Whether you are a new startup launching your product or an existing startup looking for ways to grow your business, you will learn something new at the AWS Startup Day.
Designed for founders and technical or business stakeholders, AWS Startup Day will be a free, half-day event of solutions and live discussions among founders from startups like Talkdesk, Didimo and Emotai, AWS experts and AWS' Chief Evangelist. It will be the perfect environment for startup members to hear from those who have done it before, learn best practices and adopt new technologies.
During the day we hope to deliver education and inspiration to enable and accelerate your startup's innovation and growth. Scroll down and discover the agenda!
Event details
Date & Time
October 21, 2020
10am - 14pm CEST / 9am - 13pm GMT+1
The event will be fully online. You will receive the connection details with your registration confirmation email.
Speakers
Agenda
Business Track
09:00 - 09:30 GMT+1 | Keynote by Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist: How Amazon thinks about innovation
About the session
"Invention requires two things: the ability to try lots of experiments, and not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments." -Andy Jassy. Amazon has a peculiar approach to innovation that is intrinsically linked to how we use technology, and organize our teams. In this session, Jeff Barr will discuss how we innovate at Amazon, organized around four interdependent elements: Culture, Mechanisms, Architecture, and Organization.
About the speaker
Jeff Barr is Chief Web Services Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, where he is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and maintains an active social media presence.
Jeff Barr
09:30 - 09:45 GMT+1 | Introduction to Startup Day Online
About the session
During this session, we’ll give you a brief overview of what to expect during the day as well as of AWS startup programs. More startups have launched on Amazon Web Services (AWS) than anywhere else in the world to take on big challenges with limited resources leveraging Startup programs. You will get a glimpse of those programs and how you can start to build right now.
About the speaker
Marta is part of the Startup Business Development team in AWS Portugal, whose mission is to help Startups grow and scale globally. She has worked at the United Nations in NYC and with the startup ecosystem in Portugal, passing through Microsoft's startup team, and later on Uniplaces, Beta-i and Startup Portugal.
Marta Sousa Monteiro
09:45 - 10:30 GMT+1 | Confessions from a Founder by Cristina Fonseca, Tech Entrepreneur and Investor
About the session
How do top leaders fail fast, pivot, and become successful? What was their biggest mistake – will they admit it? A leader who's been through it all sits down to share what it really takes to start-up and answer some burning questions. They’ll discuss their startup journey, including the challenges, sacrifices, and how they navigated it all in order to be successful.
About the speaker
Cristina is a female tech entrepreneur passionate about solving problems while learning and focusing on good execution and was recently recognised as a under 30 in Enterprise Technology by Forbes. She co-founded Talkdesk, a platform that allows you to you create your call center in minutes and integrate it with a variety of top business tools, one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, and previously worked as a researcher at INESC-ID and built two other startups.
Cristina Fonseca
10:30 - 11:15 GMT+1 | Hiring your technical team
About the session
Hiring for your startup is incredibly hard, but hiring for your technical roles can be even harder. When money is tight and credibility has yet to be established, how can you lure the best technical talent to your startup so you can focus on growing the business? We’ll share best practices on how to build successful technical team at a startup – including the skills your first engineers should have and the projects you should assign. We’ll cover how to identify skill gaps in your current team, the tactics you should use to grow your team with lean resources, and tips on how to level up junior engineers when top talent is unattainable.
About the speaker
Rob is a Startup Advocate at AWS, based in London and working with startups across EMEA.
Rob De Feo
11:15 - 12:00 GMT+1 | Building and maintaining your startup's culture
About the session
Culture is a vital part of the startup experience. While perks such as ping pong tables and beer o’clock Fridays may seem like the foundation, a well-designed startup culture is also inclusivity, the environment, and the vibe. Beyond the perks, a fantastic workplace culture drives loyalty, creates an atmosphere people want to be part of, and ultimately influences your bottom line. So, how do you get your startup culture right and maintain it as you scale? In this panel, startup founders and tenured Amazonians will discuss why culture is vital to any startup that wants to survive past its early days. They’ll outline how, if crafted correctly, culture can act as a powerful recruiting, retention, and fundraising tool. They’ll share how culture can set your startup apart, define its purpose, project its values, and help founders prove to investors that the company is more than just an idea.
About the speakers
We will be joined by Veronica, Shayan and Carolina.
Veronica Costa Orvalho is the founder and CEO at Didimo and a professor at the university of Porto. She is also a TEDx speaker and has received the Women Who Tech Award in New York and the IBM scientific award.
Shayan Sanyal is the Senior Business Development manager for France and Southern Europe, focusing on gametech.
