AWS Modern Applications Web Day Hong Kong

Innovate and build better products faster with modern applications and generative AI
Language: Cantonese & English

November 17, 2023 (Fri) | 2:00PM - 5:45PM

Join experts and customers at AWS Modern Applications Web Day Hong Kong to learn why and how modern application development is a powerful approach to designing, building, and managing software. You will be inspired by use cases and best practices that have successfully helped customers make their development teams more agile, applications more secure and reliable, and their building of better products faster.

Experts at the event will show you step-by-step how to unlock the value of modern applications. You will learn what you need to know about modern application development such as generative AI, serverless, microservices, containers, CI/CD, DevOps, business applications, and cost optimization.

 Why attend?

Learn key concepts of modern application development to create your own success in building better and highly available business-critical applications faster.

 Who should attend?

Developers, DevOps/DevSecOps Engineers, IT Professionals, Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects and anyone who want to understand more about how modern applications development works and walk away with actionable insights.


Agenda

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Overview of Modern Applications (Level 100)

This presentation covers an overview of what we mean when we say modern applications and then zoom out to look at trends we’re seeing in enterprise businesses. Then we’ll deep dive on what Amazon has done to transform over the past several years and talk about what you can do to begin building modern applications.

Raymond Tsang, Senior Technical Trainer, AWS

Language: Cantonese

2:35pm - 3:05pm

Choosing between Container vs Serverless Featuring Fill Easy Limited (Level 200)

Clifford Duke, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Matthew Lee, Founder & CEO, Fill Easy

Language: Cantonese

3:10pm - 3:40pm

Deploy Generative AI Models on Amazon EKS (Level 300)

Generative AI represents an exciting new frontier in AI innovation. In this session, we will explore how Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) provides an ideal platform for deploying and scaling AI models from leading providers like Hugging Face. We will walk through how Amazon EKS's auto-scaling capabilities, integration with Kubernetes-native tools and model serving libraries can help to optimize resource utilization and build generation AI applications.

Mariana Chow, Solutions Architect, AWS

Language: Cantonese

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Accelerating Modern Application Delivery: Backend for Frontends with Cloud Natives featuring Oursky (Level 200)

Ben Cheng, Founder, Oursky Limited
Lok Yeung, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

Language: Cantonese

4:20pm - 4:35pm

Live Q&A

Shawn Zhang, HKT Cloud Native Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Language: Cantonese

4:40pm - 5:10pm

How to run native web app on Lambda using Lambda Extension (Level 300)

This session showcases the power of Lambda extensions and Lambda web adapters in building native web applications. Attendees will learn how to leverage Lambda extensions to extend the functionality of AWS Lambda, enabling seamless integration with external tools and services. The session will also cover the implementation of Lambda web adapters, allowing developers to build serverless web applications without the need for complex infrastructure management. Through real-world examples and practical demonstrations, participants will gain insights into the benefits and best practices of using Lambda extensions and web adapters to create scalable, secure, and efficient native web applications on the AWS platform.

Raymond Lai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Language: Cantonese

5:15pm - 5:45pm

Using Serverless & Containers to rapidly deliver a generative AI chatbot application (Level 300)  

Are you wondering how you can interface to and implement generative AI workloads for your organization and users? Join this session as we walk through a real-life use case of building a public user facing chatbot with generative AI. Find out how you can build this chatbot with AWS serverless and containers including AWS Lambda based containers, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, with a Large Language Model (LLM) endpoint. We then demonstrate how to leverage these solutions to quickly build and deploy a resilient, secure generative AI powered chatbot application with minimal effort and cost. We also discuss how add context to generative AI workloads with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and automate deployments via CI/CD tools and AWS Lambda containers.

Mai Nishitani, Solutions Architect, AWS
Steven Cook, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Language: English


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The AWS Modern Applications Web Day Hong Kong Group Learning (“Offer” or “Group Learning”) begins at 12:01am Hong Kong Time (“HKT”) on 31 October, 2022, and ends at 11:59pm HKT on 30 November, 2022, or when supplies of Prize (defined below) are exhausted, whichever occurs first (“Offer Period”). The number of Prize is limited.

