Day one opens with a welcome address, which gives an overview of AWS’ journey in India.

Join this session to know how we are empowering builders and businesses to build India of tomorrow. We showcase how AWS customers across the world are leveraging AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML) services to enhance customer experience, optimize business processes, and accelerate innovation.

Speaker: Puneet Chandok, President, AWS India and South Asia

Attend this session to hear Vasi Philomin, Vice-President and General Manager, Machine Learning & AI, Amazon Web Services, as he discusses the ways that forward-thinking builders are transforming industries and the future, powered by AWS. He provides a look at the latest innovations in AI & ML and the ways in which AWS is pushing the boundaries of performance in the cloud.

Find out how AWS is helping customers achieve their goals faster, take advantage of untapped potential, and create a better future.

Speaker: Vasi Philomin, Vice President & General Manager, Machine Learning & AI, Amazon Web Services

Together with the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, the AWS Hyderabad region will provide our customers with more choice and flexibility to run workloads with greater resiliency, securely store data, and serve end users with lower latency.

Speaker: Praveen Sridhar, Head of ISV Segment, AWS India

There’s been a lot of hype around AI & ML and their potential to drive transformation in every organization. AI & ML went from being aspirational technologies to mainstream ones, and automation is further improving efficiency in management. We’re seeing a tipping point, where the hype surrounding these technologies is transitioning to real impact for businesses.

Join this session to listen to leaders from different business domains across India on how AI & ML helped them achieve measurable business outcomes. Also get to know how they overcame the challenges that they faced when embarking on this journey.

Speakers:

• Ekta Parashar, Head of Solutions Architect, Enterprise Business, AWS India
• Nishchay Shah, CTO and Head of Emerging Products, Cactus Communications
• Vijay Ravichandran, Vice President, Lending, Data Science, Paytm
• Varun Malhotra, SVP Technology, Capri Global Capital Ltd.
• Avinash Naik, CIO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key enabler of digital transformation; and businesses must prepare for an AI-led future to solve real-world challenges.

In this session, learn how to democratize and build AI for your organization at critical performance and impact on the Intel technologies powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) platform. Reimagine the future with disruptive, fast, and efficient AI.

Speaker: Akanksha Balani, Global Alliance - AWS @ Intel

The deployment of chatbots that are getting increasingly smarter, AI-powered virtual assistants, and conversational AI technology has enabled organizations to increase customer engagement and save resources by efficiently scaling their customer-facing operations; to ultimately make their customers and end users more satisfied.

Join this session to hear founders and CXOs of key startups in the conversational AI space (spanning chatbots and voice). Learn how data scientists, engineers, and AI entrepreneurs are taking things to the next level, driving business impact, and creating a pleasant experience for their customers; with smarter and more context-aware chatbots, advancements in fields such as predictive analytics and speech recognition, and the integration of these technologies into end users’ devices.

Speakers:

• Kumara Raghavan, Head of Startup Business, AWS India
• Jaya Kishore Reddy Gollareddy, Co-founder & CTO, Yellow.ai
• Adit Jain, Co-founder & CEO, Leena.ai
• Ritesh Radhakrishnan, CTO and Co-Founder, Senseforth.ai

Join this session to hear Vikram Anbazhagan, Director & General Manager, Amazon AI, Amazon Web Services, as he discusses the latest AWS innovations that can help you transform your organization’s DNA, to gain meaningful and actionable insights for your business.

In this technical keynote, he discusses the key components of a future-proof artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML) strategy, and how you can empower your organization to drive the next wave of modern invention on AWS.

Speaker: Vikram Anbazhagan, Director of Product Management, Amazon AI, Amazon Web Services

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key enabler of digital transformation; and businesses must prepare for an AI-led future to solve real-world challenges.

In this session, learn how to democratize and build AI for your organization at critical performance and impact on the Intel technologies powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) platform. Reimagine the future with disruptive, fast, and efficient AI.

