Reimagine Business Intelligence with Amazon QuickSight

Today's Business Intelligence tools have to go beyond traditional dashboarding and reporting. By attending this session you will learn how to meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries.

Fortune Hui, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
Bin Wang, Sr. Analytic Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Top 3 Ways to Architect for AWS Cloud Efficiency Today (Sponsored by Dynatrace)

Achieving a well-architected AWS Cloud goes beyond just performance, security, and resiliency and requires efforts to operate efficiently and sustainably, putting a focus on not just how apps run but the overall impact of running these apps – to the environment, to your resources, and to your business. While many organizations have a handle on how to measure the former, the latter can be challenging to quantify and, more so, to continuously improve. In this session, you will learn how data in context within intelligent cloud observability platform, Dynatrace, empowers organizations to zero-in on analytics pertaining to cloud usage and consumption and automate optimization of efficiencies such as right-sizing or re-factoring to ensure a well-architected AWS cloud environment.  

Wilson Lai, Sales Engineering Director of Greater China, Dynatrace

Supercharge Your Data Workflows with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (Sponsored by NetApp)

In this breakout session, attendees will discover how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can supercharge their data workflows. The session will cover the solution's key benefits, including its ability to provide fast and reliable access to data and its scalability and flexibility. Attendees will learn about the various use cases for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, including running high-performance applications, DevOps, Distributed Caching, Data Protection, and modern application workloads. The session will also cover how the solution can help organizations save time and reduce costs by simplifying the management of their data workflows and success stories. Attendees will leave the session with an understanding of the features and capabilities of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and how it can help them transform their data workflows.

Varun Seth, Cloud Solutions Architect – AWS, Netapp

Improving Customer Experience in ESG Business (featuring Elevate)

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors are increasingly relevant for companies, investors, and other stakeholders. Listen and learn from the digital transformation journey of ESG global market leader, and how it can support their business with building the composable architecture.

Chris Chan, IT Director, ELEVATE – an LRQA company
Eugen Briukhachev, IT Delivery Manager, ELEVATE – an LRQA company
Phoenix Ji, Data Scientist • Product and Analytics, ELEVATE – an LRQA company
Renee Wong, Business Development Manager, AWS

Purpose Build Databases – The Right Tool for The Right Job

AWS offers the broadest portfolio of 15+ purpose-built database engines, enabling developers to pick the right database for the job. In this presentation, we will cover the role of purpose-built databases in modern applications, as well as tools and program accelerate the migration.

Wilson Wong, Sr Solutions Architect, AWS

Migrating Enterprise Workloads Using AWS Tools

From lifting and shifting workloads to moving entire data centers, AWS provides the cloud capabilities you need for a successful migration. And with the deepest set of migration and modernization services that specialize in workloads.

Angus Tong, Migration, Solutions Architect, AWS

Designing Secure Protection Environments with Veeam and AWS (Sponsored by Veeam)

In 2023 we’ve seen major changes in the way that cyberattacks, especially Ransomware. What is the best practice of cyber-resiliency strategy to secure your data in AWS ?
1) How Veeam can help in NIST cybersecurity framework
2) Golden Rule of Data Protection
3) Leverage immutability to secure your data
4) Isolation of data
5) Privilege Consideration

Chris Wong, Regional Channel Systems Engineer, HK & Taiwan, Veeam

Evaluating a Cloud Migration Decision - Building Cloud Business Case with AWS

It is common for customer to struggle with how to get started on cloud migration journey, especially on justifying the business outcome with cloud benefits. In this session, you will learn about the importance of evaluating a cloud migration decision, and how to build a cloud business case with AWS migration resource support.

Andy Hui, Migration, Business Development Manager, AWS

Best Practices for Application Observability at Scale

Observability in a dynamic, microservice world can have its challenges - as you grow your environment you need patterns and practices that are effective at scale. Having a central observability platform with consistent visibility into your applications will allow your teams to resolve issues faster and learn through retrospective analysis. In this session we walk through best practices for operating observability on AWS, utilising the Amazon CloudWatch suite and AWS X-Ray, to enable both high level views and zooming in to understand the details of a single request.

