AWS Initiate Portugal

AWS Initiate Portugal explores how the cloud is transforming organisations, industries and the world around us and enable disruptive innovation. The one day event brings together the technology, startup and business communities to discover more about new AWS technology, and the disruptive opportunities of cloud for today’s companies.

Whether you’re looking to learn more about the culture of innovation; modernize your infrastructure and applications, differentiate your offering with AI and machine learning; or learn how to take your company to the next level you’ll get practical tips and advice, hear real customer success stories, glean best practices, and discover new, enabling technologies and services at AWS Initiate Portugal.

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AWS Initiate Portugal explores how the cloud is transforming organisations, industries and the world around us and enable disruptive innovation. The one day event brings together the technology, startup and business communities to discover more about new AWS technology, and the disruptive opportunities of cloud for today’s companies.

Whether you’re looking to learn more about the culture of innovation; modernize your infrastructure and applications, differentiate your offering with AI and machine learning; or learn how to take your company to the next level you’ll get practical tips and advice, hear real customer success stories, glean best practices, and discover new, enabling technologies and services at AWS Initiate Portugal.

 

Agenda


8:30-9:30 | REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
9:30-9:40 | Welcome Message
Miguel Alava, Director, AWS
9:40-11:00 | Keynote Session
Ian Massingham, Director Evangelism, AWS
11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK
Technical Track
(Hovione Atrium)
Innovation Track
(Jerónimo Martins Auditorium)
11:30-12:10 | Best Practices for Cloud Architectures
Claudio Piras, Enterprise Account Manager, AWS
Customer invited: Lusiaves
11:30-12:15 | How Fast get Faster by Deloitte
Rajes Liladar, Specialist Director, Deloitte; Sérgio Carvalho, Tech Director, Deloitte
12:20-12:50 | Accelerate your ML & AI journey with AWS
Antonio Rodriguez, Solutions Architect, AWS
12:15-13:00 | How to Move, Automate & Optimize your Datacenter on AWS
Javier de la Cuerda, CEO Enimbos; Javier Calleja, CEO Zankyou; María Díaz & Pablo Hernandez, SkyTuneUp
13:00-13:40 | IOT: Enabling New Business Models in the Industry Sector
Felix Mezo, Solutions Architect, AWS
Customer invited: Flipkick
 13:00-13:30 | Fireside Chat with NOS
13:40-14:30 | LUNCH
Technical Track
(Hovione Atrium)
Startup Track
(Jerónimo Martins Auditorium)
14:30-15:15 | Database Freedom
Guillermo Menéndez Corral, Solutions Architect, AWS
Customer invited: Codacy
 14:30-15:00 | Welcome to Day 1
Rob de Feo, Startup Evangelist, AWS
15:30-16:10 | Advanced CDN Services with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
Germán González Zapata, Solutions Architect, AWS
Customer invited: CM Cascais
 15:10-15:55 | Panel: Fundraising Essentials for Every Entrepreneur
Nicolas Coudière, Head of Startup Business Development for South at AWS; Cristina Fonseca, Partner at Indico Capital; Hugo Augusto, Managing Director at Techstars Lisbon; Ana Paula Reis, Board Member at Busy Angels
16:25-16:55 | Building a Modern Data Platform in the Cloud
Javier Ramirez, Technical Evangelist, AWS		 16:00-16:30 | Confessions of a Founder
João Graça, Co-founder at Unbabel
16:40-17:20 | Building your MVP on AWS
Rob de Feo, EMEA Startup Evangelist at AWS
17:10-18:00 | Modern Application Development (In Portuguese)
Márcio Santos, Solutions Architect, AWS
Customer invited: Globalvia
Innovate like Amazon
Giulia Rossi, Digital Innovation BD, AWS
18:10-19:00 | COCKTAIL


Speakers


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Miguel Alava
Director, AWS
Ian Massingham
Director Evangelism, AWS

Miguel Alava, Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS) has more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry. For over 6 years in AWS, Miguel has led teams in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His mission is to contribute to the innovation of companies of any size by demonstrating that all of them can provide a better service to their customers  and stimulate their business through the technology that cloud computing offers.


Ian Massingham is the Director of Developer Technology & Evangelism, at Amazon Web Services where he is responsible for driving the company’s developer engagement strategy. Ian draws on over two decades of expertise in Internet technologies, technology operations leadership, architecture, and software engineering to help developers around the world, and in organizations of all sizes, apply cloud computing technologies, solve business problems, and exploit market opportunities.

 

Sponsors

 

Diamond

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Platinum Plus

Equinix

Platinum
Deloitte Enimbos

Gold

Claranet
 Flipkick
 Fujitsu
 Magic Beans
Rumos

How to get there


Address: Nova School of Business and Economics: R. Holanda n.1, 2775-405 Carcavelos, Portugal (map)


  • Train from Cais do Sodré to campus: From the Carcavelos Train Station to campus, 25’ walking/5' MobiCascais shuttle/8’ bike. From the Oeiras Train Station: 20’ walking/ 10’ bike
  • Car from Lisbon's city center to campus: If you decide to use your own car, then know you can use the campus parking, which has 550 parking spots, or you can park in the campus' surrounding areas.

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Sessions Descriptions


Welcome to Day 1


More startups have launched on AWS than anywhere else in the world. There's a reason why the biggest names in the startup world have been building on AWS for the past 13 years. Startups take on enormous challenges with limited resources. They leverage the latest technology to make a team of 1 perform like a team of 10.
These startups have paved the way and have helped pioneer the technological path for the next wave of entrepreneurs. We've learned a great deal helping these companies reach their 100 millionth customer, process their first billion orders, or help get their first satellite into space.
Learn how startups today are building on AWS, why now is the best time to start building, and why partnering with us will give your idea the best chance at becoming the next big thing.

Panel: Fundraising Essentials for Every Entrepreneur


We’ll start with a key question: Is raising Venture Capital right for you? Then we’ll go into the process that serial founders execute with fundraising: How to prospect the right investors, how to make contact and frame a fundraise narrative and how to generate a sense of urgency with investors to close your round as quickly as possible. Make sure you can fundraise like the most experienced founders and avoid dragging it out.

Confessions of a Founder


“Inventing and pioneering requires a willingness to be misunderstood for long periods of time.” Jeff Bezos.
Welcome to the life of a startup founder. It's all about building something the world has never seen, and then convincing the world it needs it, and wants it. For every founding team there will not just be misunderstanding, but endless advice. Pivot. Fail fast. Get lean. Raise as much money as you can. Iterate, iterate, iterate. It all sounds so logical, even easy, but as every founder will tell you, it never is. So what works, and what doesn't? Hear it straight from a founder who has been through it all, and has wisdom to share.

Tools for Building your MVP on AWS


Early stage startups are time and resource constrained and need to quickly get to product market fit. This session is for startups who want to find out about the best ways to build their minimal viable product (MVP) on AWS. You’ll get an overview of how startups build MVPs using services like API Gateway, Amplify, Lambda, Managed Kubernetes on AWS, Lightsail, and Database options. After this session you’ll be able to pick the right technologies and use pre-configured architectures to speed up your development.

Registration is closed


Date: October 22
Time: 09:30
Registration: 08:30
Place: Nova School of Business and Economics: R. Holanda n.1, 2775-405 Carcavelos, Portugal (map)