AWS in ASEAN and Vietnam - Enabling Organizations to innovate with the cloud
(All attendees to be seated by 8:45am. Entry allowed at the next intermission)

Guest of Honor Speech

AWS Keynote

Empower and enrich the lives of micro, small & medium enterprises with access to advanced technology

Change Banking, Change Lives - Digital, data & human excellence

Market penetration and expansion through digital transformation

Panel Discussion - How businesses are leveraging AWS to spearhead Digital Transformation
The power of cloud can be a catalyst for digital transformation in an organization - from products, processes to people. In this interactive panel discussion, hear from executives on how cloud has changed the way their business operates, the pains and gains of cloud transformation, and why the time is now to transform with the cloud.

• Uy Tran, Co-Founder, COO & General Director, Katalon Co. Ltd
• Alice Phuong Anh Ha, Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer, OpenCommerce Group
• Tran Nhat Minh, Deputy CEO & CIO, Vietnam International Bank (VIB)

Welcome Address

Opening Speeches

• Mr. Doan Thanh Hai, Deputy Director General, ICT Dept, State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)
• Dr Nguyen Quoc Hung, General Secretary, Vietnam Banks Association (VNBA)

Fireside Chat: Agile fin-ops to harness value from cloud investments
Many enterprises have become proficient with cloud, migrating substantial portions of their workloads, upskilling the workforce and establishing a robust security posture. So, what's next? How do you harness and accelerate value from the foundation you’ve built? The answer might lie in Agile Cloud FinOps - the discipline that helps you drive a culture of change by making costs visible at scale, close alignment of cost and value, engaging wider business decision makers and embarking on a process of cost optimization. In this session, learn how to accelerate business value realisation through prudent cloud financial management, and hear from Techcombank on how this is put into practice.

• Vinu Rohit Krishnan, Head of Cloud Economics and Commercial Strategy, ASEAN, AWS
• Alexandre Macaire, Group Chief Financial Officer, Techcombank

FSI Security & Compliance on AWS
In this session, you will learn about the AWS Compliance Program and how cloud controls can be integrated into your risk management framework. In addition, we will share how we can support you for compliance from the angle of the shared responsibilities. You will also learn about the regulatory considerations when moving to AWS and how to approach them.

Payments Transformation with AWS
Technology advances and drastically changing economic conditions have transformed the way customers view and interact with financial institutions. Customers, both consumers and businesses, today expect frictionless payments and instant settlement. The shift to digital was already underway before the pandemic and payment providers are now seeing a dramatic acceleration of three key trends:

1. The need for payment platform modernization to accommodate multiple payment types
2. Rising fraud attempts related to a shift to digital payment transactions
3. An opportunity to adapt to changing lending and credit evaluations

In this session we will take a look at various trends in the payments industry and how customers working with AWS to transform the payments industry by making real-time business decisions, innovating and adapting to client expectations, processing global digital payments, increasing agility, and scaling to meet unpredictable demands.

Fireside Chat: Building a Digital Bank: Insights, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices
This session aims to examine the current state of digital banking and explore the key considerations and opportunities for core banking modernization. The session will provide insights into how banks can effectively navigate the rapidly changing landscape of digital banking to remain competitive and meet the needs of the modern consumer. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities of digital banking, and how they can drive innovation and growth while maintaining security, compliance, and customer satisfaction. You will leave the session with a better understanding of challenges, best practices and actionable insights on how to effectively navigate this rapidly changing landscape. This session will provide valuable information for anyone interested in digital banking and the future of the financial services industry.

• Unni Pillai, Head of Technology (FSI), ASEAN, AWS
• Manoranjan Sahu, Chief Information Officer, Übank (Digital Banking arm for VPBank)

Fireside Chat: Harnessing and Accelerating a Culture of Transformation/Innovation
In the age of digital transformation, technology teams play a pivotal role in shaping an organization's future by enabling innovation and harnessing the power of technology. Join us for an insightful fireside chat focused on innovation, culture & engineering excellence, where technology leaders will discuss how technology can become catalysts for change and drive innovation within their organizations.

During this session, we will dive deep into experiences and insights on leveraging technology to foster a culture of innovation and transformation. They will delve into the importance of engineering excellence in IT teams, exploring topics such as agile methodologies, DevOps practices, continuous integration and delivery, and modern software development techniques. The conversation will also highlight the role of cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing, in accelerating innovation and enabling IT teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

The discussion will emphasize the significance of collaboration and open communication among IT teams, as well as the role of leadership in empowering employees and fostering an environment that embraces calculated risks and continuous learning.

• Khanh Pham, Senior Engineering Manager, NAB Innovation Centre Vietnam (NICV)
• Joel Garcia, Head of Technology, ASEAN, AWS

Key Takeaways & Closing

Next generation security, performance, and innovation designed to run any workload (L200)
Millions of organizations run diverse workloads on the AWS compute platform to realize increased performance, security, reliability, and scale. Find out how AWS can help you achieve high performance on the workloads you have today, and workloads you are building for tomorrow with the largest set of services and capabilities across compute, networking, and storage. For the 11th straight year, AWS is recognized as a Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services. In this session, we discuss core compute innovations that enables u to rapidly innovate and build on the latest technologies with significantly more security, compliance, and governance services, and key features. Learn how you can accelerate innovation on the world's most reliable, secure, and capable cloud at a faster pace, and in virtually any location.

