AWS Summit Bengaluru - Technical Edition

Event highlights

Keynote speakers

Reema Jain

Chief Information & Digital Officer, HeroMoto Corp

Ankit Bhati

Co-founder & CEO, Amnic

Narendra Babu

Chief Technology Officer, PayU

Rajat Bansal

Chief Techonolgy Officer, Games 24x7

Madhusudan Rao

Chief Technology Officer, Swiggy

Santanu Dutt

Head of Technology, APJ, Amazon Web Services

Shalini Kapoor

Chief Technologist, APJ, Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Break - 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM IST

Break Out Session 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM IST

• Track 1 - Generative AI for builders

   

  Amazon Bedrock - Simplifying generative AI app development
  

  Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM IST
  Level: 100 - Introductory
  

  What to learn how to quickly and easily develop generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock?  Amazon Bedrock is the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with LLMs and other FMs. You enjoy the broadest choice of models - many of which are available first, or only, on Bedrock. You can add your own business context quickly, easily, privately – with the broadest selection of customization options. With Amazon Bedrock, developers can access a wide range of pre-trained AI models from leading AI startups and Amazon's own Titan models, as well as the ability to train their own custom models on large datasets. It provides agents, RAG, model evaluation and is encapsulated with responsible AI (guardrails) and much more. Come join us to learn more !

  Speakers:
  Smiti Guru, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India
  Divyan Kavdia, Vice President of AI Works, Max Life Insurance
  

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  Empower enterprise applications: Harnessing the power of generative AI
  

  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Learn how MongoDB Atlas on AWS enables organizations to accelerate the development of generative AI apps, enhance the accuracy of generated content, and leverage proprietary data for continuous learning. In this talk, we'll cover the power of MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and the document model for generative AI, as well as the synergy between MongoDB Atlas and AWS.

  Speaker:
  Babu Srinivasan, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, MongoDB

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  Powering generative AI applications with AWS purpose-built infrastructure
  

  Time: 2:30 - 3:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  What is the purpose-built infrastructure that powers innovative generative AI applications on AWS? This session provides a behind-the-scenes look at how AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia2 accelerators enable Amazon teams and AWS customers to build, deploy, and scale high-performance generative AI models at optimized costs. Learn how organizations across industries are leveraging the secure, innovative, and performant AWS Cloud to solve complex challenges, turn groundbreaking ideas into reality, and deliver innovative solutions at scale.

  Speakers:
  Sridhar Bharadwaj, Principal GTM Specialist, AWS India
  Anirudh Punetha, AI Leader, Gupshup
  

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  Unlocking the power of generative AI: Seamlessly deploy and optimize models on Qualcomm Cloud AI with a developer-centric toolchain
  

  Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Join us for an exciting breakout session on deploying GenAI applications with ease using innovative developer tools & APIs. Discover how to seamlessly integrate popular Hugging Face models onto Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference solution in AWS EC2. Gain insights on optimizing solutions for LLM, embedding, and computer vision use cases. Don't miss out on secure & developer-friendly scaling solutions.

  Speakers:
  Nitin Jain, Engineering Director, Qualcomm
  Anuj Gupta, Engineering Manager, Qualcomm
  

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  Supercharge your development with AWS generative AI developer tools
  

  Time: 3:30 - 4:00 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Generative AI has the power to help you reimagine the way that developers and organizations learn, plan, create, deploy, and securely manage applications. Across the software development lifecycle—from architecting to developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining applications—generative AI developer tools save time, automate undifferentiated heavy lifting, and create space for innovation and creativity. Learn how AWS is innovating responsibly to deliver tools such as Amazon Q and Amazon CodeWhisperer so that builders can focus on meaningful work that drives impact for their customers.

  Speakers:
  Madhuri Susarla, Head of Solutions Architecture, India Partners, AWS India
  Guruprasad, NV, Associate Vice President, Infosys
  

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  Generative AI in Seconds: Make sense of unstructured data across industries
  

  Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate
  

  Multiple industries face challenges analysing unstructured data, which sits in various forms. It is exacerbated even further when there is not enough skilled talent. In this session, we learn how to analyse call transcript data and extract insights for the insurance industry . Learn how to get started quickly, deliver value with unstructured data, and improve your analytics capability.

  Speaker:
  Pawan Mall, Senior Sales Engineer, Snowflake

• Track 2 - AWS for data

   

  Improve your search with Vector DB capabilities in OpenSearch Service
  

  Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Search engines give their users a path from their goals to the information that meets those goals. When the items retrieved match the user’s intent, they are considered relevant. Retrieving relevant results includes the presence of the data in the catalog and how it is analyzed, the text and vector representation, the ranking function, and other actions. In this session, hear how Mindtickle uses Amazon OpenSearch Service as a vector database, and see how OpenSearch Service helps users get the most relevant results.

