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AWS Summit Washington, DC: AWS Classified Regions Day
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2024
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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.

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AWS Summit Washington, DC: AWS Classified Regions Day

2020 Global series

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About the event

Join this exclusive event during the AWS Summit Washington, DC to learn about utilizing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Government Regions infrastructure for classified and regulated workloads to support your missions. The half-day event will feature executive panels, presentations, and case studies from government speakers and AWS experts alongside other U.S. national security, defense, and civilian government leaders and partners.
 

Attendance at this event is by invitation only. Please see specific registration instructions below.

Who should attend

This event is invite-only and intended for leaders from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Intelligence Community, US Federal civilian and financial, defense industrial base, systems integrators, and technology partners.


Attendees must be under an active non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to participate.

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To register for this event please:

     1) Register for AWS Summit Washington, DC ›

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     2) Register for this event on this page to attend Deploying mission workloads in AWS Government Regions

 

 

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David Appel, Vice President, U.S. Federal, AWS

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Overcoming Resistance to Change and Removing Barriers to Deploying AI based Analytics within the National Security and DoD Communities


Presenters:

- Lt. Gen. Michael Groen (Ret), former Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

- James Lawrence, Deputy Director of the U.S Air Force The Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO)

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Cloud Digital Transformation for Special Access Programs


Presenters:

- Scott Wilson, Senior Program Manager, Classified Programs General Atomics

- Matt Swartz, Senior Business Development Manager, AWS Government Cloud Regions

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Mission Networking: The first step in moving your classified mission to the cloud

 

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- Josh Rosenthol, Senior Manager, AWS Secure Connections

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Leveraging the Cloud to Start a Data Flywheel


Presenters:

- Azuree Salazar, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Eric Sanders, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Jenna Bradford, Senior Sales Manager, AWS


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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. 


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. 

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