Abhaya Chauhan, Solutions Architect, AWS

Build Resilient and Secure Global Cloud Networks

Network design is a foundational and critical component in your cloud journey. In this session we dive deep into resiliency patterns for setting up secure and global networks on AWS using services such as AWS Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, and AWS Network Firewall.

Shakeel Ahmad, Head of Networking Solutions Architect, AWS

Simplifying Kubernetes-based Container Environment with AWS and Red Hat OpenShift (Sponsored by Red Hat)

Introducing how Red Hat and AWS reduce complexity and simplify your Kubernetes-based container environment. This allows developers to innovate faster, deliver high-quality customer experiences, and expand and scale your infrastructure in any direction to be a disruptor in your industry.

Radar Lui, Associate Principal Solution Architect, Red Hat

Collaborating for Success: How China Mobile International and AWS Work Together to Optimize Cloud Infrastructure (Sponsored by China Mobile International)

In today's ever-evolving technological landscape, businesses are looking for ways to optimize their cloud infrastructure and partner ecosystems to achieve success. This is where China Mobile International and AWS come in, two global giants in the world of cloud computing. Together, they are setting new standards for collaboration and innovation to deliver unparalleled cloud infrastructure and services. Throughout the presentation, we will highlight how CMI and AWS are working together to optimize their cloud network infrastructure, which provides services such as cloud, network, MSP and management tools to customers globally. Attendees will have a better understanding of how businesses can benefit from their innovative solutions and services.

Patricl Lee, Head of Product Development, Hong Kong & Macau, China Mobile International

Best Practices for Running Applications at the Edge

With AWS for the Edge, we continue to bring world’s best cloud capabilities closest to customers’ endpoints. Join us to learn about resiliency and performance considerations for deploying business critical applications at the edge of cloud. You’ll also learn how one of the leading electricity distributors is using AWS Outposts as they pioneer the electricity distribution network of the future in the largest city of New Zealand.

Ratan Kumar, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
John Martin, Principal Architect, Vector Ltd

How to Migrate, Modernize, and Optimize Using the AWS MAP

AWS has aided hundreds of thousands of businesses in migrating and modernizing their digital operations through the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), a proven framework for cost-efficient, resilient, and agile transformation. In this session, learn how MAP is meant to assist customers not only in their migration to AWS, but also in their adoption of new technologies, modernization of digital operations, and outlook on the future. Hear how FWD Singapore used the AWS Migrate to Modernize approach to modernize Microsoft workloads (Windows and SQL server) and meet its cloud transformation objectives, including cost savings, developer efficiencies, and a better customer experience.

Anil Juriasingani, CTO, FWD Singapore
Jindu Cherian, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect - Migrations and Modernization, AWS

Observability for Distributed Applications

Modern distributed applications are flexible and scalable. This also brings complexity in optimizing and controlling your applications. Observability is a comprehensive way to understand your workload with metrics, logs and traces. Join us to explore your journey in achieving observability on AWS.

Jacky Kwok, Solutions Architect, AWS

Build Modern Application Easily with MongoDB Atlas on AWS (Sponsored by MongoDB)

In this session, our MongoDB solution architect Cathlon Lau will share how MongoDB’s developer data platform on AWS helps companies to build applications that are highly available, performant at global scale, and compliant with the most demanding security and privacy standards. Also abstractaway low-level data obstacles, and empower developers with sustainable innovation, and more.

Cathlon Lau, Advisory Solutions Architect, MongoDB

Developer-first Security: Code to Cloud, & Back to Code (Sponsored by Snyk)

Snyk is known for its developer-first security for modern cloud-native applications. Snyk enables developers to not only find issues but quickly apply fixes, as early as possible.
The reason why it's from code to the cloud and back again is to highlight the continuous development and deployment of code and config into the cloud. If changes need to be made in the cloud then they are done in code, not in production.
In this talk, we will explore how Snyk can secure your application in the AWS ecosystem. Come to our presentation and visit our booth for more details!