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Agenda

 November 17, 2023 (Fri) | 2:00PM - 5:45PM

2:00pm - 2:35pm
Overview of Modern Applications (Cantonese | Level 100)
Raymond Tsang, Technical Trainer, AWS

This presentation covers an overview of what we mean when we say modern applications and then zoom out to look at trends we’re seeing in enterprise businesses. Then we’ll deep dive on what Amazon has done to transform over the past several years and talk about what you can do to begin building modern applications.

2:35pm - 3:10pm

Enhancing user engagement and building a community in digital era - featuring HKET (Cantonese | Level 200)
Danny Tung, Assistant IT Director, HKET
Aaron Chong, Solutions Architect, AWS

In the digital era, more people rely on the Internet for social interaction but keeping them engaged is not easy. HKET, a leading multi-media company in Hong Kong, always strive to provide high quality and personalized contents to its users. In this session, HKET will share how they build a scalable, real-time, and secure digital community platform for users to share their interests and seamlessly interact with each other. We will also introduce some latest AWS technologies including AWS AppSync, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DynamoDB.

3:10pm - 3:50pm

Modern Applications Technical Sharing Session with Deloitte (Cantonese | Level 200)
Sunny Ip, Partner of System Delivery & Modernization, Deloitte
Benson Kwong, Solutions Architect, AWS

As more companies modernize their application portfolio using cloud native services, they are recognizing that legacy approaches aren’t providing value. In this session, you will get an insight of common business drivers, challenges and recent trends of application modernization, what technology stacks you can leverage to land the cloud native solutions ; We also invited our global consulting partner – Deloitte to share their perspective and approach on application modernization, as well as a recent case where they helped a client launch a completely revamped member engagement app in 6 months using AWS.

3:50pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 4:35pm

Getting Started with Event-Driven Architecture (Cantonese | Level 200)
Raymond Lai, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

In modern application development, event-driven architecture is becoming more prominent because it can make building applications in the cloud easier. Event-driven architecture can allow you to decouple your services, which increases developer velocity, and can make it easier for you to debug applications. It also can help remove the bottleneck that occurs when features expand across different teams, which allows teams to progress more independently.

This session will familiarize you with the basics of event driven architecture, concepts of choreography and orchestration, AWS services that help build the Event Driven architectures together with common Event-driven practical use cases.

4:35pm - 5:10pm
Get started with Karpenter – Just-in-time Nodes for your Amazon EKS Clusters (Cantonese | Level 300)

Alick Wong, Solutions Architect, AWS

In this session, learn how Karpenter, an open-source high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler simplifies Kubernetes infrastructure with the right nodes at the right time. We cover how to setup Karpenter on Amazon EKS and simplify autoscaling and improve application availability. Learn how Karpenter automatically launches just the right compute resources to handle your cluster's applications. Take full advantage of the cloud with fast and simple compute provisioning for Kubernetes clusters with Karpenter.

5:10pm - 5:45pm
Best practices for deploying containers (English | Level 200)
Donnie Prakoso, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS

Building applications with containers has become the preferred approach for developers. Twelve-Factor App, a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps has become the most popular and adopted methodology to design and architect applications in the cloud. In this session, we deep dive into how you can implement each factor in the Twelve-Factor App methodology with AWS Copilot to run and operate scalable, reliable, secure, and extensible apps with Amazon ECS. We also tackle how to overcome the lengthy process to run apps in the cloud and make it a non-trivial challenge to get the apps to the market, even if an app is running in localhost.

Note: Agenda is subject to changes

Level 100
Introductory
Sessions are focused on providing an overview of AWS services and features, with the assumption that attendees are new to the topic.
Level 200
Intermediate
Sessions are focused on providing best practices, details of service features and demos with the assumption that attendees have introductory knowledge of the topics.
Level 300
Advanced
Sessions dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution.
Level 400
Expert
Sessions are for attendees who are deeply familiar with the topic, have implemented a solution on their own already, and are comfortable with how the technology works across multiple services, architectures, and implementations.

