2024 AWS Summit Hong Kong

FSI: How to deliver business value in financial services with generative AI

Time: 11:15 - 11:45AM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Organizations across the financial services industry are moving quickly to build new generative AI capabilities on AWS. This session shows you how to do it. Industry-leading financial institution shares their approaches to using generative AI to deliver real business value.

Camille Birbes, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Retail: Cross border C2C e-Commerce at your fingertips, all powered by AWS (featuring HKTV | Everuts)

Time: 11:55AM - 12:25PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 – Intermediate

During the session, we are glad to have the CEO of Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary, to share us their journey to drive digital innovation at scale for cross-border C2C e-commerce platform Everuts building all on AWS, leveraging serverless technologies in response to demand, and automating workflow and driving intelligence with AI and Machine Learning with AWS. He will also share the industry observations that he sees while curating the platform, and the growth areas that Offbeat is seeing to become one of the largest platform in GMV under HKTV Group.

Steve Ng, CEO, Offbeat, HKTV Group Subsidiary
King Lai, Solutions Architect, AWS

FSI: Emerging applications of generative AI in payment industry (featuring Payment Asia)

Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
Venue: Theatre 2
Level: 100 – Foundational

In this session, we are delighted to have Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology from Link REIT to share his views on the transformative impacts of Generative AI on the real estate industry and potential applications for business operations. He will also highlight the opportunities in deploying GenAI applications in an enterprise environment, such as enhancing data quality, protecting sensitive information, and implementing responsible and ethical controls.

Tanya Yeung, Sales Director, Payment Asia
Mina Ho, Territory Business Development Manager, FSI, AWS

Sports: Revolutionizing the soccer viewing experience: How the Bundesliga uses machine learning to deliver real-time, data-driven insights (featuring Lau Shun Man 劉舜文) *Cantonese session

Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 – Intermediate

The sports industry is data-rich, and making sense of that data is the first step in gaining an advantage on and off the field. In this session, discover how the Bundesliga, the German football league, harnesses 3.6 million data points per match to empower fans, broadcasters, and commentators with advanced statistics, enabling them to unravel new narratives and elevate the viewing experience.

Lau Shun Man (劉舜文), Bundesliga Football Commentator
Thomas Sit, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS

Logistics: Navigating the road ahead: Fireside chat on Electric Vehicle (EV) market trends post-2024 (featuring Halo Energy & Sino Group) *Cantonese session

Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 100 – Foundational 

A dynamic fireside chat session that delves into the future landscape of the electric vehicle (EV) market beyond 2024. In collaboration with industry-leading EV charging solution providers Halo Energy Limited and renowned property enterprise companies in Hong Kong, Exploring the transformative journey and opportunities unfolding in electric mobility, towards a greener, more connected future of mobility driven by collaboration and innovation

Martin Tsang, CEO and Founder, Halo Energy Limited
Ir. Andrew Young, Associate Director (Innovation), Sino Group
Jaybo Lo, Territory Business Development Manager, AWS
Willie Lee, Senior Startup Business Development Manager, AWS

Utilities: Embrace the human factors towards your Successful A.I. journey (featuring Towngas)

Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 – Intermediate

We have Mr. Alex Wong, Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation from Towngas, to share with us their journey on AWS to drive data and A.I. transformation. Towngas embarked on its Cloud journey with AWS since 2019 when they first migrated its loyalty program "TowngasFun” and the iconic big data platform, which serves as a solid foundation for Towngas innovation initiatives coming afterwards. Nonetheless, the course of data and A.I. never did run smooth. Alex will also share the human factors and key takeaway Towngas has learnt along the way.

Alex Wong, Assistant General Manager – Strategy and Digital Operation, Towngas
Shing Poon, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Retail: App modernization of The Points app on AWS (featuring Sun Hung Kai Properties)

Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
Venue: Theatre 4
Level: 200 – Intermediate

The Point, is a loyalty platform built by Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) to strengthen customer relationships in the shopping mall sector. In this session, Draco Yam, the Product Manager from SHKP will share their journey in developing a successful loyalty program, and the lessons learnt from transforming the existing architecture to a modernised one. Attendees will also get insights into how SHKP built marketing campaign automation and fraud detection modules within The Point's architecture. The speaker will also discuss how AWS is going to help SHKP in building new features within The Point in the near future.

