Overview

October 29
11AM PT, 2PM ET

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Cloud adoption is accelerating across government, but so are concerns about compliance, risk exposure and rising costs. As agencies modernize systems and expand services, IT leaders face mounting pressure to keep things secure, efficient and within budget. How do you move forward without making compromises?

In this webinar, we’ll explore what it takes to modernize government operations in the cloud while maintaining control over risk, spend and governance. You’ll hear how counties, like Los Angeles, are turning data into action, optimizing cloud investments and building internal confidence around cloud initiatives — all while meeting compliance mandates.

You’ll learn:

  • How agencies are gaining visibility into cloud risks, data flow and compliance across departments
  • Ways to control telemetry and threat detection costs without sacrificing performance
  • What Los Angeles County is doing to build trust and alignment around cloud decisions 

Speakers

 

Joseph A Cervantes

Cyber Governance & Operations Branch, Governance Risk and Compliance Division, LA County

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Varun Jasti

Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Varun Jasti is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, working with AWS Partners to design and scale artificial intelligence solutions for public sector use cases to meet compliance standards. With a background in computer science, his work covers a broad range of machine learning (ML) use cases primarily focusing on LLM training/inferencing and computer vision. In his spare time, he loves playing tennis and swimming.

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Neil Gainey

Senior Public Sector Partner Solutions Architect, Wiz

Neil Gainey is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for Public Sector at Wiz, focused on making “secure by design” practical at scale. He helps agencies and integrators align developers, DevOps, SOC, and emerging AI teams around a single, measurable cloud security program. Drawing on field work across AWS/Azure Gov, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD, Neil specializes in democratizing security workflows, prioritizing real risk, and consolidating overlapping tools without slowing delivery.

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Bob Woolley — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Bob was the chief technical architect for the state of Utah’s Department of Technology Services, including the development of the state’s Utah.gov portal. Utah has been widely recognized in these areas with numerous national awards. He has also been a technical lead and RFP writer for the WSCA/NASPO Cloud and Data Communication Procurements. He has experience with state, county and higher education employee skill assessments and technology upgrade implementations, including large-scale database migrations from RDMS to NoSQL platforms. He has extensive private-sector experience with Microservices Architecture implementation and DevOps using hybrid cloud deployment patterns.