Welcome to the IBM re:Invent 2024 Guide!

DECEMBER 2 – 6, 2024 | LAS VEGAS, NV

The Venetian Resort Las Vegas
3355 S Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Can't Miss Sessions & Learning Paths

With over 2,500 sessions spanning a wide range of topics, re:Invent 2024 has something for everyone at IBM. Choose the learning methods that work for you, from interactive, small-group chalk talks to lecture-style breakouts. Explore the full session catalog and attendee guides to start building your schedule:

re:Invent 2024 Session Catalog
Browse sessions by track, level, date/time and more to find relevant topics.


Attendee Guides
Downloadable PDFs with curated session recommendations by role and interest area.
First Time attending? Check out our Attendee Guide for First Timers 

Sessions Featuring IBM

  • Matt Lewis, Chief AWS Architect, IBM
    Wednesday, Dec 4
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas F

    Struggling with an unfamiliar codebase? Looking to integrate new AWS features but unsure where to begin? Discover how Amazon Q Developer can transform your productivity. Learn to leverage Amazon Q directly from your code editor, guiding you through architectural decisions, generating code, and visualizing existing applications. This session demonstrates how Amazon Q's AI-powered agents can assist in upgrading your application to use the latest libraries and frameworks. Join us to explore how this powerful tool can revolutionize your development process, from code understanding to vulnerability detection.

  • William Lobig, VP Product Management IBM Automation, IBM
    Wednesday, Dec 4
    1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PSTCaesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 232 | Content Hub | Orange Screen

    Enterprises must ensure that hybrid cloud strategies and AI-powered automation are driving cloud-native success, from scaling generative AI to optimizing IT environments. Explore how to design an intentional architecture that drives cloud-native innovation and automation while ensuring operational resilience and cost efficiency. Hear how SIXT’s SRE Platform Team used Instana’s observability solutions to accelerate their AWS Cloud transformation, leveraging real-time monitoring and automation to optimize cloud-native applications, reduce operational complexity, and deliver faster time to market for new services. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an AWS Partner.

  • Rob Martin, FinOps Principal, FinOps Foundation
    Adam MacDonald, FinOps, Cloudec
    Andrew Midgley, Principal Product Marketing Manager, IBM
    Wednesday, Dec 4
    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PSTMandalay Bay | Level 3 South | Jasmine F

    With cloud spend increasing to new heights and with an uncertain economic climate, it’s never been more important to be efficient with cloud usage and engineering time. In this session, explore strategies focused on getting actionable data in front of engineers as early as possible, ideally preventing efficiency issues taking root in the first place. Discover how AWS customers get results by automating optimization actions and integrating proactive cost insights into developer workflows. Learn how these efforts can lead organizations not only to exceptional cost efficiency, but also free up engineers for other tasks. This presentation is brought to you by IBM Cloudability, an AWS Partner.

  • Wednesday, Dec 4
    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PST
    Venetian | Level 2 | Titian 2304

    Businesses that adopt digital-first operations by combining AI, analytics, and data can drive competitive advantage and growth. In this session, learn about the building blocks of deploying AI that drives value and hear how leading organizations such as Toyota are using IBM’s industry expertise and AI capabilities to reinvent mission-critical domains like the supply chain. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an AWS Partner.

Our Recommendations for IBM

To get you started, here are some potential can't-miss break out sessions:

MAE308 | Optimizing network efficiency & strengthening multicloud connectivity
The New York Times is migrating its website, core platform, games application, cooking application, and paywall application from another cloud provider to AWS. To ensure a successful migration, minimizing networking overhead and enhancing cross-cloud connectivity are crucial. This session explores the challenges faced when moving applications and data across cloud providers and the methods used to provide interconnectivity such as dedicated interconnects, software-defined networking, and advanced routing protocols prioritizing efficiency and security. The strategies employed during this migration can be applied to facilitate other cloud to AWS migrations and to operate effectively in a multicloud environment.