  Speakers:
  Smita Singh, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India
  Smita Ojha, CTO, Mindtickle
  

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  Successful cloud adoption through migration, cost optimization and automation
  

  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  By harnessing continuous automation and cloud intelligent infrastructure, organizations can streamline operations, minimize downtime and accelerate delivery of cloud applications. Cost optimization strategies can further help streamline AWS spend by providing continuous visibility and analytics across your global AWS footprint. Join this session by NetApp as we discuss a roadmap for navigating cloud complexities and optimizing your cloud expenditure.
  

  Speaker:
  Gautam Jain, Solution Architect, NetApp

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  Embracing Open Source Databases on AWS to handle India scale workloads
  

  Time: 2:30 - 3:00 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Open source databases now support a vast array of modern applications, ranging from the most popular mobile apps, to the leading eCommerce platforms, to mission critical enterprise systems for F500 organizations. This session will dive deep into how AWS has eased customer migration from commercial engines; and running and adopting open-source engines such as Redis, MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for large-scale workloads in India. You will learn more on how HDFC Bank leveraged open-source compatible databases to scale their use-case on AWS.

  Speakers:
  Gopalakrishnan Subramanian, Principal Database Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS India
  Satyanarayan Rao Shankaran, Head, Enterprise Factory and Competencies, Digital & Payments, HDFC Bank
  

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  Driving down the cost of observability
  

  Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Keeping observability costs under control while having full visibility into ever-growing telemetry data is the need of the hour for cloud-native companies. In this session, Coralogix's Director of Technology Solutions explores architectures and technologies to reduce your observability costs without compromising cloud performance. Coralogix, an AWS partner, is a full-stack observability platform.
  

  Speaker:
  Steve Lerner, Director of Technology Solutions, Coralogix

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  Delivering play-by-play access for India’s top sports tech platform
  

  Time: 3:30 - 4:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  With over 200 million users, Dream11 is India’s largest sports tech platform and AWS customer. As the number of users and matches continue to grow exponentially, Dream11 were looking for alternate options to scale their database for storing post-match contest and team data. Join this session as we deep dive into Dream11's journey into becoming India’s top sports tech platform. 
  

  Speakers:
  Priya Jathar, Soluions Architect, AWS India
  Bipul Karnani, Principal Engineer, Dream11

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  From data to discovery: Exploring the intersection of distributed databases and AI
  

  Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Distributed databases and AI convergence revolutionize app scaling across hundreds of nodes with consistency , overcoming traditional database hurdles. With TiDB’ s HTAP and AI features, developers can easily build apps on AWS, focusing on innovation rather than infrastructure challenges. It offers a distributed SQL database that is highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure, simplifying both development and deployment.

  Speaker:
  Bhanu Jamwal, Head of Solution Engineering, APAC, PingCAP
  

• Track 3 - Build on AWS

   

  How JPMC rearchitected and migrated their Business Intelligence platform to AWS
  

  Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  JPMC Business Intelligence platform is critical to supporting JPMC’s Sales and Research line of business. It has over 30 source feeders, receives over 250+ daily files, produces over 4000 reports daily and covers over 5 million daily transactions. As part of the AWS journey, the application was completely rewritten to be cloud enabled covering 300+ Feeds, 30+ downstream, 20 Critical Dashboards, 1 million daily restatement. Incredible benefits have already been realized, Key ones include $1 Mn/yr. Cost savings on Premise Infra, 70% improvement in ETL processing times, 30% run time improvement for Reports & potential to report data 1hr earlier for each region close. Be a part of the session to gain a technical understanding on how JPMC rearchitected their infrastructure to achieve this feat.
  

  Speakers:
  Qais Poonawala, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS India
  Sriharsha Subramanya Begolli, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India
  Tejaswini Gowda, Senior Vice President, JPMorgan Chase & Co
  

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  Increasing computing efficiency to cut cloud costs by 50%+
  

  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST
  Level: 100 - Introductory

  CAST AI presentation starts with an overview of CPU and memory utilization in Kubernetes applications to show the culprits behind low computing efficiency. Understand how teams optimize resource usage, increase efficiency, and prevent over-provisioning. Learn how 6sense automate Kubernetes solutions without overspending and compromising workload availability or performance.

  Speakers:
  Laurent Gil, Co Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cast AI
  Aditya Chandra, VP of Engineering, Infrastructure Platform, 6Sense
  

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  Unlocking business potential with generative AI: From pet names to real-world solutions
  

  Time: 2:30 - 3:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Are you building a generative AI application for your customers? In this session, learn how AWS built an interactive solution that generates prompts for an LLM through the physical world and combines them with a live data feed. Explore the technical decisions (and the lessons learned along the way) when building the interactive storyteller. You can learn more and test this solution at AWS Summit Bengaluru.
  

  Speakers:
  Jayesh Kumar Tank, Senior Cloud Architect, AWS India
  Deepayan Pandharkar, Senior Cloud Architect, AWS India
  

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  Unlocking scalability and performance while being cost-effective: Using Redis Data Integration and multi-modeling for cloud applications
  

  Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Redis simplifies scaling for legacy apps by seamlessly integrating with traditional databases through Redis Data Integration or replacing them with its advanced querying and multi-modeling capabilities. Features like Search and Streams further simplify app architectures, reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

  Speakers:
  Abhishek Srivastava, Data Integration Guru, Redis
  Shekhar Suman, Multi-modeling Data Architect, Redis
  

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  Building applications with generative AI and live data
  

  Time: 3:30 - 4:00 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Navigating AI application development can be intricate. In this chalk talk, explore how to unlock the power of Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models. Learn through live coding demonstrations how to build image and text generation applications, including a dialogue-based conversational tool, using Amazon CodeWhisperer for live code recommendations to accelerate the application building process. Ideal for developers and AI enthusiasts, this immersive talk provides practical experience in using Amazon Bedrock.

  
  Speaker:
  Sujoy Gulati, Enterprise Technical Account Manager, AWS India
   

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  An immersive experience with Amazon Bedrock
  

  Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM
  Level: 300 - Advanced
  

  Building tailored product summaries helps better target your audience, but it is time-consuming. The more attributes you consider to describe your audience, the more attribute combinations you get and the more distinct product summaries you have to write. In this chalk talk, explore how to use foundational models through Amazon Bedrock to generate product summaries from a survey application. See tailored product summaries crafted about the 200+ AWS service offerings based on the role of survey respondents, their maturity with AWS, the services they already know, and the services they want to know more about.

  Speaker:
  Sathish Kumar Prabakaran, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India
  

• Track 4 - Security, compliance and resilience

   

  Axis Bank’s holistic approach to Disaster Recovery & Resiliency on AWS
  

  Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Advanced

  In the ever-changing landscape of banking, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime is of paramount importance. In this session, Axis Bank will talk about their comprehensive disaster recovery strategy and how they are promoting the adoption of resiliency design patterns in their apps. Axis Bank will share their experiences on how they built DR for a core workload on AWS and share learnings from the DR drill exercise.
  

  Speakers:
  Harsh Wardhan, Senior Vice President, Cloud Centre of Excellence, Axis Bank
  Sathish Bhor, Senior Vice President, CRM IT, Axis Bank

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  Okta
  

  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST

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  How security teams can strengthen security using generative AI
  

  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  To help businesses move faster and deliver ever-stronger security outcomes, modern security teams need to provide consistent, contextual guidance to builders. Join this session to learn how generative AI—specifically, Retrieval Augmented Generation with Amazon Kendra, Amazon Security Lake, and Amazon Bedrock—can help your security team achieve this. The session includes a demo of an AI-powered security assistant that can address common security questions and use cases based on your internal knowledge bases and trusted public sources. Come discuss how your security team can begin to safely use generative AI to reduce cognitive load and increase focus on novel, high-value opportunities.

  Speaker:
  Lalit Kumar, Principal Security Architect, AWS India
  

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  Coralogix
  

  Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM IST

  TBD

  Threat modelling to evaluate the security and resilience of your generative AI workloads

  Time: 2:30 - 3:00 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  This session guides you through a practical approach, empowering you to create a threat model for your own generative AI applications. See a demo of how to implement effective mitigations to secure your generative AI workloads with Amazon Bedrock. Additionally, learn about the AWS resilience lifecycle, a mental model for resilience on AWS. Come gain confidence to securely build your next generative AI workload on AWS, as well as meet your long-term resilience objectives.
  
  Speakers:
  Joydipto Banerjee, Senior Technical Customer Solutions Manager, AWS India
  Tejas Sheth, Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS India
  

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  Take data protection from theory to practice on AWS

  Time:  3:00 - 3:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate
  

  As India enacts its Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDP), data protection becomes critical . In this session, you will understand how native AWS data protection services can provide you with granular controls over access , implement encryption , audit and policy enforcement - allowing you to build a highly secure foundation for your data. This session is suited for security leaders and builders , who need to understand data protection capabilities to meet compliance requirements and best practice implementations – basic understanding of AWS security services is recommended.
  
  Speaker:
  Rajendra Shastrakar, Principal Security Architect, AWS India
  

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  Leveraging AWS to build Advanced Resiliency patterns for a trade processing platform
  

  Time:  3:30 - 4:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate
  

  Trade processing is a highly critical platform for Fidelity Brokerage business – it is currently being transformed into an AWS cloud-based platform. The session will revolve around why Resiliency of this platform is an extremely important aspect for us, how have we approached it and how have we validated it through testing and FIS activated workflow.
  
  Speaker:
  Mohammed Asadulla Baig, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS India
  Amit Srivastava, Vice President & Chapter Area Leader, Brokerage Technology, Fidelity Investments
  

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  Private connectivity strategies for multi-Region networks
  

  Time:  4:00 - 4:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate
  

  This session will delve into the driving forces behind adopting multi-region architectures, such as ensuring global presence for applications, minimizing latency, enabling disaster recovery, and adhering to compliance and data residency regulations. Additionally, it will explore AWS networking best practices tailored for designing robust multi-region architectures. These practices encompass IP schema considerations, leveraging Direct Connect Gateway (DXGW) over Virtual Private Gateway (VGW) for improved connectivity, implementing resilient Direct Connect setups for high availability, and utilizing the AWS Backbone for seamless inter-region communication. Furthermore, the session will shed light on how AWS Private Link can be effectively integrated into a multi-region setup, facilitating secure and scalable connectivity.
  
  Speaker:
  Avanish Yadav, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India
  Sonika Beniwal, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS India

• Track 5 - Build with AWS Partners

   

  Conquer cloud challenges with a competitive edge for less with AMD
  Time: 1:30 - 2:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate
  
  It has become very clear, the incredible opportunity that generative AI has for all our businesses. This opportunity came so quickly, that it took many IT departments by surprise. The AI opportunity came, but it didn’t bring the IT budget or resources along with it. Every CIO has an AI strategy. And part of that strategy is the new challenge to figure out how to drive new AI initiatives with the same budget. That is what AMD uis here to talk about in this session. The solution, or part of the solution, at least. You can take all of your existing, high-volume workloads on EC2, and get double the application performance, while saving significantly on your monthly cloud spend.
  

  Speaker:
  Shilpesh Shah, Senior Solution Architect, AMD India Pvt. Ltd.
  

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  Unlocking real-time AI: The next big thing
  Time: 2:00 - 2:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Organizations are racing to unlock the potential of real-time AI - the next big  thing. This session uncovers the architecture and strategy to leverage  the power of AI, big data, and machine learning to create real-time AI applications & analytics. Get insights into choosing generative AI  models, implementing features such as RAG, and hybrid search, and the
  innovation it brings to business of the future.

  Speakers:
  Alex Anthony, Director of Business, India, SingleStore, Inc.
  Ashish Kumar, Director of Data Platform and Data Engineering, 6sense

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  Power Amazon Bedrock applications with Neo4j knowledge graph
  Time: 2:30 - 3:00 PM PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Enhance language understanding and generate more contextually accurate responses with knowledge graphs and generative AI. Explore Amazon Bedrock's power to automate Neo4j knowledge graph creation from unstructured data. See how integrating this graph boosts generative AI accuracy and contextual understanding for more reliable interactions.
  

  Speakers:
  Sumit Shatwara, Solution Architect , Neo4j
  

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  Unlocking the power of innovation on AWS with Noventiq
  Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM IST
  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Discover how Noventiq revolutionizes document management and empowers efficient, intelligent document workflows built on AWS. Learn how Noventiq's Serverless Intelligent Document Management System (uDMS) stores and automates document management system processes by seamlessly organizing, and retrieving digital files for improved task and use case execution control. By operating in the cloud, organisations can go serverless, ensuring scalability, and high availability.
  

  Speakers:
  Satheesh Nair, Head, Data & Analytics, Noventiq
  Yogesh Sharma, Head, Applications, Noventiq
  

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  How Dream11 brings your fantasy sports rank to you
  Time: 3:30 - 4:00 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Dream11 Leaderboard sorts tens of millions of enteries in real-time for every ball, every match, so fans have a very interactive experience. Computing points and displaying ranks for a live match poses two distinct challenges at our scale of 400 million requests per minute on edge. We will cover how Dream11 leverages AWS and Aerospike to bring Sports Fans their ranks to them within miliseconds
  

  Speakers:
  Avik Baishya, Head of Strategic Account Management, Aerospike
  Bharat Kumar, VP of Engineering, Dream11
  

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  Freshworks rethinks NoSQL for rapid scaling & cost-efficiency
  Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM IST
  Level: 200 - Intermediate

  Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software for IT, customer support, sales, and marketing collaboration. Given their scale, managing petabytes of data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases becames a challenge. To prepare for 10x growth requires a strategic scale approach without interrupting business continuity . Learn how Freshworks architects a solution using ScyllaDB.
  

  Speakers:
  Sunderjeet Singh, Regional Sales Head and Country Manager, ScyllaDB
  Sreedhar Gade, Vice President, Engineering, Freshworks
  

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