Billy Yung, Staff Solutions Engineer (APJ), Synk

Simplify Multi-tenant Microservice Applications

When building multi-tenant applications, builders can be confronted by a wave of complexities as they work out how to add features like authorisation, data access, isolation, metrics, billing, and logging in an application that has multiple tenants. This often results in delays to application delivery, bottlenecks in performance, and security vulnerabilities as these complex features are built, and deployed. In this session you will learn the patterns and strategies you can adopt to satisfy these feature requirements and reduce the complexity for the builders who create them. We also discuss how to adopt serverless technologies to reduce operational overheads and lower costs whilst still following multitenancy best principles.

Ben Friebe, Senior ISV Solutions Architect, AWS
Anthony Kawamoto, ISV Solutions Architect, AWS

Cyber Security Governance in Execution

Organizations must establish clear security policies and procedures that are regularly reviewed and updated. Continuous monitoring and analysis of security events can help identify potential vulnerabilities and support proactive risk management. Additionally, implementing a comprehensive security architecture that integrates people, processes, and technology can help ensure that security is ingrained into the organization's culture and operations.

Sharon Lam, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Cloud Security is a Team Sport: Here's How To Win (Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)

There are many roles on a cloud security team, including architects, developers, security engineers and CISOs among others. Success in cloud security requires these various players need a common context to understand and act on cybersecurity risks in the cloud. In this session, we will explore how leveraging consolidated cybersecurity platforms (such as CNAPP - cloud native application protection platforms) are helping enable a unified view of cybersecurity across core to cloud by integrating effectively with DevOps tools and native AWS services.

Siddharth Deshpande, CTO, Cloud Security, Palo Alto Networks

Securing AI (Sponsored by PwC)

As the use of AI continues to grow within organisations, so does the need for ensuring its security. AI systems can be vulnerable to attacks, making it crucial for cybersecurity and cloud professionals to stay up-to-date on the latest methods for securing AI. Discover the latest threats facing AI, best practices for securing your systems, and emerging technologies that can help you protect your organisation's most valuable data. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from the best in the business and ensure the continued success of your AI initiatives.

Daryl Li, Partner, Cybersecurity and Cloud, PwC Hong Kong
James Lee, Partner, Financial Services Consulting, PwC Hong Kong

Threat Modeling through an Adversarial Lens

Threat modeling is an effective way to identify security risks and evaluate whether there are sufficient controls in place to properly manage those risks. With an attacker-centric threat modeling approach utilizing frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, it provides threat modelers an adversarial lens to better understand risks under real-life attack scenarios so that they can go a step further to design attack specific threat detection/hunting logics and deploy queries/dashboards in SIEM.

Alvin Deng, Security Assurance Consultant, AWS

AWS re:Inforce 2023 Recap - Keynote Highlights

AWS Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses takes the stage to share exciting innovations and advice for accelerating your security practices. Join this 30-min session and learn the key takeaways from this keynote.

Henry Ho, Solutions Architect, AWS

AWS re:Inforce 2023 Recap - New Security Services

Amazon Security Lake, Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access are generally available now! This session will talk about the key benefits and use cases of these newly launched services.

Henry Ho, Solutions Architect, AWS

AWS re:Inforce 2023 Recap - New Features Enhancement

Get to know the latest features enhancements for Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty and other AWS Security Services.

Samuel Suen, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Reimagine Retail with Generative AI by Chow Sang Sang and HKEBA

In this session, we have invited Chow Sang Sang and HKEBA to join the panel discussion about GenAI's trends in the retail industry. We will be sharing some market insights and concerns with the audience.

Fai Leung, Associate Director Omni Channel Business Integration, Chow Sang Sang
Matt Li, Vice Chairman, HKEBA
Joyce Tseng, Business Development Manager, AWS

Observability to Drive the Best Customer Experiences (Sponsored by Splunk)

Cloud Native, On-Prem or Hybrid, your tech stack supports increasingly critical services. Learn top use-cases and how others are driving user experience with Observability. See how Splunk takes an open source approach to support outcomes for business-critical applications across APAC.

Jeff Chau, Solutions Architect Team Lead - IT & DevOps, Splunk

Rethinking Contact Centre Operations in the Cloud

Amazon Connect is changing the way Contact Center operations can harness the cloud to drive increased efficiency. In this session, hear how NCS used Amazon Connect to improve Contact Center services for their customers. Learn how to manage these contact centers at scale in a reproducible, consistent manner that allows Contact Center administrators manage their infrastructure with confidence. Discover how infrastructure as code can help customers integrate a plethora of AWS services in their Contact Centre to enhance performance and capability.

