AWS Summit HK

2024 AWS Summit Hong Kong

May 22, 2024 (Wednesday)

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Over 60 sessions, including the opening keynote, generative AI sessions, Dev Day, AWS
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Looking forward to seeing you at our next AWS Hong Kong events!

Immerse yourself in the world of generative AI

This annual flagship event brings together developers, businesses, and tech enthusiasts from all industries for an immersive experience in the world of generative AI and cloud technology.

Dive into the latest AWS services and solutions through interactive workshops, hands-on labs, and engaging talks from experts. Learn how leading companies are using generative AI, machine learning, data analytics, serverless architectures, and more to transform their business. Register now!

AWS Summit Hong Kong Highlights

Guest of Honor

Lillian Cheong, JP, Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau, The Government of the HKSAR

Lillian Cheong, JP

Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry
The Government of the HKSAR

Opening Keynote 2024 | 9:45AM – 10:45AM

Robert Wang, Managing Director, AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Robert Wang

Managing Director
AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Slavik Dimitrovich, Head of GenAI/ML Specialist Solution Architects,  AWS

Slavik Dimitrovich

Head of GenAI/ML Specialist Solution Architects
AWS

Robert Wang, Managing Director, AWS Hong Kong & Taiwan

Aldric Chau

General Manager Digital
Cathay

Ian Pritchard, Chief Technology Officer, Manulife Financial Asia

Ian Pritchard

Chief Technology Officer
Manulife Financial Asia

Discover how the latest advancements in generative AI, developer tooling, and foundational infrastructure allow you to build quickly with confidence, differentiate your business through your data, and deploy applications with availability, elasticity, cost, sustainability, and performance in mind. Whether you're an established enterprise or a fast-growing startup, this keynote will provide valuable insights as to where technological trends are going, how AWS can help, and offer a new look at why it's never been a better time to be a builder.

Learn from the full spectrum of generative AI sessions

The full spectrum of generative AI sessions at the Summit ensures that attendees, regardless of their roles, leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively harness the power of generative AI.

  • Unlock the transformative power of generative AI for your business. Discover Hong Kong success stories, and practical strategies to integrate generative AI seamlessly.

  • These sessions delve into best practices for data preparation, management, and governance, ensuring that good data fuels good AI.

  • Explore the latest frameworks, tools, and best practices to build powerful applications using generative AI models.

  • Explore principles and practices of Responsible AI, addressing bias mitigation, privacy, and societal impacts. 

Hear from Our Customers and Guest Speakers

Dave Chan, ATAL

Ir Dave Chan

Chief Executive of Information, Communications & Building Technologies
ATAL Engineering Group

Lau Shun Man Bundesliga Football Commentator

Lau Shun Man

Bundesliga Football Commentator

Terence Fung, Engineering Director, CASETiFY

Terence Fung

Engineering Director
CASETiFY

Florence Lee, Haed of Corporate Communication, Cornerstone Smart Recycling

Florence Lee

Head of Corporate Communication
Cornerstone Smart Recycling

Eugene Ho, CTO & Co-founder, Dayta AI

Eugene Ho

CTO and Co-founder
Dayta AI

Dr. Albert Lam, Chief Scientist & CTO, Fano Labs

Dr. Albert Lam

Chief Scientist & CTO
Fano Labs

Albert Ho, Group Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies, FWD

Albert Ho

Group Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies
FWD

Ms. Doris Hui, Senior Manager, Sustainability, foodpanda Hong Kong

Doris Hui

Senior Manager, Sustainability
foodpanda Hong Kong

Angus Fong, Machine Learning Team Lead, Goodnotes

Angus Fong

AI Team Lead
Goodnotes

Michael Ng, Chief Operating Officer Gusto Collective

Michael Ng

Chief Operating Officer
Gusto Collective

Mr. Martin Tsang - CEO and Founder of Halo Energy Limited

Martin Tsang

CEO and Founder
Halo Energy Limited

Jeffrey Ding, Chief Analyst, HashKey Group

Jeffrey Ding

Chief Analyst
HashKey Group

Alex Wang, CTO, HK01

Alex Wang

CTO
HK01

Dave Chen, Vice President, Hong Kong Computer Society

Dave Chen

Vice President
Hong Kong Computer Society

Dr. Crystal Fok, Head of Digital Service Hub, HKSTP

Dr. Crystal Fok

Head of Digital Service Hub
Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP)

Sean Jiang, VP Engineering, Lalamove

Sean Jiang

VP Engineering
Lalamove

Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology, LINK

Douglas Leung

Director - Information Technology
Link Asset Management Limited

Petrix Barbosa, CEO, Match Chain

Petrix Barbosa

CEO
Match Chain

Dicky Wong, Head of Cyber Security and Technology Risk, New World Development1

Dicky Wong

Head of Cyber Security and Technology Risk
New World Development

Steve Ng, CEO, Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary

Steve Ng

CEO
Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary

Jean-David Péquignot, Head of Markets, OSL Group and Head of OSL Digital Securities1

Jean-David Péquignot

Head of Markets, OSL Group and
Head of OSL Digital Securities

Tanya, Payment Asia

Tanya Yeung

Sales Director
Payment Asia

Dr. Keith Huang, Head of Product and Technology, PCCW-HKT - Consumer Business Group1

