AWS Public Sector AI Symposium Canberra

8:15 – 8:30 AM | Smoking Ceremony
8:30 – 9:30 AM | Registration + Expo Open + Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 AM | Welcome to Country – Royal Theatre
9:45 – 11:05 AM | Keynote – Royal Theatre
11:05 – 11:30 AM | Morning Tea – Expo (Expo Guided Tour for Execs)
12:15 – 1:15 PM | Lunch Break – Expo Hall
2:25 – 2:50 PM | Afternoon Tea – Expo Hall
4:00 – 5:00 PM | Networking Reception

Join us for our opening keynote featuring Alan Halachmi, Director Technology, World Wide Public Sector, AWS and luminary leaders from across government, industry, and AWS. This informative session will share real results and bold perspectives on AI-led public sector transformation.

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Mission Critical: Race-Day Agility for Public Sector Cloud – Red Hat
1:15 – 1:50 PM | The Mythos Moment: Cyber Threats and AI Supply Chain Disruption
1:50 – 2:25 PM | Build Faster, Stay Sovereign: AI Productivity with Claude and Bedrock
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Designing an Agentic AI Platform at PROTECTED
3:25 – 4:00 PM | ASIC Cloud Security At Scale: A Regulator’s Journey to Continuous Security

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Our Services, Our Data: Reclaiming Cloud Operational Visibility with a Lean Government Team – Dynatrace
1:15 – 1:50 PM | A World First: Migrating Oracle Cerner Millennium eMR to the AWS Cloud
1:50 – 2:25 PM | The Pebble That Made a Ripple: How Airservices Australia Securely Adopted AI
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Agentic AI for VMware Migrations with AWS Transform for VMware
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Get to Know Amazon Quick, Your New AI Assistant for Work

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Mission Velocity Meets Fiscal Discipline: Optimising AI – Apptio
1:15 – 1:50 PM | Multi-Agent Document Intelligence: AgentCore for Fraud Detection
1:50 – 2:25 PM | 75% of Legacy Apps Cleared: What One Week of AI Delivered
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Secure and Resilient Agentic AI for High-Assurance Environments
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Building and Validating Cloud Controls with Generative AI

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Getting Your Organisation and DevSecOps Teams Ready for the AI Age – GitLab
1:15 – 1:50 PM | Skilling in Practice: The ATO Cloud Capability Journey
1:50 – 2:25 PM | How NBN and the University of Melbourne Built AI-Ready Contact Centres on Amazon Connect
2:50 – 3:25 PM | Skilling the AI-Ready Workforce: Bridging the Gap Between Education, Government and Industry
3:25 – 4:00 PM | Governed by Design: How AI Can Build and Assure Public Sector Workforce Capability

12:50 – 1:50 PM | Hands-on AWS Security Agent: Proactive AppSec and Autonomous Pentesting
2:50 – 4:00 PM | AI-DLC: AWS Security Agent Playground

1:15 – 4:00 PM | The Night of Broken Magic: AWS DevOps Agent GameDay

1:50 – 2:35 PM | Engineering the Future: AI, Agentic Systems and the Next Platform Evolution - Murray Room

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | From Legacy Risk to Mission Ready: Accelerating Secure Modernisation for the Australian Public Sector – Versent
1:05 – 1:50 PM | Restoring Trust and Transparency in an AI-Driven World – Smartsheet
1:50 – 2:35 PM | Engineering the Future: AI, Agentic Systems and the Next Platform Evolution

12:15 – 2:25 PM | Executive Exchange

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Step into a real-time city command centre and watch two high-stakes scenarios unfold: a medical emergency as 80,000 fans leave a stadium, an AI agent dispatches the nearest ambulance, clears a green-wave corridor, and selects the best hospital by live ED capacity. Then, thousands of EVs plug in simultaneously, triggering a grid surge detected by Amazon Managed Flink and resolved at the edge by IoT Greengrass. Every critical action requires explicit human approval — the AI reasons and recommends, but people decide. Built on open standards and composable AWS managed services.

Check out the following demos and programs

• Federal Goverment: Hear real stories from Federal government customers on what's working — and what they'd do differently. Get best-practice guidance from AWS Federal Solutions Architects, and walk away with actionable insights.
• AWS Australia Cloud: Join us in building something special. We're looking for builders and innovators to help transform Australia's technology landscape through strategic cloud initiative.

