In this three part AWS Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) public sector webinar series, our AWS education experts focus on the education industry and cover cloud applications, latest education customers’ innovations in the cloud and dive deep into the technical side of customer success in the education space in Australia and New Zealand.
Topics Covered
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Topic #1: Alexa Transforming Education in Learning, Teaching & Administration (Level 100)
Speaker: Zoe Pelbart, Education Business Development, AWS |
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Voice technologies are dynamically changing the landscape in education, transforming how students can engage and ask questions, consume knowledge as well as interact with their institutions in a personalised & accessible manner. Hear from Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers about how Alexa improves student engagement and makes participating education institutions more accessible.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the value Alexa technologies can quickly add to your learning & back office environments • Quickly create and scale an Alexa Skill for your classroom, organisation, institution • Use Alexa to create broader accessibility of information |
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Topic #2: Cloud Innovation in Education (Level 100)
Speaker: Vincent Quah, APAC Head of Education, AWS |
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Education institutions are accelerating their digital transformation journeys and the cloud is a major driver of that journey and success. In this webinar – we focus on data analytics and artificial intelligence & machine learning projects which have never been easier with the flexible and scalable model provided by cloud to design, build and deploy services. The education industry faces ever-changing demands of both users and stakeholders – learn how innovative education organisations have been pioneering solutions to cater to the demands of their users and stakeholders.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn how AWS is supporting the global business of education • Explore key technological trends in the education industry • Learn about different use cases from education institutions in both A/NZ and across the globe |
| Topic #3: Unifying Student Data with AWS (Level 200) Speaker: Paul Macey, Big Data Specialist, Solutions Architect, AWS |
| Learn how to go serverless with AWS and prepare, stage, and produce insights using student data from applications like Moodle, Canvas, TechnologyOne, and edX. This webinar will cover how using services including Amazon DMS, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, and Amazon SageMaker can enable education organisations to gain insights on previously siloed student data. Learning Objectives:
• Learn how data from disparate student systems can be consolidated into an AWS data lake, transformed and queried using Amazon Athena to find insights • Discover how to prepare the data for use with Amazon SageMaker for machine learning workloads |
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