Title	Track	Number	Session	Description
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enabling AI at enterprise scale (DEM125)	DEM	125	DEM125	Doing machine learning and data analysis at scale requires access to high-quality datasets. AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. See how Databricks is powering data science using AWS Data Exchange to help businesses make better decisions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Verizon moves critical databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime (DAT381)	DAT	381	DAT381	Learn how Verizon is moving mission-critical databases from on premises to Amazon RDS. Verizon’s workloads, including VZW.com, demand high availability, data consistency, and low latency at all times to service millions of customers every day. In this session, Verizon engineers share how they achieved a zero-downtime migration to AWS by setting up a multi-region active-active architecture and ensuring data synchronization across on-premises and cloud environments during the transition phase. They dive deep into the specific features and tools used and share the challenges and lessons learned during the migration process.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon QLDB: An engineer’s deep dive on why this is a game changer (DAT380)	DAT	380	DAT380	Why did we build Amazon QLDB to be a first-of-its-kind immutable and verifiable ledger database? In this session, join Andrew Certain, AWS senior principal engineer, as he discusses Amazon QLDB’s unique journal-first architecture along with its various innovations. Topics include cryptographic hashing, Merkle trees, Multi-AZ availability, PartiQL support, and much more. Also included is a special focus on how we brought the data integrity benefits of blockchain into a SQL-compatible database.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Amazon.com migrated its applications from Oracle to AWS databases (DAT359)	DAT	359	DAT359	Amazon.com recently completed its enterprise database migration to AWS. In this session, Amazon.com leaders relay how they achieved database freedom with AWS. They discuss the enterprise program they built, and they share the lessons they learned and the benefits they realized. They also share how they reduced third-party and scaling risks to deliver peak retail events, such as Amazon Prime Day, Amazon Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Uber stores financial transactions in ledgers using Amazon DynamoDB (DAT319)	DAT	319	DAT319	Each day, millions of people move around the world with Uber. The associated financial transactions are stored in Uber's Ledger Store with provable completeness backed by Amazon DynamoDB. In this session, we discuss why provable completeness is key for compliant storage of financial and other ledger-like use cases, and we explain how this can be implemented at global scale by using DynamoDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices for IoT architecture using AWS smart product solution (ARC339-R1)	ARC	339	ARC339	As more consumer products are embedded with sensors that allow communication and data transfer between the product and the manufacturer, customers need architecture to onboard, protect, and monitor device fleets. In this session, we cover best practices for creating this architecture and use the decisions that were made when creating the AWS smart product solution as a guide. The architecture incorporates AWS IoT Core, as well as AWS Lambda for backend microservices, AWS IoT Analytics with Amazon QuickSight to analyze telemetry data, and AWS IoT Device Defender to audit device configurations. We also show you how to use AWS CDK to create customized deployments.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive and best practices for Amazon Redshift (ANT418)	ANT	418	ANT418	In this session, we take an in-depth look at best practices for data warehousing with Amazon Redshift. We show you the best way to analyze all your data, inside and outside your data warehouse, without moving the data, which helps you gain deeper insights for running your business. We also cover best practices for how to design optimal schemas, load data efficiently, and optimize your queries to deliver high throughput and performance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Farmers Insurance elevating customer experience w/ conversational AI (AIM220-S)	AIM	220	AIM220	As part of its digital transformation journey, Farmers, one of America’s largest insurers, envisioned digitizing its customer and agent service experience. Join Farmers for this insightful session, and learn how it leveraged conversational artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and other next-generation AWS technologies to offer a seamless, personalized, and contextualized experience for agents and customers. Learn how Farmers improved customer experience and optimized resources while encouraging self-service with cloud-based services, automation, and AI. Also, gain insights on how to design, architect, and build a scalable conversational AI solution that caters to growing business demands. This presentation is brought to you by Cognizant, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building highly available applications using Global Accelerator (NET318-R1)	NET	318	NET318	In this session, you learn how to build highly available and performant architectures for your applications with AWS Global Accelerator, a service that enables you to manage multi-regional endpoints using global static IP addresses anycast from the AWS edge network. We dive into the Global Accelerator architecture and explain how the service provides global resiliency by isolating cross-customer impact and mitigating different failure modes, such as host-level failures, site-level failures, software defects, and anycast shifts.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Connectivity to AWS and hybrid AWS network architectures (NET317-R1)	NET	317	NET317	Amazon offers multiple options to achieve your connectivity requirements to access your resources in AWS. Whether you are connecting your corporate office or on-premises data center into AWS for hybrid connectivity or your personal device for end-user connectivity, AWS has many options for you to pick and choose. This session is intended for anyone wanting to get an overview of the AWS connectivity options available to you and learn about the best practices for architecting your connectivity to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Speed up native mobile development with AWS Amplify (MOB317)	MOB	317	MOB317	In this session, we explore iOS and Android app development with AWS Amplify. We present how to use the AWS Amplify CLI to set up your backend with just a few lines of code. We go over the coding patterns of Amplify libraries and also show you how to tackle specific uses cases such as auth, storage, API, analytics, and AI/ML.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simple path to AWS Managed Services (AMS) (MGT203-S)	MGT	203	MGT203	With AWS Managed Services (AMS), you can offload the critical task of infrastructure operations, freeing yourself to focus on application modernization. In this session, learn how to accelerate your journey to the cloud with AMS. We cover the process of assessing your infrastructure, migrating it from your on-premises data center or existing cloud environment to AMS, and operationalizing it. You learn key steps to streamline this process using automation and infrastructure as code to set up network connectivity, access management, logging, monitoring, backups, and configuration. You also discover integration points for an existing managed service provider to seamlessly work with AMS. This presentation is brought to you by 2nd Watch, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimizing Aerospace manufacturing operations & supply chain with AWS (MFG201)	MFG	201	MFG201	Aerospace manufacturers, component manufacturers, and maintenance suppliers remain competitive by innovating and reducing time to market. In this session, hear the unique AWS perspective on how our customers are meeting these challenges. Learn how to achieve the maximum possible performance from design and engineering workloads and how to monitor and optimize your manufacturing process. Review optimization techniques and architectures to accelerate workloads for engineering design. Lockheed Martin discusses its Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing solution for IoT data capture, transformation, analytics, and visualization for real-time monitoring of manufacturing machines.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Combining camera feeds, edge computing, and ML for remote monitoring (IOT311-R1)	IOT	311	IOT311	Remote monitoring of assets and equipment enables businesses to repurpose labor away from manual monitoring, increase equipment life span, and derive value from existing investments into assets. In harsh physical environments, remote monitoring can enable equipment to operate offline while reducing high-risk, manual operations. In this session, you learn how to train machine-learning models in the cloud and use AWS IoT Core to deploy these models onto connected surveillance cameras to drive ROI for your business.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The circular supply chain, and the drive for sustainability (IOT216-S)	IOT	216	IOT216	The circular supply chain leverages technologies like blockchain, digital identity, and biometrically enabled payments to enable a closed-loop, transparent supply chain. A new solution created with Accenture addresses the challenges of provenance, traceability, and authenticity in the supply chain. In this session, we share the solution’s benefits, including giving consumers a way to reliably identify products and prove authenticity, and enabling companies to drive greater impact and increase their green credentials. We also discuss how this solution enables producers to engage in the global economy and produce sustainably. Finally, we show you how it incentivizes the IT industry to drive sustainability. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT Device Software? (IOT214)	IOT	214	IOT214	AWS IoT device software enables you to connect your IoT devices and operate them at the edge. In this session, you’ll learn what’s new with AWS IoT device software including Amazon FreeRTOS, AWS IoT Greengrass, and AWS IoT Device Tester. You will leave this session ready to connect, manage, and update your IoT devices with AWS IoT.
AWS re:Invent 2019: More than rubber on the road: Tires in an IoT world (IOT204-S)	IOT	204	IOT204	Pirelli is known for creating cutting-edge, high-quality tires with a focus on the performance needs of both high-end consumer drivers and professional drivers. But today, Pirelli tires are much more than rubber on the road—they are connected IoT devices reporting telemetry data to help drivers achieve their safety and performance goals. Between this telemetry function and Pirelli’s other applications, a huge amount of data flows into Pirelli’s systems. Ensuring that these platforms are scalable and reliable is Pirelli’s biggest challenge. In this session, Pirelli shares how these systems are built using AWS and are made possible by modern observability tooling. This presentation is brought to you by Datadog, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Achieve your identity, security, and compliance goals on AWS (GPSTEC415)	TEC	415	TEC415	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. One of the key reasons that customers choose AWS for their workloads is what they are able to achieve when it comes to meeting and exceeding their identity, security, and compliance goals. There are lots of services within AWS that help customers meet these goals. At the same time, customers often look to partners to help in meeting these goals. In this session, we dive into how AWS services combined with APN Partner solutions enable customers to move ahead with confidence in running their workloads on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Managed Blockchain & Amazon QLDB in your solutions portfolio (GPSTEC339)	TEC	339	TEC339	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. In this session, learn the differences between blockchain and ledger technologies and get introduced to Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB). Along the way, we show how to easily build and manage scalable blockchain networks with Managed Blockchain on AWS and create new ledgers with Amazon QLDB. Our goal is for Consulting and Technology APN Partner attendees to walk away from this session with a working knowledge of how to leverage blockchain and ledger technologies to bring efficiency, security, and auditability to their digital transformation projects.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Use AWS Marketplace to reach over 230,000 customers (GPSMKT202)	MKT	202	MKT202	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Learn about new seller-specific AWS Marketplace features that make it easy for sellers to close transactions with over 230,000 active customers. We show you how to publish and update products as part of your feature release process with self-service listings, and review how you can target specific customers with special/customized pricing using Seller Private Offers. Lastly, we discuss how to combine these and other AWS Marketplace features to grow your business by reaching new buyers and converting perpetual-license customers to a subscription model.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Delivering customer value through next-gen managed services (GPSBUS202)	BUS	202	BUS202	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, learn about how AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partners are helping their customers achieve their business initiatives. We will share APN Partner and AWS customer examples and hear from AWS MSP Partner Cloudticity about best practices that enabled them to build a successful AWS MSP practice, offering proactive monitoring, automation, and management of their customers’ environment. In this session, APN Partners gain a clear view of the opportunity they have to serve their AWS customers and the resources available to support them on their APN Partner journey.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Tale of two cities: Goldman Sachs’s hybrid migration approach (FSI303)	FSI	303	FSI303	Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research division provides investment insights and ideas to clients around the world on a 24/7 basis, which requires a highly secure, scalable, and resilient environment. To re-architect its critical research platform to become a cloud-native application, the team developed a hybrid, container-based migration approach using AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon MSK, and AWS Lambda that is underpinned by a secure sandboxed environment called SkyLab. In this session, learn how Goldman Sachs rapidly scaled its use of containers, changed its culture to embrace experimentation and fast failure, and adopted DevOps capabilities, including infrastructure as code, canary deployment, and zero-production access.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accolade speeds health answers to customers with Amazon Connect (EUC337)	EUC	337	EUC337	Accolade, a personalized health and benefits solution, migrated a contact center to a global deployment of Amazon Connect in just four months, supporting over 700 agents taking more than 14,000 calls a day on a global scale. Learn how the company did this completely self-service through staggered global deployment. They also discuss where the key transition points were, how they mapped data from one solution to the next, their core development investments, and how they kept business running during the migration. Hear how a small team deploying Amazon Connect quickly and successfully can have a big business impact.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Salesforce and AWS accelerate the contact center (ENT235-S)	ENT	235	ENT235	Eighty percent of customer service interactions still take place over the phone. With the growing presence of cloud telephony in contact centers, companies now have an opportunity to weave intelligence into these phone interactions. In this session, learn how telephony can be integrated with Service Cloud to boost agent productivity, enhance reporting and training for supervisors, and deliver business insights based on call content and analytics. This presentation is brought to you by Salesforce, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The future of cloud management (ENT210-S)	ENT	210	ENT210	There were over a dozen acquisitions of cloud management companies in 2018 and more in 2019 as technology vendors responded to their customers’ adoption of the cloud and multiple tools and services for containers, microservices, and serverless computing deployments. IT departments are creating cloud centers of excellence and evolving to everything as a service (XaaS) IT delivery models to be more agile. Join this session to learn about emerging cloud management trends. We discuss how to optimize your cloud infrastructure and services for performance, cost, security, and compliance while allowing teams to use the cloud services and tools that they prefer. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Get started on your migration business case (ENT205-R1)	ENT	205	ENT205	When planning cloud migrations to AWS, knowledge is power. A clear baseline of what you have on premises is essential to evaluate your migration options. In this breakout session, we share different migration scenarios and how the AWS business case methodology can help you understand utilization of your on-premises resources, and how you can save cost and realize business value through AWS. TSO Logic, an AWS company, shares experiences that demonstrate how to simplify migration planning and their research on achieving cost savings by factoring in real-time utilization and Microsoft licenses.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Roadmaps for containers, application networking & Amazon Linux at AWS (CON217)	CON	217	CON217	In this session, we cover recent announcements for containers, Amazon Linux, and application networking at AWS, and how they fit into the bigger picture for users. We also cover how we’re thinking about what’s next and discuss different ways you can help drive our product direction—such as developer previews, publicly available roadmaps, and more!
