Webinar Series

Discover how education organisations are advancing their cloud solutions with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In our three part AWS public sector webinar series for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), we focus on the education industry, cover the latest cloud applications, customer innovations in the cloud with voice technologies, and dive deep into how our local customers have gone serverless and used AWS to consolidate disparate student systems.

We’ll be joined by several of our local AWS education experts including:

1. Zoe Pelbart, Education Business Development, AWS
2. Vincent Quah, APAC Head of Education, AWS
3. Paul Macey, Big Data Specialist, Solutions Architect, AWS


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Topic #1: Alexa Transforming Education in Learning, Teaching & Administration (Level 100)
Speaker: Zoe Pelbart, Education Business Development, AWS

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.

This session is a 100 level business discussion, covering key services: Alexa for Education/Business, and a series of AWS's AI Services that complement the Customer Experience suite such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Translate.

Hear from Chris Dixon, head of IT partnering and innovation at Lancaster University. Learn how the Ask L.U. skill has empowered students to interact with the university on a new level, fostered accessibility for students, and transformed innovation potential at the university.

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


Topic #2: Cloud Innovation in Education (Level 100)
Speaker: Vincent Quah, APAC Head of Education, AWS

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