Dr. Keith Huang

Head of Product and Technology
PCCW-HKT - Consumer Business Group

Ivan Yuen

Head of Product & Innovation
PCCW Media Group

Lee Zhu, Growth Lead, Sei Foundation

Lee Zhu

Growth Lead
Sei Foundation

Ir Andrew Young_Associate Director (Innovation), Sino Group

Ir Andrew Young

Associate Director, Innovation
Sino Group

Jivvva Guan, Co-founder, SoSoValue

Jivvva Guan

Co-founder
SoSoValue

Draco Yam, Head of Product Development, The Point by SHKP

Draco Yam

Head of Product Development
The Point by SHKP

Alex Wong,  Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation, Towngas

Alex Wong

Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation
Towngas

Agenda

Check out the latest agenda below and join us for a day of immersive learning!
Unless specified, all sessions are conducted in English.
AWS Summit Hong Kong 2024 Agenda
    • How Amazon.com enhanced shopping with gen AI and foundation models

      Time: 11:15 - 11:45AM
      Venue: Theatre 2
      Level: 300 - Advanced

      Amazon is one of the most popular websites in the US. Its search engine is one of the most heavily used services in the world, indexing billions of products and serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. In this session, learn how Amazon Search uses the robust services offered by AWS and generative AI techniques to build delightful shopping experiences for Amazon customers. See the steps taken to bring generative AI research ideas to production using AWS—from scaling scientist productivity to building foundation model refresh and inference capabilities in production using Amazon silicon.

      Terence Chow, Sr. Go-To-Market Specialist, Machine Learning, AWS

      Reinventing with generative AI on AWS

      Time: 11:55AM - 12:25PM
      Venue: Theatre 2
      Level: 100 - Introductory

      From startups to enterprises, organizations of all sizes are getting started with generative AI. They want to capitalize on this new technology and translate the momentum from betas, prototypes, and demos to real-world innovations and productivity gains. With enterprise-grade security and privacy, leading foundation models, a data-first approach, and the most performant, low-cost infrastructure, AWS is trusted to deliver generative AI-fueled innovation. In this session, learn how new generative AI services and capabilities like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q can help deliver business value across key use cases to enhance employee productivity, improve customer engagement, and build new, differentiated experiences.

      Andrew Kane, Generative AI Security & Compliance Lead, AWS

      Generative Business Intelligence (BI) in Amazon QuickSight

      Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
      Venue: Theatre 5
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Go in-depth on how you can infuse generative AI into data analytics and decision-making processes. See how the new Generative BI capabilities in Amazon QuickSight allow business analysts to author dashboards using natural language and how business users can easily dive deep into analyzing their data by simply asking questions. Discover how business users can also use Generative BI capabilities to quickly create compelling stories to drive decision-making.

      Alvin Cheung, Data & AI Business Development Lead, AWS

      Building secure generative AI applications on AWS

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: Theatre 6
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      Generative AI is one of the most disruptive technologies of our generation and has the potential to revolutionize many industries. In this chalk talk, explore how to build secure generative AI applications on AWS with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock using various AWS services and tools spread across infrastructure and network isolation, data protection, authentication and authorization, and detective controls. Also, learn generative AI reference architectures and best practices to improve the security of your ML pipeline.

      Henry Ho, Solutions Architect, AWS
      Samuel Suen, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

      Advancing ESG practices in smart buildings with AI-driven digital twins (featuring ATAL)

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: Theatre 3
      Level: 100 – Foundational

      With the increasing importance of sustainability and the development of smart cities, the integration of ESG considerations into building management has become essential. This presentation examines the use of AWS tools to empower the R&D of ATAL's AI-driven Digital Twins for enhancing ESG practices in smart buildings. Through collaboration with AWS, our reinforced big data analytics and cloud computing capabilities come together to create the AI-driven Digital Twin in enabling organisations to streamline their operations. The AWS tools provide a scalable and secure infrastructure for ATAL's AI-driven Digital Twin to manage significant amounts of data, empowering the Digital Twin to automate the entire data processing, including data collection, analytics, visualisation, and reporting, in order to facilitate efficient ESG management. ATAL's Digital Twin enables facility managers to optimise building functionalities, addressing energy efficiency, maintenance, space utilisation, and security monitoring. Property owners benefit from improved visibility into building health for portfolio valuation and risk management. The integration of AWS tools also supports the incorporation of big data analytics into measurements of indoor environmental quality (IEQ), promoting healthier workspaces and enhancing occupant comfort and well-being.

      Ir Dave Chan, Chief Executive of Information, Communications & Building Technologies, ATAL Engineering Group
      Jay Fong, Business Development Manager, Enterprise, AWS  

      Harness the power of AWS to build and scale AI applications (featuring Fano Labs)

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: Theatre 4
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Organizations in every industry are looking to solve bigger challenges, turn groundbreaking ideas into reality, and deliver innovative solutions at scale. This requires an infrastructure that scales limitlessly, delivers high performance at optimized costs, and supports constant innovation. In this session, learn how organizations are using the secure, innovative, and performant AWS Cloud to build game-changing applications. With the broadest and deepest functionality for compute, AWS can support the needs of even the most demanding workloads to run complex ML models, leverage generative AI, or implement applications that require large-scale high performance computational power at low costs.

