Gain a solid foundation of cloud computing within hours by watching AWS Canadian Smart Business Sessions

Your top priority is growing your business and meeting the rapidly changing expectations of your customers. You understand the importance of modernizing your technology infrastructure to scale and innovate, but you’re strapped for time and lack sufficient technical resources to accelerate your decision making.

Your time is valuable, let us accelerate your cloud journey so you can focus on your business.

We’ve curated an exclusive line-up of thought-leadership sessions led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts, on topics that matter the most to businesses like yours. These sessions are free and offered virtually, so you have the flexibility and freedom to attend as many sessions as you'd like from any location.

Register now to gain a solid foundation of cloud computing and be armed with the knowledge you need to take your business to the next level.

You will learn:

  • Fundamentals of cloud computing
  • Cloud computing concepts and terminology
  • Benefits of migrating to the cloud
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) vs. Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Breadth and depth of AWS services and scaling your business
  • Protecting your business from ransomware

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Gain a solid foundation of cloud computing within hours by attending AWS Smart Business Sessions

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Agenda


Fast track to the sessions that are most relevant to you:

 

Title

Description

Starting time

Intro to cloud computing

A high level introduction to cloud computing. Learn about the history of the cloud and the key business drivers in cloud adoption.

0:00

Cloud computing concepts and terminology 

A high level introduction to the AWS cloud. Learn about cloud terminology, key practices within cloud, and core concepts.

14:45

 

Benefits of migrating to the cloud 

Learn about the benefits of migrating to the cloud. This session will focus on agility, innovation, cost savings, elasticity and going global in minutes.

34:03

Platform as a service (PaaS) vs. software as a service (SaaS) 

Diving deep into the key differentiators between a platform as a service (PaaS) vs. software as a service (SaaS) and what that means for your business.

54:13

AWS global infrastructure 

The AWS global cloud infrastructure is the most secure, extensive, and reliable cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centres globally. Learn about the breadth and depth of AWS services and how the global infrastructure design enables customers to run highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable environments.

1:18:43

Protecting your business from ransomware 

Security is our top priority. Learn about the key concepts in protecting your infrastructure from ransomware and other security threats.

1:45:15

AWS customer success story 

Join us for an interview with a small/medium business customer who has innovated and scaled their business with AWS.

2:12:32

 

Session Details

  • Opening Keynote
  • Thought Leadership Session
  • Business Track
  • Technical Track
  • Closing Keynote

Opening Keynote

Thought Leadership Session

Business Track

Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Ransomware Protection Solutions with AWS (Level 100) [30 mins]

Disasters, failures, and threats come in all shapes and sizes and can significantly impact your business. Attend this session to learn how you can easily and cost-effectively protect your data and applications to meet your business and regulatory compliance requirements and to protect against ransomware attacks. We will discuss concepts for building business continuity and disaster recovery options using AWS services like AWS Backup, Amazon S3, and AWS Elastic DR, as well as APN partners.

Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Rajesh Vijayaraghavan

Senior Storage GTM Specialist, AWS

Anar Anand
Anar Anand

Sr. PM, AWS Data Protection, AWS

Migration for SaaS Providers (Level 100) [45 mins]

Challenges with migration to AWS of SMB SaaS providers serving large, highly regulated industry clients. We will cover: single vs. multi tenancy architecture challenges, shared ownership of encryption key materials, backup and disaster recovery challenges, and an overview of AWS Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ). 

Matthew Burditt
Matthew Burditt

Principal Migration Advisor, AWS

Guy Loewy
Guy Loewy

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Jonathan Thursby
Jonathan Thursby

CEO and Founder of KOR Financial

Gain Insights (Level 100) [30 mins]

Gain Insights is a consultative solutioning program designed to help SMB organizations create a customized, actionable data, analytics, and AI/ML strategy by working backward from specific business objectives. In this session you will learn about how the Gain Insights can accelerate your analytics journey and hear real world examples of how AWS customers are revealing meaningful insights from their data to achieve better business outcomes.

Theresa Scott
Theresa Scott

Sr. GTM Specialist, WWSO Analytics, AWS

Implementing Modern DaaS Solutions to Enable Remote Workers (Level 100) [30 mins]

VDI and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) make endpoint management and security simpler. In this session, you'll learn about the benefits of implementing VDI in the cloud to secure data and speed deployment of remote workers, help ISVs provide simpler demos and trials, and provide cost effective application access for task workers. We'll focus on AWS services like Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon WorkSpaces Web.

Anton Gridin
Anton Gridin

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Oren Waldman
Oren Waldman

Solutions Architect, AWS

Secure My Business (Level 100) [30 mins]

As an AWS customer, you will benefit from AWS data centers and a network architected to protect your information, identities, applications, and devices.

Wei Chen
Wei Chen

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Technical Track

Design Patterns for Backup and Disaster Recovery (Level 200/300) [30 mins]

Backup and disaster recovery are key to ensuring positive business outcomes. This session will cover design patterns for backup and disaster recovery, whether you're designing for on-premises, in cloud, or a hybrid of both. Learn how to choose the right design for your situation based on architectural constraints, performance considerations, and cost optimization.

John Walker
John Walker

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Heather Munoz
Heather Munoz

Senior BDM, AWS Backup, AWS

Migrate My Data (Level 200/300) [45 mins]

When moving data to the cloud, you need to understand where you are moving it for different use cases, the types of data you are moving, and the network resources available, among other considerations. In this session, you will learn a wide variety of AWS services to help you migrate your data sets, whether they are files, databases, machine images, block volumes, or even tape backups.

