[ { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "08:00 - 10:00", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC116", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Introducing Responsible GenAI Platform on AWS", "Time": "09:15 - 09:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL201", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Willie Lee, Sr. WW Specialist/TPM Gen AI, AWS", "Description": "With the EU AI Act setting global benchmarks and US regulations following suit, organizations are implementing mandatory reviews, safety protocols, and standardized impact assessments for high-risk AI systems. Technical advancements also bring improved AI alignment, explainability, and bias mitigation. There is increased attention to Responsible AI principles and their overall enterprise and social impacts, this talk will give an overall introduction of the current state of Responsible AI, what are the 2025 key concerns, and summaries on how to address them." }, { "Name": "AWS Summit London Keynote", "Time": "10:00 - 11:00", "Location": "Auditorium A-D", "LocationCode": "KEY100", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Alison Kay, VP UK & Ireland, AWS | David Brown, VP of Compute & Networking, AWS", "Description": "What does it take to build anything you imagine? To enhance performance while prioritizing sustainability and security? To better navigate the convergence of data and AI? And what comes next? In this keynote we will explore how AWS provides the building blocks and tools you need to securely build anything you imagine. Hear practical insights from customers who have accelerated migrations, modernized workloads, reduced costs, and removed obstacles on their journey from imagination to reality." }, { "Name": "Navigating the GenAI Gold Rush: Sustainable\u2026", "Time": "11:00 - 11:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST101", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Jeffrey Hammond, WW ISV Product Strategist, AWS | Lorenzo Introna, VP Principal Consultant, Forrester Research", "Description": "This session will delve into the transformative impact of generative AI (genAI) on the software industry, drawing insights from a comprehensive Forrester study commissioned by AWS. We'll explore how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by genAI, focusing on sustainable adoption strategies and value creation. Join a Forrester and AWS as they unpack the key findings and provide actionable insights for software companies looking to harness the full potential of genAI." }, { "Name": "Amazon Bedrock Agents for Blockchain analysis\u2026", "Time": "11:05 - 11:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI402", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Ron Sengupta", "Description": "In this lightning talk, you will learn how to utilize Amazon Bedrock Agents to gain insights from blockchain data and interact with smart contracts using natural language. You will gain knowledge regarding how to build a natural language interface to query blockchain data from the AWS Public Blockchain datasets for Ethereum and Bitcoin data. You will also gain an understanding of how to create agents that are capable of calling Amazon Managed Blockchain Query APIs and writing to the blockchain." }, { "Name": "Securing your GenAI apps Against Advanced Bot\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 11:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Yury Yakubov, Sr. Edge Spec, AWS", "Description": "Join this session to learn essential security strategies for protecting your generative AI applications. Discover how to implement comprehensive security controls using AWS services to defend against threats like prompt injection, API abuse, and malicious attacks while ensuring optimal performance and accessibility for legitimate users of your GenAI solutions." }, { "Name": "The Joy of Serverless .net?", "Time": "11:15 - 11:45", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM101", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Matthew Wilson, Distinguished Engineer, Instil Software", "Description": "In 2024, my team and I embarked on a journey to build a Serverless Health Insurance platform on AWS. As TypeScript developers, we were apprehensive when our customer requested we use .NET - a language foreign to our expertise. However, we were surprised by the exceptional developer experience that AWS has curated for the .NET framework. In this session, I'll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of our project, sharing how we leveraged the power of AWS services to make the most of the .NET ecosystem." }, { "Name": "From Seed to Scale: Nature Tech Startups\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 12:00", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH301", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Hilary Tam, Sustainability Leader - EMEA, AWS | John Atkinson, Chief Product Officer, LiveEO | Jacqueline McGlade, Chief Scientific Officer, Downforce Technologies | Beccy Wilebore, Chief Science Officer, Natcap", "Description": "As the world grapples with climate challenges, a new wave of startups is proving that sustainability isn\u2019t just a moral imperative \u2013 it\u2019s a commercial one. This panel brings together pioneering leaders from Downforce Technologies, LiveEO and NatCap, three startups at the cutting edge of nature and climate tech. Moderated by AWS, this discussion will