Build On Live Data and Analytics
Dive into the world of data and analytics
Shownotes with links to resources
- Data Engineers, DataOps/MLOps engineers
- Data Architects, Data Analysts, Database Administrators
- Data Product Managers, Data Scientists and anyone else with passion and interest to build solutions in the space.
Session recordings
All sessions from the stream are now available on demand on the Build On YouTube channel.
Build On Data and Analytics Agenda
Hosted By: Darko Mesaros, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS and Dani Traphagen, Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, AWS
Start time PDT |
End time PDT |
Session title |
Guests |
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9:00 | 9:30 | Intro and Welcome | Darko Mesaros, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS and Dani Traphagen, Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, AWS |
9:30 | 9:55 | What's happening in the world of Data and Analytics? |
Matt Wood, VP Business Analytics, AWS and Lena Hall, Head of Developer Relations, North America, AWS |
10:00 | 10:25 | NoSQL databases | Alex DeBrie, AWS Data Hero |
10:30 | 10:55 | Data Ingestion Change Data Capture | Abishek Gupta, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS & Steffen Hausmann |
11:00 | 11:25 | Data Quality, Data Observability, Data Reliability | Barr Moses, CEO, Co-Founder of Monte Carlo |
11:30 | 11:50 | The Serverless Future of Cloud Data Analytics | Wojciech Gawronsk, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS |
11:50 | 12:00 | Mid-stream break | Hosts |
12:00 | 12:25 | Large-scale data processing | Gwen Shapir, Chief Product Officer, Stealth Startup |
12:30 | 12:55 | Not your average ETL: Accelerating ETL Modernization and Migration | Navnit Shukl, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS |
13:00 | 13:25 | Stream-processing, large-scale data analytics | Tim Berglund, Vice President of Developer Relations, StarTree |
13:30 | 13:55 | Create, train, and deploy machine learning models in Amazon Redshift using SQL with Amazon Redshift ML | Rohit Bansal, Analytics Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS |
14:00 | 14:15 | Using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) to schedule Spark jobs on Amazon EMR Serverless - A live demo showing how to run serverless Spark jobs with Airflow | Damon Cortesi, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS |
14:20 | 14:55 | Coming soon |
Coming soon |
15:00 | 15:25 | Unify data silos by connecting and sharing varied data sources: a financial service use case | Jessica Ho, Sr. Partner Solutions Architecs, AWS and Saman Irfan, Specialist SA |
15:30 | 15:55 | Transactional data lakes using Apache Hudi | Shana Schipers, Specialist SA, Analytics, AWS |
16:00 | 16:25 | Close the multi-cloud gap with open source solutions | Lotfi Mouhib, Sr. Territory Solutions Architect, AWS |
16:30 | 16:55 | The history and future of data analytics in the cloud | Imtiaz Sayed, Tech Leader, Analytics, AWS |
17:00 | 17:15 | A message from AWS prototyping team (pre-recorded) |
Coming soon |
17:15 | 17:25 | Stream closing | Hosts |
Build On Live Hosts


Dani Traphagen, Sr. Startup Solutions Architect and Host, AWS


Darko Mesaros, Sr. Developer Advocate and Host, AWS
Darko a Senior Developer Advocate based in Seattle, WA. His goal is to share his passion and technological know-how with Engineers, Developers, Builders, and tech enthusiasts across the world. If it can be automated, he will definitely try to do so. Most of Darko's focus is towards DevOps and Management Tools, where automation, pipelines, and efficient developer tools is the name of the game – click less and code more so you do not repeat yourself - is his motto! As a passionate collector of old computers, he has a collection of computers and games and they came as an inspiration to tinker with computers as much as possible! Like deploy AWS infrastructure through a Commodore 64.

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