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What are you waiting for to add AI capabilities to your applications?

While most companies around the world and across all industries want to add AI capabilities to their applications and processes, they don’t always have the skills or time to develop their own ML models. AWS offers the broadest and most complete set of AI services that can be integrated into your applications without having to become an expert in machine learning.

In this session you’ll get an overview of AWS AI services, the type of solutions their pre-trained models make easy to implement, and how you can use them to make your own applications more intelligent.

Speaker: Gillian Armstrong, Senior WW Builder Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

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Level: 100

Amazon's culture of innovation

Amazon is recognised around the world as an innovation leader, and we often hear AWS customers asking, “How does Amazon innovate?” This session will introduce you to our peculiar culture and how Amazon innovates. It is centered around four foundational elements: Culture, Mechanisms, Architecture, and Organization. You'll learn about our Leadership Principles, Working Backwards, our development of a microservices architecture, two-pizza teams, and much more. You’ll gain a deep appreciation of how these elements influence Amazon’s innovation process and take away inspiration and ideas for your unique challenges and goals.

Speakers: Mark Finlay, Head of Public Sector - Republic of Ireland and Giullia Rossi, EMEA Innovation Program - Cluster Lead, AWS

Level: 100

Navigating the SaaS Transformation Journey with The Scale Factory

Join us for a comprehensive session on transforming your ISV product portfolio into a successful cloud-based SaaS model. The Scale Factory, an AWS SaaS Competency Partner, will share their expertise on accelerating the transition from a traditional software licensing model to a recurring revenue-based SaaS solution. Learn key strategies for optimising your product roadmap and making the most of the cloud to drive growth and success in the SaaS industry. Whether you're just starting your journey or looking to fine-tune your approach, this session is a must-attend for all ISV leaders.

Speakers: Jon Topper, CEO & CTO at Scale Factory

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Modern data architecture on AWS

The modern data architecture is an evolution from data warehouse and data lake–based solutions, and it allows you to query data across your data warehouse, data lake, and purpose-built analytics services to gain faster and deeper insights that would not be possible otherwise. In this session, learn how to design, create, and operate a modern data architecture on AWS by using AWS purpose-built data services. Also learn about modern data architecture concepts, why customers are adapting to it, modern data architecture pillars, reference architectures, and best practices while building modern data architectures on AWS for optimal performance and cost effectiveness.

Speakers: Chris Johnson, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

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Transform Software purchasing through AWS Marketplace

SaaS is the preferred consumption model for many customers, as it optimizes costs while improving speed and deployment agility. However, some customers struggle with managing multiple SaaS vendors, renewals and contracting. AWS Marketplace, a leader among SaaS cloud marketplaces, provides a one stop shop for SaaS solutions with continual compliance assessments to make it easier to quickly procure and start using SaaS products on AWS.

In this session, learn how AWS Marketplace can help you reduce the time and resources required to find, validate, configure, and launch SaaS applications from leading vendors with AWS Marketplace.

Speakers: Patrick Callinan, Director of Insights and Data Science, Car Trawler and Lisa Lewison, Head of Engagement Success at AWS

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Building a Successful Cloud Centre of Excellence

Join us as we explore Bank of Ireland's journey to building a successful Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCOE) on AWS. Our speaker will share their experience on how they hired the right team, established governance, and implemented required landing zones. They will delve into the challenges faced and how they overcame them to build a sustainable CCOE. This session is ideal for IT leaders, cloud architects, and those responsible for cloud strategy and implementation. Learn from real-world experiences and take away valuable insights for building a successful CCOE in your own organization.

Speakers: Daniel Dalla, Head of Cloud, Bank of Ireland and Richard Caven, Lead EMEA Banking Specialist, AWS

Level: 100

Revolutionizing Healthcare Delivery with AWS: The Wellola Experience

Wellola is a startup that was born on AWS and is now delivering secure video-consultation and patient-portal solutions to governments, hospitals, healthcare systems, and professional bodies in Ireland and the UK.

