AWS Partner Summit ASEAN

May 3, 2023 | 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM SGT | Hotel Fairmont Singapore

Thank you for your interest in AWS Partner Summit ASEAN. The registration is now closed as we are at full capacity. If you have any queries, please refer to the FAQs.

Together Unlimited

AWS Partner Summit 2023 brings together the partner community from all over ASEAN to discover how we can help land your customers’ first footprint in the cloud with AWS, empowering digital transformation to enable innovation and time to market. During the event, we will also cover topics around modernization, AI/ML and how AWS security services improve the foundational security posture when migrating customers’ workloads to the cloud.

Whether you are in a business, sales or technical role, join us at AWS Partner Summit and learn how partners can be successful with AWS.

Event Highlights

Opening Keynote – Together, Unlimited

Hear from our leaders on what we have accomplished together with our partners. How together we can bring transformation, innovation and impact.

Executive Track

This track is designed to provide you with peer-to-peer learning opportunities from AWS partners & executives with a schedule filled with best practices that will change the way you do business.

Services Partner Business & Technical Track

Hear from AWS experts on the best practices to securely migrate, modernise and innovate with AWS. Get the most of your partnership in our simplified partner experience and innovation to realise your business goals.

Software Partner Business & Technical Track

Learn how AWS Partners can build valuable solutions, optimize sales cycles, drive brand awareness, and unlock new markets together with AWS. In this track, you’ll learn about the latest APN initiatives available for ISVs to tackle a broad range of industry and technology use cases through joint-innovation with AWS.

Julia Chen

Julia Chen, Vice President, Partner Core, AWS Partner Organization

Julia joined AWS in June 2022 to lead the Partner Core team for AWS Partner Organization. In this role, Julia leads defining our global partner strategy and scaling mechanisms to achieve our goal of delivering a more simple, predictable, and profitable experience for our partners. These include: partner programs; strategic partner initiatives and engagements to build GTM capabilities around AWS Services; and defining Services and Solutions Partner Go-to-Market in close collaboration with our APO, Service and Sales sister teams.

From earlier roles as a management consultant and head of business services at Boston Consulting Group, to leading Global Partner Transformation for Cisco, to now leading the AWS Partner Core organization, Julia has always been interested in the intersection of technology and business.

Julia earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, Master’s in Computer Engineering from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Conor McNamara

Conor McNamara, Managing Director, ASEAN, AWS

Conor McNamara joined Amazon in 2014 and is currently the Managing Director of ASEAN at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he works with customers and partners across Southeast Asia as they innovate, scale, and transform their businesses via the AWS Cloud. As part of this mission, he is passionate about upskilling and enabling builders across the region as a pathway to unlocking accelerated social and economic growth for our diverse ASEAN community. 

Conor has held several leadership positions during his time at AWS. He previously served as the APAC Head of Business Development, where he led the incubation of new AWS Services and Industry capabilities in the Asia Pacific region, while actively championing the rapidly evolving needs our APAC customers. He also previously led the AWS India business, where he focused on enabling and growing the local customer and partner community following the launch of the first AWS India region.

Agenda

  • Plenary Sessions

    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

    Together, Unlimited – Achieving more as one

    Hear from our leaders on what we have accomplished together with our partners. How together we can bring transformation, innovation and impact.

    Speakers:
    Julia Chen, Vice President, Partner Core, AWS Partner Organization
    Conor Mcnamara, Managing Director, AWS ASEAN

    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

    2023 Growth Levers

    Learn about our five growth levers  to accelerate your journey through the flywheel of profitability. 

    Speakers:
    Kirsten Gilbertson, Partner Sales Leader, ASEAN, AWS
    Miracle Lim, Enterprise Greenfield Partner Sales Manager, ASEAN, AWS
    Amanda Kiemas, Lead Partner Enablement, ASEAN, AWS
    Chintan Rastogi, AWS Technology Partnerships, ASEAN Area Leader
    Stephen Johnstone, Enterprise Transformation and Migrations Leader, AWS

  • Create positive impact with AWS

    This track is designed to provide you with peer-to-peer learning opportunities from AWS partners & executives with a schedule filled with best practices that will change the way you do business. As a participant of the Executive Track, you will have access to thought-provoking sessions with AWS leaders, customers, and other industry experts.

    12:30 PM - 1:10 PM

    LEVEL 100

    New AWS Regions - Supercharging our next ASEAN Growth Together

    AWS has recently announced 2 new regions in ASEAN - Malaysia and Thailand. This session gives you the insights directly from the Malaysia and Thailand leaders on the potential business growth in the upcoming AWS regions alongside with newly launched Indonesia region.