      Dr. Albert Lam, Chief Scientist & CTO, Fano Labs
      Ken Cho, Solutions Architect, AWS
    • Unlock generative AI potential in retail and ecommerce (featuring CASETiFY)

      Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
      Venue: Theatre 4
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Customer purchasing and interaction behaviors are constantly iterating and growing rapidly, especially in retail and e-commerce. This talk explores how AWS generative AI services address the needs of a wide range of departments, including CS and e-commerce, to process unstructured data and enhance search, discovery, and automation capabilities. Featured customer CASETiFY, a leading phone case provider, will share their journey implementing AWS and generative AI solutions for efficient search and customer service operation. Learn how they use a combination of Bedrock and Sagemaker LLM models on automated ticket classification, retrieval and response recommendations to improve response times, accuracy and customer experience.

      Terence Fung, Engineering Director, CASETiFY
      King Lai, Solutions Architect, AWS
      Kenneth Yu, Business Development Manager, AWS

      Use RAG to improve responses in generative AI applications & Transform student learning experience with LLM on AWS (featuring Goodnotes)

      Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
      Venue: Theatre 3
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      Your generative AI applications can deliver better responses by incorporating organization-specific data through a technique known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). However, implementing RAG requires time to configure connections to data sources, manage data ingestion workflows, and write custom code to manage the interactions between the foundation model (FM) and the data sources. Join this session to learn how to make the process much easier using Amazon Bedrock. Based on the user prompt, Amazon Bedrock automatically identifies data sources, retrieves the relevant information, and adds the information to the prompt, thereby giving the FM more information to generate responses. See how it works in this session.

      Goodnotes iPad app of the year 2022 is empowering 19M+ users globally to transform their productivity and learning experience using AI on AWS. In this session, you'll learn how Goodnotes develop AI on AWS, and the technical best practice to consume LLM at scale with cost effectiveness on AWS.

      Angus Fong, AI Team Lead, Goodnotes
      Hei Chow, Solutions Architect, AWS

      Supercharge your development with AWS generative AI developer tools

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: AWS Dev Day (S424)
      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.

      Tony Wong, Solutions Architect, AWS

      Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI on Kubernetes: Customer Success Stories and Lessons Learned (featuring Dayta AI)

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: Theatre 5
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      In this session, you will uncover how Kubernetes' container orchestration, auto-scaling, and efficient resource utilization capabilities simplified the deployment and management of machine learning workloads. We will explore the benefits of seamlessly integrating with AWS services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to achieve enhanced resiliency, robust security measures, comprehensive monitoring, and cost optimization. Additionally, Dayta AI will share their invaluable real-world experiences and lessons learned while orchestrating scalable and resilient generative AI workloads using Kubernetes on AWS

      Eugene Ho, CTO and Co-founder, Dayta AI
      Mariana Chow, Solutions Architect, AWS

      Model choice in Amazon Bedrock (featuring ACG Corporation Limited)

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: AWS Training and Certification Upskill Centre (S421)
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Amazon Bedrock helps you rapidly adapt and take advantage of the latest generative AI innovations with easy access to a choice of high-performing FMs from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon. In this session, learn about how to experiment, evaluate, and build with the best FMs for your use case using Amazon Bedrock.

      William Fung, CSO, ACG Corporation Limited
      Shing Poon, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

      Build creative image-generation applications on AWS (featuring Gusto Collective)

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: Theatre 3
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Generative AI is unlocking new possibilities for creators with powerful image-generation applications. In this chalk talk, learn about the end-to-end architecture and AWS technology, including Amazon EC2 instances, that are optimal for accelerating image-generation applications. Hear how AWS customers solved common challenges and harnessed the capabilities of cutting-edge accelerators to generate visually stunning images at unprecedented speeds while optimizing costs. Explore how you can easily compile a text-to-image diffusion model, train it, and deploy it on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. To conclude, evaluate the relevant metrics produced (latency and price performance) and then watch a demo.

      Michael Ng, Chief Operating Officer, Gusto Collective
      Louisa Liu, Solutions Architect, AWS

      New AWS generative AI features and tools for developers

      Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
      Venue: AWS Training and Certification Upskill Centre (S421)
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Explore how generative AI coding tools are changing the way developers and companies build software. Generative AI–powered tools are boosting developer and business productivity by automating tasks, improving communication and collaboration, and providing insights that can inform better decision-making. In this session, see the newest AWS tools and features that make it easier for builders to solve problems with minimal technical expertise and that help technical teams boost productivity. Walk through how organizations like FINRA are exploring generative AI and beginning their journey using these tools to accelerate their pace of innovation.

      Gary Ko, Senior Hybrid Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

      Customize FMs for generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock

      Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
      Venue: AWS Dev Day (S424)
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      Foundation models (FMs), like LLMs, have shown impressive capabilities across many natural language tasks. However, directly utilizing these models for applications can present challenges. In this session, explore and compare methods for effectively adapting foundation models for your applications. Learn how to evaluate prompt engineering, which reformulates the task into natural language, and fine-tuning, which updates the models' parameters on new tasks and use cases. Explore the trade-offs between usability and resource requirements for each method. Learn how to productively use the capabilities of large models, and discover future improvements to their adaptability.