explore how their business models are intrinsically linked to the state of the planet, leveraging advanced technology to transform environmental risks into economic opportunities." }, { "Name": "Build a Multi-Region, Active-Active Rewards\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 9 & 10", "LocationCode": "WOR401", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Prasad Matkar, Specialist Solutions Architect Oracle, AWS | Ranjini Menon, Associate Specialist Solutions Architect, RDS MySQL, AWS | Arun Sankaranarayanan, Specialist Solutions Architect Database, AWS", "Description": "In this workshop, get hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless distributed SQL database that delivers active-active high availability. Learn how to build a retail rewards points application with active-active resiliency across multiple Availability Zones and two Regions. Explore how ACID transactions and active-active replication work in Aurora DSQL. Discover best practices for data model and application design and more. You must bring a laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Prepare your Data for Generative AI Workshop", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 9 & 10", "LocationCode": "WOR305", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Alejandra Catalina Abrusci, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI applications need data from diverse data sources and, for an optimal experience, require the data to be reliable, trustworthy, and well-governed. Join this hands-on workshop to explore a robust data foundation on AWS for an end-to-end generative AI experience. Learn how to prepare your data for generative AI with batch and real-time data pipelines, high data quality, vector data management for custom needs, and integrated data governance." }, { "Name": "Creating Secure Code with Amazon Q Developer\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 17", "LocationCode": "WOR302", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Simon Rawlings, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Vladislav Nedosekin, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this workshop you will gain hands-on experience using Amazon Q Developer to create secure code. Discover how Amazon Q Developer can detect and explain security vulnerabilities, suggesting remediations that help fix your code instantaneously. Learn how use Amazon Q Developer code review across your entire codebase, and use Amazon Q to suggest and enhance security unit tests, helping to keep your code secure. You must bring your laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Amazon Q in Connect for AI-Driven Customer\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 14", "LocationCode": "WOR203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mo Miah, Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Jack Tilson, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to harness the power of generative AI to empower your contact center agents. We'll explore how to enable your agents to leverage AI-powered assistance and workflows. By the end of this session, you'll have hands-on experience in leveraging generative AI with Amazon Q in Connect and Amazon Connect Guides to enhance your contact center operations, streamline agent workflows, and deliver exceptional customer experiences." }, { "Name": "Define your next \u00a31B+ opportunity with\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 15 & 16", "LocationCode": "WOR202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rob Hodges, Principal, Head of Innovation Programs, AWS | Magnus Schoeman, Principal Customer Solutions Manager, AWS", "Description": "This practical hands-on workshop is for business and technical leaders who want to understand and experience Amazon\u2019s customer-centric approach to innovation. The content is inspired by Amazon\u2019s Working Backwards process\u2014the same innovation mechanism used to develop products and services such as AWS, Amazon Prime, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Echo, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Go. The workshop features hands-on activities using the latest Generative AI tools to accelerate customer-centric innovation. You must bring your laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Amazon Nova Multimodal Understanding Workshop", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 8 & 11", "LocationCode": "WOR304", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Anastasia Tzeveleka, Senior GenAI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Manos Samatas, Principal Solutions Architect, Data and AI, AWS", "Description": "Dive into the cutting-edge world of AI-powered content creation with Amazon Nova video and image generators. Explore capabilities such as video storyboarding, text-to-video generation, and text-and-image-to-video conversion. Learn how to use these powerful tools to create compelling visual narratives, transform written concepts into dynamic video content, and enhance existing visuals with motion. Expore how these features can streamline your creative process and open new possibilities for storytelling. You must bring your laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Build Responsible Generative AI Apps with\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 8 & 11", "LocationCode": "WOR301", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Anna Gruebler, Senior