    Speakers:
    Vatsun Thirapatarapong, Managing Director, Thailand, AWS
    Peter Murray, Regional Leader - Financial Services, Malaysia & Emerging Market, AWS

    Moderated by:
    Kirsten Gilbertson, Partner Sales Leader, ASEAN, AWS

    1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Petronas Journey to the Cloud

    Lisa Chan, Head of Software Engineering, Petronas sharing Petronas transformation journey to the cloud. This is a story on a Fortune 500 company taking their first step on AWS from being transactional in 2016 to 2019 where cloud became a vehicle to power their digital transformation. Petronas took 20 applications to the cloud in 50 days.

    Speaker:
    Lisa Chan, Head of Software Engineering, Petronas

    1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Working backwards: Amazon’s approach to innovation

    Innovation starts with the working backwards from the customer. In this session, we will share how this approach plus culture and other mechanisms can enable everyone to be an innovator. Experience the “working backwards” mechanism of AWS, and use it to take on challenges within your organisation or on behalf of our customers. 

    Speaker:
    Francis Goh, Digital Innovation Lead, AWS

    2:10 PM - 2:50 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Understanding the world of AWS Partner-Led Support

    AWS Partners can underpin their own support offerings to extend the capabilities of AWS Support in areas such as local language, managed services, application expertise, or industry verticals. Learn about AWS Partner-Led Support offering and how Partners can build support entitlement offerings to their customers.

    Speakers:
    Phil Maggs, Principal Product Manager, AWS
    Lokesh Anjanappa, Enterprise Support Manager, AWS

    2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Solving for sustainability – Market potentials and collaborations

    Climatic change happens over many years so it might be difficult to notice dramatic changes over one human lifetime. For a company, measuring greenhouse gas emissions can be difficult, time-consuming and potentially very expensive. But this will be the starting point along the reporting journey, with benefits and obligations well-grounded. In this session, we will share how AWS and our partner look at carbon measurement and how the sum is greater than its part.

    Speaker:
    Felipe Daguila, Chief Commercial Officer, Terrascope

  • Transform your customers' business with AWS

    Services Business Track

    In this era business transformation is inevitable to stay relevant. Customers are leveraging the cloud to innovate, partners need to evolve from project based to innovation partner. In this track, learn how you can land your customer's first footprint in the cloud, shaping transformational deals and workforce transformation.

    12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Evolving from tech experts to business strategists

    The Game has changed - Access to cloud computing gave every organisation in the world to transform into a technology driven company. Every organisation whether it would be banking, manufacturing or public sector are investing to build their own technology practices and R&D teams. To stay relevant, Partners need to rethink of their business model and transform from project based to a more product/solution focused organisation. Hear first-hand from partners and draw inspiration from their experiences leveraging the cloud to innovate.

    Speakers:
    Binny Peh, Singapore Partner Development Leader, Public Sector, AWS
    Vishal Parpia, CTO, ST Telemedia Cloud
    Howie Lau, Managing Partner, Corporate Development & Partnerships, NCS
    Pankaj, Business Head, Motherson Technology Services
    Sheng Feng Mok, Director of Consulting, Banking & Financial Services, Cognizant ASEAN and Greater China

    12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Customer Acquisition with AWS in 2023

    We know that the hyperscaler and partner who help a customer with their first meaningful cloud workload often end up as their all-in or primary cloud provider. Today we see only 5% of the workloads in the cloud. Investing in deliberate new to cloud customer acquisition strategy is needed to build for long-term growth.

    Speaker:
    Miracle Lim, Enterprise Greenfield Partner Sales Manager, ASEAN, AWS

    1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Shaping larger transformational deals

    In Feb 2022 Forrester research told us that 76% of CEOs think their current business model will be unrecognisable in five years. That will only be possible through digital transformation to enable innovation and accelerate time to market. The Canalys research told us that partners had advisory services which set the agenda for a cloud project, particularly those coupled with analytics capability and a vertical practice were able to see a $6.40 force multiplier as they were able to shape projects. Challenge us to go beyond opportunistic co-sell to strategic/programmatic pursuit with a joint customer C-Suite meeting to shape our customers digital transformation agenda.

    Speaker:
    Stephen Johnstone, Enterprise Transformation and Migrations Leader, AWS

    1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Building a business case for workforce transformation

    Learn how to build a business case for workforce transformation, cloud training, and AWS Certifications at scale as customers' cloud computing adoption continues to grow. Partners will leave with tools and tips to forecast the impact of cloud training and earn stakeholder support by demonstrating alignment with digital transformation business outcomes.

    Speaker:
    Amanda Kiemas, ASEAN Lead Partner Enablement, AWS

    Services Technical Track

    Modernising your business applications is an inevitable aspect of doing business. With AWS, you get to decide on how to migrate your applications and at what pace, leveraging the industry’s most reliable infrastructure with the deepest set of services. In this Services Technical Track, learn about new AWS solutions and services and best practices that can help organisations de-risk large-scale migrations, modernisation initiatives with security and cost optimisation at scale.

