10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Fireside chat
Executive Masterclass - Making the case for change (Level 100)

How do you build a case for change beyond just IT cost savings, and get buy-in and ownership across your organization to achieve these benefits?

The cloud can help increase agility, resilience, and security; it can enable innovation and better customer service; it can help streamline operations. Which of these benefits is most closely tied to the business’s strategic objectives? Once you decide, your business case flows from that—as does clarity, prioritization of what you’ll do in the cloud, a sense of urgency, and your way to measure results. The benefits of the cloud are not just technical benefits, but business benefits, and that’s where the business case is.

In this Executive Masterclass, you will hear from our customers that have boarded the cloud adoption journey, how they build their case for change.

Based on IDC’s finding, 92% of the value AWS customers receive is from benefits beyond cost.

Who should attend: Business Decision Makers, Technical Decision Makers, Migration Leads, Cloud Architects/Engineers, IT Professionals, Solution Architects, IT Operations and Admin and anyone looking to innovate with speed and agility.

Stephen Johnstone
Head of Transformation and Migrations, AWS

Bryce Boland
Security Specialist Solutions Architect Lead, AWS

Robert Tan
Head of Global Infrastructure and Cloud, Maxeon Solar Technologies

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM | Presentation
The Great Migration: Cloud value realization (Level 200)

Amid constant changes, businesses must move rapidly to embrace new work styles. Recent research suggests that over 90% of enterprises are accelerating cloud adoption plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessment and deeper planning is the key for successful migration and modernization journey.

In this session, learn what it takes to assess, plan and execute successful migration to AWS platform, how businesses can quickly and effectively modernize IT landscape and deploy their data strategy to harness the benefits of technologies like AI/ML, enabled by cloud operating model. We will also uncover cloud benefits that goes beyond cost savings and how migrating to cloud improves business agility, operational resilience and adds to staff productivity. We will also cover how AWS enables customers to build sustainability solutions ranging from carbon tracking to energy conservation to waste reduction, using AWS services to ingest, analyze, and manage sustainability data. Come and join us in this session to explore how AWS can help accelerate your journey to cloud and reduce the time to value realization from cloud migration.

Who should attend: Business Decision Makers, Technical Decision Makers, Migration Leads, Cloud Architects/Engineers, IT Professionals, Solution Architects, IT Operations and Admin and anyone looking to innovate with speed and agility.

Dhiraj Garg
Business Development - Migrations, ASEAN, AWS

Jindu Cherian
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Migrations, AWS

Vinu Krishnan
Head of Cloud Economics and Comm Strategy, AWS

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Presentation and hands-on workshop
Establish a hybrid data protection strategy for on-premises databases and files (Level 200)

A robust backup policy is at the center of an enterprise’s business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. When planning a backup policy for your applications, consider a combination of file backups and storage snapshots to minimize recovery time objective (RTO). In this workshop, you will have a hands-on experience on how to architect a secure, cost-effective hybrid backup architecture for databases and files using Storage Gateway. You will learn how to archive on-premises files to Amazon S3, access the files using Storage Gateway and rapidly recover or migrate the databases to AWS.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Pre-requisites: Access to temporary AWS accounts will be provided for you on the day: No existing account required. For the best experience you may want to use a large screen or second screen if possible, to follow the webinar and hands-on side-by-side.

Ameen Khan
Storage Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Yvonne Chia
Senior Storage Specialist, AWS

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM | Presentation and demo
Microsoft SQL Server on AWS - Choosing the right strategy (Level 200)

If you are paying fortunes to maintain your SQL Server instances, and wonder if there are ways to alleviate the pain, join this session as we explain about the migration and modernization of SQL Server workloads. Uncover the options to assess your licensing costs and ways to improve your architecture. Get the step by step guide and methodology on how to reduce maintenance costs with automation, and learn the benefits of the cloud and its advantages.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Roy Sudarshan
Senior RDS Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | Presentation and demos
Modernizing your MS SQL applications with Babelfish (Level 200)

Amazon Babelfish is a great open source technology to migrate expensive Microsoft SQL server-based applications to more open source technologies like PostgreSQL. In this session, you will learn challenges of commercial databases like Microsoft SQL server & how Babelfish helps to alleviate those. We will also cover use cases for Babelfish and some of its limitations. Remember to attend the more deep-down hands-on workshop later in this session.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Sriwantha Attanayaka
Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

11:00 AM – 11:40 AM | Presentation
Leading the way with successful and sustainable Windows Modernization (Level 200)

Windows modernization needs to be approached as a journey, rather than end goal for it to succeed. Join this session to learn from AWS advanced partner, DNX Solutions on their approach to modernization, use cases and how they have embarked on data and digital modernization project with their customer Plutora. Get to hear first-hand from Plutora on their business challenges, considerations and experience on their modernization journey.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Helder Klemp
Founder and CEO, DNX Solutions