GenAI/ML Specialist SA, AWS | Gabrielle Dompreh, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Dani Mitchell, GTM Specialist Solutions Architect AIML EU-S, AWS", "Description": "Responsible GenAI made easy. Develop a GenAI application hands-on from scratch, explore the risks and challenges associated with LLMs, and learn how to mitigate them by applying guardrails to: filter undesirable content, block harmful prompts, handle sensitive information such as PII, detect and avoid hallucinations in responses. Experience applying custom tailored guardrails directly with FMs and fine-tuned FMs on Amazon Bedrock, enabling you to implement responsible AI policies within your GenAI applications. Bring your laptop to participate!" }, { "Name": "Simplifying Application Deployment with Amazon\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 13:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 17", "LocationCode": "WOR306", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Tsahi Duek, Principal GTM Specialist Solutions Architect Containers, AWS | Timothy Brandrick, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this session, explore the newly launched Amazon EKS Auto Mode and discover how it provides you integrated and ready-to-use Kubernetes capabilities for compute, networking, and storage. Amazon EKS Auto Mode extends Kubernetes management beyond the control plane by automating infrastructure provisioning, selecting optimal compute instances, dynamically scaling resources, continuously optimizing costs, and patching operating systems. Learn how to set up application-ready Amazon EKS clusters to simplify your day 2 operations." }, { "Name": "Threat Detection and Response using AWS\u2026", "Time": "11:15 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 14", "LocationCode": "WOR303", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Luca Iannario, Solutions Architect Manager, AWS", "Description": "Join AWS security experts for an immersive threat detection and response workshop using native security services to detect threats across different workloads. Learn about common threat types, how to detect them, and how to prioritize a response. This workshop simulates several security events across different resources and behaviors. Get hands-on in a provided sandbox environment to review and respond to findings from the simulated events. You must bring your laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Building Demonstratable Recovery Workshop", "Time": "11:15 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 14", "LocationCode": "WOR201", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Steven Hooper, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Richard Whitworth, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Greg Willson, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Recovery takes you through two iterations of an increasingly resilient architecture to host an account management application for a fictional electricity retailer; Unicorn Power. You will start by getting hands on with Zonal recovery, find grey failures using observability optimised for resilience and then inject faults using Fault Injection Service. Following this you will move to learning about Regional recovery and getting hands on with tools like Application Recovery Controller. By the end of this workshop you will have greater knowledge of how to architect highly resilient workloads in AWS and the tools and mechanisms available to do this." }, { "Name": "Modernize Hybrid Edge-to-Cloud Containers with\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT212", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Pedro Oliveira, Sr. Solutions Architect, Spectro Cloud | Alex Shiroma, Sr. Solutions Architect, Spectro Cloud", "Description": "Unlock the power of hybrid container modernization with AWS and Spectro Cloud. Learn how to seamlessly deploy, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters across edge, on-prem, and cloud environments. Discover best practices and real-world use cases to enhance agility, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation in your DevOps workflows." }, { "Name": "Scaling Cloud Compliance & Governance with\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT211", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ben Monaghan, Solutions Engineer, Hashicorp", "Description": "As organisations scale on AWS, compliance grows more complex. Manual enforcement leads to inefficiencies and risks. Enterprises use policy-as-code and automation for governance without slowing adoption. This session explores how HashiCorp Terraform and AWS pre-written policies help automate governance, enforce compliance (CIS, NIST, SOC 2, PCI-DSS), and prevent misconfigurations before deployment." }, { "Name": "Building the New Frontier of AI Observability", "Time": "11:20 - 11:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT210", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Andre Scott, Developer Advocate, Coralogix", "Description": "Enhance your monitoring of AI systems and mitigate potentially critical blind spots in your applications. Leverage AWS and Coralogix's new AI Centre to detect hallucinations, prompt injections, and data leakage while correlating AI performance with business metrics. Learn practical strategies for LLM observability that transform monitoring from \"\"\"\"Is it running?\"\"\"\" to \"\"\"\"Is it right?