Wherever you are in your Cloud journey, AWS can help you achieve your goals
Times of crisis create an opportunity to collaborate, invent and adapt to better serve customers, accelerating our need to build for the future. AWS customers globally are leaving the constraints of legacy infrastructures behind and innovating faster, improving performance, and security.
Learn from AWS customers, how are they adapting and innovating to overcome challenges that current situation presents. AWS experts will cover key technical and business topics around innovation, agility, cost optimization, elasticity and scalable solutions.
This event has two tracks: Technology & Business, and all sessions will be delivered in Portuguese.
On November 24th, join us at the online edition of AWS Initiate Portugal, with sessions designed to help you learn more about the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform with architectural best practices, expert tips, demos and live Q&As.
Learn from AWS customers, how are they adapting and innovating to overcome challenges that current situation presents. AWS experts will cover key technical and business topics around innovation, agility, cost optimization, elasticity and scalable solutions.
This event has two tracks: Technology & Business. The Keynote will be delivered in English, the rest of the sessions will be delivered in Portuguese.
Who should attend?
| BUSINESS TRACK | ... | TECHNOLOGY TRACK |
| Focused on business leaders, technology leaders, and executives looking for innovative ideas based on proven technologies that solve business challenges. Ideal for CxO, Founders, Business Executives, IT Executives. | Focused on technology professionals, who desire to incorporate new technologies around big data, cloud computing, data lakes, and machine learning. Ideal for IT professionals, IT managers, engineers, and developers. |
Agenda
Tuesday, November 24th
Please select which track you'd like to attend:
Welcome
10:00 - 10:05 GMT
Hosts will welcome you to the event and go over the agenda of the day, guest speakers and event highlights.
Speakers:
- André Matos, Solutions Architect, AWS
- João Tedim, Sr. Partner Success Manager, AWS
Keynote by Miguel Álava, Director Spain & Portugal, AWS
10:05 - 10:25 GMT
How cloud technologies can help you adapt to the changing environment, predict trends and overcome disruption with innovative solutions? AWS helps customers around the world build resilient solutions for the future.
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With more than 25 years of experience working in the most prominent technology companies of their time and over 7 years of experience at AWS leading teams in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Miguel contributes to the innovation of companies of any size transforming them through the technology offered by cloud computing. |
Technology Track: Build resilience on AWS
10:30 - 13:00 GMT
10:30 - 11:00 GMT | AWS Cloud is in NOS house
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Join AWS and NOS to understand the path and the advantages of having the Cloud inside NOS' house.
Speakers: Daniel Silva, Cloud Architect, NOS & Luis Marques, Solutions Architect, AWS
11:00 - 11:30 GMT | How do we adapt to the new normal with AI
These last few months have demonstrated the importance for companies to transform and adapt quickly to new scenarios. We are going to analyze how AWS artificial intelligence services and the flexibility of the cloud environment can foster innovation associated with the necessary changes, with an example of unattended check-in with automatic validation of DNIs.
Speaker: Manuel Pata, Technical Account Manager, AWS
11:30 - 12:00 GMT | Going Serverless with Uniplaces
Uniplaces has been evolving their architecture to take advantage of serverless technologies. Join this talk to see why!
Speakers: Diogo Minhava, Solutions Architect, AWS
12:00 - 12:30 GMT | Start Local. Grow Global with Jumpseller
Come learn how Jumpseller uses AWS to enable customers to quickly setup their online stores, anywhere in the world!
Speakers: Matilde Neffe, Account Manager, AWS
12:30 - 13:00 GMT | How BIAL changed the way they manage their customers with AWS
AWS is helping thousands of organizations, including enterprises such as GE, the Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, NewsCorp, and Twenty-First Century Fox, successfully migrate significant workloads to the cloud. These companies benefited from substantial IT costs savings, as well as improvements in productivity, business agility, and operational resilience. In this session we will see how BIAL used AWS to change the way they manage their customers.