Simon Farrell
CTO, Plutora

11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | Presentation
Accelerate your modernization journey to open-source databases (Level 200)

Break away from commercial databases by using enterprise-ready open-source database platforms on AWS. Presented by 1CloudHub, learn from the team that implemented one of the first Babelfish production implementations in the region, gain insights into best practices, considerations, and experience how Babelfish can expedite the database modernization process. This webinar will assist IT leaders in identifying and expediting opportunities to update their database estate using new AWS database platforms.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Ramakrishna Phani J
Global Practice Head, 1CloudHub

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Hands-on workshop
Babelfish App Modernization Workshop (Level 400)

This is a 100% hands-on virtual technical boot camp for those who want to learn how to migrate Microsoft SQL Server-based applications to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using Babelfish with little to no code change. The goal of this training is to make you comfortable with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, show its internal wiring, corner points, debugging techniques, and show you the avenues to migrate away from expensive Microsoft SQL Server. During the labs, you will be migrating a complex real-world Microsoft SQL Server-based application called OrchardCMS. There is no better way to learn Babelfish than getting your hands dirty and doing an actual migration!

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators, Database Administrators, Database Architects, SQL Server Business Intelligence Developers

Pre-requisites: This technical course is designed for those who are ready to get their hands dirty by executing technical labs. No solid prior knowledge about AWS or Babelfish is expected. Some basic understanding of Microsoft SQL Server, Structured Query Language (SQL), Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is needed. Also, it's good to have some basic programming skills. However, you don't need to be an expert in .NET or .NET programming. You are expected to have some practical knowledge about AWS and must be comfortable using the AWS console. Nonetheless, you do not need to be an expert on AWS.

Sandeep Rajain
Partner Solutions Architect - Databases, AWS

Sriwantha Attanayaka
Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Presentation
SAP RISE on AWS (Level 100)

RISE with SAP is SAP’s business transformation as a service offering that addresses the needs of our customers as they embark on their journey to becoming an Intelligent Enterprise. Find out what is it? What has changed? Understand the RISE benefits on AWS. Learn more about the AWS and SAP partnership, the unique AWS differentiators that power RISE with SAP as well as extending RISE in SAP and AWS.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, IT Managers, System Architects, Solution Architects, IT Professionals, SAP Application Managers, SAP Basis Administrators

Peter Perbellini
APJ Solutions Architect Leader - SAP on AWS, AWS

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Presentation
What's new with SAP on AWS (Level 200)

We continue to help our SAP customers drive new levels of efficiency and innovation around their core business systems. We continue supporting choice to help each customer execute the optimal SAP strategy based on their own unique needs. We continue investing in tooling to give SAP customers a simpler management experience and a broader set of infrastructure to optimize for different cost and performance requirements. Join us to understand the most recent and relevant SAP on AWS announcements that have been made recently.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, IT Managers, System Architects, Solution Architects, IT Professionals, SAP Application Managers, SAP Basis Administrators

Ashish Tak
Senior Solutions Architect - SAP on AWS, AWS

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Presentation
Business insights from SAP on AWS (Level 300)

Thousands of SAP customers run their critical workloads on AWS and realize significant business benefits. Many customers look for transformational progress powered by their data and the power of analytics. In this virtual presenation AWS architects will share why AWS is the proven platform for SAP including best practices for enterprise data strategies. Learn strategies and tips on how you can harness the value of your data easily, securely and cost-effectively to fuel innovations and better decision-making.

Who should attend: Technical Decision Makers, IT Managers, System Architects, Solution Architects, IT Professionals, SAP Application Managers, SAP Basis Administrators

Wong Whye Loong
Solutions Architect - SAP, AWS

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Presentation and hands-on workshop
Extending your SAP digital core on AWS with AWS services workshop (Beyond SAP) (Level 400)

While migrating SAP workloads to AWS can drive immediate benefits for cost savings, agility, resiliency, and open doors for future innovation; how do you step through that door? Join us to learn about and get hands on experience with an easy to build scenario on AWS, where non-SAP and SAP data can be combined to gain further insights, using AWS services such as Amazon AppFlow, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight.

This session is intended only for teams involved in hands-on work with SAP solutions. Take note of the mandatory pre-requisities prior to registering for this session.

Who should attend: SAP Basis Consultants/Admins/Support teams, Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, and other roles with hands-on experience with SAP and AWS.
Note that consultants focused on SAP Functional topics only, will frequently not have the required experience needed.

Pre-requisites: This session is intended only for teams involved in hands-on work with SAP solutions. Temporary access to an AWS account, and a shared sandbox S/4HANA environment will be provided as part of this workshop. Note: This is not recommended for attendees who are brand-new to AWS.

Derek Ewell
Principal Solutions Architect - SAP, AWS

Ferry Mulyadi
Alliance Partner Solutions Architect - SAP, AWS

Wong Whye Loong
Solutions Architect - SAP, AWS