AWS Loft | New York

The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, work on their apps, attend educational sessions, and get in-person answers to AWS technical questions – all at no cost.

Gain hands-on experience through free technical workshops on serverless, containers, IoT, and more. Or, sharpen your business acumen by attending best practice sessions that include PR, legal, and funding. Plus, network and learn first-hand from other hot startups, VCs, and accelerators.

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Open Monday-Friday, 10:00am-6:00pm

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AWS Big Data Week

October 10-12

AWS provides the broadest platform for big data analytics in the market today, with deep and rapidly expanding functionality across big data stores, data warehousing, Apache Hadoop ecosystem and distributed analytics frameworks, real-time streaming, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence. Join us for Big Data Week to learn broadly applicable insights that can help you solve big data challenges and be more productive on AWS...

Learn more and register here.

What's Hot at the Loft

October 3

AWS Meet & Greet

Join members of the AWS Sales & Solutions Architecture team during our Meet & Greet Happy Hour. This event is open to both Sales and Non-Sales employees in the New York Area who are interested in learning more about AWS and current job opportunities.

Learn more and register.

October 4

AWS EdStart Pitch Day

Join AWS to learn about the most innovative and revolutionary new EdTechs! We will showcase 15 up and coming EdTech startups from the AWS EdStart program to customers, investors, partners, tech enthusiasts, industry leaders, and Amazonians.

Learn more and register.

October 5

AWS EdTech Meetup

Join members of the AWS EdTech Accelerator team to learn how AWS EdStart can help your EdTech startup.

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Schedule of Events

September 25 - September 29, 2017

September 25 | Monday - Alexa Diabetes Challenge Demo Day

4PM-9PM

Alexa Diabetes Challenge Demo Day

The $250,000 Alexa Diabetes Challenge, sponsored by Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, U.S.A. and supported by Amazon Web Services, is a multi-stage prize competition for Amazon voice-enabled solutions to improve the lives of those with type 2 diabetes. At Demo Day, the Challenge finalists will present prototypes of their voice solutions to the judges and a live audience of industry leaders to compete for the $125,000 grand prize. The five teams show the exciting potential for voice-enabled services to meet unmet patient needs.

To learn more about the Challenge, visit www.alexadiabeteschallenge.com.

Mixed Levels

10AM-5PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-5PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

September 26 | Tuesday - CLOSED

Closed for a private event.

September 27 | Wednesday - CLOSED

Closed for a private event.

September 28 | Thursday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

September 29 | Friday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 2 - October 6, 2017

October 2 | Monday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 3 | Tuesday - AWS Commercial Sales Recruiting Happy Hour

6:30PM-9PM

AWS Meet & Greet

This networking event is strictly social and will give you a chance to meet Amazonians from Amazon Web Services in a fun, relaxed setting!

Learn more and register here.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 4 | Wednesday - AWS EdStart Pitch Day

6PM-10PM

AWS EdStart Pitch Day

Join AWS to learn about the most innovative and revolutionary new EdTechs!

On October 4, we will showcase 15 up and coming EdTech startups from the AWS EdStart program to customers, investors, partners, tech enthusiasts, industry leaders, and Amazonians. These high-energy events are a great opportunity for education industry members to discover groundbreaking new ideas/products, identify areas for collaboration, and network with subject matter experts. We invite you to come and hear these exciting startup pitches and stay for a networking reception at the AWS Loft. Seats are limited so register today!

Learn more and register here.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 5 | Thursday - AWS EdTech Meetup

6:30PM-8:30PM

AWS EdTech Meetup: AWS EdStart Happy Hour

Join members of the AWS EdTech Accelerator team to learn how AWS EdStart can help your EdTech startup.

AWS EdStart helps entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud. The program enables EdTech startups to move faster by providing much needed technical and financial support. Technology plays a key role in many classrooms, institutions, and learning environments, and AWS EdStart lets EdTech entrepreneurs rapidly build solutions that are secure, smart, scalable, and cost effective. If you've got a big idea that is changing education, apply for AWS EdStart. Your solution can be built on the same scalable platform used by leading EdTech companies, helping you grow and scale to students globally.

