For many education and state and local government teams, the challenge is not whether modernization is needed. It is how to improve performance, strengthen security, and simplify operations without disrupting the services students, citizens, faculty, staff, and public employees rely on every day.

Join us for a practical discussion on how public sector IT leaders are rethinking legacy network designs and building a more secure, cloud ready foundation. The conversation will explore where router heavy, MPLS dependent, and backhauled environments are creating cost pressure and operational drag, how Zero Trust and SASE can be approached in phases, and what it takes to protect users, applications, and connected environments at scale.

Attendees will walk away with a clearer view of how education and government organizations can modernize network access, improve digital experience, reduce complexity for lean IT teams, and move toward a more resilient architecture without treating transformation as a rip and replace effort.

BWG Connect, Insight Enterprises & HPE invite you to join an interactive event with industry peers to review & discuss practical insights across the digital space.

As always, there will be no sales pitch and all attendees are welcome to listen and learn.

• Legacy network designs are making it harder for public sector IT teams to keep pace with cloud adoption, distributed users, and growing security demands
  • Attendees will discuss where router heavy, MPLS dependent, and backhauled environments are creating performance issues, cost pressure, and operational drag, while exploring what modernization looks like across campuses, branch offices, libraries, agencies, and remote sites without disrupting essential services
• Zero Trust and SASE are becoming priorities, but many education and government teams need a practical path from where they are today
  • The discussion will focus on how teams are approaching secure access, least privilege, application visibility, and policy enforcement, with Insight Public Sector and Juniper helping frame how SD WAN, SSE, and cloud delivered security can support phased modernization rather than a rip and replace transformation
• User experience is now a network priority because students, citizens, faculty, staff, and public employees all depend on reliable digital access
  • The group will unpack where backhauling, bandwidth limitations, and fragmented architectures are affecting application performance and service delivery, while comparing how teams are balancing cost reduction with better access to cloud applications, SaaS tools, learning platforms, and public services
• Remote users, IoT growth, smart campus initiatives, and smart city programs are expanding the attack surface faster than traditional controls can manage
  • Attendees will discuss how device growth and distributed access are changing the security model across schools, municipalities, agencies, and public facilities, while exploring how to protect users, applications, and connected environments without slowing innovation or mobility
• Lean IT teams need simpler operations, faster troubleshooting, and consistent policy enforcement across the full network environment
  • Participants will examine where manual processes, disconnected tools, and limited visibility are slowing response times, and how AI driven operations, centralized policy, and stronger network assurance can help reduce complexity while improving control