AWS re:Invent 2019: AWS China Gateway: Power your business in China by working with AWS (CHN202)	CHN	202	CHN202	The AWS China Gateway provides information that helps customers of all sizes get started in using AWS to grow their businesses in China. The AWS China (Beijing) Region and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region are located within mainland China. To provide the best experience for customers in China, as well as to comply with China’s legal and regulatory requirements, AWS works with Chinese partners that possess telecom licenses required for delivering cloud services in China. Join this session to learn more about using the AWS China Region.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Best practices for authoring AWS CloudFormation (DOP302-R1)	DOP	302	DOP302	Incorporating infrastructure as code into software development practices can help teams and organizations improve automation and throughput without sacrificing quality and uptime. In this session, we cover multiple best practices for writing, testing, and maintaining AWS CloudFormation template code. You learn about IDE plug-ins, reusability, testing tools, modularizing stacks, and more. During the session, we also review sample code that showcases some of the best practices in a way that lends more context and clarity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Security foundations for containers on AWS (DEM54-S)	DEM	54	DEM54	Applying good security practices to the existing security of AWS infrastructure, platform, and container services allows your delivery teams to focus on innovation. This saves time and shortens your time to market without you having to worry about gaps in your security posture. A strong DevSecOps model says that security should come first and that the approach should inform and strengthen security in the delivery pipeline. In this session, hear from Alert Logic security experts as they discuss the benefits and how-tos of a security-first approach on AWS and with AWS-hosted containers. This presentation is brought to you by Alert Logic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: App modernization on AWS, described by engineers who have done it (DEM36-S)	DEM	36	DEM36	Join the IBM Garage solutions engineers in this interactive session to study the IBM point of view on successfully delivering application modernization workloads on AWS. Workload solutions include cloud native and microservice-based applications, migration of enterprise Java workloads, cloud integration solutions, and cognitive and data analytics. The session starts with the solutions engineers presenting prescriptive guidance, reference architectures, and best practices for deploying IBM workloads on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Continuous deployment for ML: The new software development lifecycle (DEM30-S)	DEM	30	DEM30	Machine learning (ML) will fundamentally change the way we build and maintain applications. How can we adapt our infrastructure, operations, staffing, and training to meet the challenges of the new software development lifecycle (SDLC) without throwing away everything that already works? ML is the future of application development, but presently, many ML teams are flailing without a process or trying to shoehorn their ML workflow into tools that don’t fit the requirements. This session helps you understand the differences between the traditional and ML-driven SDLCs. You also learn to build a process and stack to bring efficiency to emerging development. This presentation is brought to you by Algorithmia, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Create your first application in the cloud with Amazon Lightsail (DEM152)	DEM	152	DEM152	In this demo, we show you how easy it is to deploy and scale your first cloud application. We start by deploying a LAMP stack application into a single server. We then evolve it into a highly available, two tier application using an Amazon Lightsail load balancer and database instance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Release with confidence: Observability for microservices (DEM14-S)	DEM	14	DEM14	In modern microservices environments, it’s no longer enough to just collect telemetry data; we must derive and compile actionable insights from this data in real time. In this session, Kevin Crawley of Instana demonstrates how modern organizations are capable of understanding the complexity of large microservices environments using a combination of distributed tracing, metrics, and logging. He demonstrates application deployment in Kubernetes and explains how Instana combines and analyzes the data collected using all three pillars of observability, which empowers developers and site reliability engineers to understand the performance impacts of those deployments. This presentation is brought to you by Instana, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using AWS to architect your business for change (DEM03-S)	DEM	03	DEM03	Organizations are leveraging the cloud to accelerate digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage while identifying new ways to use data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. Learn how you can execute your AWS initiatives faster and help modernize your enterprise business and technology platforms regardless of your industry, size, or stage in your cloud journey. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: CCPA: State privacy law effects on cloud development (DEM02-S)	DEM	02	DEM02	Several states followed the lead of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by enacting their own consumer privacy laws. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective January 2020, goes even further in defining what constitutes private data. What does that mean for your cloud journey and the development of cloud-native applications? How will you secure private data and adhere to each state’s regulations while building a foundation for future law changes without straining cloud infrastructure and digital application teams? This session highlights the obligations to be aware of, policies and procedures to pursue, cloud architectural considerations, and KPIs for determining successful implementation. This presentation is brought to you by 2nd Watch, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Norton Storage Platform’s journey from Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT371)	DAT	371	DAT371	Symantec’s Norton Storage Platform offers online backup as a service to protect data from accidental deletion and malware. In this session, hear from Norton about the challenges it had managing Cassandra clusters at scale and why it migrated its metadata database from Cassandra to DynamoDB. Norton then dives into an innovative method it used to migrate its data using AWS Step Functions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Oversubscription at scale: Running tons of containers w/ Kubernetes (CON327-R1)	CON	327	CON327	How do you build a best-in-class application that can scale to millions of users while also being efficient and easy to operate? In this session, you learn how GoDaddy is using Amazon EKS to drive massive scalability with optimal cost structure on AWS. You also hear how GoDaddy’s pod-packing strategy for oversubscription on Kubernetes is a key element in the plan to drive down cost while supporting very large cluster sizes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Create digital twins using AWS IoT Core and Amazon Sumerian (ARV203)	ARV	203	ARV203	Smart manufacturing is just the beginning. The increase in IoT devices, combined with the rise in AR/VR technology, is increasing the use of digital twins. This enables real-time data visualization through virtual representations of machines and equipment to more effectively and expertly solve real-time problems or support training applications. In this session, learn how to create a digital twin that can be deployed over the web to desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and head-mounted devices.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cox Automotive: AWS Well-Architected Results on 200+ platforms (ARC212-R1)	ARC	212	ARC212	How do you know if you and your team are following cloud architecture best practices? How do you assess your potential risks? This session shows how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive architectural advice, and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to improve your technology portfolio. Hear executives from Cox Automotive explain how the company uses AWS Well-Architected as part of a scorecard across more than 200 platforms to health-check the Cox Automotive products. Learn how the scorecard works to drive resource and investment decisions, and how it helps measure profitability, technology risk, and engineering maturity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating applications to serverless Apache Kafka + KSQL (ARC207-S)	ARC	207	ARC207	You were using Apache Kafka on premises a few years ago and have been happily building applications with it since then. But now it’s well past time to move to the cloud, and you'd like to refactor your first application to something that feels more native to the cloud. In this talk, we demonstrate doing this with a fictional application, migrating the data from on premises to Confluent Cloud and converting the previous on-premises monolith to a set of stateless microservices fed by real-time, continuous KSQL queries. Leave this session with a clear understanding of how to do the same in your own stack. This presentation is brought to you by Confluent, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Woot.com built a serverless data lake with AWS analytics (ANT333)	ANT	333	ANT333	Woot.com designed and developed a data lake as a replacement for their legacy data warehouse to deliver powerful analytics capabilities across multiple business areas. In this session, learn how it used Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and Amazon QuickSight to build an automated process to ingest and centralize data from external and internal sources for immediate analysis.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive into Amazon Athena (ANT307-R1)	ANT	307	ANT307	Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Learn how customers are using Athena to query their data lakes, enable self-service for analysts and developers, and build applications. We dive deep into the latest improvements and show demos. New Athena users gain an understanding of service capabilities and customer architecture patterns. Existing Athena users gain understanding of recent improvements, including concurrency, performance, and security.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Insert, upsert, and delete data in Amazon S3 using Amazon EMR (ANT239)	ANT	239	ANT239	Building data lakes in Amazon S3 offers scale and reliability for open-source data formats and a common data store for both reporting and BI as well as big data analytics and ML/AI. However, most commonly used big data frameworks make customers reinstate large volumes of data for handling incremental changes in individual records. Apache Hudi provides the ability to create, upsert, and delete records and simplifies the handling of change data capture and the ingestion of real-time streams. In this session, we dive deep into using Apache Hudi with Amazon EMR, exploring fundamental concepts, common scenarios, and how to use Hudi to optimize workflows.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Changing the game with ML: How AI, ML, and IoT are transforming sports (AIM369)	AIM	369	AIM369	If you are a sports fan interested in machine learning, regardless of industry, this talk is for you. See how some of the world’s top sports organizations are innovating with machine learning on AWS and how some of them got started on their journey working with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab. From Formula 1’s 1M data points per second to the NFL’s 3TB of data per game week to the use of Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy predictive real-time models, leave this session with a better understanding of what’s behind the curtain and how you can get started.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AI document processing for business automation (AIM211-R1)	AIM	211	AIM211	Millions of times per day, customers from the Finance, Healthcare, public, and other sectors rely on information that is locked in documents. Amazon Textract uses artificial intelligence to "read" such documents as a person would, to extract not only text but also tables, forms, and other structured data without configuration, training, or custom code. In this session, we demonstrate how you can use Amazon Textract to automate business processes with AI. You also hear directly from our customers about how they accelerated their own business processes with Amazon Textract.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Artificial intelligence in Healthcare (AIM202-S)	AIM	202	AIM202	SENTRI is an intelligent automation application platform built leveraging native AWS components to facilitate case processing in the Healthcare industry. PwC built an engine that can take in an adverse healthcare/level of service (HC/LS) event case, extract key information, provide an initial interpretation of severity, and triage the case for review. PwC performed analysis using a user-centric experience, which allowed the case processor to easily verify outputs and helped build trust and confidence in the machine’s interpretation. In this session, learn how a PwC customer has been successfully using this system for over nine months. It used to take two hours to process a case. Now, it takes three seconds. This presentation is brought to you by PwC, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Reimagining advertising analytics & identity resolution at scale (ADM203)	ADM	203	ADM203	Most companies in Advertising & Marketing run some kind of big data workload. But are they taking advantage of the latest cloud technology? In this session, learn how AWS customers can optimize data collection, analytics, and identity resolution using containers, serverless computing, and graph databases. Customers share detailed technical best practices for big data and advertising analytics at massive scale and low cost. Then we dive deep into an example of how to improve identity matching and audience targeting using Amazon Neptune and other AWS tools.
AWS re:Invent 2019: NAB: Transforming customer experience with data and machine learning (FSI203)	FSI	203	FSI203	National Australia Bank (NAB) has more than 160 years of customer and banking data at its disposal. But the bank faced the challenge of harnessing this asset to enable its contact-center team to provide rapid and engaging experiences to its customers while maintaining their privacy and security. Come learn how NAB lowered operational costs and transformed customer experience by transitioning hundreds of retail, corporate, and institutional contact-center professionals to Amazon Connect. This session also shares NAB’s approach to building a centralized enterprise data lake and applying machine learning to further engage customers and drive the bank’s multichannel strategy.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why GE Renewable Energy and Multiview stream their desktop applications (EUC341)	EUC	341	EUC341	Learn how to provide instant access to desktop applications through a browser on any computer. In this session, we present an overview of Amazon AppStream 2.0, a managed application streaming service, and walk through common application streaming use cases for enterprises, ISVs, and educational institutions. Hear from GE Renewable Energy and from Multiview Corporation, a financial software provider, on their journeys to stream applications with AppStream 2.0.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Overview of Amazon digital user engagement & messaging solutions (EUC206)	EUC	206	EUC206	In this session, we describe how AWS shares the Amazon customer-centric culture of innovation, key technology building blocks, and a user engagement and messaging platform to help companies better understand their users. You also learn how Coinbase is utilizing the Amazon approach to engage its own users. The intended audience: Developers and business professionals who are responsible for digitally transforming their company.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How ENGIE, HP & SAP itself are transforming their SAP solutions (ENT241)	ENT	241	ENT241	Thousands of customers run SAP on AWS, and many more are evaluating their SAP migration and innovation strategies. In this session, hear from two SAP on AWS customers, and from SAP itself, about the role AWS has played in their SAP transformation journeys. ENGIE, an energy services provider, shares how it achieved its SAP innovation goals, from migrating its mission-critical SAP environment through accelerating innovation with Amazon Machine Learning and other solutions. HP, which develops PCs, 3D printing solutions, printers, and related supplies, discusses its transformation effort to consolidate legacy SAP ERP systems into an S/4HANA landscape. Juergen Mueller, the CTO of SAP, which provides enterprise software, joins us to discuss SAP customers, tech landscapes, and AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform your enterprise using AWS experience-based accelerators (ENT237)	ENT	237	ENT237	From the C-suite to individual teams, can you break down siloes, migrate faster, and simplify processes along the way? Experience-based acceleration (EBA) is a mechanism that addresses cloud-adoption blockers using a large-scale, prescriptive, migration “party” approach. Learn from SAP Concur how hundreds of customers have used EBAs to change how they work to deliver faster, more impactful migrations, and how the leadership is using cloud adoption to modernize their organization.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices to become data-driven with AWS (ENT236)	ENT	236	ENT236	AWS provides data analytics and ML services to allow companies of every size to transform their business by unlocking value from their data. In this session, Brad Burke, the chief data officer of American Family Insurance, joins us to share American Family’s journey from being data-rich to becoming data-driven with a focus on platform, people, and mission. Brad discusses how solutions are a network of architectures that bring applications, data, and data science together; how the new currency in data is the data engineer; and how having the data connected to the right part of the business value chain is the real trick.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon culture of innovation (ENT224-R1)	ENT	224	ENT224	Organizations of all sizes often ask how they can innovate like Amazon. Since its humble beginnings as the "world's largest bookstore," Amazon has not only innovated across ecommerce and other adjacent segments, it has also introduced entirely new and unrelated businesses to the organization. Over the years, Amazon has gotten good at taking problems that are hard to solve and making them easy for customers. In this session, we discuss how Amazon views and leverages technology as a utility to increase the pace of innovation across the organization.