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AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days

Mar 
5
 - 
Mar 
6
Mar
 
5
, 
2024
 - 
Mar
 
6
, 
2024
 | 
8:00AM
 - 
4:30PM
Denver
, 
CO


Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services


Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling
the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams
together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across
every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups
that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide
audience.

 

Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at
Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which
manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of
Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC,
helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.



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AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days

2020 Global series


March 5-6, 2024 | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Sonesta Denver Downtown
1450 Glenarm Place
, 
Denver
, 
CO 
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About the event

AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days is a two day, in-person event
where attendees can access Amazon Web Services (AWS) training sessions, get
one-on-one support with experts, collaborate with peers, and practice their
skills in workshops.




Learn about a range of topics tailored to your needs, including artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), data and analytics, application
modernization, security and governance, and more.




Register for just one day or both days, and choose the track that best fits your
cloud educational needs. You'll be able to attend as many sessions as you wish.
Check out the available tracks and sessions below.




Please note that each track is first-come, first-served

because seating is limited. We suggest you arrive early.




If you have any questions, send an email to
awstateandlocallearningdays-support@amazon.com.

Who should attend


AWS Learning Days is recommended for state and local government and education IT
professionals, executives, and practitioners.





No experience with AWS is required. Get started today with a no-cost, self-paced
online course, AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, to build your cloud
knowledge. Attendees who seek an overall understanding of AWS Cloud are
recommended to take this course prior to the event.


Keynote speakers


Hear from our keynote speakers on how cloud infrastructure enables public sector
organizations to modernize constituent services and student success. We'll dive
into how the AWS Cloud helps state, local, and education customers overcome
challenges to meet their mission.





Warren Santner, Senior Solution Architect Manager, AWS




Chad Mitchell, Chief Applications Officer, City and County of Denver


 


Morgan Reed, Leader, Executive Advisory, State and Local Government, AWS

 


Orrie Gartner, Associate Vice Chancellor and Deputy CIO, University of Colorado
at Boulder




Amy Bhikha, Chief Data Officer, Colorado Governor's Office of Information
Technology


Customize your experience


AWS Learning Days will be held Tuesday, March 5 and Wednesday, March 6. You can
register for just one day or both days.




Each day will kick-off with registration and breakfast, with day one including a
keynote fireside chat. Lunch will be provided on both days. Please bring a
laptop if you plan to participate in workshops on day two.


 


Discover the track that fits you best by exploring the sessions offered below
or accessing the full agenda.




A collaboration space will be open both days with activities that include: Ask
an expert, AWS Partners and collaborators, co-working space, complementary
refreshments and wifi, and more.

Agenda




Feature topics


Compute


Database migration


Storage


Networking

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DAY ONE | Tuesday, March 5

Technical track

 


This track is intended for technical staff with some knowledge of AWS.

 


AWS Technical Essentials
This course introduces you to essential AWS services and common solutions. It
covers the fundamental AWS concepts related to compute, database, storage,
networking, monitoring, and security. The course will also cover the concepts
necessary to increase your understanding of AWS services, so that you can make
informed decisions about solutions that meet business requirements. Throughout
the course, you will gain information on how to build, compare, and apply highly
available, fault tolerant, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.




                                                                               
                                                                                
                                                     

                                                                        

Executive track


This track is intended for leaders and decision makers in state and local
governments and education. This track is not intended for AWS Partners.

 


Generative AI/ML and AI governance for the public sector
AWS generative AI offers public sector customers advanced AI solutions,
enhancing public services, streamlining operations, ensuring data privacy, and
driving innovation for smarter, efficient governance. In this session, we will
also discuss the intentional actions that will ensure the development,
deployment and use of AI are done in a responsible manner.

Cyber trends and best practices
Cyber events continue to be a prevailing issue impacting the public sector. The
cascading effects can be devastating to the citizens and residents within a
state. This session will cover cyber trends across public sector organizations,
and how agencies and institutions are working to overcome these challenges by
applying best practices and leveraging collective defense.