      Eunice Tsao, ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

      Simplify generative AI app development with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: AWS Dev Day (S424)
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      FMs effectively conduct conversations, create content, and drive productivity, but they can deliver more value if they’re equipped to transact with company systems to complete multistep tasks. Fully managed Agents for Amazon Bedrock enables generative AI applications to help perform multistep tasks using enterprise systems and data sources, saving you from engineering prompts, managing session context, or manually connecting systems. In this session, deep dive into how to build agents using Amazon Bedrock.

      Yanwei Cui, Senior ML Specialist SA, AWS

      Automate app upgrades & maintenance using Amazon Q Code Transformation

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: AWS Training and Certification Upskill Centre (S421)
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Developers spend significant time completing the undifferentiated work of maintaining and upgrading legacy applications. Teams need to balance investments in building new features with mandatory patching and update work. Now, using the power of generative AI, Amazon Q can expedite these critical upgrade tasks, transforming applications to use the latest language features and versions. Join the session to learn how your team can automate Java application upgrades and soon port .NET framework applications to cross-platform .NET.

      Jacky Wu, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    • Build a data foundation to fuel generative AI (featuring Lalamove)

      Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
      Venue: Theatre 4
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Data has long been considered a strategic asset by organizations, but generative AI puts a renewed emphasis on the importance of a data strategy. Whether you are building your own model or customizing a foundation model, your data is a key differentiator for generative AI, so you need a data strategy that supports relevant, high-quality data. In this session, learn about the data tools that can fuel your generative AI strategy and the common data patterns required to transform your generative AI application from a generic tool to a program that truly knows your business and your customer.

      Sean Jiang, VP of Engineering, Lalamove
      Jean Li, Business Development Manager, AWS

      AWS vector database capabilities with best practices for querying vector data

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: Theatre 6
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      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.

      Jacky Kwok, Solutions Architect, AWS
      Fortune Hui, Partner Solutions Architect, Analytics, AWS

    • Panel Discussion: Advancing responsible AI in the generative era (featuring HKSTP & Hong Kong Computer Society)

      Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
      Venue: Theatre 2
      Level: 100 – Foundational

      The rapid growth of generative AI brings promising innovation and at the same time raises new challenges around safe and responsible development and use. Some of these challenges, such as bias prevention and explainability, were common before generative AI, while some, including hallucination, toxicity, and intellectual property protection, are unique to generative models. In this session, learn about the challenges presented by generative AI, discuss best practices for building responsibly, and explore new hands-on AWS tools for responsible AI usage.

      Dr. Crystal Fok, Head of Digital Service Hub, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP)
      Dave Chen, Vice President, Hong Kong Computer Society
      Peter Chan, Manager, Solutions Architecture, AWS

      Securely build generative AI apps and control data with Amazon Bedrock

      Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
      Venue: Theatre 6
      Level: 300 – Advanced

      Generative AI applications have captured widespread attention; however, they have also introduced new security challenges, especially around the handling of customer data. Organizations want to ensure that their data remains safe and secure while working with foundation models (FMs) and don’t want to worry about their data being used to train an FM. Amazon Bedrock provides comprehensive data protection and privacy. In this chalk talk, explore architectures, data flows, and security-related aspects of model fine-tuning, as well as prompting and inference, while you learn about Amazon Bedrock’s security capabilities.

      Andrew Kane, Generative AI Security & Compliance Lead, AWS

      Build responsible AI applications with Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock

      Time: 4:55 - 5:25PM
      Venue: Theatre 1
      Level: 200 – Intermediate

      Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock help organizations manage end-user experiences based on their application-specific requirements and responsible AI policies. You can deliver consistently safe user experiences through generative AI applications, no matter the underlying FM. Learn how this new capability gives you the ability to define custom policies and manage interactions between users and foundation models (FMs) by filtering out disallowed topics and harmful content. Finally, see demos on how to create and apply custom tailored guardrails with FMs and Agents for Amazon Bedrock to implement responsible AI policies within your generative AI applications.

      Wilson Wong, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

  • FSI: How to deliver business value in financial services with generative AI

    Time: 11:15 - 11:45AM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Organizations across the financial services industry are moving quickly to build new generative AI capabilities on AWS. This session shows you how to do it. Industry-leading financial institution shares their approaches to using generative AI to deliver real business value.

    Camille Birbes, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Retail: Cross border C2C e-Commerce at your fingertips, all powered by AWS (featuring HKTV | Everuts)

    Time: 11:55AM - 12:25PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    During the session, we are glad to have the CEO of Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary, to share us their journey to drive digital innovation at scale for cross-border C2C e-commerce platform Everuts building all on AWS, leveraging serverless technologies in response to demand, and automating workflow and driving intelligence with AI and Machine Learning with AWS. He will also share the industry observations that he sees while curating the platform, and the growth areas that Offbeat is seeing to become one of the largest platform in GMV under HKTV Group.