Draco Yam, Head of Product Development, The Point by SHKP
Samson Lee, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

F&B: Driving efficiency and sustainability with AWS innovation mechanisms (featuring Cornerstone & Foodpanda) *Cantonese session

Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 100 – Foundational

As Hong Kong prepares to implement city-wide waste disposal charging from August 2024, retail businesses must innovate to reduce food waste and recycle packaging. In this timely fireside chat, Maxim's, Startbucks (a Maxim's franchise brand) and Foodpanda will discuss using cloud technology to drive new food waste management and packaging upcycling programs. By optimizing packaging and implementing upcycling, retailers can cut waste while cloud-based design can enable recyclable process. This session aims to inspire how cloud innovation helps retailers profitably transition to a circular economy.

Florence Lee, Head of Corporate Communication, Cornerstone Smart Recycling Limited
Doris Hui, Senior Manager, Sustainability, foodpanda Hong Kong
Jacqueline Chong, Senior Digital Innovation Business Development Manager, AWS
Eric Chau, Senior Partner Success Manager, AWS

Fireside Chat: Embrace Generative AI and Responsible AI in a new era (featuring Link Asset Management Limited)

Time: 3:45 - 4:15PM
Venue: Theatre 2
Level: 200 – Intermediate

In this session, we are delighted to have Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology from Link REIT to share his views on the transformative impacts of Generative AI on the real estate industry and potential applications for business operations. He will also highlight the opportunities in deploying GenAI applications in an enterprise environment, such as enhancing data quality, protecting sensitive information, and implementing responsible and ethical controls.

Douglas Leung, Director - Information Technology, Link Asset Management Limited
Aaron Chong, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS

Best practices for serverless developers

Time: 11:15 - 11:45AM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 400 – Expert

Do you want to take advantage of the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads? Are you wondering how events can help your applications scale? Have you been trying to tune your applications for higher performance and lower cost? This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful shortcuts that experts use to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications.

Shawn Zhang, Specialist Solutions Architect, Cloud Native, AWS
Raymond Lai, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Strengthen your security posture with AWS

Time: 11:55AM - 12:25PM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 200 – Intermediate

As new technologies emerge, how can security teams retain and strengthen their protections without blocking progress? A strong security foundation can actually provide organizations with the confidence to accelerate innovation. In this session, learn how you can integrate powerful security technology with visibility and control to power business speed and agility. The session covers key topics around identity, data security, and network protection to help you prepare for your evolving security goals.

Sharon Lam, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Data processing at massive scale on Amazon EKS

Time: 12:30 - 1:00PM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 300 – Advance

In today's data-driven landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to harness the power of their data to make informed decisions and create cutting-edge experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth of data volumes, modern methods of processing and analyzing large-scale datasets have become crucial for gaining valuable insights. In this session, we will explore why Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) has emerged as the platform of choice for building data-intensive applications; share best practices and architectural patterns for designing and deploying data intensive applications using Apache Spark on Amazon EKS.

Benson Kwong, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Smart savings: Amazon EC2 cost-optimization strategies

Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 200 – Intermediate

Discover untapped Amazon EC2 savings through AWS services, tools, and optimization strategies. In this session, learn best practices to reduce your compute costs on AWS. Explore both technical and non-technical approaches, from the basics of AWS Savings Plans and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to more advanced strategies like Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, AWS Graviton, automation, and more. Let this session be your guide to building cost-effective, sustainable infrastructure on AWS.

Michael Yao, Senior EC2 GTMS, AWS

Harness the power of karpenter to scale, optimize and upgrade Kubernetes

Time: 2:25 - 2:55PM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 300 – Advance

Karpenter is an open source, flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler built with AWS. It helps improve your application availability and cluster efficiency by rapidly launching right-sized compute resources in response to changing application load. In this session, learn how Karpenter works along with practical use cases of Karpenter. Learn how Karpenter can select diverse instance types, such as Spot or Graviton, and how Karpenter makes it easy to upgrade your nodes for day 2 operations. Also see how to optimize costs, implement scheduling constraints, and more.