Speakers:
Ahmed Bebars, Principal Engineer, The New York Times
Kaon Thana, Staff Network Engineer, The New York Times
Harleen Kaur, Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon

Thursday, Dec 5
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PST
Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Forum 118 Theater

NFX402 | Netflix's massive multi-account journey: Year two
Two years ago, Netflix introduced the idea of decoupling AWS Identity and Access Management roles from applications’ underlying compute infrastructure in order to house those identities in workload-specific AWS accounts. This session will describe our approach for transparently replacing workloads’ AWS IAM identities without involvement from application owners, as well as the data and tools needed. Based on Netflix’s learnings from the past two years of implementation and migration work to make this vision a reality, this session discusses the capabilities other AWS customers should prioritize to find success in their multi-account efforts and the quantified risk reduction.

Speakers:
Joseph Kjar, Cloud Security Engineer, Netflix
Prateek Sharma, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Patrick Sanders, Senior Security Software Engineer, Netflix

Thursday, Dec 5
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | Jasmine H

SAS406 | Accelerating multi-tenant development with the SaaS Builder Toolkit
The SaaS Builder Toolkit (SBT) provides developers with a pre-built set of tools that decompose SaaS into a series of building blocks that can be used to create multi-tenant environments. This session digs into the moving parts of this toolkit, exploring the inner working of its core components, architecture, and extensibility model. It also looks at a real-world example of SBT in action, composing a working multi-tenant application from scratch. Additionally, it explores how SBT addresses core concepts, including building a control plane, onboarding tenants, authenticating tenants, supporting tiering, and provisioning tenant resources.

Speakers:
Tod Golding, Senior Principal SA, AWS

Thursday, Dec 5
MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 120

ARC333 | Failing without flailing: Lessons we learned at AWS the hard way
At AWS, we’ve learned that building resilient services requires more than just designing for high availability. In this session AWS operational leaders are back for more insights on how to mitigate impact when, not if, the unexpected happens. Hear a few short stories collected from 18 years of operational excellence, with practical advice on preparing for and mitigating failure.

Speakers:
Alec Peterson, VP, AWS Resilience, Amazon Web Services
Mike Furr, Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon.com
Becky Weiss, Vice President / Distinguished Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Monday, Dec 2
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PST
Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3002

Other Recommended Breakout Sessions:
AIM272 | 7 Principles for effective and cost-efficient generative AI apps
SEG203 | Adopting the SaaS mindset to drive growth
SEG205 | AWS Global Passport to international growth
MAM328-S | Meeting customers where they are with global SaaS Analytics platform
FSI310 | Building a multi-region, multi-country data platform at scale
FSI324 | Data Platform Modernization to Gen AI Innovation
SAS306 | SaaS storage strategies for scaling, securing and tuning multi-tenant data
COP383 | Achieving governance at scale
COP319 | Backup and disaster recovery strategies for increased resilience
ARC403 | The tools and techniques behind resilient systems
MAM116-S | Accelerating mainframe modernization at T. Rowe Price with gen AI
AIM130-S | AI-driven value: Capital One's path to better customer experience [sponsored by Nvidia]

Explore the full session catalog to view these and other sessions to add to your schedule.  

Learning & Networking Opportunities

EXPO
There are many additional opportunities across the re:Invent campus to meet new people and learn skills along the way. Learn from AWS experts and partners. The Expo at The Venetian will host the AWS Village, AWS Industry Zone, AWS Partner Network booth, AWS Marketplace booth, Builders’ Fair, Developer Lounge, demo theaters, Startup Central, and sponsor booths. Come by and see all that the Expo has to offer!

GAMIFIED LEARNING
Level up your AWS skills by joining our fun, interactive learning events. We’re offering gamified learning opportunities at re:Invent: AWS GameDay, Boot Camps, and PeerTalk, where you can win prizes and compete to top the leaderboard.

RE: PLAY
If you still have gas in the tank after a long week of learning, it’s party time. Our 12th annual re:Play party with live music, games, food and more.

If you’re attending with a team, connect with your colleagues to plan how to maximize the learnings.