    2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Accelerating Modernisation on AWS

    Modernisation is important to ensure customers continue to run optimally on AWS Cloud. In this session we will first level set the AWS Modernisation definition, scenarios and pathways. We will then cover the AWS Modernisation Methodology, Modernisation Accelerators and how the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) can accelerate your modernisation engagement at the customer.

    Speakers:
    Ahilan Thiagarajah, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Migration, AWS
    Venkatesh Krishnan, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Migration, AWS

    2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Maximizing the potential of your data: Harnessing the power of modern data strategy and AI/ML

    A modern data strategy helps you manage, access, analyze, and act on your data. In this session you will learn about using AWS data governance, zero ETL, wide collaboration and visual tools to enable data driven decision at all levels of organisation. It will also show how Low-Code/No-Code solutions can help democratise AI/ML in your organisation and how generative and discriminative AI/ML models can augment your datasets.

    Speakers:
    Shishir Choudhary, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Data and Analytics, AWS
    Vasileios Vonikakis, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AI/ML, AWS

    2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Revitalise your customer’s security posture with AWS security services and solution offerings

    As your teams continually evolve using AWS services and features, it is important to understand how AWS security services work together to improve your security posture. In this session, we will introduce some of the major updates to key security services announced in AWS re:Invent 2022 and how they will benefit AWS partners and customers. Learn how AWS is helping partners to build repeatable solution offerings using AWS security services, to improve the foundational security posture when migrating customers’ workloads to the cloud. Walk away with a deeper understanding of how AWS validation programs work and specific guidance on how to improve your consulting offering, and services. 

    Speakers:
    Aarthi Kannan, Partner Solutions Architect, Security, AWS
    Prashant Advani, Senior Partner Management Solutions Architect, AWS

    3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Keeping your cloud expenses in check – Best practices for cost optimisation in AWS

    How do I track cost? What are the low hanging fruits to optimise my costs? How to be agile and cost efficient? If these are regular questions that you and your teams have, this is the session for you. Wherever you are on your cloud journey, it’s important to keep your spend under control. Join this session to learn which are the focus areas for cost optimisation and the tools and best practices that many organisations use to optimise their AWS environments. Gaining control over your expenses is key in your AWS journey, so in this session we will focus on key techniques that will help you gain visibility and control over your cost, but also identify areas where you can reduce your expenses.

    Speakers:
    Andrei Lizarraga-Cardenas, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
    Dai Truong, Senior Partner Management Solutions Architect, AWS

  • Accelerate innovation with AWS

    Software Business Track

    Come join us on the Software Business Track to uncover the incremental synergies within the AWS Partner ecosystem. Learn how AWS Partners can build valuable solutions, optimise sales cycles, drive brand awareness, and unlock new markets together with AWS. Discover the true potential of the AWS Partner Network (APN).

    12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Better together with AWS

    Attend this session to learn how to Build, Market and Sell together with AWS. Get familiar with new programs and various funding opportunities as well as how existing partners have accelerated their growth with us. 

    Speakers:
    Malav Desai, Senior ISV Partner Development Representative, AWS
    Olivia Chang, Senior ISV Partner Development Representative, AWS
    Puneet Johar, CEO and Founder, GluedIn

    12:50 PM - 1:10 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Co-selling best practices with AWS to accelerate your sales cycles

    Attend this session to learn from AWS Software Partners on how they better qualify opportunities, accelerate sales cycle, reduce sales risk, and increase conversion rates by co-selling with AWS.  

    Speakers:
    Marta Whiteaker, Head of International Partnerships, AWS
    Ash Willis, VP Partners & Alliances, APJ, Snowflake
    Stewart Garett, VP Sales, ASEAN, MongoDB

    1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Expanding a Global Software Business

    Come and learn from a successful global software industry executive on expanding your software business globally. Daisy Hoang, SVP, Sales & Success of Katalon, a global Quality Management Platform and test automation company, will be sharing Katalon success story and his go-to-market and growth strategy globally with team structure, management philosophy and operation challenges in the current economic condition.

    Speaker:
    Boo ZiYan, Senior Business Development Manager, AWS Marketplace, AWS

    1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Accelerate your business with AWS Marketplace

    Join this session to learn more about global trends with Cloud Marketplaces, and how AWS Marketplace is rapidly innovating to address both buyer and seller needs. Discover the latest on AWS Marketplace, and how technology partners can take advantage to accelerate their business with AWS.

    Speaker:
    Kena Jobanputra, Senior ISV Business Development Manager, AWS

    Software Technical Track

    In the Software Technical Track, you’ll learn about the latest APN initiatives available for ISVs to tackle a broad range of industry and technology use cases through joint-innovation with AWS. Dive deeper into how you can build resilient business applications while safeguarding your solutions from security threats such as ransomware. You’ll also hear from selected AWS Software Partners their stories on how they successfully collaborated with AWS partner tech teams to accelerate innovation and build new features.