Speakers:

• Akanksha Balani, Global Alliance - AWS @ Intel
• Swastik Chakraborty, Regional Technical Sales Director, APJ, Intel

The machine learning (ML) journey requires continuous experimentation and rapid prototyping to be successful. In order to create highly accurate models, data scientists have to first experiment with feature engineering, model selection, and optimization techniques. These processes are traditionally time consuming and expensive.

In this session, learn how low-code tools, including Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart make it easier to experiment faster and bring highly accurate models to production more quickly and efficiently.

Speaker: Guru Bala, Head of Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS India

12:15pm - 1:15pm | Training ML models at scale with Amazon SageMaker

Training machine learning (ML) models at scale often requires significant infrastructure investment.

In this session, learn how Amazon SageMaker Model Training activates training and tuning of large-scale ML models with high performance, and without the need to manage infrastructure. Explore how Amazon SageMaker Model Training makes it easy to checkpoint models during training and automatically restarts the job on certain types of failures. Additionally, hear about how Amazon SageMaker Model Training offers tools for activating faster distributed training with libraries for data parallelism and model parallelism, model tuning to accelerate hyperparameter optimization, and more.

Speaker: Rama Thamman, Senior Manager Solutions Architect, AI Platforms, Amazon Web Services

12:15pm - 1:15pm | Building more inclusive and responsible AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning aid society in tackling some of its most challenging problems, and help businesses improve customer experience and spur innovation. With the growing use and scale of AI comes the recognition that it should be used responsibly, respecting human rights, human dignity, and fundamental values such as equity, privacy, and fairness.

In this session, hear about the challenges and issues faced by organizations that are working to put responsible AI theories into practice.

Speaker: Chris Howard, Senior Manager AIML Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

12:15pm - 1:15pm | Accelerated RoBERTa development leveraging distributed training

RoBERTa is currently a pioneer in advancing self-supervised systems by robustly optimizing the method for pre-training natural language processing (NLP) systems that improve on BERT. Amazon SageMaker enables customers to train, fine-tune, and run inference.

Join this session to learn how CACTUS Communications leveraged Amazon SageMaker distributed training to train RoBERTa models.

Speakers:

• Praveen Jayakumar, AI/ML Solutions Architect Leader, India, AWS India
• Jalaj Thanaki, Principal Data Scientist, CACTUS Communications

12:15pm - 1:15pm | AI impacts @ Yubi

Yubi (formerly known as CredAvenue) is a fully integrated debt financing platform that helps discover, trade, execute, and fulfil debt solutions for investors. They have over 2,300 corporates and 750 lenders on the platform. They recently became a unicorn and have built their complete tech stack on AWS. Data plays a major role in Yubi’s mission to change the debt landscape in India, as they use it to solve complex problems.

Yubi has multiple varieties of data, ingested from both internal and external sources. The rich public data that is available on enterprise borrowers plays a fundamental role in their recommendation, match making, and scoring engines. They also have collections applications that deal with analysing user experience and compliance monitoring. They use MLflow as a model repository and use Amazon SageMaker for model development and deployment. They also use Amazon Textract to extract data from external documents and use Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth for labelling. Through the use of Amazon SageMaker, they have cut down by 50% the time spent by data scientists on productionizing models.

Join this session to hear more about how Yubi leverages services provided by AWS.

Speakers:

• Mathangi Sri, Chief Data Officer, Yubi (CredAvenue)
• Vivek Murugesan, Vice President, ML Engineering, Yubi (CredAvenue)

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Accelerating your team with the next generation of Amazon SageMaker notebooks

In this session, discover how to use quick-start, collaborative Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks to increase developer productivity and support collaboration across all steps in your ML development.

We showcase the newest built-in capabilities of SageMaker Studio notebooks during this deep-dive session, and discuss how Jupiter notebooks can reach their full potential with Amazon SageMaker.

Speaker: Vikesh Pandey, Senior ML Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

3:00pm - 4:00pm | End-to-end data preparation and machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Studio

In this session, you will learn through live demonstrations how you can build end-to-end data preparation and machine learning (ML) workflows using Amazon SageMaker Studio. First, we'll show you how you can use Amazon SageMaker Studio to access data in a data lake managed with AWS Lake Formation for fine-grained data access control.

