Join AWS for an immersive event designed to help Florida public sector leaders and technologists turn modernization from a multi-year risk into an achievable, near-term reality. Legacy systems carry decades of mission logic — and the gap between what they deliver today and what your mission demands tomorrow continues to widen. This event shows how agentic and generative AI now let agencies analyze, map, and modernize those systems in days, not years.
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Whether you’re setting strategy or writing code, you’ll leave with practical frameworks, live demos, and hands-on workshops that turn modernization intent into a working plan.
The day kicks off with a keynote exploring how purpose-built AWS infrastructure delivers lower costs, advanced tools, and real results for agencies like yours. From there, choose your path:
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Strategy-focused session on building a modernization business case, forecasting cost, and shaping a 90-day roadmap — with a focus on how agentic AI turns legacy modernization from a hundred-million-dollar gamble into an evidence-based, manageable program. No technical background required.
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Technical sessions (half-day): Learn how AWS Transform uses generative AI to accelerate application modernization and VMware cloud migrations. Choose from two parallel afternoon workshops: modernize your .NET applications with AI-assisted refactoring, or Accelerating .NET and SQL Server Modernization using Agentic AI. Please bring your laptop — it is required for the hands-on sessions.
Who should attend
- Executives, IT directors, and decision makersÂ
- Business analysts and program managersÂ
- Developers and technical staff who want hands-on experience with AWS services
- Public sector employees only
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.Â
Speakers:Â
Cameron Hales, Senior GTM Specialist, AWS
Jeffrey Jankowski, Vice President, State and Local Government, CAST Software
Comprehensive business case covering both cost savings and organizational transformation benefits for migration & modernization, demo of Transform with integrated customer success stories.
Speakers:Â
Cameron Hales, Senior GTM Specialist, AWS
Mike Hereid, Senior Customer Solutions Manager, AWS
Kevin McQuillen, Senior Business Development Manager, AWS
Technical Workshop: In this workshop, gain hands-on experience modernizing a .NET Framework application to cross-platform .NET. Use AWS Transform for .NET a modernization service powered by agentic AI that significantly reduces the time to migrate applications from Windows Server to Linux. Then leverage an AI-powered IDE, to identify and fix any residual gaps, giving you full confidence in your modernized application. Together, these tools create a powerful end-to-end modernization accelerators.
Speakers:Â
Mangesh Budkule, Senior IMM Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Ty Augustine, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Technical Workshop: Across industries, teams are stuck maintaining valuable but aging legacy applications stack that demand more time and money each year. Re-platforming a legacy MS SQL database is technically demanding. Traditional modernization efforts often make this harder. What if you could modernize your SQL Server databases and the dependent .NET applications code together offloading the heavy transformation work to AI agents while your teams focus on features? In this this workshop, we’ll walk through a practical, end-to-end path to modernize full-stack workloads moving SQL Server databases and their dependent .NET applications code to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Speakers:Â
Mesgana Gormley, Senior SSA Database, AWS
Rik De, Senior SSA Database, AWS
Optional: Networking happy hour at Charlie Park