    Steve Ng, CEO, Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary
    King Lai, Solutions Architect, AWS

    FSI: Emerging applications of generative AI in payment industry (featuring Payment Asia)

    Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
    Venue: Theatre 2
    Level: 100 – Foundational

    In this session, we are delighted to have Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology from Link REIT to share his views on the transformative impacts of Generative AI on the real estate industry and potential applications for business operations. He will also highlight the opportunities in deploying GenAI applications in an enterprise environment, such as enhancing data quality, protecting sensitive information, and implementing responsible and ethical controls.

    Tanya Yeung, Sales Director, Payment Asia
    Mina Ho, Territory Business Development Manager, FSI, AWS

    Sports: Revolutionizing the soccer viewing experience: How the Bundesliga uses machine learning to deliver real-time, data-driven insights (featuring Lau Shun Man 劉舜文) *Cantonese session

    Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    The sports industry is data-rich, and making sense of that data is the first step in gaining an advantage on and off the field. In this session, discover how the Bundesliga, the German football league, harnesses 3.6 million data points per match to empower fans, broadcasters, and commentators with advanced statistics, enabling them to unravel new narratives and elevate the viewing experience.

    Lau Shun Man (劉舜文), Bundesliga Football Commentator
    Thomas Sit, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS

    Logistics: Navigating the road ahead: Fireside chat on Electric Vehicle (EV) market trends post-2024 (featuring Halo Energy & Sino Group) *Cantonese session

    Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 100 – Foundational 

    A dynamic fireside chat session that delves into the future landscape of the electric vehicle (EV) market beyond 2024. In collaboration with industry-leading EV charging solution providers Halo Energy Limited and renowned property enterprise companies in Hong Kong, Exploring the transformative journey and opportunities unfolding in electric mobility, towards a greener, more connected future of mobility driven by collaboration and innovation

    Martin Tsang, CEO and Founder, Halo Energy Limited
    Ir. Andrew Young, Associate Director (Innovation), Sino Group
    Jaybo Lo, Territory Business Development Manager, AWS
    Willie Lee, Senior Startup Business Development Manager, AWS

    Utilities: Embrace the human factors towards your Successful A.I. journey (featuring Towngas)

    Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    We have Mr. Alex Wong, Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation from Towngas, to share with us their journey on AWS to drive data and A.I. transformation. Towngas embarked on its Cloud journey with AWS since 2019 when they first migrated its loyalty program "TowngasFun” and the iconic big data platform, which serves as a solid foundation for Towngas innovation initiatives coming afterwards. Nonetheless, the course of data and A.I. never did run smooth. Alex will also share the human factors and key takeaway Towngas has learnt along the way.

    Alex Wong, Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation, Towngas
    Shing Poon, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Retail: App modernization of The Points app on AWS (featuring Sun Hung Kai Properties)

    Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
    Venue: Theatre 4
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    The Point, is a loyalty platform built by Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) to strengthen customer relationships in the shopping mall sector. In this session, Draco Yam, the Product Manager from SHKP will share their journey in developing a successful loyalty program, and the lessons learnt from transforming the existing architecture to a modernised one. Attendees will also get insights into how SHKP built marketing campaign automation and fraud detection modules within The Point's architecture. The speaker will also discuss how AWS is going to help SHKP in building new features within The Point in the near future.

    Draco Yam, Head of Product Development, The Point by SHKP
    Samson Lee, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    F&B: Driving efficiency and sustainability with AWS innovation mechanisms (featuring Cornerstone & Foodpanda) *Cantonese session

    Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 100 – Foundational

    As Hong Kong prepares to implement city-wide waste disposal charging from August 2024, retail businesses must innovate to reduce food waste and recycle packaging. In this timely fireside chat, Maxim's, Startbucks (a Maxim's franchise brand) and Foodpanda will discuss using cloud technology to drive new food waste management and packaging upcycling programs. By optimizing packaging and implementing upcycling, retailers can cut waste while cloud-based design can enable recyclable process. This session aims to inspire how cloud innovation helps retailers profitably transition to a circular economy.

    Florence Lee, Head of Corporate Communication, Cornerstone Smart Recycling Limited
    Doris Hui, Senior Manager, Sustainability, foodpanda Hong Kong
    Jacqueline Chong, Senior Digital Innovation Business Development Manager, AWS
    Eric Chau, Senior Partner Success Manager, AWS

    Fireside Chat: Embrace Generative AI and Responsible AI in a new era (featuring Link Asset Management Limited)

    Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 2
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    In this session, we are delighted to have Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology from Link REIT to share his views on the transformative impacts of Generative AI on the real estate industry and potential applications for business operations. He will also highlight the opportunities in deploying GenAI applications in an enterprise environment, such as enhancing data quality, protecting sensitive information, and implementing responsible and ethical controls.

    Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology, Link Asset Management Limited
    Aaron Chong, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS

  • Best practices for serverless developers

    Time: 11:15 - 11:45AM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 400 – Expert

    Do you want to take advantage of the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads? Are you wondering how events can help your applications scale? Have you been trying to tune your applications for higher performance and lower cost? This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful shortcuts that experts use to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications.

