the US Government.
Since 2023, Tom Soderstrom has served as an Enterprise Strategist at AWS, coaching executives on their transformation and innovation strategies and actions. Previously, he served as the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2006 - 2020, where he helped define, support, and implement innovative Space missions, emerging IT trends, and mentor the next generation of IT and Space explorers. Prior to JPL, he led teams working on large scale IT technologies, best practices, tools development, and change efforts in small startups, large commercial companies, international venues, and the US Government.