This session explores the fundamentals of migrating and modernizing workloads on AWS. It covers the key concepts, strategies, and best practices for evolving workloads to take full advantage of the AWS cloud. The session delves into the different phases of the migration and modernization process, including assessing the current environment, planning the migration, and executing the transition to AWS. It also examines the various tools and services provided by AWS to simplify and accelerate the migration and modernization journey, enabling organizations to achieve improved scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency.

Speakers:

• Kitt Choy, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Talha Ghauri, Solutions Architect, AWS

Is your security team accelerating your innovation?

As new technologies continue to emerge, security teams face the challenge of enhancing the organisation's security posture without hindering progress. However, seen from another perspective, strengthened security foundations can serve as a catalyst for organisations to confidently accelerate innovation.

In this session, discover how you can seamlessly integrate advanced security technologies with enhanced visibility and control, to power your business speed and agility. Dive into crucial topics such as identity management, data security, and network protection, and leave with tools and insights necessary to effectively prepare for your evolving security objectives.

Speakers:

• Clarence Aslem, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Nurul Najihah, Solutions Architect, AWS

Resilience is a system's ability to withstand and recover from disruptions while preserving its core functions and operations. This session aims to provide a framework that can guide your organisation's long-term resilience strategy. Learn about resilience best practices and AWS services you can implement in each stage of systems development: from design and building, to deployment, testing and operations. Walk away with a holistic approach to enhance the resilience of your organisation in a cost-effective manner.

Speakers: 

• Colm Mulholland, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
• Zaidee Ismail, Director of Technology Services, Bank Islam
  

Organizations tell us they have to modernize the way they build and operate applications. Modern applications are built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, serverless operational models and agile developer processes. Attend this session to learn how AWS Container Services and serverless technologies, like AWS Lambda, simplify operations and reduce management overheads like orchestration and infrastructure provisioning.

Speakers: 

• Arun Surendran, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Syed Absar Karim, Head of Development & Transformation, Infinitium
  

This session takes attendees on a journey from zero to hero, guiding them through the process of building a serverless application. It explores the fundamental concepts and best practices of serverless architecture, demonstrating how to leverage serverless services to create scalable and cost-effective applications. The session covers the key steps involved in designing, developing, and deploying a serverless application, highlighting the benefits of reduced infrastructure management and automatic scaling. By the end, attendees will have gained the skills and knowledge necessary to embark on their own serverless application development journey.

Speakers: 

• Tan Lee Hsiang, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Aswin Chanthraksuwan, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
  

Data has long been considered a strategic asset by organizations, but generative AI puts a renewed emphasis on the importance of a data and analytics strategy. Whether you are building your own model or customizing a foundation model, your data is a key differentiator for generative AI. Analytics provides critical insights into what data is most relevant and impactful for training your AI models. You need a comprehensive data and analytics strategy that supports collecting relevant, high-quality data and deriving actionable insights from that data. In this session, learn about the data and analytics tools that can fuel your generative AI initiatives and the common data patterns required to transform your generative AI application from a generic tool to a program that truly knows your business and your customers.

Speakers:

• Vikas Omer, Head of Data & AI, AWS
• Ronan Casey, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
  

The session explores how to develop a comprehensive data governance strategy on AWS that balances agility and compliance. It delves into the key elements of effective cloud data governance, including defining policies, managing data access, and ensuring data protection. The session provides insights into best practices for governing data at scale while accelerating innovation and reducing risk. By the end, attendees will be equipped with the knowledge to build a robust data governance framework that aligns with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Speakers:

• Alunnata Mulyadi, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
• Leong Sook Yan, Technical Account Manager, AWS
  

In this session, explore how Amazon Q Business can become a productivity booster for your team. Learn how to get a generative AI-powered application running on your enterprise content and how to ingest data through secure connectors. Discover how to help your employees to turn their ideas into generative AI-powered apps, automating tasks and improving individual and team productivity with the help of Amazon Q Apps. Hear from Deriv, an AWS customer, about how they streamline knowledge management and accelerate employee productivity with Amazon Q Business.

Speakers: 

• Fahim Surani, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Arun Venkataraman, Head of Cloud Architecture, Deriv
  

This session explores the capabilities of fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Bases on Amazon Bedrock. It dives into how Amazon Bedrock simplifies the process of building and deploying RAG models, enabling seamless integration of knowledge bases into the RAG pipeline. The session demonstrates how this integration allows models to access and utilize relevant information effectively. By the end of the session, attendees will have a clear understanding of how Amazon Bedrock empowers the creation of powerful RAG solutions that enhance the accuracy and contextual awareness of generated outputs.

Speakers: 

• Dominic Hong, Solutions Architect, AWS
• Phoebe Liew, Chief Technology Officer, 123RF
  

You can infuse generative AI into how your business users interact with data. In this session, learn how Generative BI capabilities in Amazon QuickSight allow business analysts to author dashboards using natural language and how business users can easily dive deep into data by simply asking questions. Discover how business users can also use Generative BI capabilities to quickly create compelling stories to drive decision-making, while developers can integrate these capabilities into applications to differentiate and monetise data like never before.

Speakers: 

• Kwan Thean Keong, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
• Kevin Connelly, Data/AI Sales Specialist, AWS