Getting started with serverless applications (L200)
With serverless computing, you can build and run applications without the need for provisioning or managing servers. Serverless computing means that you can build web, mobile, and IoT backends, run stream processing or big data workloads, run chatbots, and more, without worrying about the infrastructure. In this session, learn how to get started with serverless computing with AWS Lambda which allow you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. We share why serverless is a great toolset for experimenting with new ideas and explain the extensibility and modularity of serverless applications which allows you to start small and quickly add features. Get acquiainted with the broader portfolio of AWS services to help you build serverless applications with AWS Lambda, including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB and more.

Build modern applications with purpose-built databases (L200)
Organizations are increasingly focusing on building a modern data strategy to deliver insights to the people and applications that need it, securely and at scale. In this session, learn how you can leverage AWS database services, teams, and partners, to start your journey towards data modernization that include (1) migrating data infrastructure to the cloud and gaining security, agility and elasticity; (2) reduce license fees; (3) automate the undifferentiated heavy lifting by adopting managed database services; and (4) adopting purpose-built databases for different types of applications.

Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD in practice with AWS CDK (L200)
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase development velocity to deliver apps. In general, practicing DevOps enable organizations to better serve customers and compete effectively in the market. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and release pipeline with CI/CD are two of best practices in DevOps, and considered the best entry for developers who just getting started with DevOps. In this session, learn how to implement IaC and CI/CD using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and we show you a step-by-step demo to help you get started. This session equips you with the understanding on the overall concept of IaC and CI/CD including the AWS services and developer tools needed for seamless integration with the development workflow.

Fast track your Kubernetes adoption with Amazon EKS Blueprints (L300)
Containerization has transformed the way modern applications are developed. In this session, learn how Amazon EKS Blueprints, a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules help you to configure complete EKS clusters that are fully bootstrapped with operational software needed to consistently deploy and operate workloads. Find out how to describe the configuration for the desired state of your EKS cluster, such as the control plane, worker nodes, and Kubernetes add-ons, as an IaC blueprint. Once a blueprint is configured, you can use it to deploy consistent environments across multiple AWS accounts and regions using continuous deployment automation.

Increase availability with AWS observability solutions (L200)
Performance monitoring is an important part of any application. By understanding the health of your application, you know whether it’s functioning as expected and can proactively react when it becomes unhealthy. To provide access to critical resources when needed and also limit the potential financial impact of an application outage, a highly available application design is critical. In this session, learn how to add monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing to your applications, using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to increase the availability of your applications. Find out how AWS observability solutions can help you proactively detect, efficiently investigate, and quickly resolve operational issues. All of which help you manage and improve your application’s availability.

Create a modern data strategy to innovate faster (L200)
Data is dynamic and comes in different formats, which makes it challenging to extract value. A modern data strategy can help you manage, act on, and react to your data so you can make better decisions, respond faster, and uncover new opportunities. Uncover the latest in database, data, analytics and AI/ML and get insights on how organizations are harnessing the power of data to accelerate innovation in their organization. In this session, learn how you can build a modern data strategy that allows you to consolidate, store, curate, and analyze data at any scale, as well as share data insights with everyone who needs them.

Data engineering made easy and accessible for everyone with AWS Glue (L200)
Organizations are breaking down data silos and integrating data from different systems and components to extract the maximum value of their data. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service which makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. In this session, dive deep into new and existing features of AWS Glue. Join this session to hear from our customers and learn how to build and run scalable, extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows including simplifying your data integration architecture.

• Huy Nguyen, Director of Data Engineering, Techcombank
• Chinh Hoang Minh, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Unleash your organization's data analytics potential with Amazon Redshift (L200)
Amazon Redshift enables you to focus on delivering your business outcomes without worrying about managing infrastructure. You can break through data silos and run real-time and predictive analytics on all your data across your operational databases, data lake, data warehouse, and thousands of third-party data sets. With features like Amazon Redshift data sharing, you can extend the ease of use, performance, and cost benefits of Amazon Redshift in a single cluster to multi-cluster deployments while being able to share data. In this session, we showcase the art of the possible with Amazon Redshift and demonstrate how to accelerate your time to insight with fast, easy, and secure analytics at scale.

Go beyond insights to predictive analytics with Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon SageMaker Canvas (L200)
Organizations are managing more data than ever before, and data use is only continuing to expand. Harnessing data to reinvent a business while challenging, is imperative to staying relevant now and in the future. To go beyond insights to predictions, Amazon Redshift ML brings machine learning to the data in your data warehouse, with familiar SQL command. In this session, learn how to create machine learning models with Amazon Redshift and Amazon SageMakers Canvas - a visual, no code ML capability for data analysts and make predictions from your data in Amazon Redshift without moving data or learning a new skill.

Train ML models quickly and cost-effectively with Amazon SageMaker (L300)
Training machine learning models at scale often requires significant investments. In this session, we will show how Amazon SageMaker enables you to reduce time and costs to train and tune machine learning (ML) models without the need to manage infrastructure. Learn how to build and scale models using built-in tools to manage and track training experiments, automatically choose optimal hyperparameters, enable distributed learning, debug training jobs and much more, with an end-to-end ML toolset.

• My Nguyen, Prototyping Engineer, AWS
• Triet Le, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Democratizing data: Build no-code predictive dashboards with Amazon Quicksight (L200)
Access to all data for fast analytics at scale is key for 360-degree projects involving data engineers, developers, analysts, data scientists, BI professionals and other users. However, building such models requires depth of technical knowledge and resources. This session showcases the how to build and visualize accurate ML predictions in BI solutions. Learn how to prepare tabular datasets and train a ML model with Amazon SageMaker without writing a single line of code. We then demonstrate how Amazon QuickSight, a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence with native ML integrations and usage-based pricing, allows users to meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, and natural language queries.