Check out the following demos and programs

• Agentic Situational Awareness during Disasters: When a cyclone, flood or earthquake hits, decision-makers need verified, linked intelligence — not a wall of raw feeds. This demo shows multiple AI agents, orchestrated through Amazon AgentCore, searching, cross-verifying, synthesising and connecting information in near-real time to build a coherent situational picture. See how agentic AI turns fragmented data into actionable awareness that drives the right behavioural outcomes — fast.
• AI-powered Grants Assistant: Chat with an AI grants assessor — live. A single Strands agent backed by seven purpose-built tools guides you through the grant processing lifecycle, from eligibility checks to scoring and recommendation. Ask a question and watch the agent reason through which tools to call, in what order, and why — adapting in real time to the conversation. This is how government agencies can accelerate grant assessment without sacrificing rigour.
• Real-time Camera Inference — Achieving your goals from AI at the edge: Watch AI see the road in real time. Live on the expo floor, edge devices running AWS IoT Greengrass perform object detection on dashcam footage — picking out vehicles, heavy vehicles, motorbikes, potholes and lane markings while masking PII on the fly. What you're seeing is commodity hardware doing sub-second inference with results streamed straight to the cloud. Built for transport but instantly applicable across government verticals, this is how agencies deploy and run AI models on static and moving infrastructure — no specialist hardware required.

Check out the following demos and programs

• Building and Validating Cloud Controls with Generative AI: Compliance doesn't have to be manual. Watch generative AI author AWS Config rules, customise AWS Control Tower account baselines, and analyse CloudTrail logs — accelerating governance work that traditionally takes weeks of specialist effort. This demo shows how AI can reduce the complexity of cloud compliance while strengthening your security posture, not weakening it.
• Multi-LLM at Scale - Visibility, Control, Compliance: One gateway, any model, full governance. See how a unified AI gateway built on LiteLLM and AWS lets public sector agencies centralise access to Amazon Bedrock, third-party, and open-source LLMs through a single governed endpoint — without sacrificing cost visibility, compliance posture, or the freedom to choose the right model for the job. This is multi-LLM adoption at scale, with guardrails baked in from day one.
• DataPerimeter on AWS - Identity, Resource, Network Controls in Practice: An employee copies sensitive data to a personal account. Knowledge bases surface in a public channel. Workloads bypass VPC endpoints entirely. Three personas — CISO, Platform Engineer, Developer — each face a real data perimeter gap. Watch every gap close in real time as SCPs, RCPs, Declarative Policies, and VPC Endpoint Policies are progressively layered, deployed, and validated with Config Rules and CloudFormation Guard — all while keeping AWS services working.
• AI-Enabled Compliance - Accelerating the Path to Production: Compliance accreditation is one of the biggest barriers to deploying workloads in secure environments — until now. See how Amazon Bedrock interprets and maps controls into intelligent frameworks, Kiro auto-generates compliance documentation, and AWS Security Agents continuously validate application posture. Capped off with a look at AWS Assurance, the new GRC platform launching June 2026, these AI-powered tools compress months of compliance effort into days.

Check out the following demos and programs

• Learning Reimagined: How AI Can Improve the Learning Experience: Long lectures shouldn't mean lost learners. See how AI transforms a dense 1–2 hour recording into a series of bite-sized lessons — complete with summaries, chapter markers, key-point highlights, multiple-choice knowledge checks, and an AI chatbot tutor — all reviewed and published by the educator before students see a thing. Watch the full flow live: upload, chunking, content generation, human-in-the-loop approval, and a learner engagement dashboard that shows exactly where attention holds and where it drops. Built on CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Bedrock, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, and Cognito — and applicable anywhere long instructional video meets time-poor audiences.
• One Queue, Two Homes: Federating On-Premises HPC to AWS for Research: Researchers shouldn't wait in a queue because last year's capital budget set a fixed ceiling. This demo shows a live, federated HPC environment where a single Slurm job is submitted once and runs wherever capacity is available — on-premises or on AWS — with zero workflow change for the researcher. Data stays authoritative on-prem and is cached to the cloud on demand; AWS provides the single control plane for identity, scheduling, and security, all defined as reproducible infrastructure-as-code. Key services: AWS ParallelCluster, Slurm multi-cluster federation, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FlexCache), EC2 with EFA, and Research Engineering Studio.
• AWS Training and Certification - Cloud & AI Learning Hub: Discover how AWS Training & Certification is helping Australian Government agencies build cloud and AI capability from within. Visit our booth to explore Cloud and AI Training options, and speak with our specialists about training for yourself or your teams - from AI foundations to advanced cloud pathways. Whether you're exploring where to start or scaling an existing program, we'll help you map the right learning journey for your team.