Alick Wong, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Unlocking serverless web applications with AWS Lambda Web Adapter

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 6
Level: 300 – Advance

AWS Lambda Web Adapter seamlessly integrates familiar frameworks and tools, empowering developers to migrate existing web applications to a serverless architecture and create new serverless web applications. Join this session to explore the cutting-edge design behind AWS Lambda Web Adapter, and discover how to use its powerful features such as debugging, leveraging streaming responses, and harnessing the potential of SnapStart. Learn how to unlock the full potential of serverless web application development, and gain invaluable insights from industry experts.

Harold Sun, Senior Serverless Specialist SA, AWS
Betty Zheng, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

New Regime of FS with ETF and VASP in HK (featuring OSL)

Time: 4:15 - 4:30PM
Venue: Theatre 5

Jean-David Péquignot, Head of Markets, OSL Group and Head of OSL Digital Securities

Application of blockchain in the real world (featuring Sei)

Time: 4:30 - 4:45PM
Venue: Theatre 5

Lee Zhu, Growth Lead, Sei Foundation

The Largest Virtual Asset Exchange in Hong Kong (featuring HashKey Group)  *Mandarin session

Time: 4:50 - 5:05PM
Venue: Theatre 5

Jeffrey Ding, Chief Analyst, HashKey Group

Web 3.0 and AI: Transforming User Experiences and Decentralized Applications (featuring SoSoValue)

Time: 5:05 - 5:20PM
Venue: Theatre 5

Jivvva Guan, Co-founder, SoSoValue

Data sovereignty powered network, powering a user-powered economy (featuring Match Chain)

Time: 5:20 - 5:35PM
Venue: Theatre 5

Petrix Barbosa, CEO, Match Chain

How AI Is Transforming The Cybersecurity Mission (Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)

Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
Venue: Theatre 3
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Attacks on cloud applications are moving at machine speed, with attackers now able to compromise vulnerable applications within hours of CVEs being published. AI, in its many flavours, is an important part of any cyber defense strategy. This session outlines key strategies that can help organizations better secure AWS environments at scale by taking an 'application-centric' view of AWS security architecture.

Siddharth Deshpande, Chief Security Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan, Palo Alto Networks

Age of AI (Sponsored by Deloitte)

Time: 1:45 - 2:15PM
Venue: Theatre 5
Level: 200 – Intermediate

Deloitte Consulting partners will provide a high-level walkthrough of the current state of artificial intelligence, explore public and private models of Gen AI, break down Deloitte's Gen AI framework, and finally dive into how businesses can effectively leverage Gen AI with new roles and responsibilities.

Sunny Ip, Partner of CBO Systems Delivery & Modernization, Deloitte

Accelerate AWS Migration & Modernization with AI Observability (Sponsored by Dynatrace)

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Organizations shifting to the cloud face challenges in digital transformation, especially as more companies look to leverage Generative AI. Discover how Dynatrace's solutions integrate with AWS, expediting migration, ensuring smooth adoption, and optimizing resource usage. Real-time insights to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.

Wilson Lai, Sales Engineering Director, Dynatrace

Build Generative AI-powered apps with MongoDB Atlas on AWS (Sponsored by MongoDB)

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 4
Level: 100 - Introductory

Learn how MongoDB Atlas on AWS enables organizations to accelerate the development of generative AI apps, enhance the accuracy of generated content, and leverage proprietary data for continuous learning. In this talk, we’ll cover the power of MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and the document model for generative AI, as well as the synergy between MongoDB Atlas and AWS.

Cathlon Lau, Advisory Solutions Architect, MongoDB

Redefine Video Experience with Next-Gen All-in-One Video Cloud Technology (Sponsored by BytePlus)

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 5
Level: 200 - Intermediate

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for seamless, engaging, and personalized video experiences has never been greater. As a leading technology innovator, ByteDance is proud to showcase its groundbreaking all-in-one video cloud platform that is redefining the future of video consumption.

Powered by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, and machine learning, our video cloud solution offers a comprehensive suite of features that cater to the evolving needs of content creators, broadcasters, and end-users alike. At the heart of our platform lies a robust and scalable infrastructure that enables lightning-fast video processing, encoding, and delivery.

But what truly sets our video cloud apart is its intelligent video management and personalization capabilities. Powered by advanced computer vision and natural language processing algorithms, our platform can automatically analyze video content, extract relevant metadata, and generate personalized recommendations for each user, enhancing the viewing experience and enabling content creators to optimize their strategies.

Join us in this breakout session as we explore how our next-generation video cloud technology can help you redefine the video experience for your audiences and unlock the full potential of video in your business.