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Differentiation through innovation (ENT216)	ENT	216	ENT216	The acceleration of technology change is disrupting all industries and provides an opportunity for organizations of any size to truly differentiate their business through innovation. In this session, we share a number of examples of how customers are innovating on AWS to differentiate their business by improving pace of innovation, getting to market faster, creating new products, and scaling innovative ideas globally to stay ahead of changing business needs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive into AWS Cloud Development Kit (DOP402-R1)	DOP	402	DOP402	The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a multi-language, open-source framework that enables developers to harness the full power of familiar programming languages to define reusable cloud components and provision applications built from those components using AWS CloudFormation. In this session, you develop an AWS CDK application and learn how to quickly assemble AWS infrastructure. We explore the AWS Construct Library and show you how easy it is to configure your cloud resources, manage permissions, connect event sources, and build and publish your own constructs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon's approach to building resilient services (DOP342-R1)	DOP	342	DOP342	One of the biggest challenges of building services and systems is predicting the future. Changing load, business requirements, and customer behavior can all change in unexpected ways. In this talk, we look at how AWS builds, monitors, and operates services that handle the unexpected. Learn how to make your own services handle a changing world, from basic design principles to patterns you can apply today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Omnichannel cloud contact center with Amazon Connect (DEM155)	DEM	155	DEM155	Amazon Connect now gives businesses a single unified contact center for voice and chat. Come see how you can create an Amazon Connect contact center instance, and learn how to use a single contact flow to design a natural language chatbot experience using Amazon Lex that escalates to a human agent on voice and chat. We demo unified routing, queueing, chatbot design, agent experience, and concurrency for voice and chat.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate application development with Amazon Aurora (DEM154)	DEM	154	DEM154	In this demo, learn how to leverage the unique features of Amazon Aurora to build faster, more scalable database applications optimized for the cloud. We cover features designed to help increase agility so you can develop applications faster to reach the widest possible audience. Such features include Amazon Aurora Serverless, read-replica auto-scaling, cross-region replicas, backtracking, fast database cloning, and performance insights.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Life hacks for automating DevSecOps security tasks (DEM07-S)	DEM	07	DEM07	Tired of performing many different jobs? Automate the InfoSec tasks being thrown onto your engineering and DevOps teams so that you can get your life back. Not sure if a security control has been implemented in your AWS environment? Are you getting pulled in by the sales team to answer security questionnaires? Have you been given the glorious task of collecting evidence for security audits for every single release of code? Learn how you can stop the madness by automating these activities with technology. This presentation is brought to you by Tugboat Logic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices: migrating Redis clusters from Amazon EC2 to ElastiCache (DAT358)	DAT	358	DAT358	Managing Redis clusters on your own can be hard. You have to provision hardware, patch software, back up data, and monitor workloads constantly. With the newly released Online Migration feature for Amazon ElastiCache, you can now easily move your data from self-hosted Redis on Amazon EC2 to fully managed Amazon ElastiCache, with cluster mode disabled. In this session, you learn about the new Online Migration tool, see a demo, and, more importantly, learn hands-on best practices for a smooth migration to Amazon ElastiCache.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Tech deep dive: Backup & on-demand disaster recovery w/ Veeam and AWS (STG330-S)	STG	330	STG330	Are you thinking about backing up AWS workloads or using AWS to enhance the availability of workloads? Come learn how leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier backed by Amazon S3 to back up Amazon EC2 instances or other virtual machines can beat ransomware and avoid downtime. In this session, we demonstrate new advanced Veeam capabilities for AWS and how you can leverage disaster recovery on AWS with Veeam. This presentation is brought to you by Veeam, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build hybrid storage architectures with AWS Storage Gateway (STG305-R1)	STG	305	STG305	Do you have applications on-premises, need more storage capacity, or require low-latency access to data in Amazon S3? This session explains how to use AWS Storage Gateway in a hybrid architecture for workloads such as backup and archival, file shares for applications, accessing content in AWS, or distributed data processing and analytics. We describe representative customer implementations and dive deep into the technical capabilities and best practices for gateway deployments. Learn how you can get virtually unlimited cloud storage for your on-premises needs, reduce costs, speed up your cloud journey, and build the infrastructure for faster innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep dive on Amazon EBS (STG303-R1)	STG	303	STG303	In this popular session, discover how Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) can optimize performance and costs for workloads on Amazon EC2, such as relational and nonrelational databases, enterprise applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows. Learn about new capabilities with Amazon EBS, features and benefits, security techniques, and details about performance and volume types. The target audience includes security administrators, application developers, application owners, and operations personnel who build or manage application infrastructure or storage area networks (SANs).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data migration and edge computing with the AWS Snow family (STG214)	STG	214	STG214	Many organizations still have data they want to move to AWS, and have disconnected, remote field operations that require local computing capabilities. The AWS Snow family—AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, and AWS Snowmobile—helps you move large quantities of data offline and enables data processing and storage at edge locations when network capacity is constrained or nonexistent. This session provides an update on the Snow family and dives into the operational details of migrating data and how to build edge computing architectures with Snowball Edge. Learn when and how to use the service for your migration and computing needs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Get your data to AWS: How to choose and use data migration services (STG204-R1)	STG	204	STG204	You have data you need to move to the cloud—either once for a migration, or repeatedly for ongoing workflows. AWS data migration and transfer services move data securely and efficiently into and out of AWS. In this session, learn how to choose and combine services—including AWS DataSync, the AWS Snow family, CloudEndure, and AWS Transfer for SFTP—for your different use cases. Learn from the real-world experiences of enterprise customers and gain practical advice to help you get started.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new in AWS file storage (STG202)	STG	202	STG202	In this session, we focus on innovations in the fast-growing AWS file-storage portfolio, including Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Security benefits of the Nitro architecture (SEC408-R1)	SEC	408	SEC408	The AWS Nitro architecture is fundamental to the Amazon EC2 service. With Nitro, each host in the core compute platform is built with trusted computers that simulate the outside world and surround an untrusted CPU and memory computer that runs workloads. Those trusted Nitro computers appear to the customer workload computer as I/O devices that are accessible across the PCIe bus. Most traditional virtualization work is done via hardware emulation. The Nitro computers carefully control the workload computer access, providing a layer of protection. Learn about the security properties of this powerful architecture, which significantly increases cloud reliability and performance.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Access management in 4D (SEC405-R1)	SEC	405	SEC405	In this session, we take "who can access what under which conditions" and deeply explore "under which conditions." We demonstrate patterns that allow you to implement advanced access-management workflows such as two-person rule, just-in-time privilege elevation, real-time adaptive permissions, and more using advanced combinations of AWS identity services, a range of environmental and contextual information sources, and automated and human-based approval workflows. We keep things fun, engaging, and practical using a lively mix of demos and code that you can take home and implement in your own environment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: nib Health Funds: Running critical regulated workloads in the cloud (SEC214)	SEC	214	SEC214	This session focuses on the strategy, technology, and review process that customers can use to move their most critical workloads into the cloud. nib Health Funds, a regulated health insurance provider, dives deep into how it moved a regulated core system (which the regulator calls a “system of record”) into AWS. The session examines the regulatory context and provides specific technical examples of the cloud-based platform nib built to meet its security, risk, and resiliency requirements. Come see what it did and learn how you can do the same.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Vulnerability disclosure and response with AWS security (SEC212-R1)	SEC	212	SEC212	A vulnerability disclosure program should be part of any company's promise to its customers. The owner of a product must have a strategy to accept input from the security community regarding that product. In May 2019, the AWS Security team received a report regarding the AmazonSageMakerFullAccess managed security policy. This session covers the vulnerability disclosure process and includes a discussion of how AWS processed that report.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Strong security made simple: Putting all the pieces together (SEC204-S)	SEC	204	SEC204	Organizations struggle with extending their security practices to the cloud. Traditional approaches don’t work, and new cloud-only practices duplicate work for an already overtaxed team. The goal of cybersecurity is simple: to ensure that what you build works as intended and only as intended. This session teaches you how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework can help you create a cloud security strategy. For tactics, learn how to integrate key AWS security services, open-source tools, and AWS Lambda automations into the workflow of your organization. Strong security doesn’t have to be complicated; this session shows you how. This presentation is brought to you by Trend Micro, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Innovation in robotics: Insights from NASA JPL and AWS (ROB302)	ROB	302	ROB302	We are in the midst of an age of innovation in the world of robotics. From autonomous ground robots to drones to robotic arms, robots are being used across industries in new and innovative ways. In this session, learn about leading use cases and forthcoming applications in robotics from experts from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How rue21 & Kimberly-Clark use analytics to lead customer journeys (RET205)	RET	205	RET205	Both retail and CPG brands need to proactively identify out-of-stock issues and sales opportunities across the entire retail value chain. This means having the right data and analytical models that generate real-time alerts and insights to lead, not follow, the customer journey. This session showcases different perspectives in producing and executing on these insights through the lens of two brands, rue21 and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, via their partnerships with Manthan and LLamasoft, respectively.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deckers Brands & Kmart Australia's approaches to retail transformation (RET204)	RET	204	RET204	In this session, hear from two retailers thriving through innovation. Both discuss moving from monolithic OMS solutions into microservices--creating flexible integration and new value. For Kmart Australia, it made perfect sense to adopt a cloud-first strategy, but the company needed to overcome a skills gap from traditional IT to a cloud-first approach. CTO Michael Fagan speaks about why he certified 100 percent of his technical staff on cloud, and creating a self-service culture of learning. Jesse Carstens from Deckers speaks about how Deckers's iconic brands and customer-first approach are now being matched by cloud-first speed and innovation.
AWS re:Invent 2019: It’s always day zero: Working on open source and security (OPN219)	OPN	219	OPN219	At AWS, security is our number one priority, and that applies to our open-source work too. Come hear about the techniques, tools, and protocols we’ve developed for auditing open-source software for security risks, how to mitigate these risks, and how we manage the tricky balance between openness and collaboration and handling embargoed security issues and critical fixes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 2] Building modern APIs with GraphQL (OPN208-R2)	OPN	208	OPN208	With the rise of microservice architectures and rich mobile and web applications, APIs are more important than ever. Learn how to tackle modern API design challenges with GraphQL, an open-source API query language used by Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Virgin Trains, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From pitch to play: The technology behind going from ideas to streaming (NFX203)	NFX	203	NFX203	It takes a lot of different technologies and teams to get entertainment from the idea stage through being available for streaming on the service. This session looks at what it takes to accept, produce, encode, and stream your favorite content. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How CAPCOM builds fun games fast with containers, data, and ML (GAM302)	GAM	302	GAM302	Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter are just some of CAPCOM’s many globally successful game franchises. Join the CAPCOM team for the world premiere of a new mobile game in development that uses AWS managed database services and machine learning to speed the development process and innovate on their players’ behalf. In this session, Shinichi Inoue (VPoE), Jumpei Nakajima, and Kazuki Nakamura (senior engineers of system development) share details on how CAPCOM uses services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon DynamoDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Cloud customer trends in 2020 (ENT240-S)	ENT	240	ENT240	In this customer panel hosted by the Cloudbusting podcast team, learn about some of the major upcoming trends in the market with representatives from BP and Global Payments. The panel discusses what organizations must do, both technically and culturally, to be more adaptable to their changing markets, evidenced by real customer stories. Leave this session with insights on what other businesses have done to prepare their organizations for digital change and with ideas that you can implement in your own transformation programs. This presentation is brought to you by Cloudreach, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building machine-learning infrastructure on Amazon EKS with Kubeflow (CON306-R1)	CON	306	CON306	Data science, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence have exploded in popularity in the last few years, with companies building out dedicated ML teams. Kubeflow is the ML toolkit for Kubernetes and provides useful components resolving problems in multiple areas. For enterprise users, it still cannot fulfill all the requirements for out-of-the-box deployment. Some customizations need to be made, like authentication, training job monitoring, user profile, and resource quota management. In this session, we show you a real use case of how to build ML using Kubeflow, along with challenges and solutions to address them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Get the most from Elastic Load Balancing for different workloads (NET407-R2)	NET	407	NET407	Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple application targets for fault tolerance and load distribution. In this session, we do a deep-dive and cover everything you ever wanted to know about using Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. We go over some interesting use cases and cover topics such as picking the right load balancer, architectural best practices, and load balancing principles. We also go into detail about configuration and day-to-day management and discuss how you can analyze your applications using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and ELB access logs and their integration with the broader AWS ecosystem.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimizing for performance in CloudFront: Every millisecond counts! (NET309-R1)	NET	309	NET309	In content delivery, every millisecond counts for your customers because it translates to a better user experience. In this session, the Amazon CloudFront engineers provide a deep-dive into optimization and measurement techniques used to continually improve the delivery of your content. Learn about how we optimize for both dynamic and static content delivery. We also share insights from Tinder on how these optimizations benefited the performance of their applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Networking (NET203-L)	NET	203	NET203	Join Dave Brown, VP of Amazon EC2 Networking at AWS, to learn about the new services and features we launched this year. Dave covers the entire suite of networking services, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Elastic Load Balancing, AWS PrivateLink, VPN, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Direct Connect. In addition, Dave reviews some real-world customer scenarios and how AWS networking solves those in a secure, reliable, flexible, and highly performant way.
