Creating a Smart Business for Today’s Economy [15 mins]

In 2020 for the first time ever, cloud spending accounted for more of the overall IT budget than hardware and traditional infrastructure and software. This was just as true for companies like you as it was for large enterprises. We'll kick off this event with the story of how a midmarket customer of AWS was able to leverage this new kind of spend to transform their business. We'll also leave you with a couple of key questions to ask yourself as you attend these sessions that will help you gather key insights for cloud adoption.

Tim Peters

Director SMB Segment, AWS

Build a Modern Technology Foundation for Your Company’s Future [45 mins]

Today, many companies are reinventing and redefining how they do business. Leaders from companies of all shapes and sizes will describe how they experimented and took risks to tackle some of the biggest challenges and opportunities that their organizations have encountered.

Discover how these leaders and their teams use AWS to build a modern technology foundation for their companies' future. John Santo, Chief Product Officer/Co-Founder from Echelon Fitness, Blair Koch, Chief Digital Officer from ACERTUS, and Brendan Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Service & Quality from Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure will join AWS Moderator, Ben Scheiner for this customer panel.

John Santo

Chief Product Officer/Co-Founder, Echelon Fitness

Blair Koch

Chief Digital Officer, ACERTUS

Brendan Gilbert

Senior Vice President of Service & Quality, Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure

Ben Schreiner

Sr. Mgr. Business Innovation, AWS

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

Senior Storage GTM Specialist, AWS

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

Principal Migration Advisor, AWS

Guy Loewy

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

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

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

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

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

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

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

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

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

Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS

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

Solutions Architect, AWS

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

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

Enterprise Strategist, AWS

Nasser Chanda

CEO, Paymerang

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.

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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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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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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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.