View Sessions

View Slides

Follow us @AWS_Gov and use #AWSPSSummit

Pre-Day Activities

Earth & Space on AWS

Join us for a unique Earth & Space on AWS experience. Hear from customers and thought leaders who are unearthing new discoveries through cloud technology and public-private partnerships. Choose from nine breakout sessions highlighting innovations with geospatial data, satellite technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing, and much more. Also, witness an engaging keynote led by experts from the Earth and space community.

*Check out our recent podcast episode on new possibilities for exploring Earth and space with AWS.

Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Time: 12:00pm – 5:00pm (followed by a networking reception)
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Pre-Day Activities

Pre-Day Activities

Featuring a Keynote by Rob Meyerson, Senior Vice President, Blue Origin

Robert Meyerson has overseen the steady growth of Blue Origin since 2003, evolving a 10-person research-focused organization into the more than 1,000-person organization of today. Under Rob’s leadership, Blue Origin developed the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine, the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine, as well as the manufacturing and test capabilities to enable all the above. As the leader of Blue’s Advanced Development Programs business, Rob oversees the development of the systems and technologies that will enable a future where millions of people are living and working in space.

Prior to joining Blue, Rob was a Senior Manager at Kistler Aerospace, responsible for the landing and thermal protection systems of a two-stage reusable launch vehicle, as well as all technical activities related to Kistler’s Space Launch Initiative contract with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Rob began his career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), where he led the aerodynamic design of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Drag Parachute, as well as the overall design, integration, and flight test of a gliding parachute for the X-38 Crew Rescue Vehicle. He began his career as a cooperative education student at JSC.

Rob earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in engineering management from the University of Houston. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and former member of the Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technical Committee. He is a Trustee at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, a member of the board of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and is an avid supporter of the University of Michigan and the University of Washington.

Click to view more.

This is a special, registration-only event. Save your spot today!

View Sessions

Agenda

12:00pm - 1:00pm		Registration & Lunch
1:00pm - 1:45pm		Keynote Earth is Just Our Starting Place: Blue Origin and the Future of Space Technology Rob Meyerson, Senior Vice President, Blue Origin
Track	Earth	Space	Spotlight
1:55pm - 2:45pm	How Element 84 Raises the Bar on Streaming Satellite Data Dan Pilone, CTO, Element 84	How Can We Answer the Really BIG Questions? Tom Soderstrom, CTO, NASA JPL	Data Boulders from Space: How DigitalGlobe Uses AWS to Manage Data Pierre Izard, Senior Director, Content Strategy and Operations, DigitalGlobe Nate Ricklin, Director, Platform Engineering, DigitalGlobe
2:55pm - 3:45pm	Machine Learning with Earth Observation Imagery Marc Fagan, CEO, EOS Data Analytics, Inc. Zhuangfang NaNa Yi, Machine Learning Engineer, Development Seed	Getting on C2S: Lessons Learned Migrating Space Operational Systems to the Cloud on AWS Dave English, Mission Solutions Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin Jason Lee, Space Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin	Black Sky: Advancing the Geospatial Revolution with Cloud-First Approach Robert Cahn, Director of Software Engineering, Space Operations, SpaceFlight Industries Scott Herman, Vice President of BlackSky Product Development, SpaceFlight Industries
3:55pm - 4:45pm	Making Sense of Remote Sensing Grega Milčinski, CEO, Sinergise Joel Cumming, CTO, SkyWatch	Blue Origin: Powered by Rocket Fuel and AWS Dean Kassman, Head of Advanced Technology, Blue Origin	From Consumer to Producer: How Public Sector Data is Fueling Innovation Christy Monaco, Chief Ventures Officer and Director of the Office of Ventures and Innovation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4:45pm - 5:45pm		Networking Social

Earth Track

How Element 84 Raises the Bar on Streaming Satellite Data

Dan Pilone, CTO, Element 84

1:55pm - 2:45pm

GOES-16 is a source of critical data for monitoring smoke, flooding impacts, burn scars, volcanic ash, and weather. However, finding and using this data can require significant investment. Element 84 married video compression and streaming technology with NASA’s Cumulus data processing pipeline, plus AWS Managed Services, to make the entire GOES-16 archive interactive on an array of formats. Users can now easily identify dates of interest for events like natural disasters, and stage a subset of the archive for analysis. And all of this scales down to $0 when not in use.

Machine Learning with Earth Observation Imagery

Marc Fagan, CEO, EOS Data Analytics, Inc.

Zhuangfang NaNa Yi, Machine Learning Engineer, Development Seed

2:55pm - 3:45pm

For just a moment, think of the immense amount of data generated by Earth-observing systems. The sheer volume often makes it impractical for humans alone to perform the analysis, and accordingly, many groups are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to support their analysis. We'll hear from Development Seed and EOS about how they are using AI and ML to unlock the power of this planetary-scale data that is becoming increasingly more accessible in the cloud. From open-source libraries and human-in-the loop initial processing passes, to fully automated pipelines, we'll examine the new capacity for analysis made possible by technology.

