Partner Summit Johannesburg

Registration & Lunch

Keynote Speakers:

• Harel Ifhar, General Manager, AWS Israel & Sub Sahara Africa 
• Brian Bohan, Director, Worldwide Consulting Partners Center of Excellence
• Gugu Madela, Partner Development Manager
• Jyoti Ball, General Manager Sub-Saharan Africa
• James Hickman, Country Manager, South Africa
• Robin Njiru, Public Sector Leader RoSSA
• Amir Kahana, Head of Partners & Alliances, Sub-Saharan Africa 

Coffee break

Session title: Are you taking full advantage of AWS partner programmes?

Session description: Are You Unlocking the Full Potential of AWS Partner Programs? The programs and tools available to our partners are evolving in the age of AI — with new mechanisms to grow your business with AWS, amplify your marketing campaigns, and upskill your teams. The growth opportunity is significant for partners who know how to take advantage of it. Our experts will share the latest developments in programs, tools, Go-To-Market, and co-sell with AWS, and invite you to join our distributors First Distribution and Cloud On Demand to concretely explore ways to accelerate the growth of your AWS business.

Session title: Agentic AI That Migrates and Modernizes Code at Scale

Session description: 84% of CEOs say innovation is critical, yet only 6% are satisfied with their results. The migration and modernization gap represents a massive opportunity for AWS Partners — and agentic AI is fundamentally changing how we close it. In this session, discover how AI agents are turning multi-month migration and modernization projects into weeks, automating millions of lines of code transformation, and slashing manual effort by up to 90%. Across VMware, .NET, mainframe, and Java workloads, AWS Transform is delivering outcomes that weren't possible a year ago. Learn how the partners winning today aren't waiting for customers to ask — they're rebuilding their delivery models around agentic AI, showing up with real answers instead of roadmaps.

Session title: Build a well-architected foundation for scaling generative AI and agentic apps

Session description:
You've seen the potential of agentic AI through proof-of-concepts, and you're ready to build a foundation that can support all AI applications across your organization. Enter the complexities: model access and management, tool discovery, memory and state handling, observability, plus deployment and operations at scale! In this session we'll demonstrate how to build a well-architected foundation that seamlessly integrates model access, orchestration workflows, agents, tools and domain-specific data pipelines while maintaining enterprise-grade observability and governance controls. We'll examine components of a production-ready generative AI and agentic system and dive deep into the architectural patterns that separates successful deployments from failed experiments. Level: 300

Drinks & Networking