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Overview

The Hawai’i Cloud Innovation Summit is a premier conference dedicated to exploring and promoting innovative technologies, digital transformation, and enabling the local workforce. This year’s event is focused on the theme of “Laulima: Working Together To Future Proof Hawai’iʻs Economy” with a goal to bring together all sectors of the economy and highlight the importance of collaboration to drive growth and success.

The objective of the event is to connect businesses, technology leaders, healthcare leaders, education, government officials and defense leaders to exchange ideas, best practices, and insights on digital transformation. Through engaging keynote presentations, informative panel discussions, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities, attendees will gain valuable knowledge and practical strategies to leverage digital transformation and innovation to drive economic growth and protect the local economy.

The summit will also focus on the importance of enabling the workforce to meet the demands of the digital age, highlighting the need for continuous learning and development to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment. With a strong emphasis on uniting to protect our local economy, the summit aims to bring together stakeholders from all sectors to explore innovative solutions that promote growth, sustainability, and prosperity for all of Hawai’i.

Keynote speakers include:

Sylvia Luke

Lieutenant Governor, State of Hawai’i
Maurice “Mo” Ramsey

Disaster Response and Humanitarian Leader, AWS
Angela A. Shippy

Senior Physician Executive and Clinical Innovation Lead, Nonprofit Healthcare, AWS
Steve Comstock

Enterprise Technologist, AWS

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Contact:

Leilani Farinas

Executive Director TRUE

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Main Event

8:00 am – 9:00 am	Registration Check-In
9:00 – 9:10 am	Welcome • Leilani Farinas, Executive Director, TRUE • Christine Sakuda, Executive Director, Transform Hawaii Government
9:10 am – 9:15 am	Hawai’i’s Terraformation: Creating & Sharing Tech Solutions to Combat Climate Change Kate Logan, Head of Business Development, Hawai’i, Terraformation
9:15 am – 9:30 am	Shaping Hawai’i’s Future Through Digital Transformation Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, State of Hawai’i
9:30 am – 10:20 am	The Role of Hawai’i’s Leaders in Driving Digital Transformation Moderator: Christine Sakuda, Executive Director, Transform Hawai’i Government Panelists: Peter Dames, Executive Vice President, Servco Pacific, Inc. Brigadier General Mark D. Miles, Director for Command, Control, Communications & Cyber U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Connie Mitchell, Executive Director, Institute for Human Services Ed Sniffen, Director, Dept of Transportation, State of Hawai’i Suzanne Vares-Lum, President, East-West Center
10:20 am – 10:45 am	Fostering Innovation, Upskilling & Addressing Workforce Challenges Dr. Angela Shippy, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Senior Physician Executive
10:45 am – 11:00 am	Break
11:00 am – 11:25 am	Re-inventing Hawai’i’s Business Landscape: Driving Innovation & Equality for a Sustainable Future Steve Comstock, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Enterprise Technologist
11:25 am – 11:50 am	Building Resilience & Collaboration in Disaster Response: Harnessing Technology for Hawai’i’s Preparedness & Recovery Mo Ramsey, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Global Leader, Disaster Response & Humanitarian Affairs
11:50 am – 1:00 pm	Networking Lunch & Tech Village
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Afternoon Track Sessions: Technical Track, Business Track, & Workforce Enablement Track Click other tabs to check all afternoon track sessions
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Pau Hana/ Networking/ Tech Village

EDUCATION TRACKS

	Technical Track	Business Track	Workforce Enablement Track
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm	Edge & Hybrid Computing – Enable AWS Cloud Computing Anywhere Walt Whitecotton, Business Development Manager Gov Cloud, AWS	Protecting People & the Planet (Data Privacy & Sustainability in IT) Rick Hopfer, CIO HMSA Woody Evans, Vice President, Value Engineering, SustainableIT.org, Delphix	Education & Training for Companies Transitioning to the Cloud Rich Uhl, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS Steve Sakata, eWorld Enterprise Inc. Sharece Silva, DevIslandSchool
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm	Democratizing Data Analytics Pranav Khadilkar, Solutions Architect, AWS Kelli Gonsalves, Data Scientist, DataHouse Jeff Masumoto, Vice President, Solutions & Consulting Services, DataHouse	Cloud Adoption through Digital Innovation at First Hawaiian Bank Ben Schuster, Vice President, Engineering & DevOps, First Hawaiian Bank	Training Your Existing Workforce Shaun Winter, Training & Certification Leader, AWS
2:30 pm – 3:15 pm	Accelerate Security & Compliance in the Cloud Anna Kropf, Sr Security Partner Strategist, AWS Marie Yap, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS	Charting the Future of Customer Experience: Amazon Connect & Contact Center Modernization Yasser El-Haggan, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Morse	Train the Future Workforce Dr. Salvatore Aurigemma, PhD Lecturer, Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business University of Hawai’i at Manoa
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm	Using Innovation to Help Protect & Defend the Indo-Pacific Region Wendy Marotta, Deputy Program Director for USINDOPACOM, SMX	Migration Journey from Mainframe to the Cloud Pranav Khadilkar, Solutions Architect, AWS Stason Rodriguez, Solutions Architect, AWS Jeff Masumoto, Vice President, Solutions & Consulting Services, DataHouse	Digital Transformation & Life-long Learning Alan Ito, IT Workforce & Regulated Policy Lead, University of Hawai’i Bennette Misalucha, Executive Director, Hawai’i Workforce Development Council Clyde Shiigi, Chief Innovation Officer, DataHouse