AWS re:Invent 2019: New solutions leveraging Verizon’s 5G network (MOB407-S)	MOB	407	MOB407	In this session, learn about the eight new currencies enabled by the 5G Ultra Wideband (UWB) network. Additionally, hear how these currencies can be used for the creation of products and services, such as immersive reality, computer vision, and massive connectivity, to help realize the fourth industrial revolution. This presentation is brought to you by Verizon, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Evolution of personalization/recommendation for video workflows (MDS303-R1)	MDS	303	MDS303	Personalizing the user experience is proven to increase discoverability, user engagement and satisfaction, and revenue; however, many AWS customers find personalization hard to get right. Effective recommender systems require solving multiple hard problems, including constantly changing user behavior, new catalog items (cold start), etc. In this session, we cover some of the most common methods of personalization/recommendation. Also, Amazon Prime Video shares the evolution of its recommendation system and the real-world challenges it faced when building recommendation systems at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Optimizing live video feeds to the cloud and the consumer (MDS202-R1)	MDS	202	MDS202	Viewers want more content on more devices, with top quality and low, broadcast-like latency allowing them to enjoy the action without delay. They also demand features such as enhanced graphics and real-time stats that go beyond traditional TV offerings. Learn how Discovery delivers live cooking classes with America’s favorite chefs on its Food Network Kitchen platform, and multi-language/multi-market sports on its Eurosport platform. This talk explores how today’s top content providers like Discovery are serving audiences with media solutions, machine learning, and core services from AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Harness the full potential of your IoT data (IOT215-S)	IOT	215	IOT215	Turn the data created by hard-working IoT devices into timely, meaningful insights that give your business an advantage. Join this session, and learn how Domo customers gain real-time insights from their IoT data around the world that help them improve product innovation and customer experiences, while also stopping potential problems using Domo’s IoT Cloud and AWS. Come see how you can leverage IoT data to support product innovation and customer satisfaction, save time and money by spotting performance issues, receive real-time alerts about changes in device activity, and turn real-time access to IoT data into a company asset. This presentation is brought to you by Domo Inc., an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building smarter devices for a better life (IOT209-R1)	IOT	209	IOT209	A connected home unites devices and services for an integrated, autonomous experience that improves a consumer’s life. In this session, discover how everyday devices in your home can be transformed into intelligent things. Embedded with digital smarts and connected to the internet, these devices can create real-time, contextual, and smart experiences. Learn how these devices can be remotely monitored, controlled, and secured at scale using the rich set of AWS IoT services. We also describe how to use AWS IoT to analyze the data unlocked from these smart devices to make good business decisions, build better products, and enhance the consumer experience.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Partner with APN to build and deliver SaaS solutions (GPSBUS204)	BUS	204	BUS204	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. AWS provides a low-cost, reliable, and secure foundation for you to build and deliver software as a service (SaaS) solutions to customers. The AWS Partner Network (APN) helps companies build a successful AWS-based business by providing valuable business, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM) support via AWS SaaS Factory. In this session, uncover the benefits of building SaaS on AWS, unlock APN resources to guide you through the business transformation process, and understand key tactics you can incorporate into your SaaS business strategy today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrating the live Pokémon database to Aurora PostgreSQL (GAM304)	GAM	304	GAM304	Learn how the Pokémon Company International stores and supports data for more than 300 million players with the help of AWS. In this session, Jeff Webb (development manager) and David Williams (senior DevOps engineer) discuss how they migrated to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB, resulting in zero downtime for operations. Hear about best practices for migration and get a glimpse into the services supporting Pokémon Go, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Redshift, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Cloud operations engineer: A day in the life (ENT320-R1)	ENT	320	ENT320	Are you an expert data center operations engineer looking to sharpen your AWS skills? Are you an IT operations manager looking to speed up your team's cloud learning curve for operating in a hybrid cloud environment? Are you a DevOps engineer looking to grow your operations experience? This session follows two AWS operations experts throughout their day as they solve real problems in complex, hybrid enterprise environments that include the AWS Cloud. Expect to learn actionable hacks and tricks that you would not learn in standard training classes. Receive practical advice for solving common and uncommon issues, and learn the top things our experts wish they knew when they were getting started with AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How you can scale up with Amazon EC2 for up to 90% less (DEM58-S)	DEM	58	DEM58	Join this session to hear how organizations are consuming more Amazon EC2 compute for less, with intelligent workload automation and continuous cost optimization that leverages Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and Reserved Instance management. This presentation is brought to you by Spotinst, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrate your data to Amazon S3, and access it anywhere (DEM159)	DEM	159	DEM159	Are you running out of on-premises storage capacity? Do you want to move your data to the cloud for advanced processing? Do you need to archive your data to highly durable, low-cost cloud storage? AWS Storage Gateway and AWS DataSync are purpose-built to help customers address these types of storage challenges. In this demo, we show you how to use DataSync to migrate your data to Amazon S3 and then use AWS Storage Gateway to access that data on premises.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Do more with less: Unit and integration testing is broken (DEM11-S)	DEM	11	DEM11	Unit testing and integration testing fall short in helping engineers understand how their applications run in production and avoid testing bits of code that should never be tested. In this session, Kevin Crawley of Instana shows real-world examples of modern observability tools that enable organizations to operate on as little as 15 percent code coverage and focus on what actually matters: the health of their production applications. With these examples, Kevin demonstrates how sufficiently advanced monitoring is indistinguishable from testing and ultimately helps organizations recover from test coverage fatigue. This presentation is brought to you by Instana, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Verizon Media implemented push notification using Amazon DynamoDB (DAT205)	DAT	205	DAT205	Verizon Media had to create a better, stronger, and faster push notification system to serve the requirements of iconic Verizon brands, fulfill push notification completion time of 27 million devices in under three minutes, and consistently show the push "toast" on all users’ lock screens. Verizon decided to use Amazon DynamoDB and other AWS services such as Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon SQS in conjunction with its own Vespa search engine to power all the use cases of its brands. It also uses Kubernetes to orchestrate microservices across many Amazon EC2 instances. Join this session to learn how Verizon has been able to accomplish all of this.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Why you need a ledger database: BMW, DVLA, & Sage discuss use cases (BLC203)	BLC	203	BLC203	Why do you need an immutable ledger database? In this session, we dive into the problems that Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) can solve, and we answer your questions about when and why you would use a ledger database. Customers BMW, the UK government organization Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and Sage share their use cases for maintaining data integrity with Amazon QLDB.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scalable serverless event-driven applications using Amazon SQS & Lambda (API304)	API	304	API304	Event-driven integration patterns emerged to enable integration between serverless applications at scale. Join this session to learn best practices for integrating serverless applications using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) triggers. We dive deep into the architecture of Amazon SQS triggers to AWS Lambda and how it was engineered to autoscale your Lambda functions. Explore how to tune Lambda and Amazon SQS to scale your existing applications without having to worry about provisioning capacity.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Petco transformed its legacy business for the next generation (ANT228-S)	ANT	228	ANT228	In this session, Rebecca Maffei, VP of IT Data & Analytics, and Petco's wellness team discuss how Petco re-imagined its business to have a data-driven architecture centered on a data warehouse built for the cloud. Petco needed to implement a data warehouse that was scalable to multiple teams within the business while also removing any obstacles that could arise during a migration. After a successful migration to Snowflake on AWS, Petco increased its ability to scale and have concurrent users while being cost-effective, reliable, and secure. With these new business benefits, Petco can deliver a better experience for its end customers, both online and in store. This presentation is brought to you by Snowflake, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Supercharge your real-time apps with Amazon ElastiCache (DAT208)	DAT	208	DAT208	With the rapid growth in cloud adoption and the new scenarios that it empowers, applications need microsecond latency and high throughput to support millions of requests per second. Developers have traditionally relied on specialized hardware and workarounds, such as disk-based databases combined with data reduction techniques, to manage data for real-time applications. These approaches can be expensive and not scalable. Learn how you can boost the performance of real-time applications by using the fully managed, in-memory Amazon ElastiCache for extreme performance, high scalability, availability, and security.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Using containers & serverless to accelerate application development (CON213-L)	CON	213	CON213	In this session, learn how AWS can help you innovate faster with containers and serverless. Join us for a rare and intimate discussion with AWS senior leaders David Richardson, VP, Serverless, and Deepak Singh, VP, Compute Services, Containers, and Linux. Hear them share development best practices and discuss key lessons from building modern applications. Also, learn how developers can leverage containers and AWS Lambda to build and run production applications in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on AWS Nitro security for apps running on Amazon EC2 (CMP338-R1)	CMP	338	CMP338	The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for our next generation of EC2 instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, further reduce cost for our customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. In this session, we perform a deep dive on the security aspects of the Nitro System and discuss how you can leverage them to build secure applications using EC2 instances.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simplifying Microsoft architectures with AWS services (CMP332)	CMP	332	CMP332	In this session, learn how to architect Microsoft solutions on AWS to be both highly available and scalable. Find out how Microsoft solutions can leverage AWS services to achieve more resiliency, replace unnecessary complexity, and provide scalability. We explore hybrid architecture scenarios and common architecture patterns for Active Directory and productivity solutions like SharePoint. We also cover common design patterns for .NET applications, including approaches to CI/CD, DevOps, and containerizing .NET applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Save up to 90% and run production workloads on Spot Instances (CMP331-R1)	CMP	331	CMP331	In this session, learn how to effectively harness Spot Instances for production workloads. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow you to use spare EC2 computing capacity, which is often 90 percent less expensive than On-Demand prices. We explore application requirements to use Spot Instances, best practices learned from thousands of customers, and the services that make it easy. Finally, we run through practical examples of how to use Spot for the most common production workloads, the common pitfalls customers run into, and how to avoid them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Uber builds scalable autonomous vehicle simulations w/ AWS Batch (CMP328-R1)	CMP	328	CMP328	Learn how Uber uses AWS Batch to run hundreds of thousands of autonomous vehicle simulations across as many vCPUs every day. Hear the story of how the company built a highly performant and scalable simulation pipeline on native AWS services.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Optimize performance and cost for your AWS compute (CMP323-R1)	CMP	323	CMP323	AWS offers a broad range of compute platforms. In this session, we talk about how to identify optimal EC2 instances for your workloads using AWS tools and services. We show you techniques and best practices to help you reduce cost and increase performance of your AWS workload.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on Arm-based EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton (CMP322-R1)	CMP	322	CMP322	AWS Graviton processors feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS, delivering optimized performance and cost. AWS Graviton processors are built exclusively for the cloud, utilizing AWS and Annapurna Labs’ expertise in running hyperscale cloud platforms and cloud applications. Amazon EC2 A1 instances are the first instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. In this session, learn how you can optimize cost and performance for your scale-out and Arm-based workloads using EC2 instances based on AWS Graviton processors. We present use cases, software ecosystem, and customer adoption stories for EC2 A1 instances.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Dropbox leverages hybrid cloud for scale and innovation (CMP320)	CMP	320	CMP320	Dropbox operates a hybrid cloud architecture leveraging AWS to integrate on-premises and cloud environments. In this session, AWS describes hybrid cloud use cases, ranging from extending data centers to building and managing applications across on-premises and cloud environments, and it discusses a framework for designing, deploying, and operating a hybrid cloud. Dropbox dives deep into its use of AWS to optimize solutions including analytics, high-performance compute, and document processing in the hybrid cloud. The session ends with a description of how Dropbox uses AWS to power international expansion for local hosting environments in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, supporting the needs of more than 400,000 business teams globally.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Creating a data-driven, cloud-native ecosystem at BMW Group (AUT306)	AUT	306	AUT306	Data is the lifeblood fueling BMW Group’s digital transformation. It drives BMW’s personalized customer experiences, connected mobility solutions, and analytical insights. This session starts by outlining different archetypes of data platforms and then walking through the journey of building BMW Group’s cloud data hub. Learn about the architectural fundamentals and how to unlock and harness the potential of various data sources, including vehicle sensory and relational data. We also present use cases that help shape the overall strategy and conclude with a combination of lessons learned and design decisions.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running lean architectures: How to be cost-effective on AWS (ARC209-R1)	ARC	209	ARC209	Everybody can save money on AWS by optimizing your architecture! This session reviews a wide range of cost-optimization strategies, featuring real-world examples. In addition to Reserved Instances, we have a special focus on Spot Instances to get a discount of up to 90 percent. We also talk about leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, caching and offloading content to Amazon CloudFront to reduce backend load, and much more. Running serverless? Learn how to cut costs on serverless through minimizing AWS Lambda execution time and maximizing networking throughput. Additionally, we cover optimizing training and inference costs for machine learning on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Simplifying and modernizing home search at Compass with Amazon ES (ANT207-R1)	ANT	207	ANT207	Compass is changing Real Estate by leveraging its industry-leading software to build search and analytical tools that help Real Estate professionals find, market, and sell homes. In this session, Compass engineers discuss how they make every home (listing) in the company's catalog discoverable to consumers and Compass Real Estate professionals. They also discuss how they've scaled their search infrastructure and how they leverage other AWS components, including Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) to deliver a complete, scalable home-search solution.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Trends with data lakes and analytics (ANT206-L)	ANT	206	ANT206	AWS delivers an integrated suite of services that provides everything needed to quickly and easily build a well-governed data lake with self-serve access to data. In this talk, Rahul Pathak, general manager for Amazon Athena and Amazon EMR, talks about some of the key trends we’re seeing and describes how they shape the services AWS offers. Specific trends include the rise of machine-generated data and semi-structured/unstructured data as dominant sources of new data, the move toward serverless, SPI-centric computing, and the growing need for local access to data from users around the world.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Alexa, what can I do now? (ALX202-R1)	ALX	202	ALX202	Every year, the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) grows in capabilities and features. With more than 100,000 published skills, ASK continues to push forward, making new opportunities for developers who want to build engaging voice experiences with Amazon Alexa. In this session, we discuss the latest trends in conversational artificial intelligence, highlight some of the most innovative skills, and provide an overview of everything that has been released in the past year for the ASK, including expansion to Hindi, natural language evaluation, and leaderboards.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Deep learning applications using Apache MXNet (AIM411-R1)	AIM	411	AIM411	The Apache MXNet deep learning framework is used for developing, training, and deploying diverse AI applications, including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP). In this session, learn how to get started with MXNet on Amazon SageMaker. See how to build computer vision and NLP models using MXNet to automatically extract information from paper documents, such as expense receipts, and populate data records.