Bojie Sun, APAC Solution Architect Lead, BytePlus

AI as the Architect: Building Next-Gen Managed Cloud Services on AWS (Sponsored by PwC)

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 2
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Imagine a future where cloud services are not only managed but intelligently orchestrated. In this session, you can discover how we harness the power of AWS technology to dynamically scale and adapt, meeting the evolving demands of our clients through highly automated solutions.

Experience our vision of a less labour-intensive future, where cloud services self-learn and self-correct, elevating efficiency to new levels. Join us at AWS Summit for innovative insights!

Daryl Li, Partner, Cybersecurity and Cloud, PwC Hong Kong

GenAI in the Hybrid Cloud: Building and running RAG Chatbots with Red Hat OpenShift AI (Sponsored by Red Hat)

Time: 3:05 - 3:35PM
Venue: Theatre 3
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques enable the integration of the latest, custom and proprietary data into any Large Language Model (LLM) at inference time, enhancing the model's responsiveness and relevance. However, due to regulatory or operational constraints, implementing RAG-enabled AI solutions can be complex, especially when data needs to be hosted on-premises or in remote locations with limited cloud connectivity.

In this session, we will introduce Red Hat OpenShift AI, an open-source platform for building, running and managing generative and predictive AI applications across any environments, whether on AWS or on-premises. We will explore how Red Hat OpenShift AI enables businesses to leverage AI in a flexible, open, and hybrid cloud manner. We will also demonstrate how Red Hat OpenShift AI, along with tools like Langchain, Milvus and vLLM, can be used to build an end-to-end RAG-enabled AI assistant that runs across public and private cloud environments.   

Peter Ho, Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Cognitive Architecture for Generative AI: The Path to MVP (Sponsored by Cognizant)

Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
Venue: Theatre 2
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Cognizant is investing $1B to enhance our GenAI delivery capabilities. Learn about Cognizant's perspective on GenAI, 4 cognitive application layers, and 5 GenAI offerings for enterprise-scale AI in BFSI. Discover the challenges and how to run a Use Case Discovery workshop to help enterprises realize the value of GenAI, while ensuring responsible AI practices.

Anthony Lui, Associate Director - AI Value Engineering, Cognizant AI & Analytics for UK&I

Security for developers & their apps with identity security (Sponsored by CyberArk)

Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
Venue: Theatre 3
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Identity security capabilities are rapidly advancing. But can this new generation of tools empower security teams to transparently strengthen security for developers, the applications they code, and the workloads they run? In this lightning talk, technical experts demonstrate how to prevent credential theft by enabling secure native access with zero standing privileges and how to address temporary elevated access management. See a demo on how to discover secrets across multiple AWS Secrets Manager secrets stores as well as centrally secure, manage, and rotate these secrets, all without impacting developer workflows or experience.

Rajnish Garg, Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloud & DevOps APJ, CyberArk

Elevate Your AI Cloud Game: Spend Wisely with FinOps (Sponsored by SoftwareOne)

Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
Venue: Theatre 4
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Introducing SoftwareOne's approach to Cloud Financial Management through FinOps. It highlights SoftwareOne's global presence, AWS competencies, and the importance of FinOps in controlling cloud costs and driving ROI. Key challenges in cloud implementation are addressed, with reducing waste as a top priority influenced by macroeconomic trends. The presentation emphasizes FinOps as a cultural practice, not just cost-cutting, involving cross-functional teams for optimal cloud value. SoftwareOne's services include roadmap creation, cost optimization, and continuous improvement, leveraging their expertise and unique differentiators to support clients' cloud financial management journey.

Steven Lo, Business Development Executive, SoftwareOne

Unlocking Seamless Data Protection and Recovery for AWS Workloads (Sponsored by Veeam)

Time: 4:20 - 4:50PM
Venue: Theatre 1
Level: 200 - Intermediate

Join us to learn about how to unleash the power of seamless data protection and recovery for your AWS workloads. Discover Veeam's innovative solutions that enable effortless data backup, disaster recovery, and migration to AWS while ensuring business continuity and reducing downtime risks. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in the cloud era and maximise the benefits of Veeam's comprehensive data management solution with AWS.

 Chris Wong, Senior Regional Channel Systems Engineer, HK & Taiwan, Veeam