Featured Speakers

Danny Tung
Danny Tung
Assistant IT Director, HKET
Donnie Prakoso

Donnie Prakoso
Principal Developer Advocate, AWS

Raymond Tsang

Raymond Tsang
Technical Trainer, AWS

Raymond Lai

Raymond Lai
Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Benson Kwong

Benson Kwong
Solutions Architect, AWS

Aaron Chong

Aaron Chong
Solutions Architect, AWS

Sunny Ip

Sunny Ip
Partner of System Delivery & Modernization, Deloitte

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Sunny is a Partner in Deloitte Consulting, leading up the Systems Delivery & Modernisation practice in Hong Kong, with over 18 years of experience in technology advisory and delivery. He has extensive experience serving many different industries across Asia and North America in large-scale technology delivery, enterprise architecture, digital transformation, customer experience, digital organisation and operating models, innovation strategy, and launching new propositions.

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Danny Tung is Assistant IT Director of HKET. He is leading over 40 IT talents to develop mobile apps, data technology and ML/AI solutions. Also, he is one of the members of CCOE team, responsible for landing zone and cloud migration projects in HKET.
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Donnie Prakoso has over than 17 years of experience in the technology industry, from telecommunications, banking to startups. In his current role as the Principal Developer Advocate at AWS covering ASEAN and AEM, Donnie specializes in containers, serverless computing, and microservices integration patterns and machine learning.
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Raymond is a technical trainer in Great China Region for over 20 years. He has a solid knowledge in teaching Architecture, and Application Development to Government Enterprise, Small and Medium Business and Universities.  He is an experienced IT consultant in many projects including web and app development, intranet and portal development, server setup and configuration.
 
To prove his skills level, Raymond has got multiple professional IT certificates.  Moreover, learning new technology skills and providing education is one of his interests, and he wants everyone to enjoy learning as well.  Currently he is putting his efforts in teaching AWS to let his students to enjoy the learning and get the achievements in the AWS.
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Raymond Lai is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS Hong Kong. Raymond is a fanatic about serverless and enjoys helping customers understand how serverless technologies introduces a major paradigm shift in how they approach building and running applications at massive scale, agile with minimal administration overhead.

Prior to joining AWS, Raymond has worked as consultant and system architect at other US-based AWS partner vendors.
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Working as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services Hong Kong, Benson is passionate about helping customers build infrastructures and applications in cloud at scale. Benson joined AWS in March of 2019, bringing in solid experiences in Security, Business Intelligence and Mobile Device Management. Prior to AWS, Benson was a Regional System Engineer who assists some of the largest accounts across Internet and Finance industries in APAC to architect and deploy mobile device management solutions.
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Aaron Chong is a Solutions Architect at AWS Hong Kong. He specializes in the data analytics domain and works with a wide range of enterprise customers to design and implement serverless data architectures, modernize data engineering practices, and advocate AI/ML adoptions.

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FAQs

Q: Where is the Event hosted?
A: AWS Modern Applications Web Day is hosted online and is a free event.

Q: Who should attend this online Event?
A: Developers, DevOps/DevSecOps Engineers, IT Professionals, Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects and anyone hoping to gain an understanding in modern applications development will take away actionable insights from the event.

Q: What is the language of the Event?
A: The event will mainly be conducted in Cantonese with English presentation slides.

Q: Can I get a confirmation of my event registration?
A: After filling up the registration form, you will receive a confirmation email from customercare@gotowebinar.com with your unique join link to the event.

Q: Do I have to install any software prior to joining this Event?
A: Yes. When you first join a webinar, GoToWebinar will automatically detect your computer setup and direct you to the best join method. If you are on a compatible Windows or Mac computer, then the software will begin to install as soon as you join. In order to install the GoToWebinar desktop app, you'll need to click through a few windows allowing GoToWebinar permission to access your computer. For mobile access, you will have to install the GoToWebinar application. Unfortunately, dial-in or web browser based experience is not available for Hong Kong.

Q: How can I contact the online event organizers?
A: If you have questions that have not been answered above, please email us at aws-hk@amazon.com. 

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