AWS COMMUNITY DAY MELBOURNE

August 30, 2019

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

9:00am - 5:35pm AEST

Overview

Join the largest AWS community event in Australia with Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist & VP

AWS Community Day Australia is a free full-day event dedicated to AWS User Groups and Meet Ups, "for the community, by the community." Showcasing some of our local community speakers, influencers and innovators; we will cover topics from AI, Machine Learning, Serverless, Containers, VR and more.

As the second large scale event in Australia we aim to inspire, educate and bring developer and IT communities together through technical discussions, free hands on labs, demos and plenty of opportunities to network with AWS experts.

Why Attend

Technical Sessions covering the hottest developer topics in tech

Live Q&A with AWS and Industry Experts

Collect Swag from AWS and Sponsors!

Get hands-on learning with our workshops & labs

Who Should Attend?

Whether you're a Developer, IT Manager, Business Leader or Technical Founder; the AWS Community Day Australia is a great place to learn, get inspired and expand your network.

Agenda

Community Day Agenda
Alexa Skills Workshop
AWS DeepRacer League Workshop
AWS GameDay

Community Day Agenda

Community Day Agenda

8:30am - 9:30am	Registration and Goldfields Event Space Open \| Welcome Breakfast and Networking
9:30am - 9:35am	Acknowledgement of Country
9:35am - 9:50am	Welcome Message Aileen Gemma Smith, CEO Vizalytics Technology, AWS Community Hero
9:50am - 10:25am	Keynote - Journey to the Cloud We are now about 13 years into a multi-decade shift to the cloud. From the early days where cloud computing was simply centralised compute and storage, operated on an on-demand, pay-as-you-go basis. Today, the cloud has become the industry-wide locus of innovation, host to a multitude of services. Jeff’s talk will recap the most important developments of the past, summarise the current state of the art, and share some tips & tricks for the best ways to keep abreast in a world of constant change. Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist & VP, Amazon Web Services
10:25am - 10:45am	Morning Tea

Track 1
Track 2

Track 1

10:45am - 11:10am	Cutting Edge Technology at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup \| Football Federation Australia Kate Cohen, National Team Analyst, Football Federation Australia
11:15am - 11:40am	Creating more perfect software together: How to thrive in a software-driven, cloud-native world Ashima Gera Kulkarni, Chapter Lead Capability PO (API Gateways and Orch), Telstra Jill Macmurchy, Senior Technical Director Asia Pacific, New Relic
11:45am - 12:10pm	5 Ws of Accessibility Rhiana Heath, Front End Ruby Developer, reinteractive
12:10pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 1:25pm	The Art of Making of Art with Machines J. Rosenbaum, Contemporary and Computational Figurative Artist
1:30pm - 1:55pm	Cloudy with a Chance of Global Change at Swinburne Andrew Roadknight, Principal Advisor for Industry 4.0, Swinburne University of Technology
2:00pm - 2:25pm	Welcome to Imposter's Anonymous Micah Silverman, Senior Developer Advocate, Okta
2:40pm - 2:50pm	Alexa Workshop Feedback and Results
2:50pm - 3:15pm	Data Science with Data the Dachshund Emma Arrigo, Masters of Data Science Student, University of Melbourne
3:20pm - 3:45pm	Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic Kris Howard, Manager of Solutions Architects, Amazon Web Services
3:45pm - 3:55pm	Deep Racer League Feedback and Results
3:55pm - 4:20pm	My experiments with AWS ML, AI & VR services Shruti Kembhavi, Cloud Specialist, IAG and AWS Dev Warrior
4:25pm - 4:50pm	Datalake - A step towards being data driven Leila Sagharichi, Head of Data Collection and Engineering Platform, carsales.com.au
4:55pm - 5:20pm	Fireside Chat Aileen Gemma Smith, CEO Vizalytics Technology, AWS Community Hero
5:20pm - 5:35pm	Closing Remarks Aileen Gemma Smith, CEO Vizalytics Technology, AWS Community Hero