    Shawn Zhang, Specialist Solutions Architect, Cloud Native, AWS
    Raymond Lai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Strengthen your security posture with AWS

    Time: 11:55AM - 12:25PM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    As new technologies emerge, how can security teams retain and strengthen their protections without blocking progress? A strong security foundation can actually provide organizations with the confidence to accelerate innovation. In this session, learn how you can integrate powerful security technology with visibility and control to power business speed and agility. The session covers key topics around identity, data security, and network protection to help you prepare for your evolving security goals.

    Sharon Lam, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Data processing at massive scale on Amazon EKS

    Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 300 – Advance

    In today's data-driven landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to harness the power of their data to make informed decisions and create cutting-edge experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth of data volumes, modern methods of processing and analyzing large-scale datasets have become crucial for gaining valuable insights. In this session, we will explore why Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) has emerged as the platform of choice for building data-intensive applications; share best practices and architectural patterns for designing and deploying data intensive applications using Apache Spark on Amazon EKS.

    Benson Kwong, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Smart savings: Amazon EC2 cost-optimization strategies

    Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    Discover untapped Amazon EC2 savings through AWS services, tools, and optimization strategies. In this session, learn best practices to reduce your compute costs on AWS. Explore both technical and non-technical approaches, from the basics of AWS Savings Plans and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to more advanced strategies like Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, AWS Graviton, automation, and more. Let this session be your guide to building cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure on AWS.

    Michael Yao, Senior EC2 GTMS, AWS

    Harness the power of karpenter to scale, optimize and upgrade Kubernetes

    Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 300 – Advance

    Karpenter is an open source, flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler built with AWS. It helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load. In this session, learn how Karpenter works along with practical use cases of Karpenter. Learn how Karpenter can select diverse instance types, such as Spot or Graviton, and how Karpenter makes it easy to upgrade your nodes for day 2 operations. Also see how to optimize costs, implement scheduling constraints, and more.

    Alick Wong, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    Unlocking serverless web applications with AWS Lambda Web Adapter

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 6
    Level: 300 – Advance

    AWS Lambda Web Adapter seamlessly integrates familiar frameworks and tools, empowering developers to migrate existing web applications to a serverless architecture and create new serverless web applications. Join this session to explore the cutting-edge design behind AWS Lambda Web Adapter, and discover how to use its powerful features such as debugging, leveraging streaming responses, and harnessing the potential of SnapStart. Learn how to unlock the full potential of serverless web application development, and gain invaluable insights from industry experts.

    Harold Sun, Senior Serverless Specialist SA, AWS
    Betty Zheng, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

  • New Regime of FS with ETF and VASP in HK (featuring OSL)

    Time: 4:15 - 4:30PM
    Venue: Theatre 5

    Jean-David Péquignot, Head of Markets, OSL Group and Head of OSL Digital Securities

    Application of blockchain in the real world (featuring Sei)

    Time: 4:30 - 4:45PM
    Venue: Theatre 5

    Lee Zhu, Growth Lead, Sei Foundation

    The Largest Virtual Asset Exchange in Hong Kong (featuring HashKey Group)  *Mandarin session

    Time: 4:50 - 5:05PM
    Venue: Theatre 5

    Jeffrey Ding, Chief Analyst, HashKey Group

    Web 3.0 and AI: Transforming User Experiences and Decentralized Applications (featuring SoSoValue)

    Time: 5:05 - 5:20PM
    Venue: Theatre 5

    Jivvva Guan, Co-founder, SoSoValue

    Data sovereignty powered network, powering a user-powered economy (featuring Match Chain)

    Time: 5:20 - 5:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 5

    Petrix Barbosa, CEO, Match Chain

  • How AI Is Transforming The Cybersecurity Mission (Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)

    Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 3
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Attacks on cloud applications are moving at machine speed, with attackers now able to compromise vulnerable applications within hours of CVEs being published. AI, in its many flavours, is an important part of any cyber defense strategy. This session outlines key strategies that can help organizations better secure AWS environments at scale by taking an 'application-centric' view of AWS security architecture.

    Siddharth Deshpande, Chief Security Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Palo Alto Networks

    Age of AI (Sponsored by Deloitte)

    Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
    Venue: Theatre 5
    Level: 200 – Intermediate

    Deloitte Consulting partners will provide a high-level walkthrough of the current state of artificial intelligence, explore public and private models of Gen AI, break down Deloitte's Gen AI framework, and finally dive into how businesses can effectively leverage Gen AI with new roles and responsibilities.

    Sunny Ip, Partner of CBO Systems Delivery & Modernization, Deloitte

    Accelerate AWS Migration & Modernization with AI Observability (Sponsored by Dynatrace)

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Organizations shifting to the cloud face challenges in digital transformation, especially as more companies look to leverage Generative AI. Discover how Dynatrace's solutions integrate with AWS, expediting migration, ensuring smooth adoption, and optimizing resource usage. Real-time insights to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.

    Wilson Lai, Sales Engineering Director, Dynatrace

    Build Generative AI-powered apps with MongoDB Atlas on AWS (Sponsored by MongoDB)

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 4
    Level: 100 - Introductory

    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.

