Builders Day

During application development, developers spend a significant amount of time writing code as well as learning various frameworks, SDKs, and libraries. This session showcases generative AI powered coding companions on AWS which help developers with real-time code recommendations, customised recommendations from organisation specific code assets, upgrading existing applications and optimising application performance. National Australia Bank will discuss their journey to empowering developers with Amazon CodeWhisperer, subsequent results, and scaling its rollout across their organisation.

Speakers:

• Simon Cozens, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS
• Andrew Brydon, Chief Engineer, National Australia Bank

Data has long been considered a strategic asset by organisations, but generative AI puts a renewed emphasis on the importance of a data strategy. Whether you are building your own model or customising 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.

Speaker: Mary Law, APJ Data Enablement Lead, AWS

Did you know that developers can build self-healing code today with generative AI? In this session we explore a day in the life of a developer where an AI-powered pair-programmer enhances the development experience. From making contextual coding suggestions in real-time, to autonomously discovering and resolving issues. Join us to see a demonstration using AI-powered agents to dynamically detect errors through application logs, map them to the source-code and automatically produce bug fixes.

Speaker: Anthony Kawamoto, Solution Architect, AWS

Customers of all sizes use AWS to run workloads that handle sensitive information. Department of Home Affairs' Australian Critical Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC) assists critical infrastructure owners and operators to understand risk and meet regulatory requirements. Join us to learn about the impacts of the recent Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) reform and the new National Cyber Security Strategy, and how to build resilient workloads for critical infrastructure and systems of national significance on AWS.

Speakers: 

• Jess Modini, Senior Technologist, AWS
• Peter Anstee, First Assistant Secretary of Cyber Policy, Department of Home Affairs

From startups to enterprises, organisations of all sizes are getting started with generative AI. They want to capitalise on this new technology and translate the momentum from prototypes and demos to real-world innovations and productivity gains. With enterprise-grade security and privacy, a choice of leading foundation models, 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.

Speaker: Pauline Kelly, Solutions Architect, AWS

Join this session to learn about Amazon.com's experience in building and scaling resilient systems. This session guides you through how Amazon.com builds resilient applications, how they collaborate with various Amazon teams, AWS Well-Architected best practices to construct resilient workloads, and technologies and processes used by these teams to resiliently operate their cloud services. Explore real-world examples showcasing Amazon resilience strategies, like chaos engineering, cell-based architecture, multi-account observability, and multi-site architectures. Leave with actionable techniques that you can apply.

Speakers: 

• Rovan Omar, Principal Technologist, AWS
• Igor Izotov, Principal Technologist, AWS

Drowning in disparate data sources, inconsistent schemas, constantly expanding scope and Data Engineering effort? In this talk, we share how one team at NAB tackled this challenge, through an architecture which generates their data pipelines for them. Built on a combination of serverless and managed AWS analytics services, they have created a metadata driven framework. This approach handles the dirty work from normalization and deduplication to data quality and lineage.

Speakers:

• Allison Quinn, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
• Subhas Gosh, Senior Consultant Engineer, National Australia Bank

Are you struggling to make generative AI available to your employees quickly and in a secure manner? Did you know you can provide secure, quick access to the power of generative AI for your employees? Amazon Q understands natural language, provides contextual answers using connected data sources, summarises documents, generates content, and automates actions across enterprise applications and document repositories. In this session learn how to implement Amazon Q with enterprise-grade access controls that help ensure users get appropriate responses based on their permissions.

Speaker: Graham Viecelli, Enterprise Support Manager, AWS

Businesses look for a decentralised, domain-oriented modern data architecture that enables zero-ETL, zero-copy, and governed sharing of data products to internal and external customers that is easy for users to access. Join this session to learn the latest low-code AWS analytics and machine learning capabilities. Learn how you can share data without copying, transform and prepare data without coding, and query data.

Speaker: Josh Tow, Solutions Architect, AWS

Slack is a communications platform leveraging AWS global infrastructure to deliver billions of messages every week. Join this session to understand strategies to enhance system availability and maximise resource efficiency of your workloads. Learn from Slack on how they have optimised their cloud infrastructure to be resilient to fault boundaries and gain insights into how cellular architecture was used to mitigate risks in the face of potential Availability Zone and regional disruptions at scale.

Speakers:

• Mahmoud Ismail, Senior TAM (Strat), AWS
• Paul Rapa, Sr Staff Engineer, Slack

What does it mean to be a serverless developer? What disciplines do you need to master to build cloud-native, serverless solutions today? In this session, we walk you through the day-in-a-life of a serverless developer, and explore the core principles, architecture patterns, frameworks and tools you need to know to build your next generation serverless application.

Speaker: Stephen Liedig, Principal Solutions Architect - Serverless, AWS

Next generation vehicles empower organisations to achieve higher levels for safety and efficiency. Creating this vision, Iveco Group has leveraged generative AI techniques built on AWS to redefine the unique relationship between drivers and their vehicles. In partnership with AWS Professional Services, Iveco Group trained customised generative models on privacy-compliant fleet data to personalise the driver experience. For example, generative conversational agents engage drivers in a natural dialogue, creating a seamless interface for entertainment, information retrieval, and vehicle updates. This session explores the innovations redefining the Iveco Group driver experience and the crucial role AWS played in their responsible deployment.

Speakers:

• Don George, Senior Technical Trainer, AWS

• Marcel Vonlanthen, Senior AI/ML & Data Specialist, AWS

Gain visibility for comprehensive security investigations and swift incident responses in hybrid environments. In this session, learn how Amazon Security Lake with Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) supports, normalises, and combines security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security sources to optimise data accessibility across your organisation to facilitate a more comprehensive approach to security operations. Discover how Amazon Security Lake can efficiently help you to consolidate and streamline security logging at scale.

Speakers: 

• Andrew Bienert, Head of Cloud and Product Security, SEEK
• Ben May, Threat Hunting Manager, Seek
• Priya Mandiga, Security Engineer, Seek

In this session we explore how platform engineering can be used as an approach to deploy safely, with increased velocity across the entire enterprise. Learn the platform continuum from native to abstracted, a mental model that helps developers choose appropriately based on their organisations context. In the second part of the session, Woodside Energy brings the native AWS approach to life through a demo of their 'Cloud Native Factory', which helped their developers focus on creating value while minimising compliance risks.

Speakers:

• Hannah Jun, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS
• Cyrus Eftos, Developer Platform Lead, Woodside Energy

Everyone has to protect their critical identities from unintended access. In 2023 regulatory requirements mandated MFA for financial institutions, and in 2024 AWS will require MFA for some root accounts. There are more steps you must take to protect against unintended access. This session uses AWS Well-Architected as the basis for a four-part strategy to protect critical identities, and dives into implementation guidance for the strategy in your AWS cloud environment.

Speaker: Zohreh Norouzi, Security Solutions Architect, AWS