In this session, attendees will discover how Wellola transformed its healthcare solution through a SaaS cloud transformation project using AWS.Wellola's mission is to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone, with a focus on preventative, community-based care supported by digital tools. The company leveraged the power of AWS to build a scalable and secure platform that provides a seamless experience for both healthcare providers and patients.

In this session, attendees will learn about the challenges Wellola faced during its SaaS cloud transformation project, including scalability, security, and cost optimization. The Wellola team will share best practices and lessons learned that can be applied to other organizations looking to transform their business with the cloud.Join us to discover how Wellola is revolutionizing healthcare delivery and learn how you can harness the power of AWS to drive innovation and transformation in your own organization.

Speakers: Sonia Neary, CEO, Wellola and Stephen Bonney, Account Manager at AWS

Level: 100

Optimisation

Cost Optimisation - How engineering can bring value to the CFO: understanding cost optimisation through the lens of incentives and governance and providing insights on costs per unit.

Speakers: John Malone - Senior Director of Engineering, Sitecore

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Level: 200

A modern application is ASAP

Organizations tell us they have to modernize the way they build and operate applications. Modern applications are built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, serverless operational models and agile developer processes. Attend this session to learn how AWS Container Services and serverless technologies, like AWS Lambda, simplify operations and reduce management overheads like orchestration and infrastructure provisioning.

Speakers: Matheus Guimaraes, Senior Developer Advocate, UK/IR, AWS, Colum Thorne, VP Platform Architecture at RenaissanceRe and Peter Elger, CEO at fourTheorem

Level: 100

Accelerating Sustainability through AWS Cloud

Becoming Future Fit: Accelerate Your Organisation's Sustainability Transformation followed by a fireside chat.

Speakers: Hilary Tam, Principal BDM, Sustainability Innovation at AWS, Lamé Verre, Head of Strategy, Innovation & Sustainability at SSE Airticity, Amaya Souarez, EVP, Cloud Services & Operations at SAGE and Paula Kirk, Director, Global Leader Climate and Sustainability at Arup

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Good to Great: Maximising your SaaS Success

In order to realize the full value proposition of the SaaS delivery model, organizations need to follow strategies that enable agility, innovation, operational efficiency, cost efficiency, and growth. While the importance of adopting and incorporating these strategies may be well understood, the path to implementing them can be challenging.

In this session, you will learn about best practices and strategies that differentiate good SaaS business and delivery model from a great one.

Speakers: Tomaz Perc, EMEA SaaS Lead at AWS

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Protect your most valuable assets with AWS native and partner-provided data protection services

As data becomes the most valuable asset within organizations around the glove, you need a secure cloud environment that provides you with the ability to manage the privacy controls of your data, control how your data is used, who has access to it, and where and how it is encrypted.

In this session, you will understand how native AWS data protection services, such as AWS Key Management Service, AWS SecretsManager, AWS Certificate Manager, and AWS CloudHSM, as well as partner services, can provide you with granular controls over access and policy enforcement, allowing you to build a highly secure foundation for your data.

Speakers: Patrick Palmer, Sr. Security Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

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Introduction to Security in the Cloud and Protecting Your Data

An overview of key concepts for security in the cloud. How thinking differently about security can help you protect your data and streamline compliance.

Speakers: Richard Price, Principal Security Strategist / Executive Security Advisor, AWS

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ElectroRoute – making net-zero a reality with the help of AWS

ElectroRoute’s vision is to make net zero a reality by solving the commercial mechanics of a decarbonised energy system. It selected AWS as it’s Cloud provider enabling the team to optimise a range of renewable assets on a 24*7 basis using it tech-driven, AI-powered platform, ElectroRoute CORE – scalability, flexibility & agility are some of the key benefits ElectroRoute has realised through working with AWS.

Speakers: Caoimhe Giblin, Commercial Director at ElectroRoute

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Scaling up to your first 10 million users

Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. If you have a new web application and want to use cloud computing, you might be asking yourself, “Where do I start?”

Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from one user to millions of users. We show you how to best combine different AWS services, how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and how to scale your infrastructure and serverless components in the cloud.