    Cathlon Lau, Advisory Solutions Architect, MongoDB

    Redefine Video Experience with Next-Gen All-in-One Video Cloud Technology (Sponsored by BytePlus)

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 5
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for seamless, engaging, and personalized video experiences has never been greater. As a leading technology innovator, ByteDance is proud to showcase its groundbreaking all-in-one video cloud platform that is redefining the future of video consumption.

    Powered by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, and machine learning, our video cloud solution offers a comprehensive suite of features that cater to the evolving needs of content creators, broadcasters, and end-users alike. At the heart of our platform lies a robust and scalable infrastructure that enables lightning-fast video processing, encoding, and delivery.

    But what truly sets our video cloud apart is its intelligent video management and personalization capabilities. Powered by advanced computer vision and natural language processing algorithms, our platform can automatically analyze video content, extract relevant metadata, and generate personalized recommendations for each user, enhancing the viewing experience and enabling content creators to optimize their strategies.

    Join us in this breakout session as we explore how our next-generation video cloud technology can help you redefine the video experience for your audiences and unlock the full potential of video in your business.

    Bojie Sun, APAC Solution Architect Lead, BytePlus

    AI as the Architect: Building Next-Gen Managed Cloud Services on AWS (Sponsored by PwC)

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 2
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Imagine a future where cloud services are not only managed but intelligently orchestrated. In this session, you can discover how we harness the power of AWS technology to dynamically scale and adapt, meeting the evolving demands of our clients through highly automated solutions.

    Experience our vision of a less labour-intensive future, where cloud services self-learn and self-correct, elevating efficiency to new levels. Join us at AWS Summit for innovative insights!

    Daryl Li, Partner, Cybersecurity and Cloud, PwC Hong Kong

    GenAI in the Hybrid Cloud: Building and running RAG Chatbots with Red Hat OpenShift AI (Sponsored by Red Hat)

    Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
    Venue: Theatre 3
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques enable the integration of the latest, custom and proprietary data into any Large Language Model (LLM) at inference time, enhancing the model's responsiveness and relevance. However, due to regulatory or operational constraints, implementing RAG-enabled AI solutions can be complex, especially when data needs to be hosted on-premises or in remote locations with limited cloud connectivity.

    In this session, we will introduce Red Hat OpenShift AI, an open-source platform for building, running and managing generative and predictive AI applications across any environments, whether on AWS or on-premises. We will explore how Red Hat OpenShift AI enables businesses to leverage AI in a flexible, open, and hybrid cloud manner. We will also demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift AI, along with tools like Langchain, Milvus and vLLM, can be used to build an end-to-end RAG-enabled AI assistant that runs across public and private cloud environments.   

    Peter Ho, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

    Cognitive Architecture for Generative AI: The Path to MVP (Sponsored by Cognizant)

    Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
    Venue: Theatre 2
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Cognizant is investing $1B to enhance our GenAI delivery capabilities. Learn about Cognizant's perspective on GenAI, 4 cognitive application layers, and 5 GenAI offerings for enterprise-scale AI in BFSI. Discover the challenges and how to run a Use Case Discovery workshop to help enterprises realize the value of GenAI, while ensuring responsible AI practices.

    Anthony Lui, Associate Director - AI Value Engineering, Cognizant AI & Analytics for UK&I

    Security for developers & their apps with identity security (Sponsored by CyberArk)

    Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
    Venue: Theatre 3
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Identity security capabilities are rapidly advancing. But can this new generation of tools empower security teams to transparently strengthen security for developers, the applications they code, and the workloads they run? In this lightning talk, technical experts demonstrate how to prevent credential theft by enabling secure native access with zero standing privileges and how to address temporary elevated access management. See a demo on how to discover secrets across multiple AWS Secrets Manager secrets stores as well as centrally secure, manage, and rotate these secrets, all without impacting developer workflows or experience.

    Rajnish Garg, Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloud & DevOps APJ, CyberArk

    Elevate Your AI Cloud Game: Spend Wisely with FinOps (Sponsored by SoftwareOne)

    Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
    Venue: Theatre 4
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Introducing SoftwareOne's approach to Cloud Financial Management through FinOps. It highlights SoftwareOne's global presence, AWS competencies, and the importance of FinOps in controlling cloud costs and driving ROI. Key challenges in cloud implementation are addressed, with reducing waste as a top priority influenced by macroeconomic trends. The presentation emphasizes FinOps as a cultural practice, not just cost-cutting, involving cross-functional teams for optimal cloud value. SoftwareOne's services include roadmap creation, cost optimization, and continuous improvement, leveraging their expertise and unique differentiators to support clients' cloud financial management journey.

    Steven Lo, Business Development Executive, SoftwareOne

    Unlocking Seamless Data Protection and Recovery for AWS Workloads (Sponsored by Veeam)

    Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
    Venue: Theatre 1
    Level: 200 - Intermediate

    Join us to learn about how to unleash the power of seamless data protection and recovery for your AWS workloads. Discover Veeam's innovative solutions that enable effortless data backup, disaster recovery, and migration to AWS while ensuring business continuity and reducing downtime risks. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in the cloud era and maximise the benefits of Veeam's comprehensive data management solution with AWS.

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

100 – Foundational

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.

200 – Intermediate

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. Sessions provides tips and tricks, best practices, or high-level troubleshooting guidance.