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Security for ML environments w/ Amazon SageMaker, featuring Vanguard (AIM327-R1)	AIM	327	AIM327	Amazon SageMaker is a modular, fully managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. In this session, we dive deep into the security configurations of Amazon SageMaker components, including notebooks, training, and hosting endpoints. A representative from Vanguard joins us to discuss the company’s use of Amazon SageMaker and its implementation of key controls in a highly regulated environment, including fine-grained access control, end-to-end encryption in transit, encryption at rest with customer master keys (CMKs), private connectivity to all Amazon SageMaker API operations, and comprehensive audit trails for resource and data access. If you want to build secure ML environments, this session is for you.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build accurate training datasets with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth (AIM308)	AIM	308	AIM308	Successful machine learning models are built on high-quality training datasets. Typically, the task of data labeling is distributed across a large number of humans, adding significant overhead and cost. This session explains how Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth reduces cost and complexity using techniques designed to improve labeling accuracy and reduce human effort. We walk through best practices for building highly accurate training datasets and discuss how you can use Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to implement them.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Starting the enterprise ML journey, ft. ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (AIM205-R1)	AIM	205	AIM205	Amazon has been investing in machine learning for more than 20 years, innovating in areas such as fulfillment and logistics, personalization and recommendations, forecasting, fraud prevention, and supply chain optimization. During this session, we take this expertise and show you how to identify business problems that can be solved with machine learning. We discuss considerations including selecting the right use case for a machine learning pilot, nurturing skills, and measuring the success of such pilots. We dive into success stories from the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, and you can hear from ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE about how it moved from idea to production with machine learning.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Digital marketing and ad technology (ADM201-L)	ADM	201	ADM201	In this session meant for executive leaders, you get to see the AWS vision for how companies stand out in the crowded, massively scaled advertising and marketing ecosystem. Industry leaders share stories about how they used AWS to enable breakthroughs in areas such as customer data collection, identity resolution, audience targeting, programmatic advertising, personalization, and measurement. Then we turn to the future and share our playbook for artificial intelligence and real-time solutions for transforming big data into marketing outcomes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Machine Learning Summit (MLS201)	MLS	201	MLS201	From breakthroughs happening now to future possibilities to the biggest questions facing the industry, the Machine Learning Summit gives you the opportunity to hear from researchers, academics, and entrepreneurs on some of the hottest topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The half-day of 30-minute lightning talks covers topics ranging from bias and ethics in AI to how machine learning can be applied to solve some of our toughest societal challenges, including medical and environmental breakthroughs. The Machine Learning Summit is designed for everyone from data scientists to business professionals. Speaker roster available at reinvent.awsevents.com/learn/mlsummit/.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Production-grade full-stack apps with AWS Amplify (MOB308-R1)	MOB	308	MOB308	Discover how AWS Amplify simplifies and speeds up full-lifecycle development of mobile and web apps. You learn how to build a serverless CI/CD pipeline that leverages various AWS services using preconfigured and custom workflows, and also how to integrate your favorite tools with the AWS platform. In this session, we cover development, build, testing, and deployment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Radically simple data protection with AWS and Druva (DEM23-S)	DEM	23	DEM23	Technology proliferation has resulted in more data fragmented across offices, laptops, IoT devices, and data centers. AWS and Druva are modernizing data resiliency with a cloud-native solution that secures and protects data anywhere. In this session, hear how Druva unifies multiple data sources into a single pool that is globally deduped with Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS and stored on Amazon S3. Learn how to deliver business continuity for on-premises and cloud workloads using Amazon EC2 to provide infinite scalability, global accessibility, and self-service data resiliency. Finally, learn how to reduce backup times for large backups with Druva, AWS Snowball, and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deploying Kubernetes at scale on AWS (DEM16-S)	DEM	16	DEM16	Enterprises are architecting applications for speed, scale, and elasticity as part of a journey to a platform-first approach. Kubernetes is the platform of choice, but with highly distributed applications and the dynamic, ephemeral nature of containers, are you prepared to manage Kubernetes at scale? Join us to learn how industry leaders deploy production Kubernetes environments on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by Turbonomic, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Accelerate your digital transformation and journey to cloud (DEM12-S)	DEM	12	DEM12	Today’s enterprises need a single cloud management platform to streamline the purchase, provisioning, and management of cloud resources while providing the necessary resiliency, disaster recovery, and added layers of security to ensure continuous business operations. Join us to hear how IBM Services leverages its cloud management platform and resiliency orchestration software to deploy role-based access in order to manage critical AWS Cloud resources. In this session, you learn how to gain a consistent view of your AWS Cloud costs and how to apply additional protection for your diverse business workloads on AWS, all while minimizing risk and drastically reducing recovery cost and time. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Hybrid cloud dos and don'ts (DEM06-S)	DEM	06	DEM06	Has your hybrid cloud strategy been implemented yet? Or are you stuck trying to juggle the cloud governance complexities? What should you do in order to effectively operate both AWS and on-premises environments to meet your business’s digital transformation needs? In this session, we talk about several dos and don'ts that will help you seamlessly manage the application automation and governance policies across your AWS and on-premises environments so that you can benefit from the agility and flexibility of hybrid cloud architectures. This presentation is brought to you by Nutanix, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on Amazon Neptune (DAT361)	DAT	361	DAT361	Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. In this session, we review how Neptune is optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. You also get a deep dive into the capabilities of the service and a review of the latest available features. Finally, we walk you through the techniques that you can use to migrate to Neptune.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Scale fearlessly with Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity (DAT304)	DAT	304	DAT304	Planning to run spiky or unpredictable workloads? Worried that your traffic isn't evenly distributed? In this session, learn how Amazon DynamoDB accommodates imbalanced workloads without throttling and how you can ensure optimal performance at any scale. First, we briefly cover DynamoDB fundamentals and recent innovations. Then, we dive deep into how DynamoDB shards your data, what is new with adaptive capacity, and the latest workload monitoring tools.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Database and analytics (DAT212-L)	DAT	212	DAT212	We’re witnessing an unprecedented growth in the amount of data collected and stored in the cloud. Generating insights from this data requires database and analytics services that scale and perform in ways not possible before. AWS offers a broad set of database and analytics services for processing, storing, managing, and analyzing all your data. In this session, we provide an overview of the database and analytics services at AWS, new services and features that we launched this year, how customers are using these services, and our vision for continued innovation in this space.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AWS App Mesh under the hood (CON323-R1)	CON	323	CON323	In this session, senior AWS engineers give you a behind-the-scenes look at the building of AWS App Mesh. We discuss the nuts and bolts of this service, including why we built a managed control plane and how AWS monitors, tests, and deploys the control plane. You also learn how we do scaling, debugging, and logging.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to run like a startup with enterprise Kubernetes on AWS (CON210-S)	CON	210	CON210	Scholastic Corporation reinvented itself with the adoption of a startup mindset and a move to microservices on AWS running in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, an enterprise Kubernetes distribution. In this session, you hear about the journey that this large publishing enterprise went on during its transformation. From our discussion of breaking up monolithic applications into microservices, you learn about some of the pitfalls along the road to Kubernetes, containers, and microservices adoption. You also hear about the resulting demonstrable benefits—faster time to market, lower infrastructure costs, happier developers, and improved business performance. This presentation is brought to you by Red Hat, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Capacity management made easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (CMP326-R1)	CMP	326	CMP326	Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs. In this session, we deep-dive into how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling works to simplify continuous fleet management and automatic scaling with changing load. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world. Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enterprise solutions with blockchain: Nestlé, Sony Music, & Workday (BLC204)	BLC	204	BLC204	Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. Are you ready to take advantage of blockchain for enterprise? In this session, learn about the benefits of blockchain and its use cases for enterprise. You also get to hear directly from Jonathan Fritz, head of Amazon Managed Blockchain, and from such customers as Nestlé, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and Workday.
AWS re:Invent 2019: CLP Innovation: Increasing agility with cloud-native architectures (ARC336-R1)	ARC	336	ARC336	In today’s tech-driven world, an organization’s architecture is a competitive differentiator. A key piece of this advantage lies in the ability to move fast. In this session, we dive into how cloud-native architecture patterns are changing the way businesses think about speed and cost of innovation. We hear from CLP Innovation Enterprises Ltd. on why it made the decision to reinvent with cloud-native services, what it learned, and benefits it has gained along its journey to modern application development.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Designing for failure: Architecting resilient systems on AWS (ARC335-R1)	ARC	335	ARC335	Customers moving mission-critical applications to the cloud are seeking guidance to replicate and improve the resiliency of their Tier 1 systems while simultaneously meeting compliance and regulatory requirements. Natural disasters, internet disruptions, or hardware or software failure can lead to events requiring customers to invoke disaster recovery (DR) plans. Join us in this session to learn how to design for failure and remain resilient in the event of disaster by designing applications using highly resilient components and service features.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Chesapeake Energy: Transforming oil and gas production with AWS (ARC222-S)	ARC	222	ARC222	Using IoT data and machine learning-based predictive maintenance models, Chesapeake is maximizing the uptime of oil and gas wells. Join this session to learn about the architecture behind this effort, which uses AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Batch, and AWS Lambda as the data warehouse, while Control-M serves as the orchestration engine. This presentation is brought to you by BMC Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Scaling up to your first 10 million users (ARC211-R1)	ARC	211	ARC211	Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, “Where do I start?” Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from one user to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure and serverless components in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Building a streaming data platform with Amazon Kinesis (ANT326-R1)	ANT	326	ANT326	Today's businesses need to react to customer opportunities and problems as quickly as possible. In this session, we walk through how to build analytics pipelines for business operational reporting that speed up time to information from hours to seconds. We discuss how streaming-data services like Amazon Kinesis are used to capture and analyze data in real time, prior to delivering it to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and Amazon Aurora reporting databases. Our customer GoDaddy shares how they use this architectural pattern to provide the best experience to the millions of customers that host websites on their platform.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Responding to customer needs in real time with Amazon MSK (ANT309-R1)	ANT	309	ANT309	Businesses leverage data-streaming architectures to respond to customers’ needs in real time. In this session, we discuss how you can accelerate the development of real-time applications using Amazon MSK. Adobe joins us and shares how it processes over 60 billion messages a day for hundreds of services using Apache Kafka. You learn about the challenges Adobe faces and why it is moving away from managing dozens of Kafka clusters to deploying fully managed Amazon MSK clusters with one click. Hear how this approach integrates multiple solutions built on open-source frameworks like Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and Terraform while handling message routing, advanced QoS, and HTTP clients.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data is out, knowing is in: Applying AI to automate cloud operations (AIM367-S)	AIM	367	AIM367	With firefighting, manual operations, and troubleshooting, it is an exciting time to monitor applications in the cloud. In this session, renowned DevOps and digital evangelists Andi Grabner and Dave Anderson provide practical advice on how to save time monitoring your cloud applications. Learn how to automate your operations, use AI for assisted intelligence, and enable complete automation. In addition, learn about auto-remediation and how to always know the status of your applications, no matter how complex your hybrid cloud. Also hear from one customer about how a vision can become a reality. This presentation is brought to you by Dynatrace, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Predict future business outcomes using Amazon Forecast (AIM312)	AIM	312	AIM312	Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Forecast uses machine learning and time-series data to build accurate business forecasts. In this session, learn how machine learning can improve accuracy in demand forecasting, financial planning, and resource allocation while reducing your forecasting time from months to hours.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Detect network and security anomalies with Traffic Mirroring (MKT203-R1)	MKT	203	MKT203	Traffic Mirroring is a new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature that allows customers to gain insight into the network traffic across their VPC infrastructure for content inspection and threat monitoring. In this session, we discuss how to integrate third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace to simplify and optimize Traffic Mirroring for your network security and monitoring appliances. Additionally, a representative from Salesforce, a cloud-based software company and a leading CRM platform, talks about how the company uses solutions from AWS Marketplace to implement compliance and security controls, analyze traffic patterns, and meet compliance requirements.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Enable AWS adoption at scale with automation and governance (MGT302-R1)	MGT	302	MGT302	Enterprises are taking advantage of AWS so they can move quickly while maintaining governance control over costs, security, and compliance. In this session, we discuss how AWS Control Tower, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Organizations, and AWS CloudFormation simplifies compliance and makes ongoing governance easier. You learn how to set up and govern your multi-account AWS environment or landing zone through automation, blueprints, and guardrails. Finally, you learn how to launch governed and secure resources on AWS through a DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Volkswagen takes production to the cloud (MFG204)	MFG	204	MFG204	Learn how Volkswagen and AWS are implementing the digital production platform (DPP) within the VW Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based industrial digital production platform that is transforming the company’s manufacturing and logistics processes to increase plant efficiency and uptime, improve production flexibility, and improve vehicle quality. The DPP brings together real-time data from all of the Volkswagen Group’s 120+ manufacturing plants to manage the overall effectiveness of assembly equipment, as well as tracking parts and vehicles. Learn more about the use cases to analyze critical production data to glean insights, pinpoint operational trends, improve forecasting, and streamline operations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Bringing intelligence to the edge for connected-home use cases (IOT310-R1)	IOT	310	IOT310	Device manufacturers are always looking for ways to make everyday products smarter for consumers. Sometimes, relying exclusively on the cloud isn’t optimal due to latency requirements or intermittent connectivity, so IoT devices must be able to perform some tasks locally. In this session, learn how to use AWS IoT Greengrass, a service that lets your devices act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage, and Amazon FreeRTOS, an open source operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage, to bring intelligence to the edge of the connected home.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform industries with AWS IoT (IOT305-L)	IOT	305	IOT305	IoT accelerates digital transformation and is the springboard for smarter homes, workplaces, and industrial processes. It is a critical enabler for emerging technologies like AI/ML, robotics, and video analytics, as access to device data is crucial to training machine learning models, delivering intelligence, and driving business efficiency. With AWS IoT, organizations can securely connect, manage, and analyze device data with unmatched scalability, end-to-end security, and tight integration with other AWS services. In this session, the VP of AWS IoT shares what’s new from AWS IoT and how our customers are unlocking today’s insights to transform tomorrow’s industries.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT connectivity and control services? (IOT213)	IOT	213	IOT213	AWS IoT connectivity & control services allow you to securely connect, control, and manage your devices from the cloud. In this session, you'll learn what's new across AWS IoT connectivity & control services including AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender. You'll walk away understanding how you can use AWS IoT services to securely connect, control, and manage your devices at scale.