Next, you'll learn how you can use Amazon SageMaker Studio to prepare data for ML at scale using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue interactive sessions. Finally, you'll learn how you can use the prepared data to train and deploy ML models, and easily scale your interactive notebook based workflow to an automated scheduled job.

Speakers: Sumedha Swamy, Principal Product Manager, Amazon Web Services

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Implementing MLOps practices using Amazon SageMaker

Machine learning operations (MLOps) tools help you automate, standardize, and govern processes across the ML lifecycle to productionize ML models faster and maintain model quality in production. Amazon SageMaker provides an enterprise level platform with a breadth of MLOps tools to train, test, troubleshoot, deploy, and govern ML models at scale.

In this session, learn how to quickly setup and standardize data science environments as well as dive deep into Amazon SageMaker MLOps features, including Amazon SageMaker Feature Store, Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, Amazon SageMaker Projects, Amazon SageMaker Experiments, Amazon SageMaker Model Registry, and Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor. Find out how you can increase efficiency and improve the quality of your ML workflows.

Speaker: Alessandro Cere, Senior AIML Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Finding accurate answers quickly, with ML-powered intelligent search

Data fuels innovation, and innovation helps organizations stay ahead of the curve. Finding the right answers accurately and quickly is critical to solving business problems, improving employee productivity, and ensuring customer success for businesses in any industry.

Attend this session to learn about Amazon Kendra, an intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Learn how you can bring intelligent search to where your employees and customers are working, while transforming the way they can get accurate answers to their questions quickly, from content across the enterprise. Hear about how AWS customers were able to create a fully functional intelligent search application for better employee productivity and exceptional customer experiences with low total cost of ownership.

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Improving uptime with predictive maintenance for industrial equipment

Predictive maintenance is an effective way to avoid industrial machinery failures and expensive downtime, by proactively monitoring the condition of your equipment. It ensures that you are alerted to any anomalies before equipment failures occur. However, this technology has been difficult to implement.

In this session, learn how industrial customers are activating predictive maintenance and avoiding downtime with AI services from AWS such as Amazon Monitron Lookout for equipment, which requires no machine learning experience.

Speaker: Sudhanshu Hate, Principal AIML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS India

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Expert talk on natural language processing

In this session, we discuss a question-answer based approach for medical entity relationship extraction using sequence-to-sequence transformers. Relationship extraction from different kinds of documents across business domains can become non-trivial due to complex linguistic relations like distance between entities, overlapping entities within a relationship span, and prohibitive annotation requirements. We present one of our solutions that addresses these issues and produces state-of-the-art results for extracting relation between adverse drug events (ADE) and suspected drug, from various unstructured data sources including clinical study reports, patient health records, and social media posts.

We also talk about a comparative study of post-hoc explanation methods for human understandable text classification. Transformer-based models have been successfully applied to many real-world text classification problems with state-of-the-art performance. However, the opaque nature of these models impedes deployment in highly regularized and sensitive domains such as finance and health care where decision transparency is required. It is therefore crucial to explain model decisions to users in such cases. Though many explanation methods have been proposed in the past few years, there lacks a thorough understanding of their performances and trade-offs for the productionization of these methods.

Join this session, as we share our insights from a wide-range of experiments to answer which algorithm to use for productionization, considering practical issues such as robustness across models and datasets, computational cost, and understandability for users.

Speakers:

• Atanu Roy, Senior Manager, ML Solutions Lab, AWS India
• Tomal Deb, Data Scientist, ML Solutions Lab, AWS India

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Observe.AI - Best way to host cost-effective high throughput language models

Observe.AI offers a conversational AI-driven software as a service (SaaS) product that transforms contact centers; by using AI to analyze customer interactions across channels, boost agent performance, and automate workflows that accelerate sales and retention. Language models like BERT are core to the intelligence offered by Observe.AI. As part of their journey to build a scalable, highly performant, and low-cost inferencing platform, Observe.AI explored various solutions across AWS, open source, and third party.