Speakers: Luis Marques, Solutions Architect, AWS
13:00 GMT | Live Q&A
AWS Experts and some other speakers will join us for a session of live Q&A. We will review the questions submitted during the sessions pick the most interesting ones and also answer to the questions submitted live. Don't miss out on the chance to get the answer directly from our speakers.
Participants:
- Manuel Pata, Technical Account Manager, AWS
- André Matos, Solutions Architect, AWS
- Luis Marques, Solutions Architect, AWS
- Matilde Neffe, Account Manager, AWS
- Diogo Minhava, Solutions Architect, AWS
Business Track: Innovation & business continuity
10:30 - 13:00 GMT
10:30 - 11:00 GMT | Fireside chat: A key challenge for a CIDO - drive business agility.
Energy transition is driving energy companies to reinvent business models on an accelerated pace. Those companies are usually big corporations without a fast transformation DNA. Galp target to leverage energy transition opportunities, becoming an integrated and customer centric energy platform. Digital transformation and innovation are key enablers. How does a CIDO prepares the company to achieve strategic goals? How does a CIDO sets Information and Digital strategy to support business agility. That’s what we want to learn from Nuno Pedras, Galp’ CIDO.
Speakers: Nuno Pedras, CIDO, Galp & Bruno Branco, Enterprise Account Manage, AWS
11:00 - 11:30 GMT | Build it Fast, Build it Right, Build it for the Future
In this session we'll cover three fundamental attributes of how digital innovation is achieved and how modern platforms excel at these attributes.
Speakers: Gonçalo Gaiolas, VP of product, OutSystems & Rui Gaspar, Account Manager, AWS
11:30 - 12:00 GMT | Road to a scalable and efficient infrastructure
Impresa's transformation from a static infrastructure into a scalable and efficient one - resource usage, performance and costs.
Speakers: José Coimbra, DevOps Manager, Impresa & Joaquim Carvalho, Enterprise Account Manager, AWS
12:00 - 12:30 GMT | Agility (and Talkdesk) are at the Center of Exceptional CX
The world has changed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and has accelerated the shift of moving support and sales agents to remote work overnight. With recent events, we’ve seen unexpected demands on our call centers. This ranges from higher call volumes to longer wait times, to overworked agents. Call centers are having to act quickly to maintain high-quality customer service amidst uncertainty. Talkdesk, an agile Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) offering, can have customers up and running in less than 24 hours with easy implementation and out-of-the-box integrations. Talkdesk CX Cloud is an enterprise-grade solution with consumer-simplicity that agents can be certified on in less than 2 hours allowing businesses to adopt quickly, plus immediate provisioning allows customers to scale up to 10,000 agents as needed. Join Marco Costa, GM EMEA of Talkdesk as he discusses agility with Talkdesk in the new normal
Speakers: Marco Costa. General Manager EMEA, Talkdesk & Rodrigo Horta, Account Manager, AWS
12:30 - 13:00 GMT | How PCDiga adapted to the "new normality"
The pandemic has accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and triggered changes in online shopping behaviors that are likely to have lasting effects. While many companies are challenged to survive in the short-term, the crisis also presents opportunity for businesses to adapt and evolve. PC DIGA is a great Portuguese success case that we will analyze during this session. How does a CMO prepare the company to achieve strategic goals in such a complex year? How does an ecommerce business adjust to new customer expectations? That is what we will discuss with Nélson Arrifes, CMO of PC DIGA.
Speakers: Nelson Arrifes, CMO, PC DIGA & Miguel Cristino, Territory Manager, AWS
13:00 GMT | Live Q&A
AWS Experts and some other speakers will join us for a session of live Q&A. We will review the questions submitted during the sessions pick the most interesting ones and also answer to the questions submitted live. Don't miss out on the chance to get the answer directly from our speakers.
Participants:
- Miguel Cristino, Territory Manager, AWS
- Rodrigo Horta, Account Manager, AWS
- Joaquim Carvalho, Enterprise Account Manager, AWS
- Bruno Branco, Enterprise Account Manage, AWS
- Mario Gonçalves, Strategic Pursuit Executive, AWS