Speakers: Fabrizio Fortunato, Head Of Frontend, Ryanair and Damian Niezgoda, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

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Accelerating Towards a Serverless-First Organization

Many organizations that have migrated or are considering a migration to the cloud look for guidance on how to face their next challenge: their modernization journey. What should you expect from the cloud? What role can Serverless play? Learn how to create an effective modern cloud strategy from David Anderson, author of “The Value Flywheel Effect”, by exploring the four phases of the Value Flywheel and how you can use the Wardley Mapping technique to achieve successful migrations such as experienced by Liberty Mutual, BBC, A Cloud Guru and more.

Speakers:David Anderson, Serverless-First Engineering, Architect at Globalization Partners

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Transforming Crew Control Operations with Amazon Connect and Conversational AI in Large Enterprises

Join us to discover how Ryanair, a leading airline company, implemented Amazon Connect and conversational AI to revolutionize their crew control operations in just 4 weeks. Our experts will showcase the benefits of this solution and provide insights into best practices for implementing it in large enterprise environments. You'll learn how Amazon Connect and conversational AI can streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance customer experiences. Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from Ryanair about their success with this solution and how it can benefit your organisation.

Speakers: Ronan Prenty, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS, John Hurley, CTO at Ryanair and Alan Kiernan, CTO & Founder, Cation Consulting

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Grow your SaaS business with AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace, jointly with AWS Partner Network (APN), helps ISVs and Consulting Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS offerings by providing valuable business, technical and marketing support. Learn how you can list your products on Marketplace, reduce friction and speed up transactions with your customers

Speakers: Charlie Ardagh, Leading Partnerships at Tines and Niall Duffy, EMEA Lead, B2B Startup ISV Partners, AWS Partner Organisation

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Architecting for Sustainability

We will dive into the sustainability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which provides direction on how you can further reduce energy and carbon impact.

Speakers: John MacEnri, CTO, Cool Planet and Stephen Gallagher, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

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Building an Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform in AWS - From 1 to 100 teams

Large enterprises like Aon are increasingly looking to coalesce their technology strategies around shared platform capabilities. Data lives at the centre of every decision we make, and so the opportunity for Aon to create a central Enterprise Data Platform holds specific relevance. By choosing the right mix of scalable enterprise software and AWS cloud architectures we have supported teams in rapidly developing end-to-end data-driven solutions.

Speakers: Patrick Callaghan, Principal Analytics Platform Specialist, AWS and Karl Heery, VP of Technology, Digital Delivery Capabilities (Data & Analytics, RPA, DevOps & QA), Aon

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Data Driven Innovation

Amazon Redshift at the heart of Flutter UKI's modern data platform underpinning Paddy Power Betfair. Steven and Cathail will talk through their Data Platform from 2019 and discuss the iterations and new architecture that they have implemented with AWS to deliver at scale.

Speakers: Cathal O’Riain, Head of Data Product Management and Steven Cochrane, Senior Director, Data & Analytics at Flutter Entertainment

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Automate everything with Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) enables organizations to define their desired infrastructure using a configuration file or code, and programmatically create it to ensure consistency and repeatability. This session shows you how to use Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to model your infrastructure using Python, Java or Typescript. You will learn how to use high-level components called constructs that preconfigure cloud resources with proven default. AWS CDK provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner through AWS CloudFormation.

Speakers: Richard Maher, Platform Architect, Fineos and Gerrard Cowburn, Solutions Architect, AWS

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Tranformation / Innovation Panel

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Panel: Fiona Simpson Head of Commercial NI, AWS, Karen Roche, Product Sales Specialist, Kx, Richard Jones, Enterprise Technologist, AWS

Level: 300

Resilient and well-architected apps with chaos engineering

Well-architected applications are designed and built to be secure, high-performing and resilient. You need to test your application and validate that it operates as designed, and is resilient to failures.

In this session, you will learn how to apply chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Simulator, stress your application, simulate disruptive events, and observe how the system responds. This will enable you to iteratively improve the resiliency and performance of your system using architecture best practices.

Speakers: Kanniah VJ, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS