Kick off the day with registration and breakfast. Grab your badge, fuel up, and connect with fellow attendees before sessions begin.

Keynote speaker: Jenson Jacob, Acting Chief Information Officer, ITS

Panelists: 

Catherine Stollar Peters — Director of Research Data Strategy, Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development, SUNY & 

Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, New York State Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer, ITS

Open all day with activities that include: Ask an experts, Amazon Connect Customer demo, AI Photo Booth, co-working space, complementary refreshments, and more. 

1/Executive track

2/Artificial intelligence and machine learning 

3/Data and analytics 

4/From Legacy to Launch: Modernize Your Agency on AWS 

Strategy-focused sessions that begin with a practical AI execution playbook — identifying quick wins, understanding cost structures, and building a 90-day roadmap — then go deeper into how agentic AI transforms legacy modernization from a hundred-million-dollar gamble into an evidence-based, manageable program, and close with the financial modeling frameworks needed to build compelling migration business cases. No technical background required.

10:15AM-11:00AM | AI strategy execution: From quick wins to scalable programs 
This session provides a practical playbook for public sector leaders ready to move beyond AI strategy into measurable execution. Attendees will walk away with a clear framework for identifying high-value, low-risk AI use cases, a plain-language understanding of how AI costs are structured and forecasted, and a concrete 90-day roadmap they can begin implementing immediately. 

11:00AM - 11:15AM | Break

11:15AM - 12:15PM | Building the foundation: data strategy essentials for generative AI in public sector 

Generative AI's potential in your organization starts with your data. In this session, you'll explore how to assess your data readiness, establish governance that meets public sector compliance requirements, and align your data investments with AI-driven outcomes. You'll leave with a strategic framework for making confident, informed decisions about where and how to apply generative AI—whether you're just beginning or ready to scale. 

12:15PM - 1:15PM | Lunch

Concurrent sessions: 

1:15PM - 2:00PM |  Understand before you change: How agentic AI accelerates application modernization 
Your legacy systems aren't failures, they're inherited complexity. But the distance between what those systems can deliver today and what your mission demands tomorrow is growing every quarter. In this talk, we'll show how Agentic AI now enables organizations to analyze, map, and comprehend decades-old systems in days, turning what used to be multi-year, hundred-million-dollar gambles into manageable, evidence-based transformations. You'll also learn why 95% of the problem is now solvable at speed, and why the critical 5% still requires your leadership to get across the finish line. 

1:15pm-2:00pm | Building your modernization muscle in Health & Human Services: AI playbook for derisking the hairiest of systems 

Room: MR 2C

HHS agencies have long relied on vendor-built systems passed from one administration to the next — but modernization doesn't have to follow the same pattern. This session shows how structured AI assessments put HHS agencies and their unique needs in control, helping them evaluate readiness, pinpoint high-impact use cases, and build mission-driven roadmaps on their own terms. Attendees will also hear real stories from across the U.S. of HHS agencies specifically starting small and turning early AI wins into solutions for their biggest challenges. 

Speaker: Carley Marbot, Director, Bureau of System Modernization, Office of Health Insurance Programs

2:00PM - 2:15PM | Break 

2:15PM - 3:15PM | People and Organizational Change Management

AI is transforming not just technology, but how your workforce operates, collaborates, and delivers on your mission. In this session, you'll explore how to lead your organization through AI-driven change—building trust, addressing workforce concerns, and fostering a culture ready to embrace new ways of working.  

Choose from 3 technical tracks: 

10:15AM - 12:15PM | From Backlog to Production: Agentic Software Delivery with Kiro 

See a legacy system modernized live with Kiro. Follow the workflow from specification through agentic refactoring, testing, MCP-grounded context, and human review. Leave with a practical playbook your team can apply.  

12:15PM - 1:15PM | Lunch

1:15PM - 2:00PM | From Use Case to Ecosystem: Governing Agentic AI at Scale 

See how government and education move from pilots to reusable AI capabilities. Explore production use cases, citizen and employee experiences, governed agentic workloads, approved tool catalogs, and token, access, evaluation, and cost controls. 

2:00PM - 2:15PM | Break

2:15PM - 4:15PM | Workshop: The Anatomy of a Government Agent: Four Patterns for Real Workloads on Amazon Bedrock 

Build an agent for a real permitting workload using four reusable patterns: RAG for grounded answers, tools and APIs through MCP for action, guardrails for safe behavior, and evaluation for measurable quality, all on Amazon Bedrock. 

10:15AM - 12:15PM | A Complete Guide to Amazon Quick: The Agentic AI Business Workspace 

Get a hands-on overview of Amazon Quick, an agentic AI workspace that helps teams automate tasks, analyze data, and conduct research. You interact through conversational AI that draws on your data, the web, documents, knowledge bases, and connected applications, all in one place. By combining business intelligence, workflow automation, AI-powered research, and app building into a single product, Amazon Quick brings everything your team needs together. 

12:15PM - 1:15PM | Lunch 

1:15PM - 2:00PM | Modern data architecture on AWS

Organizations managing data across legacy systems and silos face a critical question: how do you modernize your data estate to unlock generative AI and advanced analytics — without disrupting operations? In this session, we'll share a practical, phased approach to data modernization: assessing data maturity, migrating from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-native platforms on AWS, and building a governed data foundation that's AI-ready. You'll leave with actionable steps to modernize your data landscape — whether you're just starting your cloud journey or preparing to power AI workloads at scale.

2:00PM - 2:15PM | Break 

2:15PM - 4:15PM | Introduction to SageMaker Lakehouse on AWS 

This hands-on workshop demonstrates SageMaker Lakehouse's and Iceberg's core capabilities & benefits including service integrations and enhanced price-performance, security and governance capabilities.

10:15AM - 12:15PM | Better Customer Experiences: Build a Modern Contact Center with Amazon Connect

This workshop we'll build a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect Customer and explore integration with other AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Lex, and AWS Lambda to build a modern and robust contact center.

12:15PM - 1:15PM | Lunch 

1:15PM - 2:00PM | Govern Smarter: FinOps, Security & AI Agents for Your Cloud Environment 

Discover how AWS AI agents are transforming cloud governance by automating cost anomaly investigation with AWS FinOps Agent, delivering continuous security validation with AWS Continuum, and streamlining DevOps workflows -- turning reactive, periodic reviews into proactive, always-on operations. This session will show how these services work together to help your organization govern smarter, not harder. 

2:00PM - 2:15PM Break 

2:15PM - 4:15PM | Modernize at Your Own Pace: Migrate Legacy Applications & Databases to AWS Real-world container app + DB modernization path 

Get hands-on with a real-world replatforming path that takes a legacy application and its database to AWS using containers and managed database services, giving you a practical, step-by-step blueprint for modernizing at whatever pace fits your organization.