Track 2

10:45am - 11:10am	Monolith to Microservices Phuong Mai Nguyen, Diversity Advocate and Developer, ThoughtWorks
11:15am - 11:40am	She Builds/WE Power Tech Fireside Chat Michelle Hardie, Enterprise Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services and President Women@Amazon ANZ
11:45am - 12:10pm	How we built CheckFace using GAN and OSS to generate realistic human faces Chris Dilger, Junior Consultant, The Data Experience
12:10pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 1:25pm	Facial Recognition with AWS Rekognition & Lambda Aish Kodali, iOS App Developer, ANZ Bank
1:30pm - 1:55pm	GPU Accelerated Data Analysis and Machine Learning Daniel Bradby, CTO, Eliza
2:00pm - 2:25pm	Live coding a self-driving car (without a car) Paris Buttfield-Addison, Co-founder and Producer, Secret Lab Pty. Ltd. Mars Geldard, Research Assistant, University of Tasmania
2:40pm - 3:05pm	Working with Large Numbers and Non-Trivial ETL Pipelines Jess Flanagan, Head of Engineering/Data Architecture, Deckard Technologies
3:10pm - 3:35pm	Hello, I'm GraphQL Jennifer Pinto, Senior Software Engineer, REA Group
3:40pm - 4:05pm	How we use Mandarin to enhance Sagemaker object detection Eric Lin, AI Software Engineer, carsales.com.au
4:10pm - 4:35pm	Where did my money go? Samuel Than, AI DevOps Engineer, carsales.com.au
4:40pm - 5:05pm	Scaling Hotstar.com for 25 million concurrent viewers Gaurav Kamboj, Cloud Architect, Hotstar, AWS Community Hero

Alexa Skills Workshop

Alexa Skills Workshop

8:30am - 9:00am	Registration and Goldfields Event Space Open \| Welcome Breakfast and Networking
9:00am - 10:30am	Keynote Address \| Goldfields Theatre Plenary Room The Developer's Journey in the Cloud
10:30am - 1:30pm	Workshop Creating Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa Skills Idea to Testing in 3 hours Amazon Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices enabling new customer experiences across many devices at home, work, in the car, and on the go. As a developer, you can build capabilities, or skills, that make Alexa smarter and make everyday tasks faster, easier, and more delightful for customers to fundamentally improve the way people will interact with technology. In this workshop you will learn how to build your first voice skill with Amazon Alexa. We will cover how to build an Alexa skill, utilise AWS services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB, mimic human behaviour with your Alexa skill, and test and publish a skill. You’ll also walk out of the workshop with tips on how to make your Alexa skill more engaging to customers with voice user design best practices. Come prepared with at least 10 facts on your favourite topic, as we’ll show you how to create and publish your Alexa fact skill to the Australia and New Zealand Skills Store during the day. This workshop requires you to bring a fully charged laptop, an Alexa Developer account (create one here), and administrative access to your own AWS account.

AWS DeepRacer League Workshop

AWS DeepRacer competition

10:30am - 1:30pm	DeepRacer Workshop Learn the basics of reinforcement learning, learn how to build a reinforcement learning model and get ready to participate in the virtual league and in the physical race track
10:30am - 4:00pm	DeepRacer Competition Bring your models and put them to the test in the real world. Compete against other developers in one of the official DeepRacer tracks

AWS GameDay

AWS GameDay

10:30am - 10:50am	AWS Networking Services Overview Let's dive into the secure, performant, and highly available AWS Global Network, and take a look at our latest network infrastructure and service offerings
10:50am - 11:10am	AWS Transit Gateway Overview Easily scale connectivity across thousands of Amazon VPCs, AWS accounts, and on-premises networks
11:10am - 11:20am	Break
11:20am - 1:00pm	GameDay Module 1 - Migrate your peered VPC Environment to a Scalable Transit Gateway Based Architecture Does your peered VPC connectivity look like a spider web? Do you cringe at the thought of overlapping CIDRs? Then this game is for you. Build your network, implement route tables, set up PrivateLink endpoints, and successfully interconnect multiple VPCs using Transit Gateway. But watch out, the security overlords might throw some compliance requirements your way
1:00pm - 1:40pm	Lunch and Chalk Talk AWS Networking experts answer your questions
1:40pm - 2:00pm	Global Accelerator and ELB Overview Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
2:00pm - 3:00pm	GameDay Module 2 - Accelerate Application Performance with Global Accelerator and ELB You've launched a fast-growing massively multiplayer game but gamers live streaming on Twitch are starting to complain about lag and your subreddit is blowing up with complaints around the world. Better scale fast and fix your latency problems while you’re at it. Build out AWS Global Accelerator to take care of the latency problem and deploy ELBs to scale out your game
3:00pm - 3:20pm	PrivateLink Overview Access services hosted on AWS easily and securely by keeping your network traffic within the AWS network
3:20pm - 4:30pm	GameDay Module 3 - Securely Access Mission Critical Information Over PrivateLink Your company has recently acquired a competitor, but a rogue employee has encrypted their business plans. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to gain access to the environment and retrieve the encryption key that will allow us to decrypt these plans. You will create PrivateLink endpoints to securely access the information needed to decrypt the business plans
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Wrap-Up and GameDay Prizes Find out who will win the highly coveted AWS GameDay Unicorn Trophy

