Agenda Overview
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 - 11:15 | Opening Keynote |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Breakout Sessions |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Partner Expo & Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | DeepRacer Workshop |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Breakout Sessions |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Networking Reception in the Expo |
Breakout Sessions
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Hot Topics
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Getting Started
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Innovation in the Cloud
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Building in the Cloud
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Business Track
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Startup Track
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AWS Partners Enabling Disruption
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Modernizing Your Business with AWS Partners
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Executive Track
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DeepRacer Workshop & Refresher Sessions
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Hot Topics
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Breaking the monolith using AWS container services
Level: 300
Speaker: Sebastien Stormacq, Technical Developer Evangelist, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Modern application development in the cloud
Level: 300
Speaker: Cobus Bernard, Technical Evangelist, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
CI/CD for Modern Applications
Level: 300
Madeleine North, Software Development Engineer, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Serverless best practices for configuration management and cost optimization
Level: 300
Speaker: Alex Casalboni, Technical Evangelist, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Unmanned drones in anti-poaching using AWS AI and Machine Learning
Level: 300
Speaker: Clive Charlton, Solutions Architect, AWS
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Getting Started
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Choosing the right database for your workload
Level: 200
Speaker: Nicolas Seilaz, Solutions Architect, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
EC2 Foundations and cost optimisation best practices
Level: 200
Speaker: Simon Treacy, Solutions Architect, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Identity & access management for AWS services
Level: 200
Speaker: Sebastien Stormacq, Technical Developer Evangelist, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Management tools: Control for your cloud environment using AWS management tools
Level: 200
Speaker: Ashraf Altalleh, Technical Account Manager, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Getting started with IoT on AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Rudy Chetty, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
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Innovation in the Cloud
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11:30am - 12:15pm
AWS networking fundamentals
Level: 200
Speaker: Francois van Rensburg, Solutions Architect, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Become a machine learning developer using AWS Machine Learning Services
Level: 300
Speaker: Alex Casalboni, Technical Evangelist, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Modern data platforms: Rethinking data
Level: 200
Speaker: Steffen Grunwald, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Build data-driven, high-performance, internet-scale applications with AWS database services
Level: 300
Speaker: Alpana Goolab, Sr. Cloud Support Engineer, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Query your data in S3 with SQL and optimize for cost and performance
Level: 400
Speaker: Steffen Grunwald, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS
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Building in the Cloud
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Scaling tightly coupled algorithms on AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Scott Eberhardt, Pr. SA - HPC, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Migrating business critical applications to AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Sumeeth Siriyur, Solutions Architect, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Developing .NET Applications on AWS
Level: 300
Speaker: Shijaz Abdulla, Solutions Architect Manager, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Application integration patterns for microservices
Level: 300
Speaker: Dirk Fröhner, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Alexa Conversations: How developers can build natural, extensible voice conversations
Level: 300
Speaker: Zlatan Dzinic, Sr. ML Solutions Architect, AWS
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Business Track
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Drive digital transformation using AI
Level: 200
Speaker: Michael Needham, Sr Mgr, Solutions Architecture, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Threat detection and remediation in the cloud
Level: 300
Speaker: Etienne Liebetrau, Cloud Support Engineer, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Financial services industry: Building for compliance
Level: 200
Speaker: Nicolas Seilaz, Solutions Architect, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Are you well architected?
Level: 200
Speaker: Andrew Robinson, Solutions Architect - WA Partner Program, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Analysing data in real-time
Level: 200
Speaker: Andrew Hood, Prototyping Engagement Manager, AWS
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Startup Track
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11:30am - 12:15pm
What is a "BlackFriday" with AWS?
Level: 200
Speaker: Tauhir Jardine, Founder, A2D24
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Built for scale
Level: 200
Speaker: George Murage, Group Head of Technology Operations, Cellulant
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Building massively scalable AI/ML on AWS
Level: 300
Speaker: Michael Grant, CTO, Dataprophet
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Building an MVP on AWS
Level: 300
Speaker: Cobus Bernard, Technical Evangelist, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
An introduction to fundraising: Q&A with Claudia Makadristo, Seedstars
Level: 300
Speaker: Henri Zietsman, Senior BDM, Start-up, AWS
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AWS Partners Enabling Disruption
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11:30am - 12:15pm
The global impact AWS Elemental and Amazon Rekognition will have on viewing wildlife
Level: 100
Speaker: Gareth Bower, CEO, Silicon Overdrive
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Pragmatic container security
Level: 200
Speaker: Paul Hidalgo, Solution Architect, Trend Micro
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Leveraging Big Data architectures for Small Data
Level: 200
Speaker: Johan du Preez, Analytics Lead, Ovations Group
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Cape Town commuters are getting home with the help of AWS Analytics and Machine Learning
Level: 100
Speaker: Luke Holderness, Solution Architect, Dimension Data
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Connecting to the AWS Cloud: Here is what you need to know
Level: 200
Speaker: Andrew Owens, Technical Manager: Interconnection & Peering, Teraco
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Modernizing Your Business with AWS Partners
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11:30am - 12:15pm
A startup mentality in a 150+ Year old organization
Level: 200
Speaker: Tom Wells, Chief Disruption Officer, Synthesis
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Tech deep dive: Cloud data management with Veeam
Level: 200
Speaker: Andrey Zhelezko, Technical Analyst: Product Strategy, Veeam Software
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Navigating the cloud migration journey: Best practices from successful migrations to AWS
Level: 100
Speaker: Dr. Manish Govil, Global AWS Practice Head, WIPRO
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Building intelligent taxi tracking using managed AWS Services
Level: 100
Speaker: Jason Nicholls, Solutions Architect, Fuse IT
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Discover the easiest way to deploy cellular IoT with Eseye and SolarNow
Level: 100
Speaker: Piers Morgan, SVP Worldwide Sales & Paul Marshall, CCO, Eseye
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Executive Track
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Future of Enterprise IT
Level: 100
Speaker: Thomas Blood, EMEA Enterprise Evangelist, AWS
1:30pm - 2:15pm
12 Steps to getting started with AWS Cloud
Level: 200
Speaker: Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Culture of innovation at AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Thomas Blood, EMEA Enterprise Evangelist, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Executing a large scale migration to AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
SAP on AWS Cloud
Level: 200
Speaker: Adam Hill, Specialist Solutions Architect: SAP, AWS
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DeepRacer Workshop & Refresher Sessions
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11:30am - 12:15pm
Move users to AWS with Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0
Level: 200
Speaker: Pippa Hillebrand, Software Development Engineer, AWS
1:00pm - 2:15pm
DeepRacer workshop
2:30pm - 3:15pm
Building AR/VR application on AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Zlatan Dzinic, Sr. ML Solutions Architect, AWS
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Direct Connect overview
Level: 200
Speaker: Anshul Srivastava, Solutions Architect, AWS
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Accelerating your cloud migration with VMware Cloud on AWS
Level: 200
Speaker: Francois van Rensburg, Solutions Architect, AWS