Behind the Innovation
“If you have an idea with no risk, it’s probably already being done. You’ve got to have something that might not work.
It will be, in many ways, an experiment. We take risks all the time, we talk about failure.”
– Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO Amazon, re:MARS, 2019
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- On-Demand
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- Track8 Session 1
- Track9 Session 1
- Track10 Session 1
September 8
August 10
September 8
October 5
November 2
On-Demand
Tuesday, November 2nd | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
Intro: How Amazon helps small-to-medium businesses innovate by Ben Schreiner (15 min)
Customer Speaker #1: JibJab with AWS Partner, Mission Cloud Services (30 minutes)
JibJab’s software is well known for letting users insert photos of their faces into humorous eCards. Learn how JibJab is innovating with Machine Learning on AWS to implement a computer vision face segmentation algorithm for a new product line for users to express their creativity. The features backed by AWS will provide a more personalized and interactive experience.
Customer Speaker: Matt Cielecki, VP of Engineering, JibJab and Ryan Ries, Practice Lead, Data, Analytics & Machine Learning at Mission Cloud Services
Customer Spotlight #2: BKV Corp (30 minutes)
BKV Corp is a top-20 natural gas exploration & production company based out of Denver that is an innovator and producer of low impact, sustainable carbon-based energy. In this session, Bryan Becker, the Vice President of IT, will be sharing how AWS was a key part of supporting the BKV’s monumental effort to keep the gas flowing to support critical infrastructure during Winter Storm Uri.
Customer Speakers: Bryan Becker, Vice President of IT at BKV Corp
Tuesday, October 5th | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- Gene Farrell, Chief Strategy and Product Officer, Smartsheet
- Geoffrey Erickson, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Immunis.AI
- Jale Uncu, Customer Success Manager, Mission Cloud Services
Wednesday, September 8th | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- John Santo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Echelon Fitness
- Mauro Mujica-Parodi III, Chief Product Officer at Narrative Science
- JT Giri, Founder & CEO at nOps.io
- Geremy Reiner, Associate Principal at Prime TSR
Tuesday, August 10th | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- Kelby Green, CTO and Co-founder at VergeSense
- Andres Diaz, Executive Director, Head of Experience Services and Digital Innovation at Genentech
Tuesday, July 27th | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- Julian McCrea, CEO at Open Sesame Media, Inc.
- Nate Michael, Practice Manager, Cloud Native Development at Onica, a Rackspace Technology company
- David Corrigan, General Manager for the Data Governance, Catalog, Quality and Privacy Business at Informatica
Wednesday, June 23rd | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- Danny Meidell, Senior Principal Engineer, Grubhub
- Claire Vo, Chief Product Officer, Color
Tuesday, May 4, 2021 | 9:00 -10:30 AM PT
- Sebastien Lefebvre, Senior Director of Data Science, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Alexion
- Saketh Papaiahgari, Corporate Strategy, Alexion
- Parul Patel, Managing Director, Slalom NYC
- Ryan Permeh, Senior Vice President and Chief Security Architect, BlackBerry
Thursday, March 18, 2021 | 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
- George Szrir, Chief Technology Officer, and Wojtek Cieslik, VP of Information Technology, Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
- John Clendennen, Founder and CEO, Eplexity
- Elad Zoldan, Head of Data, Melio
- Omer Har, Co-Founder & CTO, Explorium
- Sachit Kamat, Chief Product Officer, Eightfold
- Choong Lee, WW Head, Learning from Amazon Program at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
- Jon Pierre, Chief Business Officer, Mantle Labs
- Adam Howatson, President and CEO, LogiSense
- Christian Beedgen, CTO and Founder, Sumo Logic
- Asha Poulose, VP and CIO, Data & Analytics, GE Healthcare
- Krishna Bhat, Sr. Director Data & Analytics, GE Healthcare
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Track10 Session 1
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Session Proficiency Levels Explained
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Level 100
Introductory
Sessions will focus on providing an overview of AWS services and features, with the assumption that attendees are new to the topic
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Level 200
Intermediate
Sessions will focus on providing best practices, details of service features and demos with the assumption that attendees have introductory knowledge of the topics
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Level 300
Advanced
Sessions will dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution
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Level 400
Expert
Sessions are for attendees who are deeply familiar with the topic, have implemented a solution on their own already, and are comfortable with how the technology works across multiple services, architectures, and implementations
About the Event
In this online event series, leaders from companies of all shapes and sizes will share stories of how they were able to drive innovation and adapt in the face of uncertainty. Discover how leaders and their teams experimented and took risks to tackle some of the biggest challenges and opportunities that their organizations have encountered. These are real-life stories that explore the ups and downs of innovation and the technologies, culture, and mechanisms that can be established to help your organization adapt to change and stay ahead of the curve.
Who Should Attend
This series is intended for those who want to understand real-life examples of how to drive change and accelerate innovation in business. There is no technical expertise required. Whether you are a CEO interested in increasing business agility, a marketing professional who wants to understand real-world applicability of AI/ML, or a team leader looking to drive cultural change, these events will offer unique and authentic insights from those that have lived it.
