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AWS and Novartis: Re-inventing pharma manufacturing

Today, AWS announced a new strategic collaboration with Novartis that will transform Novartis’ core supply chain, manufacturing, and delivery operations through the use of AWS services. For several years, many AWS partners and life science customers have been using AWS services to modernize various aspects of manufacturing and supply chain. This strategic collaboration with Novartis […]

In the News: With machine learning, manufacturing giant 3M innovates products old and new

The below article originally appeared in WIRED. IN 1916, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, or 3M, opened its first research lab, a closet-sized space in its St. Paul sandpaper factory. A series of incidents across the first 14 years of the company’s existence—one involving a shipment of sandpaper botched in transit by a spilled […]

How AWS partners are helping transform travel and hospitality

“Technology always develops from the primitive, via the complicated, to the simple.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Growth and Complexity An aviator and engineer, born 119 years ago, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s quote left us a timeless analogy to describe how the travel and hospitality (T&H) industry transforms. The industry is big, complex and people-driven. With the […]

Event Report: AWS Autotech Forum 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

Hello, I’m Hiroshi Okamoto, a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services Japan. This report will explore “AWS Autotech Forum 2019”, an automotive industry event sponsored by AWS and held in Tokyo on October 25, 2019. Have you ever imagined the combination of AWS and the automotive industry? Actually, AWS services are widely used in many […]

Webinar: Digital Medicine 101

Technology is changing how we practice medicine. Sensors and wearables are getting smaller and cheaper, and algorithms are becoming powerful enough to predict medical outcomes. Yet despite rapid advances, healthcare lags behind other industries in truly putting these technologies to use. A major barrier to entry is the cross-disciplinary approach required to create such tools, […]

In the News: Today’s in-flight experience is brought to you by machine learning

The below article originally appeared in WIRED.  Inflight entertainment in the pre-internet era was limited to the books and magazines that could be crammed into a passenger’s carry-on—or bought last-minute at the airport. But today, from the array of entertainment options to inflight Wi-Fi, technology has made today’s flying experience markedly more enjoyable. Now, Panasonic […]

Genomic pathogen surveillance using Nextflow on AWS

The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS) is based at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge and The Big Data Institute, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The Centre hopes to enable the linking and real-time interpretation of data globally to track pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in a cost-effective manner. Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS […]

The future of air travel retailing

Travel is a personal experience, whether you are traveling for leisure, business, or a combination of both. When people travel, they dream about exotic places, the opportunity to meet new people, make connections, create partnerships, or drive new business. There are thousands of travel technology topics I could write about, but with the IATA Airline […]

A Travel Tech CEO’s journey from cloud skeptic to evangelist

As CEO of 3Victors, a travel big data AI startup, who spent the better part of his career solving tricky digital problems by tuning software to squeeze maximum performance from racks of bare metal computers, I was more than a bit skeptical of cloud computing. First, let me provide a little insight into my company […]

3 themes in the hospitality industry and what they mean for your business

There is no question that we are living in exciting times, especially with regard to some of the innovations happening in the world of hospitality. For those of us who travel regularly, or anyone who enjoys staying in hotels, dining out, or partaking in the other numerous offerings provided by the hospitality industry, frequent changes […]