    2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Reduce the Time to Value of your software by automating co-sell-ready solutions together with AWS

    Join us to learn how to reduce the Time to Value of your software solutions by building automation together with AWS. In this session, you will discover partner initiatives and service features that will help you accelerate the lifecycle and deployment of your software offerings at scale.

    Speakers:
    Mingwei Leong, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, ASEAN ISV, AWS
    Lee Hsiang Tan, Partner Solutions Architect, ASEAN ISV, AWS

    2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Accelerating the speed of innovation with AWS as a software partner

    In this fireside chat, you will hear from AWS partners how they are able to harness the power of innovation to drive growth and the benefit of rapid prototyping to accelerate business impact with AWS. 

    Speaker:
    Ling Chang, Partner Development Specialist - Machine Learning, AWS

    2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

    LEVEL 200

    Minimise downtime and data loss with reliable recovery of business applications with AWS

    Attend this session to learn how you can build resilient business applications on AWS to meet the stringent service level agreements (SLAs) of today’s always-on businesses. We will share how AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) helps to minimises downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications.

    Speaker:
    Kunal Panchal, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

    3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

    LEVEL 100

    Leverage AWS services and partner solutions to mitigate ransomware risks on AWS

    Ransomware attacks are a major concern for businesses, causing billions of dollars in damages and disruption to operations. AWS and its Software Partners offer a range of security and storage solutions to help customers build ransomware-resistant workloads on AWS. In this session, we will cover best practices for ransomware mitigation using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's five functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. We will also introduce a framework developed with AWS services that ISV partners can leverage to add complementary partner solutions to mitigate ransomware risks for customers.

    Speakers:
    Aarthi Kannan, Partner Solutions Architect, Security, AWS
    Desmond Lai Xu, Partner Solutions Architect, Storage, AWS

Level 100: Introductory

Sessions are focused on providing an overview of AWS services and features, with the
assumption that attendees are new to the topic.

Level 200: Intermediate

Sessions are focused on providing best practices, details of service features and demos with the assumption that attendees have introductory knowledge of the topics.

Level 300: Advanced

Sessions dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has
some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience .

FAQs

Q: Who should attend AWS Partner Summit?
AWS Partner Summit is for AWS Partner Network (APN) Business and Technical members. The event is centered on sharing partner strategies and best practices. 

Q: Where is AWS Partner Summit taking place?
AWS Partner Summit will be held at the Ballroom of Fairmont Hotel Singapore. Click here to see the map location. If you would like further information on how to get to the venue, please see the “How do I get to the venue?” question further below.

Q: What is the price of registration?
Event registration and attendance is free of charge.

Q: What is included in the event registration?
AWS Partner Summit will feature sessions with global and regional AWS Leaders, partner and customer stories. The event will also have three (3) breakout tracks tailored for Executives, Business and Technical Tracks for Services and Software partners.

Q: Where is the event agenda?
Please visit the agenda to know more.

Q: Can I get a confirmation of my AWS Partner Summit registration?
Upon completing the online registration, you will receive an email confirming your registration. You will also be provided with a "Know Before You Go" email prior to the event. This will provide you with the necessary information to help you navigate the event on the day.

Q: Do you offer meals for those with dietary requirements?
We aim to cater for a variety of dietary requirements, however we cannot guarantee this will cover specific or individual requests. If you have specific dietary needs or if you are looking for a wider variety of options we recommend that you bring your own meals with you, or take advantage of the many restaurants and cafes in the area.

Q: Do you provide accommodation for the event attendees?
No, participants have to book their own accommodations. Here is a hotel close to the event venue which provide preferential rates for the event attendees. You may reserve via the link: Swissotel The Stamford. The bookings are subject to availability.

Q: Are people under the age of 18 years old allowed to attend AWS Partner Summit?
Attendees must be 18 years of age or over on May 3, 2023 to attend the event.

Q: How can I contact the conference organisers?
If you have questions that have not been answered, please email us.

Q: How do I get to the venue?
AWS Partner Summit will be held at Level 4, Hotel Fairmont Singapore (view map), please follow the relevant signage upon arrival.

Directions to Hotel Fairmont Singapore are as follows:

  • MRT
    Alight at City Hall Station. Head up the escalator and turn right and enter into Fairmont Hotel. Take escalator up to Level 4.
  • Car
    From Changi International Airport
    – From Changi Airport, take the East Coast Expressway (ECP) and exit at the Rochor Road exit.
    – Turn left onto Beach Road.
    – Fairmont Singapore is located at the junction of Beach Road and Bras Basah Road.
  • Parking
    Parking facilities are available at Raffles City Shopping Centre's basement areas at prevailing car park fees.