Making Sense of Remote Sensing

Grega Milčinski, CEO, Sinergise

Joel Cumming, CTO, SkyWatch

3:55pm - 4:45pm

SkyWatch is all about making Earth-observation data digestible and accessible. They believe that creating a single place to bring together the planet’s observational datasets will make new waves in geospatial analytics. In this session, we'll take a look at how companies can take advantage of cloud-native workflows to enable access and analysis across planetary-scale datasets. You’ll hear how SkyWatch leveraged AWS serverless technologies to build a company that transforms petabytes of sensor data from space into useful information. You'll also learn how Sinergise is merging a variety of data streams through products like Sentinel Hub, and creating actionable intelligence for its users.

Space Track

How Can We Answer the Really BIG Questions?

Tom Soderstrom, CTO, NASA JPL

1:55pm - 2:45pm

Interest in Space is skyrocketing. There is an explosion of new technologies. How can we benefit from these trends and explore the Final Frontier effectively? This talk will discuss how advances in technology, working in new ways, and thinking like a startup, can help us reach for answers to the really big questions concerning life in Space, the Universe, Earth, and finding Earth 2.0. Some of the more promising technologies where JPL is experimenting includes advances in Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Intelligent Digital Assistants, Artificial Intelligence and in working differently.

Getting on C2S: Lessons Learned Migrating Space Operational Systems to the Cloud on AWS

Dave English, Mission Solutions Chief Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Jason Lee, Space Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin

2:55pm - 3:45pm

Leaders across the Earth and space community are increasingly finding value in the services, capacity, and scalability of AWS. Join us as Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS) discusses how it’s used AWS to build revolutionary, new space programs to deliver value and performance to customers. LMSS will share lessons learned after transitioning National Reconnaissance Office and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency processing programs to the C2S Cloud, and will present a firsthand view of how they took advantage of AWS services and features to move space operations and production to the cloud.

Blue Origin: Powered by Rocket Fuel and AWS

Dean Kassman, Head of Advanced Technology, Blue Origin

3:55pm - 4:45pm

In 2015, the Blue Origin team executed the first unmanned flight test of the New Shepard system, a reusable vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing vehicle that’s been to space and back. Amid a successful launch, New Shepard pulled space closer to humanity, cutting the distance between earthlings and the great beyond. With room to fit six people aboard, New Shepard offers a comfortable, weightless experience with unparalleled views out of the largest windows in space, payload lockers for experimentation, and a frequent flight schedule. But did you know that many parts of New Shepard were designed with tools built on AWS? Blue’s next generation engine, BE-4, and our orbital, two-stage launch vehicle, New Glenn, are also being designed leveraging the capabilities of AWS. Join us to learn more about how AWS has powered robust analytical tools to be hosted in the cloud.

Spotlight Track

Data Boulders from Space: How DigitalGlobe Uses AWS to Manage Data

Pierre Izard, Senior Director, Content Strategy and Operations, DigitalGlobe

Nate Ricklin, Director, Platform Engineering, DigitalGlobe

1:55pm - 2:45pm

DigitalGlobe moved all-in with AWS to meet the growing demand for commercial geo-intelligence, migrating its entire 17-year imagery archive to the cloud. DigitalGlobe is one of the world’s leading providers of high-resolution Earth imagery, data, and analysis. The company began its journey to the AWS Cloud with AWS Snowmobile, moving 100 petabytes of data to the cloud, allowing it to move away from large-file transfer protocols and delivery workflows. DigitalGlobe also uses Amazon SageMaker to handle machine learning at scale. Learn firsthand how DigitalGlobe is able to deliver massive amounts of data in weeks rather than months, save on costs, and reach customers everywhere.

Black Sky: Advancing the Geospatial Revolution with Cloud-First Approach

Robert Cahn, Director of Software Engineering, Space Operations, SpaceFlight Industries

Scott Herman, Vice President of BlackSky Product Development, SpaceFlight Industries

2:55pm - 3:45pm

With the evolution of technology and the demand for satellite data, the demand to reach space has greatly increased. SpaceFlight Industries addresses this new need by providing cost-effective products and services, rideshare launches, and global communications networks. In addition to these, SpaceFlight provides geospatial intelligence services through BlackSky Spectra, enabling organizations to gather, analyze, and visualize data. Come listen to SpaceFlight Industries discuss how it used AWS to build satellites, construct ground stations, and more, to deliver value to customers.

From Consumer to Producer - How Public Sector Data Can Fuel Innovation

Christy Monaco, Chief Ventures Officer and Director of the Office of Ventures and Innovation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

3:55pm - 4:45pm

As public sector organizations grapple with ever-expanding data sets, they are seeking out new and innovative ways to extract value from that data. Come hear Christy Monaco, CVO and Director of the Office of Ventures and Innovation of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, discuss the recent launch of NGA's GEOWorks program, an initiative that makes unclassified large data sets available to data scientists across multiple industries. In this session, Ms. Monaco will discuss immediate, mid and long-term plans for the program; including educational opportunities for students who wouldn't previously have had access to such tools and data, hosting challenges on their data to solve for real-world issues, as well as supporting future mission for the agency.