\"\"\"\"" }, { "Name": "Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Unlocking AI & Agents\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT309", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Christian Ryan, Applied AI Engineer, Anthropic", "Description": "Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic's hybrid reasoning model on Amazon Bedrock that combines fast responses with visible step-by-step reasoning. It excels at complex agent tasks including autonomous coding and tool use across business scenarios. Learn to leverage both thinking modes, build AI agents, and optimize workflows in AWS environments\u2014ideal for developers and technical decision makers." }, { "Name": "Develop your Cloud Skills using AWS Skill Builder", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC103", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Jake Prest, Senior Technical Trainer, AWS", "Description": "AWS Skill Builder provides learning options that help you develop, strengthen, and extend your skills on AWS. This session allows you to discover for yourself how to start your learning journey on the AWS cloud. You will discover key elements of the platform such as developed learning plans, labs, digital training content and certification exam preparation sessions, as well as a set of unique features like AWS Cloud Quest or our events gamified learning tools, AWS JAM." }, { "Name": "Industry Quest - Healthcare", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC107", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Alan Forsyth, AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will take a deep dive into the healthcare industry and explore how AWS services can be leveraged to address the unique challenges and requirements of this sector. Through an interactive \"\"\"\"Industry Quest\"\"\"\" experience, attendees will embark on a guided journey to discover practical solutions for common healthcare use cases." }, { "Name": "Work has changed, humans haven\u2019t: How\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "PRT237", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rob Junker, SVP Product & Engineering, Mimecast", "Description": "Discover how Mimecast transforms human risk into resilience, enabling innovation, reducing incidents, and ensuring compliance in an evolving threat landscape. Join us to learn how to measure human risk through individualized profiles, empower employees with adaptive training, and protect your organization with tailored security solutions." }, { "Name": "Unleashing AI: Integrating Model Context Protocol\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre P", "LocationCode": "PRT235", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Elie Schoppik, Head of Technical Training, Anthropic", "Description": "Model Context Protocol (MCP) changes how AI systems interact with tools & data. This session explores AWS implementations of powerful, contextually aware AI applications with security controls. We'll show MCP server deployment on AWS and connection to Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. Learn how MCP and AWS enable intelligent AI systems with proper governance over external resources." }, { "Name": "Fireside Chat: Innovating with AI in Regulated\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "PRT233", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Louise Fellows, AVP Enterprise Sales, NEUR GitLab | Chris Hutchison, Enterprise Toolchain Director, Barclays", "Description": "Join us for an illuminating fireside chat exploring the delicate balance between innovation and compliance when implementing AI solutions in highly regulated sectors. This candid conversation will examine practical strategies for becoming a \"\"\"\"compliant disruptor\"\"\"\" - an organisation that pushes technological boundaries while maintaining strict adherence to industry regulations" }, { "Name": "Fireside Chat: Innovating with AI in Regulated\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "PRT233", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Louise Fellows, AVP Enterprise Sales, NEUR GitLab | Chris Hutchison, Enterprise Toolchain Director, Barclays", "Description": "Join us for an illuminating fireside chat exploring the delicate balance between innovation and compliance when implementing AI solutions in highly regulated sectors. This candid conversation will examine practical strategies for becoming a \"\"\"\"compliant disruptor\"\"\"\" - an organisation that pushes technological boundaries while maintaining strict adherence to industry regulations" }, { "Name": "Liftoff! The DevOps Way to Preparing for Stress-Free\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "PRT232", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ara Pulido, Staff Technical Advocate, Datadog | Ana Pasparan, Senior Manager Cloud Platforms, Vodafone", "Description": "Vodafone UK oversees several major product launches each year, including flagship phone models. These have high customer expectations, leaving no room for error. This talk explores how, by providing teams with reliable system insights, data-driven planning, and proactive problem-solving, you can turn complex launches into opportunities to boost brand perception and build lasting customer loyalty." }, { "Name": "Democratizing Cloud Security: How bp\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "PRT208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mark Webber, Head of AWS