 


Building a modern data strategy in public sector
Public sector customers are collecting more data than ever before. Creating a
comprehensive data strategy is a common challenge. Success requires shifting
mindset, organizing people and process to innovate at scale, and deploying
technology that accelerates value in direct support of your strategic
objectives. This topic covers best practices and examples based on our
experience with public sector customers who are becoming data-driven.





Executive track speakers




Sergio Ortega
AI/ML Business Development Lead, AWS
Sergio is an executive with 20+ years of expertise in AI/ML, and public sector
industries, holding significant roles at AWS and Microsoft, focusing on
go-to-market strategies and business development.




Maria Thompson
Executive Government Advisor, AWS
Maria works with security and technology leadership for customers, identifying
trends, best practices, and assisting them in developing holistic security
strategies.




Jason Moldan
Principal Solution Architect, AWS
Jason brings over 25 years of experience in technology. He works with EDU and
State & Local Government leaders to design cloud strategy for their
organizations and the technical platforms that support it.





DAY TWO | Wednesday, March 6

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) track




AI/ML for your organization (Level 100)
Join this session to learn how AI/ML fits into your organizational goals. Learn
how these managed services and tools bring value to your mission faster, at
lower cost, and without requiring your own data science team. This session
explains the more frequently used AI/ML services, example use cases, and
examples from other organizations who have successfully leveraged these
services.

Session type: Breakout




Building AI and ML powered applications without machine learning expertise
(Level 100)
Developing data sciences and data engineering skills to create and maintain ML
models can be time-consuming. In this session, learn how to integrate AIL and ML
into your products and applications with a few lines of code and without having
to write any code.
Session type: Breakout




Intelligent document processing (Level 200)
Documents are a critical part of many government and higher education
organizations. Within the massive volume of documents lies strategic data and
insights. In this session, learn how your organization can process and analyze
documents at scale with AWS ML. Minimize manual intervention and scope for human
error with ML and reduce costs by automating manual, complex, and expensive
document processing approach.

Session type: Workshop




Use no-code machine learning to solve real-world challenges (Level 200)

Give business users and analysts the ability to do ML without any code, scaling
the number of people who can create ML powered insights, forecasts, and
predictions using Amazon Sagemaker Canvas.

Session type: Breakout




Build a bot (Level 300)
Using machine learning to improve engagement with your constituents doesn't have
to be data science. In this workshop, you will configure a question and answer
bot to reply to common inquiries from your end users. Come prepared with your
own laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.


Session type: Workshop




                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                      
         

Data and analytics track  




Building a modern data strategy (Level 100)
Data is growing exponentially and coming in more diverse formats than ever
before. This makes it challenging to extract value. A modern data strategy can
help you manage, act on, and react to your data so you can make better
decisions, respond faster, and uncover new opportunities. In this session you
will learn about the AWS Modern Data Strategy. How to modernize your data
infrastructure, how to unify data by breaking down silos, and how to leverage
machine learning (ML) to reduce the burden of manual processing and analytics.

Session type: Chalk talk




Democratizing your organization's data analytics experience (Level 100)
In this session, learn how AWS can democratize analytics with ease of use and
better price performance, making it easier for analysts and data scientists of
all skill levels to use ML.
Session type: Breakout




AWS Data Lake and visualization (Level 300)
Build your own visualization dashboard in minutes using Amazon QuickSight. With
Amazon QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same
source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports,
embedded analytics, and natural language queries.

Session type: Workshop




AI/ML for data and analytics (Level 200)
Organizations view analytics, AI, and ML as a continuum. This continuum enables
them to make data-driven decisions across all levels of their enterprise and
guides them in defining their customer experience. Within each of these
organizations, there are multiple use cases, data types, users, and applications
that require different tools. In this session, learn about the services, tools
and techniques of employing AI and ML to provide an end-to-end data analytics
strategy for the public sector.

