F5 Public Sector Symposium 2025
APRIL 8–10, 2025
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Mark your calendars for F5’s public sector app security and delivery conference.
The public sector faces unique challenges—and opportunities—in the emerging era of AI. Join F5 leaders, technical experts, and practitioners at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, VA from April 8–10 to discover what’s new and what’s next in app security and delivery for the public sector. Explore how to secure, deliver, and optimize apps and APIs while effectively navigating the complexity of today's hybrid, multicloud, AI-enabled ecosystems.
- Gain new insights: Learn how to protect your expanding threat surface against emerging AI-powered attacks.
- Build your skills: Advance your career with educational resources, validate your expertise with accreditations, and attain industry-recognized F5 certifications.
- Expand your network: Foster connections with public sector peers, technology partners, and industry visionaries.
- Shape the future of F5 technology: Meet F5’s business and technical leaders, share your feedback, and influence the development of our technology.
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Last Year's Keynotes
Multicloud Made Easy
Speaker
Kara Sprague
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, F5
The stakes couldn’t be higher: we need our apps to deliver incredible digital experiences but they’re being attacked like never before. The good news is that F5’s portfolio secures, delivers, and optimizes every app, every API, everywhere. And we do that today! As you face AI-powered cyberattacks and increasingly distributed environments, Kara explains how F5 simplifies the complexity of protecting apps.
API Security: 10 Best Practices and Strategically Applying AI
Speaker
Josh Goldfarb
Security and Fraud Architect, F5
It is difficult to go anywhere in the security profession these days without AI and API security coming up. Beyond buzz and hype, however, how can we know when AI is being leveraged in a useful way to creatively solve problems? AI works best when it’s carefully, strategically, and methodically leveraged in order to tackle certain problems that suit it. Join us for a session on applying AI to API security and 10 best practices.
On-Demand API Security Webinar
Missed out on Josh Goldfarb’s keynote API Security: 10 Best Practices and Strategically Applying AI? Catch up by watching the on-demand webinar to go beyond the hype and find out how to strategically apply AI to API security.
Learning Tracks
TRACK 1
Boot Camp 101
This track for customers looking to become F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrators. It includes networking basics, where app calls are made in the TCP/IP stack, and how to prepare for the F5 Certified Professional 101 exam on Application Delivery Fundamentals.
TRACK 2
Boot Camp 201
This track is for F5 admins who have hands-on experience with the BIG-IP platform and want to become Certified BIG-IP Administrators by taking the 201 exam. It focuses on TMOS administration and BIG-IP LTM fundamentals.
TRACK 3
Boot Camp 301
This track focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of underlying principles—from SSL-based VPN implementation to symmetric and asymmetric acceleration. You should have an F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA) certification.
TRACK 4
NGINX Accreditation
This track is for people looking to gain the new NGINX 100 and 200 level accreditations. Session topics include NGINX Plus, NGINX App Protect, NGINX Kubernetes Ingress Controller, OpenShift + CIS and BIG-IP Ingress-Link with Ingress Controller, and NGINX App Protect Advanced Topics.
TRACK 5
Solution Sessions
The Solution Sessions track will take you through five different F5 solution areas: F5 zero trust capabilities, securing APIs in any environment, how BIG-IP Next simplifies day-to-day ADC operations, how to migrate BIG-IP workloads to Distributed Cloud, and BIG-IP APM best practices.
Sponsors
We’d like to thank our 2024 sponsors for being a part of the F5 Federal Symposium! All of our sponsors are partnering with F5 to meet you face to face at the event to learn more about the unique challenges you face in the federal sector and explore how to mitigate them.
A special thank you to our
Platinum sponsor: GuidePoint
Gold sponsor: WorldTechIT
Silver sponsor: World Wide Technology