300 – Advanced

Sessions assume proficiency of the topic and typically cover in-depth architecture, development, deployment and migration examples. It drills into how a service can be used and dives deep into customer use cases. Sessions covers complex design, development, and deployment best practices that address the needs of experienced AWS users.
 

400 – Expert

Sessions 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. Sessions demonstrates complex design, development, and deployment strategies to help the audience dive deep into the topic.

 New in 2024!

AWS AI Zone

AWS Summit HK

The AWS AI Zone will feature generative AI services like Amazon Bedrock and the newly launched Amazon Q. It will also offer various hands-on AI activities. All of the activities will demonstrate how AWS AI can be used to solve complex business problems for our customers.

Key topics to advance your generative AI and cloud journey in 2024

Generative AI
Reinventing with generative AI on AWS
AWS for Data
Build a data foundation to fuel generative AI
AWS for Every Application
Harness the power of AWS to build game-changing applications
Developer Tools
Supercharge your development with AWS generative AI developer tools
Security
Strengthen your security posture with AWS
  • From startups to enterprises, organizations of all sizes are getting started with generative AI. They want to capitalize on this new technology and translate the momentum from betas, prototypes, and demos to real-world innovations and productivity gains. With enterprise-grade security and privacy, a choice of leading foundation models, a data-first approach, and the most performant, low-cost infrastructure, AWS is trusted to deliver generative AI-fueled innovation. In this session, learn how new generative AI services and capabilities like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q can help deliver real business value across key use cases to enhance employee productivity, improve customer engagement, and build new, differentiated experiences.

  • Data has long been considered a strategic asset by organizations, but generative AI puts a renewed emphasis on the importance of a data strategy. Whether you are building your own model or customizing a foundation model, your data is a key differentiator for generative AI, so you need a data strategy that supports relevant, high-quality data. In this session, learn about the data tools that can fuel your generative AI strategy and the common data patterns required to transform your generative AI application from a generic tool to a program that truly knows your business and your customer.

  • Organizations in every industry are looking to solve bigger challenges, turn groundbreaking ideas into reality, and deliver innovative solutions at scale. This requires an infrastructure that scales limitlessly, delivers high performance at optimized costs, and supports constant innovation. In this session, learn how organizations are using the secure, innovative, and performant AWS Cloud to build game-changing applications. With the broadest and deepest functionality for compute, AWS can support the needs of even the most demanding workloads to run complex ML models, leverage generative AI, or implement applications that require large-scale high performance computational power at low costs.

  • 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.

  • As new technologies emerge, how can security teams retain and strengthen their protections without blocking progress? A strong security foundation can actually provide organizations with the confidence to accelerate innovation. In this session, learn how you can integrate powerful security technology with visibility and control to power business speed and agility. The session covers key topics around identity, data security, and network protection to help you prepare for your evolving security goals.

AWS Industry Connect for Media & Entertainment

Media & entertainment customers face industry-wide transformation, with companies reinventing how they create content, optimize media supply chains, and compete for audience attention across streaming, broadcast, and direct-to-consumer platforms. The change can be challenging and the pace is epic, leveraging the right tools and partnership is key.

In this session you will hear from our subject-matter experts from AWS Global Sports Team on insights that will help you, as leaders, transform and elevate your media & entertainment business.

Event highlights

60+ Sessions

With over 60 sessions available, there is something for everyone. Session topics include generative AI, data analytics, digital transformation, successful case studies, and more!

Hands-on Workshop

Drop in and sharpen your technical skills in our workshops. Learn how to turn innovative ideas into enterprise-ready solutions and drive productivity gains with generative AI on AWS.

AWS Dev Day 2024

Developers can dive deep into some of the hottest and more advanced cloud computing topics at the AWS DevDay. Join us for demo-focused technical sessions with AWS experts and your peers.

AWS Training and Certification

Learn from AWS experts, develop your skills and knowledge, and advance your career path. Join the exam prep sessions to get tips and tricks for certification.

AWS Escape Room

AWS Escape Room is a 3D virtual game that helps learners prepare for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner through a series of puzzles, exam-style questions and hands-on lab exercises.

Industry Solutions

With the guidance of AWS Industry experts, explore how you can advance your cloud journey and hear the latest news and technologies through an industry lens.

Win Exclusive Swags!

Attend in-person, play games, collect stamps, and bring home exclusive Hong Kong-limited SWAG!

AWS Compact Travel Shoe Bag
AWS Sunglasses (UV 400 Protection)
AWS Camping Mug (Summer Edition)
AWS Camping Mug (Summer Edition)

Why should I attend

  • From the opening keynote and breakout sessions, to generative AI workshops and demos, the AWS Summit Hong Kong offers numerous opportunities to learn more about generative AI.

  • Various Hong Kong brands will join our sessions to share their successful use cases in the local market. They will discuss how they adopted cloud technology to digitally transform their businesses. Join them and get inspired with new ideas for your next business venture.

  • Hear from customers using AWS for dynamic growth, application modernization, and sustainability. Or engage with your peers on the future of cloud technology, AI-driven strategies, and the building blocks for digital transformation.

Start building on AWS today

Whether you are looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability.