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AWS Summit Johannesburg | 29 August 2024

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What to expect

AWS Summit Johannesburg is a free in-person conference that brings the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. This event is designed to educate you about AWS products and services and help you develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications. Sessions are delivered by AWS subject matter experts and customers who have successfully built solutions on AWS. To help you get the most out of your AWS Summit experience, we have curated our content to cover a range of topics and technical depth. Topics you can learn about include AI, machine learning and digital transformation and much more.

We will offer a lunch service from 12:00 to 13:30.

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Schedule (SAST)

08:00 - 09:00 : Arrival | Registration | Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 : Early Morning Sessions
10:00 -  11:00 : Keynote
11:15 - 17:00 : Breakout sessions | Activities | Lunch
17:00 : Happy hour

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  • Community Lounge

    COM204
    Level 200

    Boosting Developer Productivity with AmazonQ

    Nat Ndlovu, AWS Support Engineer, BluNOVA
    AmazonQ is revolutionizing the way developers approach coding and optimization. In this talk, we will explore the powerful features of AmazonQ that streamline development processes, enhance code quality, and significantly reduce time to market. Attendees will gain insights into practical use cases, best practices, and how to leverage AmazonQ to its full potential to maximize productivity.
    13:30 - 14:00 | 1800

  • Breakout Room 2

    AIM304
    Level 300

    A deep dive on AWS infrastructure powering the generative AI boom

    Alfred Mukudu, FSI GTM Specialist, AWS
    To help you realize the promise of generative AI, AWS provides highly performant, scalable, and cost-effective machine learning infrastructure. From the latest GPUs to purpose-built accelerators AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia, from 3,200 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter networking to hundreds of Gbps of data throughput with Amazon FSx for Lustre, AWS is the best place to train and deploy models in the cloud. In this session, get a close look at the innovation across AWS infrastructure and hear from AWS customers about how they built, deployed, and scaled large text and image generation models across various products and services.
    13:15 - 14:00 | 2700

  • Community Lounge

    COM106
    Level 100

    AWS Community Panel Discussion

    Rehan van der Merwe, Mohammed Bangie | Thoko Mathenjwa | Kudakwashe Manhondo
    Join us for a panel discussion about AWS Community from our community members who will be sharing their insights on the impact tech communities have on developers. Learn how you can gain skills, network and collaborate with other like-minded builders.
    15:00 - 15:45 | 2700

  • Community Lounge

    COM202
    Level 200

    AWS Secrets: How to read your cloud resources bedtime stories

    Hennie Francis, Capitec Bank- Engineer
    Want to save big on your AWS bill? We found the secret: teach your resources to take naps! By using AWS scheduler to shut down and start resources in our non-production account, we cut our operational costs by over 50%. Come hear the inside scoop from morning wake-up calls to start the day to night-night lullabies. This recipe will repeat and save you every day! Let your resources get their beauty sleep!
    12:00 - 12:30 | 1800

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    KEY101 
    Level 100

    AWS Summit Johannesburg 2024 - Keynote (KEY101)

    Dave Brown, VP of AWS Compute & Networking | Veliswa Boya, AWS EMEA Senior Developer Advocate | Strini Mudaly, Vice President of ICT, Gold Fields | Tebalo Tsoaeli, CIO, Johannesburg Stock Exchange | Chris Erasmus, AWS South Africa Country General Manager
    The main presentation at AWS Summit Johannesburh, featuring Dave Brown, VP of AWS Compute & Networking
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  • Breakout Room 4

    APP201
    Level 200

    AWS for Every Application: Harness the power of AWS to build game-changing applications

    Alpana Goolab, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS | Ashraf Altalleh, Snr. Solutions Architect, AWS
    Organizations across all industries are looking to solve tougher challenges, turn groundbreaking ideas into reality and deliver innovative solutions efficiently at scale. This requires an infrastructure that scales limitlessly, delivers highest performance at optimized costs and enables constant innovation to support future growth. AWS empowers customers to build game-changing applications by offering the most secure, innovative and performant cloud infrastructure. AWS offers the broadest and deepest set of capabilities to support the needs of even the most demanding workloads such as those running extremely complex ML models and leveraging generative AI, requiring large scale high performance computational power at lowest costs.
    09:00 - 09:45 | 2700

  • Breakout Room 7

    HYB101
    Level 100

    AWS for VMware: Transforming people, process, and technology

    Keith Groom, WW Migration & Modernization Partner Practice Leader, AWS
    Choosing the right cloud destination to run and operate your VMware-based workloads is a critical decision point for your business. Join this session to learn how AWS is partnering with our customers to navigate this journey with the right mix of migration, modernization, and innovation to meet your business goals today and in the future. From purpose-built services that offer prescriptive guidance for rapid migration and modernization to specialized programs to train and upskill your teams, AWS and our partners are committed to helping you transform your VMware environments.
    11:15 - 12:00 | 2700

  • Breakout Room 3

    ANA305
    Level 300

    AWS vector database capabilities with best practices for querying vector data.

    Edward Kiarie Karanja, Solutions Architect, AWS | Ademola Sanusi, Solutions Architect, AWS
    Innovation on vector database capabilities have rapidly evolved. In this session, we will share the latest in vector database capabilities across the AWS portfolio. We will then focus on best practices for vector search using Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL so you can deliver a high-performance experience to your customers. You will also learn how to store data from Amazon Bedrock in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database and learn what SQL queries and tuning parameters optimize the performance of your application when working with AI/ML data, vector data types, exact and approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms, and vector-optimized indexing.
    15:15 - 16:00 | 2700

  • Workshop Room

    WRK305
    Level 300

    Accelerate your application modernization with containers

    Mayowa Amao, Solutions Architect, AWS
    Moving to containers is one of the most adopted modernization paths today. Following the correct approach and leveraging the right tools enables you to achieve important benefits like agility, portability and efficiency. On the other hand, your modernization journey isn’t only about technology. You will get the most benefit when you modernize your delivery and operational practices, transform your organizational processes and culture. In this workshop, you will use AWS App2Container to jumpstart your application’s containerization journey. You will need a laptop to participate.
    15:15 - 17:00 | 6300
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Level guide

Level 100: Foundational

Level 100 sessions are designed to give an overview or introduction to AWS services. These sessions focus on features, functions, and benefits, with content that highlights basic use cases and showcases how a service or feature can be used in your applications and how it can be integrated with other services.

Level 200: Intermediate

Level 200 sessions assume a general knowledge of the topic and provide a technical deeper dive into a service or use case. This content typically includes architecture, integration, and configuration of common use cases. Level 200 content provides tips and tricks, best practices, or high-level troubleshooting guidance.

Level 300: Advanced

Level 300 sessions assume proficiency in the topic and typically cover in-depth architecture, development, deployment, and migration examples. Level 300 content explores how services can be used and potential customer use cases, offering recommendations and best practices for experienced AWS users.

Level 400: Expert

Level 400 sessions are for advanced or expert AWS customers. These sessions are geared toward super-skilled users who want to learn the deep inner workings of AWS services. Level 400 content demonstrates complex design, development, and deployment strategies to help the audience dive deep into the topic.

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