Speakers
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Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases, Analytics & AI, AWS
Raju Gulabani is VP of Databases, Analytics & AI within AWS at Amazon.com. He is responsible for P&<, product management, engineering and operations for Database services such as Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and Analytics services such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR, as well as AI services like Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. Prior to joining Amazon in his current position in 2010, Raju spent four years at Google and built the Google Apps business (now known as G Suite).Earlier in his career, Raju founded an Intel backed Wi-Fi Voice over IP company as well as held engineering management positions at Microsoft.
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Ryan Kelly, Data Architect, Equinox
Ryan Kelly is a data architect at Equinox, where he helps outline and implement frameworks for data initiatives. He also leads clickstream tracking which helps aid teams with insights on their digital initiatives. Ryan loves making it easier for people to reach and ingest their data for the purposes of business intelligence, analytics, and product/service enrichment. He also loves exploring and vetting new technologies to see how they can enhance what they do at Equinox
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Richard Boyd, Cloud Data Engineer, iRobot
Richard Boyd is a cloud data engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner. Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics. His previous roles include cyber warfare systems analyst at MIT and research for the Center for Army Analysis. He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
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Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases, Analytics & AI, AWS
Raju Gulabani is VP of Databases, Analytics & AI within AWS at Amazon.com. He is responsible for P&<, product management, engineering and operations for Database services such as Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and Analytics services such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR, as well as AI services like Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. Prior to joining Amazon in his current position in 2010, Raju spent four years at Google and built the Google Apps business (now known as G Suite).Earlier in his career, Raju founded an Intel backed Wi-Fi Voice over IP company as well as held engineering management positions at Microsoft.
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Ryan Kelly, Data Architect, Equinox
Ryan Kelly is a data architect at Equinox, where he helps outline and implement frameworks for data initiatives. He also leads clickstream tracking which helps aid teams with insights on their digital initiatives. Ryan loves making it easier for people to reach and ingest their data for the purposes of business intelligence, analytics, and product/service enrichment. He also loves exploring and vetting new technologies to see how they can enhance what they do at Equinox
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Richard Boyd, Cloud Data Engineer, iRobot
Richard Boyd is a cloud data engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner. Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics. His previous roles include cyber warfare systems analyst at MIT and research for the Center for Army Analysis. He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
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Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases, Analytics & AI, AWS
Raju Gulabani is VP of Databases, Analytics & AI within AWS at Amazon.com. He is responsible for P&<, product management, engineering and operations for Database services such as Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and Analytics services such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR, as well as AI services like Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. Prior to joining Amazon in his current position in 2010, Raju spent four years at Google and built the Google Apps business (now known as G Suite).Earlier in his career, Raju founded an Intel backed Wi-Fi Voice over IP company as well as held engineering management positions at Microsoft.
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Ryan Kelly, Data Architect, Equinox
Ryan Kelly is a data architect at Equinox, where he helps outline and implement frameworks for data initiatives. He also leads clickstream tracking which helps aid teams with insights on their digital initiatives. Ryan loves making it easier for people to reach and ingest their data for the purposes of business intelligence, analytics, and product/service enrichment. He also loves exploring and vetting new technologies to see how they can enhance what they do at Equinox
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Richard Boyd, Cloud Data Engineer, iRobot
Richard Boyd is a cloud data engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner. Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics. His previous roles include cyber warfare systems analyst at MIT and research for the Center for Army Analysis. He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
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Raju Gulabani, VP of Databases, Analytics & AI, AWS
Raju Gulabani is VP of Databases, Analytics & AI within AWS at Amazon.com. He is responsible for P&<, product management, engineering and operations for Database services such as Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and Analytics services such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon EMR, as well as AI services like Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition. Prior to joining Amazon in his current position in 2010, Raju spent four years at Google and built the Google Apps business (now known as G Suite).Earlier in his career, Raju founded an Intel backed Wi-Fi Voice over IP company as well as held engineering management positions at Microsoft.
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Ryan Kelly, Data Architect, Equinox
Ryan Kelly is a data architect at Equinox, where he helps outline and implement frameworks for data initiatives. He also leads clickstream tracking which helps aid teams with insights on their digital initiatives. Ryan loves making it easier for people to reach and ingest their data for the purposes of business intelligence, analytics, and product/service enrichment. He also loves exploring and vetting new technologies to see how they can enhance what they do at Equinox
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Richard Boyd, Cloud Data Engineer, iRobot
Richard Boyd is a cloud data engineer with the iRobot Corporation’s Cloud Data Platform where he builds tools and services to support the world’s most beloved vacuum cleaner. Before joining iRobot, Richard built discrete event simulators for Amazon’s automated fulfillment centers in Amazon Robotics. His previous roles include cyber warfare systems analyst at MIT and research for the Center for Army Analysis. He holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics & Statistics.
Customer Highlights
Epics Games’ entire analytics platform runs on AWS. Billions of game events, like player interactions on the map, their accuracy, damage taken and dealt, and what resources they are using are all sent to AWS.
Epics Games’ entire analytics platform runs on AWS. Billions of game events, like player interactions on the map, their accuracy, damage taken and dealt, and what resources they are using are all sent to AWS.
Epics Games’ entire analytics platform runs on AWS. Billions of game events, like player interactions on the map, their accuracy, damage taken and dealt, and what resources they are using are all sent to AWS.
Epics Games’ entire analytics platform runs on AWS. Billions of game events, like player interactions on the map, their accuracy, damage taken and dealt, and what resources they are using are all sent to AWS.