Event Overview
Event Date: June 24, 2021 (Thurs)
Time: 2.00pm – 5.30pm
Language: English and Cantonese
With over a million active customers and a global cloud presence, AWS has experience in helping organizations of all sizes migrate workloads to the cloud. You can migrate any workload – applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – and even entire data centers from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud to AWS.
AWS Migration Web Day Hong Kong is a half day virtual event designed to help you migrate to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with confidence with AWS and AWS partners. Dive deep into the keynote and Cantonese breakout sessions delivered by AWS experts, AWS Partners and local customers; explore key concepts, use cases, best practices to learn how other organizations are migrating to AWS and walk away with the ability to implement these projects for your organizations.
Join us on June 24 to start planning for your cloud journey with AWS! Attendees who have filled in the event survey will also be eligible to redeem USD25 AWS credits.
Why attend
Join the Web day to hear from AWS customers and partners in Hong Kong on their migration stories and best practices. Learn how to accelerate your migration of Windows and SAP workloads.
Who should attend
This event is ideal for technical and business decision makers who are responsible for the IT infrastructure, service provider selection, and/or modernization of business application workloads.
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Why migrate to the AWS Cloud?
Organizations who migrated to AWS from on-premises saw:
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62%
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3x
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31%
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69%
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43%
*IDC #US43535718 - Fostering Business and Organizational Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services; February 2018
**Nucleus Research - Guidebook Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance; June 2020
**Nucleus Research - Guidebook Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance; June 2020
Event Agenda
Language: English
Customers are routinely saving 70%-80% on legacy apps, gaining 30%-50% in staff productivity, and accelerating innovation by 75% as their teams are freed from doing undifferentiated work. To achieve that, the AWS cloud migration framework and mechanisms provide an experience base acceleration to our customers. Along the journey, AWS works with the customer on initial migration assessment to create a business case for change. In the mobilize phase of the journey, the foundational elements for a migration are developed. The last phase of the journey is the migration and modernization itself. In the presentation, Mark will share the AWS migration framework, along with a number of Hong Kong based customer success stories.
Language: English
SoFi International is a mobile-only stock trading company, with its headquarter in US. Its SoFi app offers zero-fee and zero-commission stock trading services. In this session, you will hear the challenges SoFi faced and how SoFi migrates its core trading systems from on-premises datacenter to AWS in 3 months. You will also have a chance to learn about not only how SoFi deals with monolithic architecture and designs for scalability and performance, but also how they manage the AWS environment and support business growth.
Language: Cantonese
Nowadays, many customers are still running database & analytics infrastructure on-premises. They are keen to see how to save time, costs and improve productivity, so they can spend time on innovating & building their business. In this session, Casper will walk through the AWS database & analytics services highlights and the benefits of moving to fully managed AWS services. He will also cover different pathways & toolkits to migrate & modernize your existing workload to AWS.
Language: Cantonese
In this session, you are introduced to the holistic journey of migrating your Microsoft workloads to AWS. It covers common migration patterns for Microsoft workloads, including migrating Microsoft Active Directory, SQL Server, .NET applications and legacy Windows Server OS. We will also cover services to help you to manage Windows servers at scale and maximize cloud benefits.
Language: Cantonese
SAP customers have increasingly selected AWS as their platform of choice for running SAP applications in the cloud. As the next step on their digital transformation journeys, leading companies seek to leverage the massive amounts of data generated by systems, devices, and people to create new, re-imagined business processes.
Language: Cantonese
Reduce costs, innovate faster, scale globally, and create better customer experiences by migrating with AWS. Start planning for your migration journey today. The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based upon AWS’s experience of migrating a thousand enterprise customers to the cloud. The program packages best practices, tools, expertise, financial incentives, and a partner ecosystem to make cloud adoption easier. In this presentation, Lok will introduce MAP and Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) - a complementary service to help enterprise customers to identify and evaluate their strengths, opportunities for improvement, and business benefits of migrating their enterprise workloads to the AWS Cloud.
Speakers
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Frederic ALEXDirector of TechOpsFrederic ALEX is Director for TechOps in SoFi International, based in Hong Kong office. His main role is to oversight the Tech – Sec and Data Operations for SoFi international. The company is expanding rapidly and the business is growing fast so his main duty is to make sure that the overall platform is “future proof” and can sustain heavy changes in user activities and can scale as required. He is a skilled AWS Cloud architect as well as an Infrastructure and Data Management leader.
Lok ChanMigration Business Development Manager, AWSLok is responsible for developing the migration business for AWS Hong Kong and Taiwan. He helps Enterprise customers accelerate their cloud migration journeys to save costs and reduce risks through the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). Prior to joining AWS, Lok worked as a professional services consultant delivering cloud and data center projects. He also worked as an in-house program manager leading large-scale IT transformation program and projects. -
Mark ArelHead of Professional Services, AWSMark Arel heads up the AWS Professional Services team. He is specialised in financial services and based out of Hong Kong. Prior to AWS, Mr Arel was the director and divisional chief architect for risk, finance and data at Capital One. He has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and has held a number of senior technology executive leadership roles, including vice-president and chief technology innovation officer at PNC Bank; executive director at UBS Investment Bank; executive director at CIBC World Market; and vice-president at Greenwich Capital Markets.
Jackie HuiBusiness Development Manager, AWSJackie Hui is responsible for business development of financial services industry in AWS HK. With his 16-year experience in technology business development, Jackie drove new technology adoption and modernization for enterprise in the areas of cloud, infrastructure and cyber security. With customer success always in top of mind, Jackie partners with customers to deliver business outcomes, enable digital capabilities, architect for agility & customer experiences, ensure compliance and reduce risks & costs. -
Casper MakGCR Analytics Specialist, AWSCasper is an analytics product specialist at Amazon Web Services; he works to inspire customers turning data asset to business potential. Casper has 14 years of experience in application development, data processing, data warehouse & system migration across various industries like financial compliance (AML), human-resource & payroll, Logistics etc. Prior the experience in AWS, Casper served several technology companies like Microsoft, NICE Actimize & IBM.
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FAQ
Q: Where is the Event hosted?
A: AWS Migration Web Day is an online event.
Q: How do I join the Event?
A: You can register for the event by clicking the registration button and an email with your unique join link will be sent to you from [email protected] upon successful registration.
Q: What is the language of the Event?
A: Keynote session is in English and the breakout sessions are conducted in Cantonese.
Q: How can I contact the online event organizers?
A: If you have questions that have not been answered in the FAQs above, please email us at [email protected].
A: AWS Migration Web Day is an online event.
Q: How do I join the Event?
A: You can register for the event by clicking the registration button and an email with your unique join link will be sent to you from [email protected] upon successful registration.
Q: What is the language of the Event?
A: Keynote session is in English and the breakout sessions are conducted in Cantonese.
Q: How can I contact the online event organizers?
A: If you have questions that have not been answered in the FAQs above, please email us at [email protected].