*Please Bring Your Own Laptop to this workshop.

Activities

Alexa Skills Workshop Hands-On Workshop	Creating Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa Skills Idea to Testing in 3 hours About this workshop: Amazon Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices enabling new customer experiences across many devices at home, work, in the car, and on the go. As a developer, you can build capabilities, or skills, that make Alexa smarter and make everyday tasks faster, easier, and more delightful for customers to fundamentally improve the way people will interact with technology. In this workshop you will learn how to build your first voice skill with Amazon Alexa. AWS Alexa Skills Workshop Room 101-102 Prerequisites: Participants should have an Amazon Alexa Developer Account and AWS account established and available for use during the workshop and will need to bring their own laptop.
AWS DeepRacer	Experience the world’s first global autonomous racing league – AWS DeepRacer Join in the thrilling experience of DeepRacer by putting your models to the test on the official AWS track. The AWS Community Day Melbourne event is the perfect opportunity to go head-to-head against other competitors aspiring to win the AWS DeepRacer Championship Cup at re:Invent 2019. If you are new to DeepRacer, don’t worry, there will be workshops on the day to get you onboard. You will be able to build, train and test your own models in a virtual environment. DeepRacer Room 203
DevBytes	Gain valuable insights on AWS services and best practices at DevBytes by visiting Lightning Talks booth. AWS experts will deliver lightning talks on topics such as Machine Learning, messaging and microservices across technologies including Serverless, as well as .Net and Amazon Alexa. DevBytes sessions run throughout the breaks to keep you engaged and learning throughout the day.
DevDemos	See first-hand how you can build smart, scalable applications with services like AWS Step Functions, Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Deep Lens. You can also discuss your application architecture and options with our AWS experts.
DevLabs	DevLabs Build.Test.Deploy! Get hands-on at the DevLabs zone and challenge your skillset on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Lex, AWS AppSync and Amazon EKS, with AWS developer tools like AWS Amplify, SAM CLI, AWS CLI and EB CLI.
AWS GameDay	About the Event: AWS Networking GameDay is designed for players to learn about AWS Networking services in a challenging hands-on environment. It's a learning exercise designed to better familiarise players with the AWS environment and challenge them to come up with ways to solve problems based on the AWS resources they have available to them. Throughout the GameDay, our networking experts will provide service overviews and you'll engage in hands-on labs covering what you need to know to deploy reliable, scalable, and performant networks on AWS using VPC, Transit Gateway, Global Accelerator, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53, ELB, and PrivateLink. Who should attend: The AWS Networking GameDay is a targeted by-invite technical hands-on workshop event for networking engineers, architects, and systems administrators who are interested in learning more about AWS networking services.AWS experts will be on hand to provide technical overviews, and are ready to dive deep on your questions. All you need to bring is your laptop as we’ve built out a customised AWS environment for you to run the games. AWS GameDay Room 204 *Please Bring Your Own Laptop to this workshop.
This is My Architecture	This Is My Architecture (TMA) is a video series that highlights innovative architectural solutions on the AWS Cloud by AWS customers and partners. These 2-5 minute video segments are designed for a technical audience and showcase the most interesting and technically creative element of each architecture. Come and meet some of the hosts and consider nominating your architecture for a future series.

Keynote Speaker

Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist & VP, Amazon Web Services

Jeff Barr joined Amazon in 2002, became the company’s first web services evangelist in 2003, and founded the AWS Blog in 2004. In his role as Chief Evangelist, Jeff strives to explain the benefits of cloud computing and web services to anyone who will listen. He has written over 2900 posts for the AWS Blog and another 1100 for his personal blog, records weekly AWS update videos, and maintains an active social media presence.

Jeff earned his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from American University and his Master’s degree in Communication and Digital Media from the University of Washington. Before coming to Amazon, Jeff held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, and Akopia, and was a co-founder of Visix Software.

Jeff has been a technical reviewer for 4 books on web services, wrote a chapter on advanced scripting for a book on Second Life, and is the author of Host Your Website in the Cloud, published by SitePoint in 2010.

Sponsors

Moderated by AWS Community Heroes

Hear from the Australian & New Zealand region's leading AWS advocates who have been recognised and awarded into the global AWS Community Hero program.

Travel Scholarship Opportunity

But wait, what if you can’t get to Melbourne?

We are also offering a limited number of sponsored scholarships for travel to the event. Click here to apply.

Code of Conduct

We expect all Community Day participants (attendees, staff, speakers, sponsors, etc.) to behave in such a way as to create a safe, supportive environment while at the conference and any conference-related events. Review the full Code of Conduct here.

FAQ

General

Who should attend AWS Community Day?

Everyone. Whether you’re new to the cloud or an experienced user, you’ll learn something new at an AWS Summit. These events, held around the world, are designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform, and offer existing customers content to be more successful with AWS.

All AWS Community Days are organised by AWS Community Heroes. Community heroes help to build and expand relationships in their local communities. Our event will feature a variety of speakers; technical sessions; and hands-on technical training if you join our Alexa or Deep Racer Sessions. You’ll learn best practices for deploying applications on AWS; optimising performance; monitoring cloud resources; managing security; cutting costs; and more. You’ll also have the opportunity to get technical questions answered by AWS staff and partners.
What is the conference agenda?

You can review the AWS Community Day agenda here. This will be regularly updated, so please check back frequently.
Do you accept submissions for speakers/session ideas?

At this time, we’re not accepting submissions for AWS Community Day speakers or session content, although we appreciate customer feedback.

Registration

How do I register?

Click "Register Now" above to start the registration process. Space is limited so reserve your free seat today.
Where is my registration confirmation email?

If you’ve registered, you should receive a confirmation email shortly afterwards. If you don’t, please check your spam folder. If you still haven't received your confirmation email, please contact us.
What is included in AWS Community Day registration?

AWS Community Day registration gives you access to the keynote, breakout sessions, and the Community Expo. Meals offered include lunch and snacks.
What is the price of registration?

Registration for the AWS Community Day Melbourne is free.
How do I update my registration information?

To update your registration information, please contact us here.
What is your cancellation policy?

You may cancel your AWS Community Day registration using the link on your confirmation email.
Will I need to register myself for each tech track?

Sessions will be filled on a first-come, first-seated basis. As seats are not guaranteed, there is no need to pre-register.

Accessibility and Special Requirements

What accessibility accommodations are available?

The AWS Melbourne Community Day venue, MCEC, has been designed to make everyone’s visit as productive and comfortable as possible. Read more about the facility’s accessibility here.

If you need additional assistance or have accommodation requests, please contact us at least one week prior to the event. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations.
What special dietary requirements are accommodated

Vegetarian and limited gluten free options are available and labelled at lunch.

Sponsors

What information will be shared with sponsors?

For questions, please refer to the AWS Privacy Notice. You may unsubscribe from the sponsor’s marketing communications at any time by contacting the sponsor. Providing the sponsor with your information may involve transferring it to another country. For questions about how the sponsor will handle your information, please contact the sponsor directly or refer to its privacy policy.

Code of Conduct

What is the AWS Community Day Code of Conduct?

AWS Community Day expects all participants (attendees, staff, speakers, sponsors, etc.) to behave in such a way as to create a safe, supportive environment while at the conference and any conference-related events. Review the full Code of Conduct here.

Get in touch

How can I contact the AWS Community Day organisers?

If you have questions that haven't been answered in the FAQ above, please contact Aileen Gemma Smith aileen@vizalytics.com

Event Details

Friday, 30 August 2019

Time: 9:00am - 5:35pm AEST

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf VIC 3006