Glenn Chia, Professional Services, AWS
Yun Yi (YY) Lim, Professional Services, AWS

Bring Retail Operations into the 21st Century

Retailers modernise operations to meet customers where they are, by improving efficiency, providing better customer service, and reducing costs. In this session, hear how retail businesses can leverage AWS to optimise supply chains and transform operations. Learn about Industry Solutions that AWS has built to solve customer challenges, such as fleet management for instant delivery, scheduling and routing forecasting, and logistics forecasting for disaster recovery. Discover AWS Supply Chain, a new cloud application that connects with customers’ ERP systems to provide actionable insights on their supply chain.

Charles Crouspeyre, Head of Prototyping, AWS
Alessio Basso, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Opening Keynote: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Join this keynote to hear the key areas of transformation that we’re seeing in financial services today, and the success factors that are critical to these transformations.

Nelson Chan, Head of Banking Go-to-Market, APJ, AWS

Cross-Regional Resilience for Business Critical Applications (featuring Standard Chartered Bank)

Resilience has become a hot topic with customers and financial services regulators. Join this session to learn how AWS approaches resilience for financial services customers, and hear how Standard Chartered Bank rolled out their cross-region resilient application, TradeXpress.

Ove Weiseth, Chief Product Owner, TradeXpress, Standard Chartered Bank
Michael Griggs, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

Alternative Data for Financial Services Industry (featuring Measurable AI)

Learn how to leverage alternative data based on e-receipt data to understand consumer behavior and corporate performance in food delivery, ride-hailing and e-commerce to provide enriched data insight for FSI applications, such as credit scoring, market competition analysis, financial reporting and more

Heatherm Huang, Co-founder, Measurable AI
Desmond Cheung, Business Development Manager, AWS

Responsible Business Communication: Omni-channel Messaging for Industrial Compliance (featuring LeapXpert)

Companies are expected to be accessible through many mobile messaging applications. But these casual communication channels paired with the hybrid work experience blur the line between personal and business communication and often pose major regulatory, compliance, and security challenges. In this session, learn how LeapXpert platform, built on AWS, provides highly compliant solution to address compliance challenges in insurance and banking, while supporting seamless collaboration and sales

Dima Gutzeit, CEO, LeapXpert
Desmond Cheung, Business Development Manager, AWS

Unsung Hero in Quantitative Investment (featuring ActusRayPartners)

In this session, you will learn how native data pipelines on the Cloud prepare the ingredients for quantitative modelling.

Ken Poon, Associate Director, ActusRayPartners
Arthur Yan, Senior Research Analyst, ActusRayPartners
Peier Wu, Business Development Manager, AWS

How AXA Harnesses Climate Data to Help Customers Better Manage Risk (featuring AXA)

In this 30-minute fireside chat, we delve into AXA’s approach to climate risk management, which leverages climate data and advanced technologies for well-informed underwriting decisions. By incorporating environmental contexts and advocating responsible insurance practices, AXA navigates challenges and seizes opportunities to generate positive impacts for policyholders, communities, and the environment

Chelsea Jiang, Chief Technical and Innovation Officer, AXA Greater China
Jacqueline Chong, Digital Innovation Program Lead, AWS Hong Kong

Enabling High Performance & Resilience for Data-driven Algo Trading in the Cloud (featuring Forex Forest)

To ensure a fast response & scalable environment for trading exchange stock market, AWS is selected as the only one to provide computing resources for over thousands of traders at Forex Forest, it allows them to auto provisioning different type of computing resources to cope with different traders' needs. Furthermore, working with AWS Professional Services team for building up a landing zone for security and compliance purpose. And with data collected throughout all the transaction records, it is also planned to leverage AWS to build up a data lake, on top with data modelling & algorithm set for keep fine-tuning the algo-trading strategies applied for more accurate running.

Wayne Ng, CEO, Forex Forest
Mina Ho, Territory Business Development Manager, AWS