Welcome to Cevo’s guide to AWS Summit Sydney for 2023.
Below, you’ll find some session recommendations from our capability leads, designed to enhance your cloud transformation journey. Whether you’re attending Summit in-person or tuning in virtually, we’ll help you get the most out of this year’s event.
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AWS Summit Keynote
9:00am – 10:15am AEST
Hear from global and local AWS executives, alongside some of our region’s most successful customers, as they showcase the innovative ways companies are leveraging the power of AWS to revolutionise industries. Discover the latest advancements in infrastructure, developer tools, and data that are enabling customers to achieve their goals faster, unlock new opportunities, and shape a brighter future.
AWS GameDay Hack
11:00am – 6:00pm AEST
AWS GameDay is a collaborative learning exercise that tests skills in implementing AWS solutions to solve real-world problems in a gamified, risk-free environment.
Data
Become data driven: From data projects to data products
2:10pm – 2:40pm AEST
Data is the lifeblood of today’s business, and successful organisations are taking a value-centric approach to building analytical assets that support measurable business outcomes. Join this interactive session to uncover the guiding architectural principles that enable sustained data-driven innovation.
Data strategies to enable ML and analytics at scale
2:10pm – 2:40pm AEST
In this session we delve into the key pillars of data strategy that allow businesses to harness AI/ML at scale and the AWS services that make this possible.
How to get started with Generative AI
3:30pm – 3:45pm AEST
Generative AI is one of the biggest recent advancements in artificial intelligence technology because of its ability to create something new. In this session you will learn how you can train and optimise GAN models to create original music with AWS DeepComposer.
The future of customer engagement is frictionless
4:10pm – 4:40pm AEST
Customer experience has been challenged through disruption over the last couple of years. In this session we explore key learnings on delivering a successful digital transformation, and recommend the strategic transformation pillars to enhance your customer experience.
Migration
Innovation panel - How to inspire innovation in your organisation
10:30am – 11:00am AEST
Hear from a panel of experts, business leaders and founders who will discuss how to get your team staying curious, customer-obsessed, and disruptive.
The secure route to the cloud: Migrating your apps and data
11:00am – 11:30am AEST
Join this session to learn about the role of full stack observability (FSO) in the migration of applications and data to the cloud. The session will cover pre-migration feasibility and benchmarking, real-time monitoring, as well as instant security assessments of migrated apps with the help of New Relic platform.
How local businesses are rapidly achieving global scale on AWS
11:40am – 12:10pm AEST
Modern applications require unprecedented scale and businesses must rapidly accelerate their innovation to keep up with customer expectations. In this session we share examples of local AWS customers that have achieved rapid scale and the AWS services that support their innovation.
Build resilient and secure global cloud networks
4:50pm – 5:20pm AEST
In this session we dive deep into resiliency patterns for setting up secure and global networks on AWS using services such as AWS Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, and AWS Network Firewall.
DevOps
Resilience strategies to level up your workloads
11:40am – 12:10pm AEST
With a second region now available in Australia, there has never been a better time to explore resilience strategies. This session discusses how to approach multi-region considerations and help you decide whether a multi-region approach is the answer. Some critical workloads simply need to be available at all times.
The journey to FinOps success
12:20pm – 12:50pm AEST
Adopting the cloud presents an opportunity for organisations to benefit from the agility and flexibility that comes from having the latest technology services available at your fingertips. Join this session to learn the best practices associated with cloud financial management and how to establish a FinOps practice within your organisation.
Simplify multi-tenant microservice applications
2:10pm – 2:40pm AEST
In this session you will learn the patterns and strategies you can adopt to satisfy these feature requirements and reduce the complexity for the builders who create them.
Harness cloud elasticity by bursting to Amazon EC2 Spot
2:50pm – 3:20pm AEST
200 – Intermediate
Many organisations want to continue using their existing on-premises computing infrastructure while reaping the benefits of the public cloud. Join this session for tools on how to get started with EC2 Spot and begin your cloud bursting journey.
Secure deployments with intelligent automation for DevSecOps
3:30pm – 4:00pm AEST
In this session, learn how Dynatrace is delivering both event-driven and workflow-based automations that identifies problems and performs automated root cause analysis, accurately identifying all issues related to a single root cause to ensure robust and secure continuous delivery.