AWS re:Invent 2019: What's new with AWS IoT analytics services? (IOT208)	IOT	208	IOT208	AWS IoT analytics services help you get extra value from your IoT data. In this session, find out what's new across the analytics services, including AWS IoT Analytics, AWS IoT Events,  AWS IoT SiteWise, and AWS IoT Things Graph. You leave the session ready to tackle your latest analytics challenges from the factory floor, run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data to visualize on operational dashboards, and detect and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Healthcare data interoperability on AWS (HLC308)	HLC	308	HLC308	Healthcare organizations are enabling the exchange of healthcare data through interoperability frameworks like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). From foundational architectures for information exchange to standardization of data formats and semantic interpretation, this session shares how AWS customers and partners are transforming the Healthcare industry. Learn how organizations are using services like Amazon Aurora to run Fhirbase in order to store and transmit healthcare data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Creating a personalized digital front door for Healthcare patients (HLC307)	HLC	307	HLC307	Healthcare organizations are developing new strategies to redesign their customer experiences and build personalized relationships in order to improve patient satisfaction and support outcome-based care. Whether your organization is looking to create a single, seamless experience across web and mobile applications or is creating a new digital user engagement platform to empower patients to take ownership of their health, this session is right for you. We share how companies are leveraging tools like Amazon Personalize and Amazon Pinpoint to create a new digital front door so that they can educate, engage, and empower their customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon Connect: Omnichannel cloud contact centers w Intuit & Salesforce (EUC209)	EUC	209	EUC209	In this session, hear about recently launched web and mobile chat for Amazon Connect. Learn how Intuit is deploying voice and chat at scale with Amazon Connect to improve customer engagement and how it implemented the solution across its global contact centers, what it learned along the way, and next steps in its contact center evolution. Specifically, Intuit shares its experiences with multi-session agents, best practices for using voice and chat simultaneously, and its approach to dynamic customer experiences. Also learn from Salesforce why it is using Amazon Connect to provide contact center solutions to its own customers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Ensuring data protection readiness across hybrid environments (ENT323-S)	ENT	323	ENT323	Achieving SLAs across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments can be difficult, especially when using standalone tools for backup and disaster recovery. It's highly inefficient and makes it difficult to meet recovery SLAs. The shift to the cloud and software-defined storage can present new challenges for workload portability and data protection. In this session, learn how Commvault support for AWS provides a comprehensive data management platform for moving, managing, and using data across files, applications, databases, hypervisors, and the cloud. Learn how a single platform provides you access to extensive capabilities for data protection, backup, recovery, management, and e-discovery, all designed to run seamlessly on the AWS Cloud. This session is brought to you by Commvault, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Help protect your cloud journey with Druva on AWS (ENT322-S)	ENT	322	ENT322	For most enterprises, the top two catalysts driving innovation and transformation are ever-increasing data volumes and migration to the cloud as a scalable and cost-effective platform. The critical underpinnings of this journey are data protection across all on-premises and cloud workloads, workload mobility, data governance, analytics, and ransomware. In this technical session, solutions architects from Druva discuss how customers can make use of powerful solutions from Druva and AWS to protect and manage data, applications, and workloads across the cloud and on-premises environments. Hear about unified protection of hybrid cloud data and workloads, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and data governance, and ransomware. This presentation is brought to you by Druva, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Protect and migrate your compute instances with Zerto (ENT239-S)	ENT	239	ENT239	Having a cloud strategy is critical for a successful digital transformation, and this strategy should include application and data mobility for on-premises and cloud environments. In this session, you learn how to move workloads to AWS, reduce your disaster recovery and data protection costs by using AWS as a target, and enable your workloads to be moved to any location based on business requirements. Michael Masters from Maritz, an AWS and Zerto customer, explains how they’re using Zerto to reduce IT costs by 40 percent and achieve market-leading RTOs with no production impact, enabling an IT resilience strategy with data protection and mobility. This presentation is brought to you by Zerto, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Merck drives innovation with a “real-world data exchange” on AWS (ENT232-S)	ENT	232	ENT232	In this session, learn how Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, deployed an enterprise-wide cloud-based data and analytics platform to advance product development and commercialization. We discuss how the platform, named the Real World Data Exchange (RWDEx), was built on AWS and leverages Amazon Redshift and the Deloitte ConvergeHEALTH Miner suite as its foundation. The RWDEx is an open, API-first platform and serves a broad set of stakeholders, from data scientists to business users. Join us, and discover how RWDEx decreases the time to insight-generation and fosters collaboration to positively impact all aspects of the product lifecycle. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to go from zero to hundreds of certified AWS engineers (ENT231)	ENT	231	ENT231	For many organizations, a perceived or real lack of cloud skills in their staff can limit their move to the cloud. Proper re-skilling of your engineers and developers can speed the pace of adoption, cloud migration, and delivery of business benefits by helping your organization effectively operate the AWS Cloud. Learn about the 12 prescriptive steps that have been proven to work with many customers around the world to help accelerate their journeys. Additionally, hear from National Australia Bank about their re-skilling journey, which allowed them to go from zero to hundreds of AWS certified engineers.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Operating as a high-frequency enterprise (ENT203-R1)	ENT	203	ENT203	High-frequency enterprises embrace cloud computing as a flywheel for frequent value delivery. This requires tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increase agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform and quickly deliver business value outcomes. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to become a high-frequency enterprise.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Optimize cloud migration and operations with AWS and ServiceNow (DEM39-S)	DEM	39	DEM39	IT operations and DevOps teams can use solutions from ServiceNow and AWS to create new applications and migrate legacy workloads to the AWS Cloud in order to meet the needs of their internal and external customers. In this session, we explain how AWS and ServiceNow have developed a range of connectors to manage the migration process to the AWS Cloud, improve security with AWS Security Hub, and provide improved governance of AWS CloudFormation via the AWS Service Catalog's connector with ServiceNow. Additionally, we discuss how you can improve your customer contact center with a solution using ServiceNow and Amazon Connect. This presentation is brought to you by ServiceNow, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deploying IBM storage infrastructure software on the AWS Cloud (DEM31-S)	DEM	31	DEM31	World-class storage infrastructure software is now extremely accessible. From artificial intelligence using high-capacity parallel file systems to disaster recovery and database backup to storage virtualization for cost reduction and efficient data archiving, companies can now leverage AWS to optimize their enterprise storage environments. Attend this session, and learn how IBM Spectrum Storage can help you improve scalability, increase agility, and lower costs with AWS. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Drive transformation through machine learning with Amazon SageMaker (DEM27-S)	DEM	27	DEM27	An organization’s machine learning-driven business transformation depends on how well that organization can manage change. Its people will have new roles, responsibilities, and skill sets, and it will need to implement new processes, such as efficiently migrating its data and existing models. In this session, explore a comprehensive approach to migrating analytics workloads to Amazon SageMaker. Join us and learn how to train, communicate, and succeed at change management; operationalize and automate machine learning; and migrate data, workflows, and models using AWS-powered solutions. See how one Slalom customer gained valuable insights and vision, enabling it to build a modern strategy. This presentation is brought to you by Slalom, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Managing decisions with Amazon Kinesis for better outcomes (DEM25-S)	DEM	25	DEM25	Systems like Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon MSK are great for the ingestion, delivery, and real-time analysis of streaming data. Adding a rules engine that detects patterns of events occurring in many systems enables organizations to support a much wider set of use cases. Rules engines also abstract the complexity of defining rules, empowering business users to leverage context alongside their expertise to define the next best action. In this session, learn how to combine the power of Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon MSK with business rules engines to automate sophisticated decision-making and actions. This presentation is brought to you by TIBCO Software, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Increase OEE using AWS Solutions: Amazon Virtual Andon (DEM150)	DEM	150	DEM150	In this demo, you learn how Amazon fulfillment centers reduced station downtime by deploying a scalable Andon system to help optimize their processes, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues by monitoring manufacturing workstations and industrial equipment. Learn how we built two AWS Solutions—vetted reference implementation from AWS—that use the Machine to Cloud Connectivity (M2C2) framework to monitor sensors connected to a raspberry PI. See how they push that data to the AWS Cloud using AWS IoT and Amazon Virtual Andon to monitor the status of the manufacturing workstations and sensors and notify engineers when an event occurs.
AWS re:Invent 2019: We Power Tech: Women shifting to an abundance mindset (WPT204)	WPT	204	WPT204	A scarcity mindset sees the world like a pie and thinks, “One slice for me means one less slice for you.” This way of thinking leads us to simply compare ourselves with and compete with one another. Instead, we should switch to an abundance mindset: “If I succeed, you succeed." Join women in leadership to discuss shifting to an abundance mindset.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Build for a better today: Harnessing AI/ML to transform your mission (WPS204)	WPS	204	WPS204	Learn how AWS AI and ML have the power to transform your mission and solve your biggest challenges by saving lives, curing diseases, eradicating crime such as human-trafficking child abductions, and ending future famines.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Start using AI/ML/DL in your .NET applications today (WIN311)	WIN	311	WIN311	Are you looking for ways to add new AI/ML/DL technologies to your .NET applications but don't know where to start? In this session, learn how to leverage AWS machine-learning services for your .NET applications to do things like text translation, text to speech, transcription, sentiment analysis, and image analysis.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Containerize .NET Apps with Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate (WIN309)	WIN	309	WIN309	Packaging software into containers gives your code everything needed to run with consistency from your laptop into production. But how do you run containers at scale in the cloud? In this session, learn how to run containerized Windows and .NET applications in production on AWS. We show you how to run Windows containers on Kubernetes with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We also demonstrate the benefits of running .NET Core Linux containers serverlessly with AWS Fargate. We cover core concepts and use demos to help you feel comfortable getting started with building and deploying .NET containerized applications on AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five new features of Microsoft and .NET on AWS that you want to learn (WIN201-L)	WIN	201	WIN201	Still running Microsoft on premises? Not using SQL Server data in your ML/AI strategy? Join this leadership session to learn about AWS’s strategy for migration and modernization, latest features, and best practices on how to better run Microsoft workloads like Windows, SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET applications on AWS. Hear from customers leveraging Windows on AWS workloads as their secret sauce. From lowering TCO to maximizing the 5-year ROI to building new innovative solutions to drive growth in areas such as machine learning, containers, and serverless, come learn how many organizations are leveraging their legacy in the new world.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Securing enterprise-grade serverless apps (SVS310-R1)	SVS	310	SVS310	In this session, we discuss the development practices and architectural principles that the most innovative builders are implementing to secure their serverless applications in the cloud. Join us as we cover security considerations for serverless applications and discuss strategies to minimize risks and protect against threats.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Automatically scale a serverless app with Amazon Textract & MongoDB (SVS210-S)	SVS	210	SVS210	Working with disorganized data is expensive and wasteful. One area in which this is readily apparent is the legal field, especially during the data discovery phase. In this session, we use Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and MongoDB Atlas to build a serverless product that seamlessly ingests documents and intelligently organizes their data, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. We show you how to easily interconnect these services using AWS Lambda as a backend and how to quickly create web and mobile user interfaces using MongoDB Realm. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to build a company founded on engineering principles (STP208)	STP	208	STP208	Intercom is “all in” on AWS—a strategy that’s aligned with the engineering principles used to build the company. This talk covers how the company uses those principles to make engineering decisions. Learn about the evolution of Intercom’s architecture, from handful of Amazon EC2 hosts to thousands of instances. Also learn how Intercom uses Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and more. Finally, learn why Intercom decided against leveraging microservices, and why this has increased its ability to move fast and ship great products.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The modern startup: A look at today’s most successful architectures (STP203)	STP	203	STP203	The approach among the most successful startups is almost unfailingly to adopt early, iterate quickly, and disrupt, disrupt, disrupt. Under the technical hood of all that velocity and change are modern cloud architectures. We’ve collected a handful of the best architectures from top startups around the world. In this session, we dive into their design decisions to understand what makes these architectures modern and why you should consider adopting them. We dig into deployments, orchestration, data analysis, and security to give you a complete view of what newest and most successful cloud trends are emerging from the world of startups.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Securing Amazon EFS for container and data science applications (STG364)	STG	364	STG364	In this session, we explore how you can use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable, elastic, cloud-native NFS file system to modernize your applications and data science environments. We cover considerations and best practices when connecting Amazon EFS file systems to applications running in containers in multiple frameworks. We also show you how to make the most use of Amazon EFS for data science environments as a repository for notebook files and a place where data scientists can rapidly iterate on training data.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Implementing a data lake on Amazon S3 ft. AppsFlyer (STG359-R1)	STG	359	STG359	Flexibility is key when building and scaling a data lake, and by choosing the right storage architecture you will have agility to quickly experiment and migrate with the latest analytics solutions. In this session, we explore the best practices for building a data lake on Amazon S3 that allows you to leverage an entire array of AWS, open-source, and third-party analytics tools, helping you remain at the cutting edge. We explore use cases for analytics tools, including Amazon EMR and AWS Glue, and query-in-place tools like Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, Amazon S3 Select, and Amazon Glacier Select.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Migrate and modernize SFTP file transfer workflows with AWS (STG333)	STG	333	STG333	File transfers via SFTP and other protocols are still critical to business processes across industries worldwide. In this session, we dive into AWS Transfer for SFTP, a service that helps migrate file-transfer workflows to AWS while maintaining integration with your existing authentication, security, and network configurations. Hear how AWS customers moved their file-transfer workloads to AWS and modernized downstream processes for populating data lakes and for business-critical systems such as CRM. This session also features demonstrations of the service’s newer key capabilities.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Best practices for Amazon S3, ft. Instructure (STG302-R1)	STG	302	STG302	Learn best practices for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) security, data protection, storage management, cost optimization, and more. In this session, we look at common Amazon S3 use cases and ways to manage large volumes of data within Amazon S3. Learn more about our latest feature enhancements and how you can get started with each of them. We also talk about ways to monitor and visualize your storage environment.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Shift your tape backups to AWS to save time and money (STG217)	STG	217	STG217	IT operations teams are asked by business stakeholders to store more data for backup, archiving, and compliance reasons, often with less budget and fewer people. If you face this challenge, see how AWS Storage Gateway's tape-gateway configuration shifts tape backups and archives to AWS. This enables you to use the lowest-cost storage in the cloud for backups—without changing workflows or applications. Learn how tape gateways work, hear from an AWS customer how and why they are using one, and see a demonstration. Gain understanding of the business-case and deployment steps to move your tape backups to AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to use AWS storage for on-premises file-based applications (STG211)	STG	211	STG211	Many organizations have on-premises file storage supporting local users and applications, yet they want to leverage cloud storage to reduce their infrastructure-management burden and costs. AWS offers storage options that you can use in hybrid cloud architectures, including File Gateway and Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. In this session, learn how you can use AWS storage for on-premises use cases, including user home directories, cloud-backed file shares for applications, content repositories, analytics workloads, and enterprise business applications. Gain an understanding of what service to use in different scenarios, hear customer examples, and see a demonstration.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Real-world Veeam backup & disaster recovery with AWS: A customer view (STG210-S)	STG	210	STG210	Join AWS customers and experts as they talk about Veeam Availability Suite backup and recovery with AWS. No matter where you are in your journey with AWS—from planning to workload migration to production—this session offers you valuable tips and lessons from AWS customers. This is an interactive session with opportunities to engage with Veeam and AWS experts who share best practices and strategies for cloud data management. This presentation is brought to you by Veeam, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Pacific Dental shifts left with McAfee for cloud security automation (SEC336-S)	SEC	336	SEC336	Cloud-native architecture moves faster than traditional security best practices are intended for. During Pacific Dental’s move to AWS, it enhanced and operationalized its security to match the speed and scale of the cloud, using a cloud access security broker (CASB) to proactively address the shared responsibility model and risks to their data. As the speed of the DevOps process increases, security models need to “shift left” along with them, ensuring that resources, containers, and code comply with best practices to produce secure systems. Join this session to learn how Pacific Dental leverages McAfee’s MVISION Cloud to address these challenges and fulfill its security responsibility on AWS. This presentation is brought to you by McAfee, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Running MongoDB securely on AWS using field-level encryption (SEC208-S)	SEC	208	SEC208	To help prevent unauthorized access to your data, especially in the cloud, it is critical to deploy and maintain strong encryption. In this session, learn how to use client-side field-level encryption to keep your data secure. We start by explaining how to best deploy and configure a MongoDB cloud service. We then show you how to write applications that encrypt data using safe key management practices without sacrificing the ability to query. Finally, we demonstrate how MongoDB customers already write code so that service providers never see anything but ciphertext. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS security (SEC201-L)	SEC	201	SEC201	Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer for AWS, addresses the current state of security in the cloud, with a focus on feature updates, the AWS internal “secret sauce,” and what’s to come in terms of security, identity, and compliance tooling.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] The right AWS network architecture for the right reason (NET320-R1)	NET	320	NET320	The unlimited choices that technology provides can be empowering to builders who understand what they want to build and how to build it. But some get overwhelmed when trying to decide on architectural constructs that appear to solve the same problem. Should I use VPC peering or AWS Transit Gateway? Is Shared VPC a better fit for my Amazon EKS deployment? In this talk, two solutions architects discuss how to identify the right solutions for the right reasons, how architectural decisions might change based on the scale of a workload, and how one size does not fit all design patterns.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Maintaining security and availability on the unpredictable internet (NET313)	NET	313	NET313	With billions of internet users worldwide, maintaining up-time and a strong security posture is critical to earning your customers’ trust. Unexpected fiber cuts, malicious hackers, and the latest viral sensations create internet inconsistencies that can bring down any web application. For many, the first line of defense is Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) designed for availability, security, and performance. In this session, learn how CloudFront engineering teams provide the highest levels of availability and security. We look at what happens behind the scenes when our operators are paged into action to resolve common issues across the internet.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Develop serverless GraphQL architectures using AWS AppSync (MOB309-R1)	MOB	309	MOB309	AWS AppSync is the managed GraphQL service of AWS. In addition to queries, mutations, and subscriptions, AWS AppSync integrates seamlessly with many AWS data sources, VPC resources, and external sources, including microservices and other GraphQL endpoints. Learn how to rapidly develop a GraphQL data layer in your architecture, assisted by generated resolvers, declarative security, and client libraries. BMW joins us to share how it used AWS AppSync to build a holistic, data-centric GraphQL API for vehicle signals.
AWS re:Invent 2019: The why, what & how of transforming and innovating with SAP solutions (ENT225)	ENT	225	ENT225	Thousands of customers currently run SAP on AWS, and many more are evaluating their SAP migration and innovation strategies. In this session, discover how 11 years of joint innovation with SAP and AWS have helped create a path of choice for customers on their SAP transformation journey. Learn how companies evaluated moving their SAP landscapes to the cloud, why they’ve chosen AWS on which to run SAP, and how they are now innovating on behalf of their customers faster.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transform your business with the VMware & AWS hybrid cloud (ENT212-S)	ENT	212	ENT212	VMware and AWS are making hybrid cloud architecture a reality. Learn about the latest innovations in our jointly architected hybrid cloud services and how these services can benefit your workloads and applications. VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a highly scalable and secure service, enabling you to seamlessly migrate, run, and protect workloads in industry-leading vSphere-based environments running natively on the AWS Cloud. VMware solutions for AWS Outposts bring these innovations on premises and deliver the data center as a service experience. In this session, experts provide a technical overview of the services, discuss what’s new, and talk about customer use cases. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Introduction to DevOps on AWS (DOP209-R1)	DOP	209	DOP209	How can you accelerate the delivery of new, high-quality services? Are you able to experiment and get feedback quickly from your customers? How do you scale your development team from 1 to 1,000? To answer these questions, it is essential to leverage some key DevOps principles and use CI/CD pipelines so you can iterate on and quickly release features. In this talk, we walk you through the journey of a single developer building a successful product and scaling their team and processes to hundreds or thousands of deployments per day. We also walk you through best practices and using AWS tools to achieve your DevOps goals.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Transforming IT pros to DevOps gurus: Ssecure your new tech stacks (DOP204-S)	DOP	204	DOP204	Large enterprises are limited by legacy systems. With existing tools, traditional platforms, outdated requirements, and more, IT and engineering teams have difficulty building in a modern way. Hear how Pivvot, a US enterprise, used tools in the AWS Cloud to escape this traditional trap. The Pivvot team learned to scale by adopting a DevOps philosophy to support hundreds of organizations and thousands of customers inside a commercial software company. Learn how building a pipeline-driven cloud-native process with built-in security helps modernize an organization. Culture change is challenging, but with the right approach and a strong tech stack, you can build securely and ship quickly in the AWS Cloud. This presentation is brought to you by Trend Micro, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: It’s a cloud world: Define your own path with Citrix and AWS (DEM56-S)	DEM	56	DEM56	In this session, learn how Citrix and AWS deliver on speed, intelligence, stability, and global reach. Hear how you can accelerate the delivery of high-performance compliant applications, desktops, and data to users and capitalize on Citrix Workspace intelligence to organize, guide, and automate work. Learn how microapps enable employees to concentrate on tasks that deliver true business value. We explain how the Citrix networking solution stack and AWS are always ready, reliable, secure, and compliant with policy requirements to meet your needs. Finally, hear how AWS, Citrix Workspace, and Citrix networking solutions enable you to deliver a consistently great employee experience to workers regardless of their locations. This presentation is brought to you by Citrix Systems, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Time to awesome: InfluxDB and the AWS environment (DEM50-S)	DEM	50	DEM50	InfluxDB, an open-source time series database, is available on AWS in a variety of forms, from an AWS Marketplace offering to a managed service and now a serverless database platform. In this session, hear how InfluxData is enabling developers to integrate time series data with non–time series data resident in other AWS sources, such as MySQL, Postgres, and MariaDB. The goal is to improve the amount of time it takes to solve problems, or “time to awesome,” while reducing the amount of code you have to write. This presentation is brought to you by InfluxData, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to create a location-aware chatbot, and why (DEM26-S)	DEM	26	DEM26	In this session, Michael Palermo of HERE Technologies provides guidance for using location terms when designing for Amazon Lex or Alexa. Learn tips on how to design intents, sample utterances, and slots, and learn how to call location services from a serverless architecture. This presentation is brought to you by HERE Technologies, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Stream from multiple on-premises sources onto AWS (DEM10-S)	DEM	10	DEM10	Join data integration experts Mark Van de Wiel, HVR CTO, and Sreevani Abbaraju, HVR director of product management, for a discussion and demonstration about streaming data. They show you how easy it can be to stream data from multiple on-premises sources onto AWS in real time. Learn how log-based change data capture is a non-intrusive and low-impact way to replicate data and why a distributed architecture optimizes delivery of data for speed and efficiency. They end the session with security best practices for data replication to AWS. This presentation is brought to you by HVR, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Deep dive on DNS in the hybrid cloud (NET410)	NET	410	NET410	The launch of Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints and forwarding rules has opened up a variety of exciting new options for managing DNS resolution, especially in hybrid cloud environments. This session gives a quick overview of the product before taking a deep dive into the design of Route 53 Resolver, including how it complements Route 53 private DNS and best practices to achieve availability and performance. We also dive into some new patterns that are emerging with services such as AWS Transit Gateway, AWS PrivateLink, and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] AWS Transit Gateway reference architectures for many VPCs (NET406-R1)	NET	406	NET406	In this advanced session, we review common architectural patterns for designing networks with many VPCs. Segmentation, security, scalability, cross-region connectivity, and flexibility become more important as you scale on AWS. We review designs that include AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect, VPN, AWS PrivateLink, VPC peering, and more.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Service mesh across hybrid infrastructure (NET211-S)	NET	211	NET211	Having visibility of services and traffic between an on-premises data center and AWS can help you understand costs, troubleshoot requests, secure connections, and maintain application resiliency. In this session, we walk through how to configure AWS Cloud Map and HashiCorp Consul so that you can observe services and manage traffic between the cloud and your data center. We also show you how to trace a request from an AWS application to a data center database in order to troubleshoot an issue. This presentation is brought to you HashiCorp, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: Innovations in mobile & web app development (MOB306-L)	MOB	306	MOB306	Get all the details on the most recent services and features released by the AWS mobile team. Learn about our innovations in mobile and web app development with AWS Amplify libraries, toolchain, and AWS Amplify Console. Learn how AWS AppSync’s new customer-driven features make it an ideal GraphQL API layer for your apps. Two AWS customers join us to share their stories. HyperTrack presents its use of AWS services for processing millions of real-time data points for live location tracking. Dow Jones discusses how AWS services helped it create a mobile tracking and collaboration tool for the WSJ newsroom.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS management and governance services (MGT201-L)	MGT	201	MGT201	AWS management and governance services can help your organization become and remain agile while enabling you to maintain control over costs, compliance, and security. Join us to hear AWS service leaders discuss their vision and the latest launches from the AWS management and governance teams, including innovations you can leverage now from Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Control Tower, AWS Systems Manager, and much more. We are joined onstage by current AWS customers who discuss how they use management and governance services today.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data lakes reimagined: Efficiency & innovation at Bristol-Myers Squibb (LFS204)	LFS	204	LFS204	The increasing amount of data available to pharmaceutical companies creates pressure on R&D teams to orchestrate and analyze that data and generate insights that will help patients prevail over serious diseases. In this session, learn how Bristol-Myers Squibb used AWS services to create a platform-based approach for ingesting, preparing, curating, and persisting business-critical data for digital integration, analytics, and insights generation. Hear how this approach has improved the company’s efficiency, enhanced cost savings, and decreased the time-to-service for its data customers. Additionally, gain an understanding of the lessons learned from this process, and learn best practices for other organizations.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Driving operational performance across industrial facilities w/ AWS (IOT221-R1)	IOT	221	IOT221	AWS IoT Core helps you easily monitor equipment across your industrial facilities to identify waste, such as breakdown of equipment and processes, production inefficiencies, and defects in products; identify equipment inefficiencies; and take action if issues are detected. In this session, we walk you through how to unlock OT data. We also discuss common industrial performance pitfalls and ways to better analyze industrial equipment data and detect complex events, resulting in increased overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
AWS re:Invent 2019: Making the CASE: Cloud-based innovation in the automotive industry (IOT217-S)	IOT	217	IOT217	CASE (connected, autonomous, shared, electric) technologies are reshaping the automotive industry, and that’s both an opportunity and a threat. Automakers must rethink their relations with consumers and the entire mobility ecosystem. In this session, Accenture and AWS discuss how cloud-based innovation is accelerating the development of mobility use cases at scale, such as in-vehicle biometrics for managing driver/owner identity, blockchain for establishing smart contracts with charging service vendors, and new payment capabilities built into the vehicle. We also talk about getting your company organized to adopt these innovations and deliver them in a lean way, quickly, and at scale. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Digital transformation and IoT monetization (IOT207-R1)	IOT	207	IOT207	AWS IoT is deployed at scale across industries around the globe—but what's the business outcome behind the buzz? In this session, we dive deep into how some customers are monetizing their IoT solutions built on AWS. We also explore examples of bottom-line impact resulting from digital transformation of manufacturing across a variety of use cases, including: predictive maintenance, asset performance management, self-optimizing product, and automated inventory management.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Five steps AMS leverages to accelerate cloud adoption (ENT215)	ENT	215	ENT215	Lift and shift? Replatform? Or refactor as you shift? This question comes up when enterprises are deciding how to balance the amount of change to legacy applications versus speed as they move to the cloud. Join us and learn the five steps AWS Managed Services (AMS) takes as part of its recommended minimum viable refactoring. Hear from Sallie Mae about its journey in working with AMS. A representative shares the technical, operations, licensing, compatibility, and even cultural trade-offs that were made as Sallie Mae prepared its systems to be well-operated in the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Meredith delivers media content to all with AWS and Rubrik (ARC206-S)	ARC	206	ARC206	Meredith Corporation is America’s largest media company of iconic magazine brands, television stations, and radio stations, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, InStyle, and Allrecipes. Delivering that content online and in print requires Meredith’s IT department to maintain a robust and highly available hybrid infrastructure on premises and on AWS. Join Meredith and its cloud data management partner, Rubrik, to learn how Meredith keeps up with the growing demand for more media by leveraging different AWS services to run its production workloads. Additionally, you’ll learn how Rubrik protects Meredith’s media assets on premises and in the cloud. This presentation is brought to you by Rubrik, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Think Forward Initiative: People making better financial decisions (AIM231-S)	AIM	231	AIM231	Want to learn more about using technology to impact society? Join this session! Currently, 42 percent of Europeans face financial difficulties. As lead partners of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI), Deloitte, AWS, and ING aim to empower 100 million Europeans to make better financial decisions by translating the latest consumer behavior insights into easy applicable tools. In this session, you learn how TFI supports early stage scale-ups by using Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud9, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Personalize in an accelerator program. You also learn about the AWS Well-Architected Review and AWS Activate programs. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Operational excellence with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (GPSTEC345)	TEC	345	TEC345	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. While database migrations are a hot topic, a common inhibitor for adoption is operational excellence. Common customer feedback is that they want their staff to be operationally ready before they take the solution to market. This means that the customers don’t just want to choose the best technology based on features and cost, they want to also be operationally successful with that technology to provide a continuous value to their business. In this session, we discuss the top questions of operations teams as well as the top mistakes to avoid when running Amazon Aurora in production.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How Rovio teaches Angry Birds to fly in the cloud using ML (GAM301)	GAM	301	GAM301	On Angry Birds’s tenth birthday, join Rovio Entertainment to learn how one of the world’s most recognizable game franchises came to life with the help of AWS Cloud services and continues to entertain millions of gamers using machine learning. In this session, David Mason (SVP of technology) and Asko Relas (senior data engineer) show how Rovio supports millions of players worldwide and serves thousands of requests per second. Discover how, with four billion analytic events captured per day, Rovio uses machine learning to predict and deliver the perfect level of fun for players.