Session type: Breakout




Post call analytics for your contact center with Amazon language AI services
(Level 300)


Adding intelligence to your call center can help you better understand your
customer and improve your overall service ratings. Contact center analytics, or
Post Call Analytics (PCA) supports the transcription and analysis of call
recordings to gain insights into customer interactions and the operational
efficiency of your contact center. PCA also helps contact center analysts and
owners better understand customer sentiment, call center operational metrics,
call drivers, and emerging trends. In this session, learn how to enhance the
customer experience with AI-powered post call analytics and conversation
insights.

Session type: Workshop


                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                      
         

Application modernization, security, and governance track 




Serverless architectures - Why is everyone moving to serverless? (Level 100)
By using serverless architectures, your organization can benefit from value such
as reduced operational and maintenance overhead, reduced costs, improved
scalability, and an improved security footprint. Learn how leveraging serverless
architectures can help you achieve better outcomes.

Session type: Chalk talk


Building and governing your cloud environment (Level 200)
Customers of every size and industry type are moving to the cloud to increase
their security, agility, cost efficiency, scalability, and ability to deploy
more easily. In this session we will cover the AWS governance strategy and the
tools and services available to customer to meet their control objectives.

Session type: Breakout




Amazon Connect (Level 200)
Deploying a secure, operational contact center can be challenging. Let AWS show
you how to integrate Amazon Connect to efficiently streamline this process. In
this builders’ session, walk step by step through deploying experiences using
voice and chat. Additionally, see how to secure information in your interactive
voice response (IVR) to help you remain compliant. Come prepared with your own
laptop and a willingness to learn in order to participate in this session.

Session type: Workshop




Security is top priority (Level 100)
Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. Security in the cloud is much
like security in your on-premises data centers—only without the costs of
maintaining facilities and hardware. In this session, get an introduction to AWS
Cloud security services and learn how to scale and innovate while maintaining a
secure environment and paying only for the services you use. You will also get
an introduction into how to protect your organization from ransomware threats.

Session type: Breakout




Zero trust (Level 300)


This workshop demonstrates a Zero Trust architecture for service to service
workloads. We will discuss the principles of Zero Trust and how AWS enables you
to implement them in the most appropriate way for your workloads. This includes
how a good Zero Trust architecture is not a single product, service, or
architecture, but instead the application of principles and tenets to strengthen
your designs. When complete, you will have had hands-on experience implementing
combined network and identity controls to help eliminate lateral network
mobility risk and improve the overall security posture of your workload.

Session type: Workshop

                                                                               
                                                                               
                                   

        

Questions?

If you have any questions, or need assistance with accessibility services, send
an email to awstateandlocallearningdays-support@amazon.com.


Venue

Sonesta Denver Downtown
1450 Glenarm Place
Denver
, 
CO
Attendees are encouraged to take public transportation. However, the hotel offers parking at discounted rate of $20 per day.


Venue


Sonesta Denver Downtown
1450 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO

Attendees are encouraged to take public transportation. However, the hotel
offers parking at discounted rate of $20 per day.

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9:00AM - 10:00AM


Breakfast


Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew
Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1


In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source
automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

3:00PM - 4:00PM


Breakout Session 2


In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source
blogging tool and content management system

Speakers


Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services


Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling
the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams
together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across
every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups
that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide
audience.




Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading
multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At
Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and
its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness
Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s
social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications
and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th
employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based
early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds
with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology
companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining
businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise,
Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the
Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed
stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years
investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in
Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services


Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling
the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams
together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across
every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups
that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide
audience.

 

Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at
Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which
manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of
Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC,
helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.

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5th
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2024
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Sonesta Denver Downtown
, 
1450 Glenarm Place
, 
Denver
, 
CO
 
80202
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1450 Glenarm Place
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Denver
, 
CO
 
80202
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