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.
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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Federal Executive Forum brings together forward-thinking leaders across civilian, financials, defense, and national security to discuss emerging technologies, share best practices, and use the cloud to move their missions forward.
Reserve your spot to:
- • Hear about key announcements from AWS re:Invent and what they mean for federal leaders.
- • Enjoy dialogues on mission-focused topics such as generative AI, resilience, zero trust, and strategies for multi-cloud environments.
- • Meet 1:1 with AWS leaders and executive strategists.
- • Connect with your executive peers in Amazon’s new HQ2 in Arlington, VA.
Reserve your seat now and watch this space for agenda updates and speaker announcements.
Speakers:
Larry Taxson, Chief, CLOUDworks
David Nolton, VP, Region Services, AWS
Leaders are always thinking about how to move their mission forward, faster. But how can they make sure their organization is ready? Before leaders can begin to efficiently leverage the cloud’s power for mission AI/ML, high performance computing, or tactical edge deployments, they must first establish a sound foundational resilience. That includes data access control/management at scale, resilient networking options, and secure cloud infrastructure down to the system-level. Hear from federal government and AWS leaders on how to build foundational resilience in the cloud and what mission impact scalable resilience can bring.
Speakers:
Micky Iqbal, Director of Enterprise & Principal Technologists, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Manan Dalal, CIO, NESDIS
John Lau, Sr. Strategic Technology Advisor, OCIO, USPTO
Susan Lake, Director, Infrastructure & Operations Service, FAA
As government agencies seek to accelerate cloud migration and transformation, some find themselves managing IT operations in a multicloud environment, or simply struggling with whether to adopt a multicloud strategy and how to implement it. Leaders must consider how operating multiple cloud environments impacts business outcomes and innovation. In this panel discussion, AWS and government leaders share insights and guidance to aid executive decision-makers in their multicloud strategy.
Neerav Kingsland, Head of Global Accounts, Anthropic
Todd Conklin, Chief AI Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Cybersecurity/Critical Infrastructure Protection, US Treasury
Generative AI is an exciting, new, transformational technology. But how do federal leaders take advantage of what it promises? What’s real? What is just hype? Where can it impact mission and how do federal organizations get started? AWS leaders and customers will discuss how to get started with generative AI, what use cases it can be applied to in the federal government, and how to make sure you’re ready to take advantage of this emerging technology.
Speakers:
Mark Schwartz, Director, AWS Enterprise Strategy
Bill Loeffert, Vice President, Fannie Mae
Kym Weiland, Vice President, FINRA
Senior leaders will share their approach to guiding teams in experimenting and evaluating new services and features like generative AI to support mission requirements in 2024.
Ron Weinstein, Principal AI/ML Solutions Architect, AWS
Scott Papson, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
In this session, we will cover a recap of the many AI/ML re:Invent launches, how these services and feature launches are relevant to NatSec and DoD use cases, and customers working in classified environments can leverage new AI/ML solutions now.
The White House’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, released in 2023, contends that Zero Trust principles must be used to counter threats “both inside and outside traditional network boundaries.” In this session Federal leaders will share their agencies' approach in implementing this critical technology to thwart persistent threats as well as building and operating secure and resilient systems.
Gregg Kendrick, CISO, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bob Ritchie, CTO, SAIC
Stacy Cahill, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, U.S. Department of Treasury
Shane Barney, CISO, US Citizenship and Immigration Services
Moderated by Eric Scholz, Head of Solutions Architecture, Federal Financials, AWS
Cloud computing has opened a new frontier for high performance computing (HPC). In federal agencies, advances in cloud based HPC have allowed researchers to re-imagine their approaches to large-scale computational and analytic problems. Join this panel to hear how government agencies have harnessed AWS HPC capabilities and overcome challenges to help you implement cloud infrastructure that flexes to match problem solving requirements.
Frank Indiviglio, CTO, NOAA
Rayette Toles, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
To meet evolving agency missions, federal workers increasingly need access to high-quality data and insights gleaned from analytics and AI/ML processes. While data management and AI/ML approaches are rapidly advancing, securely managing enterprise data at scale remains a complex endeavor. Join this panel to hear AWS and government leaders share challenges and successes that can help inform your data management decisions.
Terry Carpenter, CIO, NSF
Dawei Jiang, Chief Cloud Engineer, USPTO
Moderator: Zak Kelly, AWS SME
