Learn how to evaluate a new workload for the best managed database option based on specific application needs related to data shape, data size at limit, computational requirements, programmability, throughput and latency needs, and more. This session explains the ideal use cases for relational and non-relational database services, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Redshift.

Laura Caicedo, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

In this session, you will hear from governments around the region as they discuss their cloud first initiatives to further digital transformation in the government sector through the use of the cloud, block chain and IoT. Learn how they plan to leverage these technologies to improve the level of organizational efficiency and provide new services to their citizens. Finally, they will share best practices, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.

Andres Maz, Senior Manager Public Policy, Amazon Web Services

Victor Muñoz, Innovation and Digital Transformation Advisor to the Colombia’s President Duque

Liam Maxwell, Director of Digital Government Transformation, Amazon Web Services

Moving backups to the cloud and managing data protection between local environments and the cloud can be a challenge. Veeam and N2WS (a Veeam company) allow the protection and portability of data to the AWS cloud with support and recovery from Enterprise-type disasters. In this session, learn how two customers scale their growth in the AWS cloud by leveraging Veeam and N2WS to manage the data protection of thousands of productive EC2 instances with native backups based on snapshots and automatic data life cycles for Amazon S3. We will cover how to back up, restore and protect productive databases and workloads with the N2WS Backup & Recovery solution, as well as the NEW Veeam Availability for AWS.

Barbara Pugliese, Latam Sales Representative, N2WS - A Veeam Company

Learn to identify use cases for machine learning (ML), acquire best practices to frame problems in a way that key stakeholders and senior management can understand and support, and help create the right conditions for delivering successful ML-based solutions to your business.

Alex Coqueiro, Senior Manager Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

There are four common challenges that CISOs and their security teams struggle with even in the most secure and mature organizational datacenters – visibility, resilience, defense-in-depth, and automation. Learn how these challenges become benefits of using the AWS Cloud and why Cybersecurity is becoming a driving force behind commercial cloud adoption. This is an executive level presentation that covers key technical concepts and capabilities to meet business security and compliance objectives. Intended audience includes CIOs, CISOs, Technical Managers, senior architects and engineers new to AWS, and Technically-savvy Business Managers.

Michael South, Principal Business Development, Amazon Web Services

In this session, we cover the most common cloud security questions that we hear from customers. We provide detailed answers for each question, distilled from our practical experience working with organizations around the world. This session is for everyone who is curious about the cloud, cautious about the cloud, or excited about the cloud.

Blake Chism, Head of Technical Business Development, Amazon Web Services

Serverless architectures let you build and deploy applications and services with infrastructure resources that require zero administration. In this session, you will learn about serverless architectures, their benefits, and the basics of the AWS’s serverless stack (e.g., AWS Lambda, Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Step Functions). We will discuss how to use serverless architectures for a variety of use cases including data processing, website backends, serverless applications, and “operational glue.” You will also get practical tips and tricks, best practices, and architecture patterns that you can take back and implement immediately.

Eduardo Patino, LATAM Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Mauricio Romero Escobar, IT Consultant, SAT Guatemala

Customers often ask us how they can innovate "like Amazon". From its humble beginnings as a startup in a garage, Amazon has not only innovated across e-commerce, but also introduced new, diverse businesses beyond e-commerce. This talk will discuss how Amazon approaches innovation, with its mechanisms, architecture, culture, and organization, with an emphasis on how some of these factors can help other organizations.

Mauricio Munoz, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Santiago Villegas, Chief Information Officer, ESU CO

Healthcare providers face a challenge of purchasing, hosting and maintaining storage solutions locally. They have to project future growth and then make large purchases based on that projection, which may turn out to be over or under estimated. After a couple of years, that process repeats by retiring and replacing the storage. All that effort is spent on matters that are not core to the healthcare business. Come learn how you can benefit from AWS Storage Services to store your healthcare data in a secure, resilient and cost-effective way. We will also present other workloads that our healthcare customers are running on AWS, like Big Data, Genome, and Telemedicine.

Melissa Ravanini, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Paula Jereissati, Partnership Manager of Albert Einstein Hospital and CEO of Escala Healthtech

AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices easily and securely. In this tech talk, we will discuss how constrained devices can leverage AWS IoT to send data to the cloud and receive commands back to the device from the cloud using the protocol of their choice. We will use the AWS IoT Starter Kit to demonstrate building a real connected product, securely connect with AWS IoT using MQTT, WebSockets, and HTTP protocols, and show how developers and businesses can leverage features of AWS IoT like Device Shadows and the Rules Engine, which provides message processing and integration with other AWS services.

Cindy Polin, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Learn about how Amazon enables its developers to rapidly release and iterate software, while maintaining industry leading standards on security, reliability and performance. In this talk, we will discuss the culture of two pizza teams and how to maintain a culture of DevOps in a large enterprise.

Glauber Gallego, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Luis Fernando Torres, Cloud Infrastructure Advisor, Universidad Distrital

In this session you will learn how AWS customers are leveraging AWS programs like AWS Educate, AWS Institute and Training and Certification to prepare their workforce for in-demand cloud careers. Educational institutions and government agencies will present on how they are approaching the challenge of upskilling existing employees and providing students with the knowledge and experience they need to be successful in the cloud job market.

Abby Daniell, Public Sector Manager, Amazon Web Services

Carlos Alberto Baena, Vice Minister of Labor Relations & Inspections, Ministry of Labor, Colombia

Mario José Villamizar Cano, Cloud Solutions Architect Projects Lead, University of the Andes

Raul Javales, University of São Paolo

In this session, we show you how to understand what data you have, how to drive insights, and how to make predictions using purpose-built AWS services. Learn about the common pitfalls of building data lakes and discover how to successfully drive analytics and insights from your data. Also learn how services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon ML services work together to build a successful data lake for various roles, including data scientists and business users.

Angelo Carvalho, Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Mauro Assis, Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

In this session, we discuss considerations for buying cloud services so that users and organizations can extract the full benefits and power of AWS. Join us as we provide an overview of existing cloud-ready contracts, such as cooperative, federal, and state-directed contracts, and walk through steps on how to choose the right one for your procurement.

David Debrandt, Senior Manager Global Capture, Amazon Web Services

Henry Pinto, Chief, HonduCompras

Discover how to architect fully available and scalable Microsoft solutions and environments on AWS. Find out how Microsoft solutions can work alongside various AWS services to boost resiliency, simplify architecture, provide scalability, and introduce DevOps concepts, such as compliance, governance, automation, and repeatability.

Bruno Laurenti, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services