Amazon Web Services’ new mandate is turning agentic hype into practical applications for the public sector.

That will be the focus of the company’s upcoming event, AWS Summit Washington, D.C. Kicking off with a keynote from Dave Levy, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, the summit will address the company’s efforts to support agentic AI deployment across multiple sectors, including global national security and healthcare.

“AWS Summit DC highlights a significant shift in enterprise and public-sector AI adoption — from experimentation to mission-critical deployment,” said Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at theCUBE Research. “The emphasis on agentic AI, modernization and secure government workloads demonstrates that the next phase of AI success will be defined by governance, scalability and developer productivity rather than model access alone.”

TheCUBE’s live coverage of AWS Summit Washington, D.C., June 30 to July 1, will feature interviews with public-sector leaders and cloud-computing experts. Tune in to hear in-depth discussions about how AI is solving real-world challenges.

Agentic AI tackles the public sector

TheCUBE’s research data for app development shows that 92% of organizations are now integrating AI into at least one stage of the software delivery lifecycle, according to Nashawaty. However, operational readiness remains a significant challenge.

The recent AWS Summit in New York City focused on a series of partnerships that are putting AI into production, with an emphasis on physical AI and delivering business value.

“I’ve been building robotics my whole life,” said Jay Wong, chief executive officer of Luminous Robotics Inc., who spoke to theCUBE alongside Alla Simoneau, physical AI technology leader at AWS. “I think it’s never been a more exciting timeframe than today, where we can use these tools, really have robots reason at a level that has never been previously attainable … and truly delivering value to these customers.”

As AI projects begin delivering tangible results, AWS is looking to operationalize them across the public sector. The key to effective implementation is a flexible and intelligent agentic model, according to Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of agentic AI, who was the opening keynote speaker for AWS Summit NYC.

“What you really need is agents that actually change the way you work, not just speed up the steps, but completely eliminate them,” he said. “If humans are still forced to be the orchestration layer, your momentum actually has a ceiling.”

TheCUBE event livestream

Don’t miss theCUBE’s coverage of AWS Summit Washington, D.C., June 30 to July 1. Plus, you can watch theCUBE’s exclusive content on-demand after the live event.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

We offer you various ways to watch theCUBE’s coverage of AWS Summit Washington, D.C., including theCUBE’s dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year’s event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE podcasts

SiliconANGLE’s “theCUBE Pod” is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube, which you can enjoy while on the go. During each podcast, SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante unpack the biggest trends in enterprise tech — from AI and cloud to regulation and workplace culture — with exclusive context and analysis.

SiliconANGLE also produces our weekly “Breaking Analysis” program, where Dave Vellante examines the top stories in enterprise tech, combining insights from theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.

Guests

During theCUBE’s coverage of AWS Summit Washington, D.C., company executives and industry experts will discuss how agentic AI, secure cloud infrastructure and modernization strategies are helping public-sector organizations move from experimentation to mission-driven outcomes.

Stay tuned for exclusive interviews with industry experts from AWS, Intel, OpenAI, AskMD, SAP and Accenture Federal, among others.

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