Join this session to learn how Observe.AI evaluated various solutions and ported their model to AWS Inferentia for a cost-effective solution.

Speakers:

• Venkatramana Ameth Achar, Solutions Architect, AWS India
• Sai Guruju, Senior ML Engineer, Observe.AI

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Meesho leveraging AI & ML to solve e-commerce problems for next billion users of India

Join this session to find out how Meesho is using AI and ML across the e-commerce platform. Deep dive into representation learning based retrieval to drive multi-staged ranking systems for recommendations across real-estate. Get an overview of the deep learning models and the architecture which powers these retrieval systems.

Speakers:

• Rajesh Kumar SA, Director of Data Science, Meesho
• Abhay Shukla, Data Scientist, Meesho

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Fidelity Investments AI & ML platform journey

In this session, get to know how Fidelity Investments built an AI & ML platform using Amazon SageMaker focusing on serverless MLOps to provide a seamless customer experience and achieve operational success, without building additional tooling for model monitoring. Learn about their use case on Document processing and how they streamlined, optimized cost and maintenance efforts by running the inference from Amazon SageMaker platform.

Speakers:

• Avishek Pradhan, Director of Workplace Investing business, Fidelity Investments
• Ramanathan Natarajan, Director Architecture, MLOps & Advanced Analytics, Fidelity Investments

2:00pm - 3:00pm | Contact Center Intelligence on legacy on-premises telephony

Digital Risk, a mortgage BPM (business process management) subsidiary of Mphasis Limited, India, uses on premises based legacy contact center platforms. One of them is from Mitel Networks Corporation, which handles thousands of calls per day. Through Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) powered by AWS AI & ML stack, Digital Risk sought to transform their agent experience and also gain insights for supervisors, analysts, and business leaders. They were particular about having a voice platform-agnostic intelligence layer which can be placed on top of any existing or new contact center infrastructure. On-the-call knowledge management by agent is simplified using NLP-powered search index with Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend.

Join this session to hear about Digital Risk’s use of AI & ML services from AWS.

Speakers:

• Ramanuj Vidyanta, AI & Machine Learning Strategy & Business Development Specialist, AWS India
• Sanjiv Kumar Shrivastava, Vice President and Head of Technology, Automation, Digital Transformation, Mphasis Limited

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Building an AI & ML solution for fraud and risk management

A client had their machine learning workload divided between local and AWS, with a lack of automation at every flow. The client wanted to fully utilize AWS MLOps capabilities and automate their existing system with minimal human intervention. The business impact – reducing manual intervention in auto detection of fraud.

Join this session to learn how we incorporated entire Amazon SageMaker pipelines to pre-process the large variety of their datasets, and build the optimal model. We used in-built Amazon SageMaker algorithms to build the model and save it into model registry along with CI/CD pipelines. Gain insights on how we did this using multiple offerings from Amazon SageMaker, including Amazon SageMaker processing jobs, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, and Amazon SageMaker Clarify.

Speakers:

• Bhavesh Goswami, CEO & Founder, CloudThat
• Dev P, CTO, Kisetsu Saison Finance India Pvt. Ltd.

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Indecomm Global Services uses Amazon Textract for document processing automation

In the mortgage industry there is a huge amount of data and documents to be collected. Physically managing and extracting the right information from these documents is a challenging and time-consuming process. To solve this problem, Indecomm Global services uses Amazon Textract and Amazon SageMaker to automate documenting processing. They are able to process thousands of documents in a very short time frame, extract relevant information with a high level of accuracy, and initiate the next steps in the process using this information.

Attend this session to learn more about how AWS services are leveraged by the mortgage industry for document processing.

Speakers:

• Praveen Hosur Narayanagupta, Solutions Architect, AWS India
• Dr. Harish B Kamath, SVP, Engineering, Indecomm Global Services