Carolina Amorim is the CEO and co-founder of EMOTAI, a startup aimed at improving human performance through the translation and benchmark of performance levels. She is was the winner of the Founder Award by Portuguese Women in Tech 2019.
Veronica Costa Orvalho
Shayan Sanyal
Carolina Amorim
12:40 - 13:00 GMT+1 | Closing remarks by Joao Tedim, Partner Manager at AWS Portugal
About the session
In this wrap up speech, Joao will share his views on Portugal startup ecosystem and the relevance it has for us in AWS
About the speaker
With over 20 years experience in the IT world, Joao oversees the AWS partner business in Portugal.
Joao Tedim
Technical Track
09:00 - 09:30 GMT+1 | Keynote by Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist: How Amazon thinks about innovation
About the session
"Invention requires two things: the ability to try lots of experiments, and not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments." -Andy Jassy. Amazon has a peculiar approach to innovation that is intrinsically linked to how we use technology, and organize our teams. In this session, Jeff Barr will discuss how we innovate at Amazon, organized around four interdependent elements: Culture, Mechanisms, Architecture, and Organization.
About the speaker
Jeff Barr is Chief Web Services Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, where he is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jeff travels, speaks, blogs, and maintains an active social media presence.
Jeff Barr
09:30 - 09:45 GMT+1 | Introduction to Startup Day Online
About the session
During this session, we’ll give you a brief overview of what to expect during the day as well as of AWS startup programs. More startups have launched on Amazon Web Services (AWS) than anywhere else in the world to take on big challenges with limited resources leveraging Startup programs. You will get a glimpse of those programs and how you can start to build right now.
About the speaker
Marta is part of the Startup Business Development team in AWS Portugal, whose mission is to help Startups grow and scale globally. She has worked at the United Nations in NYC and with the startup ecosystem in Portugal, passing through Microsoft's startup team, and later on Uniplaces, Beta-i and Startup Portugal.
Marta Sousa Monteiro
09:45 - 10:30 GMT+1 | Confessions from a Founder by Cristina Fonseca, Tech Entrepreneur and Investor
About the session
How do top leaders fail fast, pivot, and become successful? What was their biggest mistake – will they admit it? A leader who's been through it all sits down to share what it really takes to start-up and answer some burning questions. They’ll discuss their startup journey, including the challenges, sacrifices, and how they navigated it all in order to be successful.
About the speaker.
Cristina is a female tech entrepreneur passionate about solving problems while learning and focusing on good execution and was recently recognised as a under 30 in Enterprise Technology by Forbes. She co-founded Talkdesk, a platform that allows you to you create your call center in minutes and integrate it with a variety of top business tools, one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, and previously worked as a researcher at INESC-ID and built two other startups.
Cristina Fonseca
10:30 - 11:15 GMT+1 | From zero to ten million customers: a walk and roadmap through architectural decisions as your startup scales
About the session
Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. But if you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, where do you start? Join us in this session to learn best practices for scaling your resources from one 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 in the cloud.
About the speaker
Carlos Afonso is a Solutions Architect for Startups and large digital native companies in AWS for the Portugal and Spain markets. In this role, he helps startups across to deploy robust, resilient, highly-available and cost-effective architectures in the AWS cloud.
Carlos Afonso
11:15 - 12:00 GMT+1 | DevOps in AWS for the Lean Startup
About the session
The Lean Startup learns what the customer actually wants through the build-measure-learn loop. DevOps allows development and operations to work as a single team and quickly deliver applications and services at high speed. The Lean Startup and DevOps are about optimising the same loop: gaining knowledge that is fed back in the next iteration of the product and delivering functionality in small increments. AWS provides the necessary services to implement DevOps and we will show you how to integrate them in your product development flow.
About the speaker
Diogo is part of the AWS Startup team in Portugal. He is a Solutions Architect for startups, working to help startups improve and scale their architectures.
Diogo Minhava
12:00 - 12:40 GMT+1 | Implementing best practices for automated compliance in the AWS Well-Architected Framework
About the session
In this session, Edrans, will share learnings and best practices of how they leveraged Trend Micro Cloud One™ Conformity to help a well-funded startup gain compliance within a Well-Architected Framework at the click of a button.
About the speaker
Javier is EDRANS’s CEO and Co-Founder and a Motorcycle enthusiast. He describes his leitmotiv as: “Live Strong!".
Javier D'Ovidio
12:40 - 13:00 GMT+1 | Closing remarks by Joao Tedim, Partner Manager of AWS Portugal
About the session
In this wrap up speech, Joao will share his views on Portugal ecosystem and the relevance it has for us in AWS.
About the speaker
With over 20 years experience in the IT world, Joao now oversees the AWS Partner business in Portugal.
Joao Tedim