Workshops

Accelerating Time-to-ATO: Compliance as a Mission Driver

Audience Level: Introductory

Duration: Partial Day (2 Hours)

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Cost: Free

This workshop will showcase how to accelerate your time-to-mission while complying with security policies, such as the NIST Risk Management Framework and the Cybersecurity Framework. Join us as we discuss the compliance challenges facing government agencies and other organizations today using real customer scenarios. We’ll demonstrate how Xacta®360 from Telos Corporation leverages inheritance and common controls to compress the authority to operate (ATO) timeline from months to weeks. We will discuss how the solution can be leveraged across AWS Regions, including GovCloud, and by the intelligence community operating in the isolated C2S cloud. And you’ll see firsthand how Xacta®360 can accelerate a FedRAMP authorization. In addition, we will explore Governance@Scale – guidance for governance and security compliance at the enterprise level, derived from common industry challenges. This workshop is brought to you by Telos.

Deploying Deep Learning Workloads with Apache Spark and BigDL on AWS

Audience Level: Introductory

Duration: Partial Day (2 Hours)

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Cost: Free

Join us for a two-hour workshop to discover how you can accelerate your cloud journey with artificial intelligence (AI) on AWS, and how to build end-to-end analytics and AI use cases based on real-world deployments. The first half of this two-part workshop will offer an introduction to deep learning using Apache Spark and BigDL on AWS. You will learn the key features of BigDL, and a walkthrough on how to get started with BigDL and Amazon Machine Images. The second half of the workshop will dive deeper with step-by-step tutorials on how you can create your own deep learning models and start building your solutions. This workshop is brought to you by Intel.

Connected (IoT) Solutions Workshop

Audience Level: Intermediate

Duration: Half Day (4 Hours)

Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Cost: Free

Journey into the world of AWS IoT services and learn how to capture and run analytics on your sensor data. This intensive workshop will provide an introduction to AWS IoT services relevant for microcontrollers, edge computing, cloud connectivity, analytics, and visualization. You will also engage in hands-on activities with AWS IoT Core, trigger rules based on incoming sensor data, leverage AWS’s IoT analytics service for analyzing sensor data, and visualize data with Amazon QuickSight.

Requirements:

· An AWS account with the ability to create IAM roles;
· Laptop with administrative rights;
· For Windows users, you will need to install WinSCP and PuTTY.

AWS Security Automation and Orchestration (SAO) – DevOps and SecOps

Audience Level: Advanced

Duration: Half Day (4 Hours)

Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Cost: Free

Overview: Security and risk management leaders continue to labor over how to secure current, legacy, and cloud resources within their limited constraints. Historically, the security industry has created, installed, and operated many products that do not communicate with one another in efforts to protect against ever-evolving threats, risks, and breaches that do not communicate with one another. The result is overworked, understaffed, and the mismanagement of key security solutions and services across all environments (e.g. on premise, cloud, and hybrid).

This workshop is designed to teach you how to leverage AWS Security Automation and Orchestration (SAO) processes for constraining and tracking, publishing continuous security configurations, integration, deployments, and treatments that can be certified against common security frameworks (e.g. election security, PCI, FedRAMP, etc.). The SAO process will facilitate the orientation and association of DevOps and SecOps practices, changes, and coordination of continuous integration continuous delivery, and continuous risk treatment of one or more AWS accounts.

Learn how to design, innovate, and advance continuous configuration automation solutions. We will cover AWS services and Amazon Partner Network technology solutions, including presentations from DevOps partners and security partners, to help you build an end-to-end automation capability for regulated workloads.

This presentation is intended for AWS security practitioners, consultants, and managed security service providers who secure, audit, govern, and/or test an organization’s AWS IT services.

Cloud Journey Simulation

Audience Level: Intermediate

Duration: Half Day (4 Hours)

Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Cost: Free

Executive leaders looking to bring their organization to the cloud want to understand how it will affect their organization, and what important decisions need to be considered. Join the AWS Executive Advisors for a cloud journey exercise to bring exposure to key decisions points during the first two years of your cloud journey. The workshop framework helps guide participants along an experiential journey covering the topics of transformation strategy, building a transformation team, supporting major initiatives, data center consolidation strategy, DevOps, role migration, execution challenges, and new application development. Each team will read a cloud case study and begin to make strategic investment decisions relating to the needs of the business. These decisions will have an impact on the team’s score. We will address real life customer situations and lessons learned will be addressed during the workshop. Attendees will develop an understanding of the cloud journey process and have opportunities to discuss foundational planning for cloud adoption.

This workshop is intended for executive members of an organization who oversee, influence, or implement cloud services governance, migration, development, configuration, deployment, or procurement. This commonly includes a CEO, CIO, CTO, CMIO, COO, or other individuals at the top levels of the IT administration.