AWS re:Invent 2019: AXA: Scaling adoption with a global landing zone (FSI202)	FSI	202	FSI202	Like many global financial institutions, AXA faces the challenge of globally scaling its cloud adoption. The company needed to deploy a landing zone across 80+ entities operating in 60+ countries. In this session, learn how AXA took a unique and agile approach that enables local teams to autonomously test, validate, and propose changes to landing zone templates while centrally monitoring adherence to detective and preventative controls. We explore how AXA accelerated the secure migration of hundreds of applications to AWS by embedding its landing zone within an organizational transformation program that includes robust cloud onboarding and change management processes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Managing your cloud financials as you scale on AWS (ENT204-R1)	ENT	204	ENT204	Cloud financial management is a set of capabilities that allows customers to successfully manage, optimize, and predict cloud costs. In this session, you learn fundamentals of cloud financial management with AWS and how to build a cost-conscious culture in your organization without slowing down innovation. Guest speakers from Lyft will join us and share how they’ve accelerated cost optimization and improved cost visibility while growing their business with AWS.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Dynamic edge protection (DEM57-S)	DEM	57	DEM57	AWS is the perfect company for Forcepoint to work with to create the future of security for the modern highly distributed enterprise. Learn how Forcepoint is using AWS to architect its new cloud-based, modular, extensible security platform for organizations that are transitioning to cloud-based applications (both their own and third-party applications). This session focuses on how AWS helps with the challenges of delivering a security SaaS solution, creating behavior-informed risk-adaptive security, and combining security and application-based networking to address the changing needs of compliance-focused industries. This is security at the speed of innovation. This presentation is brought to you by Forcepoint, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Asset tracking: IoT data from device to business outcomes (DEM51-S)	DEM	51	DEM51	In this session, we discuss the challenge that most organizations face when embracing digital transformation—optimizing their operations. For companies in asset-intensive industries to track their assets, they need to ingest and store massive amounts of IoT data, combine it with data from other parts of the business, analyze it, add data science to it, set alerts on it, and make it actionable by quickly putting it into the hands of business decision makers. Learn how your organization can more rapidly leverage the value of IoT asset tracking data using the Domo Asset Tracking application, an integrated solution created by Verizon, AWS, and Domo. This presentation is brought to you by Domo, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Seamless networking across the edge, the private cloud, and AWS (DEM33-S)	DEM	33	DEM33	Many organizations are migrating applications to the cloud to realize advantages such as elasticity, global scale, and lower cost. With this migration, the network becomes the critical element connecting users to edge, private cloud, and AWS applications. Join this session, and learn how the 128 Technology Session Smart Router, in combination with the 128 Technology Conductor, removes the networking barriers that can slow deployment of new cloud applications. We discuss these benefits in the context of a customer case study from an analytics SaaS provider. This presentation is brought to you by 128 Technology, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How IBM enhances security on AWS and your hybrid cloud (DEM32-S)	DEM	32	DEM32	As your business innovates on AWS, it’s critical to protect data, users, and workloads, align threat management, and prepare for incident response aligned to the NIST lifecycle. Learn how IBM Security delivers a unique combination of technology and expertise. Hear about the new IBM Cloud Pak for Security, which allows you to quickly integrate existing security tools and generate deeper insights into threats across AWS and hybrid cloud environments using an infrastructure-independent common operating environment that runs anywhere. You can search for threats, orchestrate actions, and automate responses—all while leaving your data where it is. IBM Security solutions work with Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub, and more. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Capitalize on data and AI with IBM Cloud Pak for Data on AWS (DEM21-S)	DEM	21	DEM21	Organizations are leveraging the cloud, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate digital transformation and gain a competitive advantage, but 81 percent of organizations do not understand the data needed for AI. In this session, learn how IBM can help with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, a cloud-native data and AI architecture that supports AWS. You learn how this open, extensible data and AI platform enables you to collect, organize, and analyze all types of data and operationalize AI into your business with trust and transparency. Finally, you learn how to apply Cloud Pak for Data on AWS to accelerate your journey to AI. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Armor cloud security: Security & compliance in the public cloud (DEM01-S)	DEM	01	DEM01	This session explores how companies can achieve continuous security and compliance for their cloud workloads. We explore how infrastructure as code and cloud security posture management tools can achieve continuous security, compliance monitoring, and threat intelligence in the context of hybrid cloud environments. One policy, in the cloud, continuous security achieved. This presentation is brought to you by Armor Defense, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS purpose-built databases (DAT209-L)	DAT	209	DAT209	In this session, Shawn Bice, VP of databases, discusses the AWS purpose-built database strategy and explains why your application should drive the requirements for which database(s) to use, not the other way around. Learn about the purpose of each AWS database service and how AWS customers are using purpose-built databases to build some of the most scalable applications on the planet. If you are a technology or engineering leader and you’re trying to understand how to modernize your data strategy, this session is for you. We discuss using various approaches for new application development, lifting-and-shifting to managed services, and refactoring monolithic database architectures to use purpose-built databases.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Policy-based management of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters (CON214-S)	CON	214	CON214	As your organization embraces Kubernetes, the number of clusters will explode, and it will become difficult to manage a consistent set of access, application security, configuration, and resource quota policies. In this session, you learn how to use a Kubernetes control plane to manage policies across hundreds of disparate clusters and align thousands of users with resources to maximize security and self-service. This presentation is brought to you by VMware, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Healthfirst driving digital transformation through data & analytics (ANT243-S)	ANT	243	ANT243	In this session, Accenture and Healthfirst, a New York City health plan provider, share key insights and lessons learned about how they used data and analytics modernization to drive digital enablement. The overall program was initiated to improve the Heathfirst member experience, including driving better care, service, and overall engagement strategies. This session outlines the key innovations within the Healthfirst data program, including how it increased member retention, quality scores, and member satisfaction by developing a strong data foundation for the enterprise. Additionally, learn how the team used AWS solutions to support the program, including AWS Glue, Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend Medical. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How to sell in AWS Marketplace (GPSMKT203)	MKT	203	MKT203	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. In this session, we show you the steps of how to list your product in AWS Marketplace. Learn how leading independent software vendors (ISVs) are reaching new customers and decreasing the time it takes to close transactions using AWS Marketplace.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Co-selling with the AWS Sales Organization (GPSBUS206)	BUS	206	BUS206	Although this Global Partner Summit session is open to anyone, it is geared toward current and potential AWS Partner Network Partners. Do you want to build a stronger co-selling relationship with AWS Sales? Come hear from AWS account managers from around the globe on their tips, tricks, and experience when working with APN Partners to solve customer business needs. You will leave with an understanding of topics such as what a successful co-selling engagement looks like, do’s and don’ts for joint meetings, best ways to differentiate from the tens of thousands of APN Partners, and how to leverage the APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Pipeline Manager.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: End-user computing (EUC210-L)	EUC	210	EUC210	In this session, Nathan Thomas, GM of Amazon WorkSpaces, and Muneer Mirza, GM of Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkLink, share our vision for end-user computing at AWS. We show how the world's largest companies are deploying global solutions for their users, and dive into recent feature updates.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Designing an open-source observability stack for Kubernetes (DOP218-S)	DOP	218	DOP218	Observability teams today need to achieve complete visibility into the systems that they monitor, but Kubernetes deployments can add significant complexity to achieving this goal. Open-source tools provide powerful options and come with serious advantages in cost, agility, and speed. Join Logz.io co-founder Asaf Yigal to learn how you can gain observability for Kubernetes projects with open-source tools. He reviews OSS telemetry tools for Kubernetes and how to deploy them for monitoring, logging, and tracing on AWS. He also covers the importance of security and how to add it to your observability stack. This session is brought to you by Logz.io, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Breaking the monolith with style and speed (DOP206-S)	DOP	206	DOP206	Microservices are here to stay, but nearly all of the most successful architectures originate from the classic monolith. The promised land of microservices is filled with treasures like decoupled deploys, scalability, resilience, development velocity, and more. However, the journey there can involve prolonged seasons of pain, suffering, and even regret. This talk is the story of how Stitch Fix used all three pillars of observability to build confidence, accelerate its migration, and collaborate with other teams. Learn about the strategies that Stitch Fix used and how it incorporated logs, metrics, and traces into these strategies. This presentation is brought to you by Datadog, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Sercomm presents a total solution for future smart homes and buildings (DEM59-S)	DEM	59	DEM59	Sercomm is dedicated to helping customers innovate in the connected home and building sectors and to go from nothing to product launch within a mere six months. In this session, Andy Lin, director of platform business development at Sercomm, shares how the company built a secure and scalable solution to help service providers and system integrators quickly provision IoT devices and create new revenue streams from VSaaS businesses. You also learn about why Sercomm’s solution based on Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and AWS IoT Core can save video recording and data storage costs for operators with more than 3.1 million subscribers. This presentation is brought to you by Sercomm, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Battle-tested tactics to accelerate data science and ML R&D with AWS (DEM52-S)	DEM	52	DEM52	While software engineers benefit from a mature tooling ecosystem, data scientists often aren’t as lucky. To add to this challenge, data science typically requires tight integration with infrastructure to handle large amounts of data and computation, even during early research and development (R&D) stages. In this session, Gabriel Bianconi from Toptal draws from his experience as a machine learning (ML) consultant and walks you through the behind-the-scenes aspects of successful case studies as well as lessons learned from failed experiments. Solutions that enable practitioners to prototype and iterate more quickly while taking on less technical debt are of particular focus. This presentation is brought to you by Toptal, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How blockchain for business is already changing your everyday life (DEM48-S)	DEM	48	DEM48	You can now run state-of-the-art blockchain solutions for the enterprise on AWS. The IBM Blockchain Platform builds upon Hyperledger Fabric open-source software and leverages Kubernetes to run on the AWS Cloud. In this session, hear from Vinny Mullineaux, CEO of Vertrax, and Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, as they explain how blockchain is helping change your everyday life behind the scenes, from optimizing supply chain planning in the Oil and Gas industry to enabling identity management and optimizing the food supply chain. This presentation is brought to you by IBM, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: From discovery to optimization: Four steps to cloud adoption (DEM44-S)	DEM	44	DEM44	You’re the one charged with planning a cloud strategy and migrating your company’s IT workloads to the cloud. But making the wrong decision can be costly to your company and career. In this session, learn how to get the actionable intelligence needed to optimize your cloud journey from start to finish with RISC Networks/Flexera. Learn how RISC Networks can help your organization take complete control of your IT, from on premises to the cloud, giving you the right insight so that you don’t take the wrong step. Come learn what successful companies deploying cloud solutions do at every critical step in their journeys. This presentation is brought to you by Flexera, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: How data prep on AWS empowers Autodesk customer analytics (DEM29-S)	DEM	29	DEM29	Developing a 360-degree view of customer financial metrics can give organizations the ability to make proactive decisions instead of being reactive with account team strategies. However, customer data is usually housed in various sources and requires a lot of effort to join metrics by mapping IDs, account names, and other fields. This data can be presented in conflicting formats, and the number of records can exceed what common data tools can handle. In this session, learn how Autodesk is leveraging Trifacta on AWS to create a streamlined data pipeline process to automate the delivery of holistic customer analytics. This presentation is brought to you by Trifacta, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: APIs: ROI from artificial intelligence (DEM18-S)	DEM	18	DEM18	Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are top priorities for many companies. Despite this, productionalizing ML processes is an underrated problem, and as a result, businesses often find themselves failing to maximize ROI from their data initiatives. In this session, Will Nowak identifies best practices and common pitfalls in bringing ML and AI models to production. He also details what the steps to get there look like. This presentation is brought to you by Dataiku, an APN Partner.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Building a culture of curiosity at your company (DEM17-S)	DEM	17	DEM17	We’re all curious and have questions that can be answered with company data. There’s just one problem: most of us don’t have the coding skills to query data warehouses. In this session, we discuss how Volta Charging has built an internal culture of curiosity with the help of the right analytics stack. Today, teams across the company leverage cloud-based analytics to combine data streams and build live models, reports, and dashboards using advanced SQL queries—and they do it all without writing code. Join this session to learn how Volta unlocks insight-driven decisions company-wide and how your company can do the same. This presentation is brought to you by Sigma Computing, an APN Partner.