Learn more and register.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 6 | Friday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 9 - October 13, 2017

October 9 | Monday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 10 | Tuesday - Big Data Analytics

9:30AM-5:30PM

Big Data Analytics

9:30AM-10:00AM | Check-in

10:00-10:50AM | Big data architectural patterns and best practices on AWS Level 200

11:00AM-11:50AM | Spark and the Hadoop Ecosystem: Best Practices for Amazon EMR Level 200

12:00PM-1:00PM | Lunch Break (will be provided)

1:00PM-1:50PM | Data warehousing in the era of Big Data: Deep Dive into Amazon Redshift Level 300

2:00PM-2:50PM | Introduction to Amazon Athena Level 200

3:00PM-5:30PM | Workshop 1: Querying and analyzing data in Amazon S3 Level 200

Learn more and register here.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 11 | Wednesday - Real-time Streaming

9:30AM-4:30PM

Real-time Streaming

9:30AM-10:00AM | Check-in

10:00AM-10:50AM | Introduction to Real-time, Streaming Data and Amazon Kinesis. Streaming Data Ingestion with Firehouse Level 200

11:00AM-11:50AM | Serverless Streaming Data Processing using Amazon Kinesis Analytics Level 200

12:00PM-1:00PM | Lunch Break (will be provided)

1:00PM-1:50PM | Log analytics with Amazon Elasticsearch Service & Kibana Level 300

2:00PM-4:30PM | Workshop 2: Building a streaming data platform on AWS Level 200

Learn more and register here.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 12 | Thursday - A.I. & Predictive Analytics

9:30AM-5:30PM

A.I. & Predictive Analytics

9:30AM-10:00AM | Check-in

10:00AM-10:50AM | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence on AWS Level 200

11:00AM-11:50AM | Building speech enabled products with Amazon Polly & Amazon Lex Level 200

12:00PM-1:00PM | Lunch Break (will be provided)

1:00PM-1:50PM | Deep learning-based image recognition: Intro to Amazon Rekognition Level 200

2:00PM-2:50PM | Visualizing Big Data Insights with Amazon QuickSight Level 200

3:00PM-5:30PM | Workshop 3: Scalable Deep Learning Using Apache MXNet Level 200

Learn more and register here.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 13 | Friday - Athena Day

10AM-1:45PM	Athena Day Need to start querying data instantly? Amazon Athena an interactive query service that makes it easy to run interactive queries on data in Amazon S3, using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you can start analyzing your data immediately. In this session, we will show you how Amazon Athena makes it easy to query your data stored in S3. First we will use Athena to create the schema for data already in S3. Second, we will demonstrate how you can run interactive queries through the built-in query editor. Lastly, we will visualize the data using Amazon QuickSight. Throughout the session we will provide best practices for structuring SQL queries, selecting file formats, and strategies to improve performance and reduce costs when querying data with Athena. Learn more and register here.	Mixed levels
10AM-12PM	Well-Architected Workshop Learn how to build and improve the quality of your AWS applications using our architectural best practices. The Well-Architected workshop is a free, advanced-level hands-on event that helps customers develop AWS workloads that are reliable, secure, cost-optimized, and high-performing. Attendees can use the program to learn about AWS best practices, run a Well-Architected review on their workload, identify areas of improvement, and build a plan for remediation. Recommend prerequisites: Strong working knowledge of AWS core services and features, as well as previous architectural experience. Registration coming soon.	Mixed Levels
10AM-6PM	Ask an Architect Bar New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!	Walk-in
10AM-5PM	AWS Customer Co-working	Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 16 - October 20, 2017

October 16 | Monday - Identity and Access Management Day

10AM-4:15PM

Identity and Access Management Day

9:30AM-10:00AM | Registration

10:00AM-12:00PM | IAM Introduction and Best Practices Level 100

12:00PM-1:00PM | Lunch (will be provided)

1:00PM-2:00PM | How to Use IAM Roles to Federate Users and Delegate Access to AWS Level 300

2:00PM-3:00PM | Policy Ninja Level 300

3:00PM-3:15PM | Break

3:15PM-4:15PM | Best Practices for Integrating Active Directory with AWS Workloads Level 200

Learn more and register.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 17 | Tuesday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 18 | Wednesday - AWS Well-Architected Workshop

10AM-12PM

Well-Architected Workshop

Learn how to build and improve the quality of your AWS applications using our architectural best practices.

The Well-Architected workshop is a free, advanced-level hands-on event that helps customers develop AWS workloads that are reliable, secure, cost-optimized, and high-performing. Attendees can use the program to learn about AWS best practices, run a Well-Architected review on their workload, identify areas of improvement, and build a plan for remediation.

Recommend prerequisites: Strong working knowledge of AWS core services and features, as well as previous architectural experience.

Registration coming soon.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 19 | Thursday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 20 | Friday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 23 - October 27, 2017

October 23 | Monday - Well-Architected Workshop

10AM-12PM

Well-Architected Workshop

Learn how to build and improve the quality of your AWS applications using our architectural best practices.

Recommend prerequisites: Strong working knowledge of AWS core services and features, as well as previous architectural experience.

Registration coming soon.

Mixed Levels

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 24 | Tuesday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 25 | Wednesday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 26 | Thursday

10AM-6PM

Ask an Architect Bar

New to AWS? Need help? Visit our Ask an Architect Bar for 1:1 help from our AWS Architects!

Walk-in

10AM-6PM

AWS Customer Co-working

Customers with a Valid AWS Account ID

October 27 | Friday

10AM-6PM

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