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What’s happening for Startups at the AWS Summit — San Francisco?
Whether you are a startup that’s new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at the next AWS Summit, which is being held in San Francisco on April 18 to 19.
This free event is designed to educate you about the AWS platform and to help you develop the skills necessary to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications. Amazon Chief Technology Officer Dr. Werner Vogels will be delivering the keynote and AWS CEO Andy Jassy will be hosting a fireside chat.
Startup Loft at the AWS Summit – San Francisco
For the AWS Summit – San Francisco, we have designed an experience mean to help you build and grow your startup.
- AWS Startup Loft–We are bringing the AWS Loft to the AWS Summit–San Francisco. It’s a place where startups can meet, attend educational sessions, and get in-person answers to AWS technical questions.
- Ask a Startup Expert—No appointment is necessary. AWS Startup customers will be onsite to answer technical questions on topics ranging from Serverless to Artificial Intelligence. AWS Solution Architects will also be there to help with any foundational questions.
- Lightning Talks featuring Hot Startups–Join us for lightning talks to learn about cool projects startups such as Branch, CloudCoreo and Metabase are working on.
Continue your learning by attending sessions, workshops, and hands-on activities and adding them to your schedule via our mobile app! Download our app to maximize your AWS Summit experience. Find the talks listed below, build your startup schedule, reference way finding maps, and learn more about our exhibiting partners. You can also provide session feedback so we can continue to improve the Summit program. Search “AWS Summits 2017” in your app store or visit https://crowd.cc/s/summits
Startup Agenda at the AWS Summit – San Francisco
| Date/Time | Lightning Talk/Session | Speaker |
| 4/18 – 10:30am | The Philosophy of Monitoring | Dmitri Gaskin, Cofounder, Branch |
| 4/18 – 11:15am | Automating security in the cloud | Brent Langston, Director of Platform Architecture of CloudPassage |
| 4/18 – 11:30am | Ask a Startup Expert featuring CloudPassage | Brent Langston, Director of Platform Architecture of CloudPassage |
| 4/18 – 11:45am | Taking your Company Serverless with AWS & Track | Chris Labasky Cofounder & CFO, Track Trent Bigelow, Cofounder & CEO, Track Alex Cram, Cofounder & CTO, Track |
| 4/18 – 12:00pm | Ask a Startup Expert featuring Track | Chris Labasky Cofounder & CFO, Track Trent Bigelow, Cofounder & CEO, Track Alex Cram, Cofounder & CTO, Track |
| 4/18 – 1:45pm | Zero to Full Datacenter with Ansible | Steve Salevan, Founder, SPINE |
| 4/18 – 3:00pm | Startups On Air featuring CloudCoreo | Paul Allen, Founder & CTO, CloudCoreo |
| 4/18 – 4:00pm | Startups On Air featuring Metabase | Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO, Metabase |
| 4/19 – 11:15am | Implementing Strategic Artificial Intelligence Using AWS | Philip West, Cofounder & Head of Product, Vidora Abhik Majumdar, Cofounder & CTO, Vidora |
| 4/19 – 11:30am | Ask a Startup Expert featuring Vidora | Philip West, Cofounder & Head of Product, Vidora Abhik Majumdar, Cofounder & CTO, Vidora |
| 4/19 – 11:45am | Processing satellite data at petabyte scale at Mapbox | Camilla Mahon, PM, Mapbox |
| 4/19 – 12:00pm | Ask a Startup Expert | Camilla Mahon, PM, Mapbox |
| 4/19 – 12:15pm | VC Fundraising 101 | Ryan Kiskis, Startup BD Manager, AWS |
| 4/19 – 12:45pm | Partnering and Business Development to Grow Your Startup | Jim Routh, Startup BD Manager, AWS |
| 4/19 – 2:30pm | Developing an ecosystem of software to handle your life 24/7 | Nic Novak, Co-founder, Magic |
| 4/19 – 3:30pm | It’s Not Them, It’s You – Security at Scale | Paul Allen, Founder & CTO, CloudCoreo |
| 4/19 – 4:00pm | Data Driven from Day 1 | Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO, Metabase |