Why should you attend?

Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at the AWS Summit. This free event is designed to educate new customers about the AWS platform and offer existing customers information on architecture best practices and new services. Come early to hear an exciting keynote with updates on AWS Services, great customer stories and attend the afternoon breakout sessions covering hot topics, like new services, architecture, performance, operations, etc.

Who is the Keynote Speaker this year?

Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that targeted the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held the positions of Research Engineer, VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Session Highlights

Big Data & Analytics
AWS provides a broad platform of managed services to help you build, secure, and seamlessly scale end-to-end Big Data applications quickly and with ease. Big Data & Analytics sessions will provide a general overview to help you get started with big data on AWS, as well as more advanced best practices, common use cases, and architectural design patterns to collect, store, process, and analyze Big Data.

Diversity
Learn how teams inside AWS have created a program to encourage different types of thinking to tap into the full potential of their team while encouraging personal and professional development.

Enterprise
With a long history in enabling enterprises to successfully adopt cloud computing, AWS delivers a mature set of services specifically designed for the unique security, compliance, operations, and scale requirements of large organizations. We will explore how to select projects for the cloud, how to improve economics, how to plan and execute migrations with hybrid architectures, the implementation of dev-ops, and managing change.

Public Sector
Learn from the pioneers in the public sector technology world and hear what drove their decision to go “all-in” with the AWS Cloud. These enterprise leaders will share insights into their decision-making process and how their technology strategies have impacted the future of their organizations.
Security
Protecting your cloud infrastructure is critical to your customer’s trust and the integrity of your business. Security-focused sessions will help you learn what services AWS provides to protect your cloud-based applications as well as show you how to use those services to implement cloud-based security best practices. 

Services
The AWS Summit offers sessions that let you get an overview of an area new to your business, or dive deep on a particular technology, learning tips & tricks from subject-matter experts. You will also hear about the latest services offered by AWS, as well as innovations to existing services.

Where is it?

The Summit will take place at the Javits Center. It is located at 655 W 34th St. New York, NY 10001.

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