Chance Lee
Chance Lee

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Ganesh Prabhu
Ganesh Prabhu

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

Gain Insights (Level 200/300) [30 mins]

Gain Insights is a consultative solutioning program designed to help SMB organizations create a customized, actionable data, analytics, and AI/ML strategy by working backward from specific business objectives. In this session you will learn about leveraging the Gain Insights program to align with your business objectives and design your data strategy by leveraging AWS data and analytics services.

Ahsan Zulfiqar
Ahsan Zulfiqar

Solutions Architect, AWS

Aishwarya Subramaniam
Aishwarya Subramaniam

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

AWS Security Reference Architecture (SRA) 2.0 (Level 200/300) [30 mins]

The AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) is a holistic set of guidelines for deploying the full complement of AWS security services in a multi-account environment. It can be used to help design, implement, and manage AWS security services so that they align with AWS best practices. Join us to learn about SRA 2.0, including a Security Hub Organization solution to configure Security Hub using AWS Organizations, changes to common solutions, and updated documentation.

Arindam Chatterji
Arindam Chatterji

Sr. Solutions Architect

Drive Business and Employee Growth with Cloud Training (Level 100) [30 mins]

Over the last year, Americans left their jobs at record-high numbers – widely referred to as the Great Resignation. Leaders across industries are grappling with how to meet growing demands for flexibility, higher pay, and a higher purpose. A survey released in August 2021 showed that 90 percent of respondents, representing 1,000 American workers, consider strong training and upskilling programs an important feature of prospective employers. For tech workers, that figure jumps to 98 percent.

In this session, join Nasser Chanda, CEO of Paymerang, to learn about the cloud training programs they’ve launched to drive both business and employee growth. Get insights and practical tips on how develop cloud expertise in existing employees, retain top performers, and attract the next generation of technical talent.

Clarke Rodgers
Clarke Rodgers

Enterprise Strategist, AWS

Nasser Chanda
Nasser Chanda

CEO, Paymerang

Closing Keynote

Your Next Step: Accelerate Your Cloud Journey with AWS [15 mins]

For smaller and mid size businesses, the cloud mainly has been used for the basic needs of a company and is often not implemented to promote growth, innovation or competitiveness. Today you learned a lot about how adopting AWS technology together with our partners' services will help you grow in ways you possibly haven't imagined yet well beyond basic uses. We'll close the event with some thoughts on what you can do next to accelerate your cloud journey with AWS.

Trevor Naggessar
Tim Peters

Director SMB Segment, AWS

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Organizations today are looking to free themselves from the constraints of on-premises databases and leverage the power of fully managed databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS is a fully managed relational database service that you can use to run your choice of database engines including open source engines, Oracle, and SQL Server in the cloud. Amazon RDS automates time-consuming database administration tasks and adds capabilities such as replication and Multi-AZ failover to make your database deployments more scalable, available, reliable, manageable, and cost-effective. This session covers why you should consider moving your on-premises Oracle & SQL Server deployments to Amazon RDS and the tools to get started.

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Venue

The Meteropolitian
233 south wacker drive, 67th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606

Session Levels Designed for You

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Who Should Attend

This webinar is ideal for business leaders, technical leaders and IT professionals looking to learn about the foundation and business impacts of cloud computing as well as how to keep their business secure in the digital age. 

Why Attend

Learn how you can leverage cloud technology to grow your business. You will also hear from AWS experts who will share examples of Canadian businesses that have successfully adopted cloud technology, how AWS helped them scale and how you can start or accelerate your cloud journey.

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Featured Speakers

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    Brigit Brown
    AWS Solutions Architect

    Brigit is an AWS Solutions Architect based in Toronto who is passionate about helping customers build with AWS. She supports SMB (small-medium businesses) and enterprises in Toronto. Brigit combines her background in machine learning, data and analytics and business to help customers drive impactful business outcomes using technology. She has helped customers build data pipelines, design new applications, modernize environments and implement machine learning models to gain insight into their data. She is interested in serverless applications, machine learning, artificial intelligence and analytics.

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    Trevor Naggessar
    AWS Solutions Architect

    Trevor is an AWS Solutions Architect based out of Montreal. He supports SMB (small-medium businesses) and enterprise customers in and around the Montreal region to help them drive business outcomes quickly with AWS. Trevor has a keen interest for software development and works closely with software developers and key decisions makers to help them understand the best practices for the tools and services we offer. He has helped large customers with server migrations to AWS, data architectures in the cloud, and has successfully led workshops to help customers understanding the MLOps pipeline on AWS among several other key concepts of the cloud.

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    Shivam Patel
    AWS Solutions Architect

    Shivam is an AWS Solutions Architect based in Toronto. He is a passionate technologist who supports SMB (small-medium businesses) and enterprise customers in Ontario. Shivam combines his background in R&D and business experience to leverage AWS technology as a driver to create meaningful impact for a customer’s business. He has helped customers migrate into AWS, launch serverless based applications, optimize performance/cost of existing infrastructure, and facilitate technology strategy plans. Shivam is interested in workloads around machine learning, robotics, IoT, and high-performance computing.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

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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

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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.

Yelp

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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.

Airbnb

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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.

Lyft

FAQS

1. Who should attend this event?

These sessions feature 200-300-level content (intermediate to advanced). The intended audience for this event includes technical decision makers looking to improve their organization’s application development, deployment and maintenance posture to create more stable and secure applications, and reduce the need to manage infrastructure by moving more of the resources to application development. IT implementers and Developers who are developing applications on the cloud or on-premises and want to spend more time developing business logic and innovative features for the end-user and increase the speed and quality of their software releases, instead of spending time managing the application’s infrastructure.

2. How much does this event cost?

There is no cost to attend this event.

3. What are the available tracks and sessions?

Please find details on the individual tracks and breakout sessions here.