How Vodafone NZ transformed their customer experience using AWS
4:10pm – 4:40pm AEST
In this session you will learn how Vodafone implemented using Amazon Connect, the business and technical challenges faced, and how they continue to adopt new capabilities and improve their customer experience.
Pipeline patterns to aid your next deployment
4:10pm – 4:40pm AEST
Many software teams are on a journey to bake more automation and reliability into how they build and release software changes. In this session we explore how you can implement these more advanced pipeline features on AWS and how you can do this in a build tool agnostic way.
Theory to practice: A guide to real-time architectures
4:50pm – 5:20pm AEST
In this session we will explore how Animation Research Limited is utilising an event-driven and streaming architecture to enable deep analytics and insights by processing multiple sources of data to bring sporting statistics to life for millions of sports fans globally.
Build resilient and secure global cloud networks
4:50pm – 5:20pm AEST
In this session we dive deep into resiliency patterns for setting up secure and global networks on AWS using services such as AWS Direct Connect, AWS Site-to-Site VPN, and AWS Network Firewall.
Turbocharge your development with agile security
5:30pm – 6:00pm AEST
The best technology is there when you need it and invisible when you don’t. Join this session and learn how agile security can be an accelerator for your business.
Maximise database availability
5:30pm – 6:00pm AEST
In this session we explore various options available in AWS for ensuring the resiliency of your databases. You will learn how to build a highly available and fault-tolerant database on AWS to meet your needs.
Cloud Native
The transformative power of modern applications
11:40am – 12:10pm
Often organisations need help to address and overcome contemporary market challenges, disrupt their respective markets, and avoid disruption all the while looking to innovate faster. This session will provide insights on how modern applications can help organisations innovate faster while reducing risk, time to market, and total cost of ownership.
Resilience strategies to level up your workloads
11:40am – 12:10pm AEST
With a second region now available in Australia, there has never been a better time to explore resilience strategies. This session discusses how to approach multi-region considerations and help you decide whether a multi-region approach is the answer.
Evolve your web application for scale
12:20pm – 12:50pm AEST
Join this interactive session where we guide you through the evolution of a web application, covering common patterns, best practices, and trade-offs.
Create scaled customer experiences with digital assets
12:20pm – 12:50pm AEST
It has never been more important that platforms for digital asset management and verification are performant, scalable, and cost effective. In this session we’ll dive deep on how serverless approaches are transforming digital asset management.
Software builders and digital natives: Modernisation and innovation
1:00pm – 1:30pm AEST
Join this session to understand how software and digital native businesses can modernise and innovate not just their products and services, but also their entire business and operating model via a SaaS (Software as a Service) approach and leveraging AWS services.
Simplify multi-tenant microservice applications
2:10pm – 2:40pm AEST
In this session you will learn the patterns and strategies you can adopt to satisfy these feature requirements and reduce the complexity for the builders who create them.
A .NET application's journey on AWS
2:50 – 3:20pm AEST
In this session we demonstrate how you can use Amazon ECS on Fargate, including common patterns and solutions you can reuse to make your life easier when building .NET application on AWS.
Feature or function? Using feature flags in AWS Lambda
3:30pm – 4:00pm AEST
AWS Lambda plays a critical role in many, if not most, modern applications deployed on AWS cloud. In this session, we walk-through the considerations of implementing feature flags in AWS Lambda serverless environment and cover the specific details you need to know.
The impact of scale on serverless - Strategies for effective architecture
4:15pm – 4:30pm AEST
In this session you will learn about concurrency, limits and ramp-up, architectural patterns and alternatives, and quick optimisations to allow you to successfully operate AWS Lambda at scale.
Build highly scalable serverless applications on AWS
4:50pm – 5:20pm AEST
In this session you will learn best practices and patterns for building highly scalable serverless applications that enable your engineering teams to move fast on a global scale.
Theory to practice: A guide to real-time architectures
4:50pm – 5:20pm AEST
In this session we will explore how Animation Research Limited is utilising an event-driven and streaming architecture to enable deep analytics and insights by processing multiple sources of data to bring sporting statistics to life for millions of sports fans globally.
Build on AWS with Rust
5:30pm – 6:00pm AEST
In this session, we challenge that perception by explaining some patterns you can use for building apps using the AWS SDK for Rust. We take you through the build of a serverless application with AWS Lambda, and demo the basics of getting a serverless application live, adding must have features such as observability and integrating with other AWS services.
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