Platforms, bp | Phil Woon, Solutions Engineer, Wiz", "Description": "bp has successfully scaled cloud security by empowering its teams and embedding security into DevOps and engineering workflows. By leveraging Wiz's unified platform, bp gained clear visibility, streamlined risk management, and closed security gaps across their cloud platform. Learn how bp made cloud security a shared responsibility\u2014and achieved measurable results at scale." }, { "Name": "Develop your Cloud Skills using AWS Skill Builder", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC103", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Jake Prest, Senior Technical Trainer, AWS", "Description": "AWS Skill Builder provides learning options that help you develop, strengthen, and extend your skills on AWS. This session allows you to discover for yourself how to start your learning journey on the AWS cloud. You will discover key elements of the platform such as developed learning plans, labs, digital training content and certification exam preparation sessions, as well as a set of unique features like AWS Cloud Quest or our events gamified learning tools, AWS JAM." }, { "Name": "Industry Quest - Healthcare", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC107", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Alan Forsyth, AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will take a deep dive into the healthcare industry and explore how AWS services can be leveraged to address the unique challenges and requirements of this sector. Through an interactive \"\"\"\"Industry Quest\"\"\"\" experience, attendees will embark on a guided journey to discover practical solutions for common healthcare use cases." }, { "Name": "Diving Deep into the Iceberg Data Lake with\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "PRT238", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Daniel Hunt, Partner Solutions Architect, Snowflake", "Description": "Discover Snowflake's Iceberg support for open-format flexibility, without management headaches. Learn to rapidly migrate from CSV/Parquet, streamline governance with Snowflake and Polaris, and implement key data engineering practices, including GenAI augmentation. Join us for a live demo of Snowflake orchestrating advanced Iceberg data transformations." }, { "Name": "AI in the Cloud: Heroes, Villains, and Security\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "PRT207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Bharat Mistry, Field CTO, Trend Micro", "Description": "This presentation explores AI security threats and mitigation strategies. Covering major threats, and investments to enhance security. It also discusses best practices for securing AI in cloud environments, and data protection measures. Additionally, it emphasises balancing innovation with risk management and provides a blueprint for securing AI infrastructure, applications, and user access." }, { "Name": "Optimize GenAI Initiatives with Dynatrace and\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "PRT202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Florian Lettner, Director, Product Management, Dynatrace | Magdalena Gargas, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI has the power to transform business operations and customer experiences\u2014when done right. Join Dynatrace and AWS to learn best practices for deploying and observing GenAI applications using Amazon Bedrock and Dynatrace AI/LLM Observability. Discover how to monitor guardrails, predict and optimize costs, debug pipelines with end-to-end tracing, and ensure data compliance." }, { "Name": "Stay in engineering flow state with AI agents", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre R", "LocationCode": "PRT136", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Gavin Guinane, Solutions Engineering Leader, Glean", "Description": "Developers spend ~2hrs daily coding; the rest on design docs, tests, bug fixes & meetings. Despite this, the focus remains on code generation tools. This talk demos 3 agents to optimise flow state & discuss challenges in building AI agents\u2014connecting to enterprise data, indexing, knowledge graphs, reasoning engines & AI evaluation. Learn hacks, core needs & how Glean on Bedrock enhances these capabilities." }, { "Name": "VMO2 supercharges customer experiences", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "PRT134", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Rachel Barrass, Director of Customer Service, Virgin Media O2 | Luke Mills, Senior Managing Director, Accenture", "Description": "VMO2 and Accenture are transforming customer service through the power of AI and cloud technologies. By streamlining processes and enabling data-driven insights, they help agents anticipate customer needs, resulting in a more personalized, faster and effective customer experience. This has significantly boosted NPS scores, reduced complaints, and increased value generated by the service team." }, { "Name": "Scale AI & Feature Experiments: A Dev's\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "PRT104", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Scott Shindeldecker, Experimentation Solutions Specialist, Launchdarkly.com", "Description": "Experimentation enables teams to make data-driven decisions, but building a scalable experimentation program presents challenges. Discover how to integrate experimentation into your development workflow by unifying it with feature delivery. We'll cover setting up data integrations, experiment design and analysis, plus AI config testing on Amazon Bedrock and Snowflake Warehouse Native Experimentation." }, { "Name": "Dive into poolside: The future of AI for software\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "PRT106", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Vitor Monteiro, Head of Solutions Engineering, EMEA, poolside", "Description": "Discover how poolside's foundation models are designed to meet the unique challenges of modern software engineering. Participants will learn how they can become an AI company by fine-tuning the poolside model on their own codebases, libraries, and developer interactions while deploying securely on AWS so that data never leaves their environment." }, { "Name": "From Startup to Scale-up: Founders Share Their\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP101", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Shaleen Dhrobra, Head of Marketing, UKI SUP, AWS | Ana Kirova, CEO, Feeld | James Lo, Founder & CEO, Ethos | Murat Abur, Founder & CIO, Suade", "Description": "Join us for an inspiring panel discussion featuring founders who have transformed their business trajectories. Our panelists will share candid insights about key decisions that transformed their startups, overcoming early-stage challenges while also scaling their platforms to serve growing customer bases." }, { "Name": "Unlock 70% Savings: Automatically Optimize\u2026", "Time": "11:20 - 11:50", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre O", "LocationCode": "PRT270", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Harmon Sandhu, Senior Solution Engineer, Lucidity", "Description": "Enterprise data is growing fast, as is the need for cloud storage. However, many find they only use 30% of their provisioned Cloud Storage on AWS, leaving room to optimize. Join us in this session to explore why we over provision and learn how you can effortlessly rightsize your Cloud Storage on AWS with automated solutions like Lucidity, saving up to 70% on costs and reclaiming hundreds of DevOps hours." }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "11:20 - 12:10", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC115", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Ingest streaming data to Apache Iceberg tables", "Time": "11:20 - 12:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre T", "LocationCode": "DAT405", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Amar Surjit, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Umesh Chaudhari, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Leveraging Apache Iceberg for real-time streaming events involves creating a robust transactional data lake that supports frequent data updates with minimal overhead. In this session, we dive deep into different ways of ingesting and updating real-time and near real-time events to Apache Iceberg tables using streaming options on AWS such as Amazon MSF, Amazon Firehose, and Apache Spark Structured Streaming. Hear about the tradeoffs of these approaches, performance considerations, and best practices for streaming data updates in Iceberg tables." }, { "Name": "Accelerating Deployment of Mission-Critical AI\u2026", "Time": "11:25 - 11:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "PRT175", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Koen van den Berg, Segment Sales DGX Cloud EMEA, NVIDIA", "Description": "In today's rapidly evolving AI landscape, developers and enterprises face challenges in building mission-critical AI applications. This session explores how organizations can leverage NVIDIA DGX Cloud on AWS, a high-performance, fully managed AI platform, to accelerate the next era of AI. Learn how to curate, create, deploy, and optimize AI models while achieving lower TCO in a competitive market." }, { "Name": "CDL's Strategic Shift to Amazon Q Developer", "Time": "11:30 - 11:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Owen Hawkins, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Tom Bullock, Cloud DevOps Architect, CDL Software", "Description": "CDL embarked on a strategic initiative to enhance developer productivity. After a rigorous evaluation, they adopted Amazon Q Developer as their primary coding companion. This talk will provide actionable insights and takeaways from CDL's journey - from assessing available tools to implementing Q Developer's AI-powered features. It will explore the evaluation criteria, integration challenges, and the tangible benefits realised as a result." }, { "Name": "Mastering AWS Cost Management: Tools and\u2026", "Time": "11:30 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW103", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Nitya Biyani", "Description": "Discover essential AWS cost management strategies, from rightsizing resources to leveraging auto-scaling and cost allocation tags. Learn to use AWS Cost Explorer, budgets, and CloudWatch alarms for proactive cost control. We'll explore savings opportunities through Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and AWS Graviton. Perfect for AWS newcomers or those looking to optimize cloud spending, you'll leave with practical knowledge to implement cost-saving best practices immediately." }, { "Name": "G-Research: The Future of Quantitative Research\u2026", "Time": "11:40 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Aimee Bosman, Enterprise Account Manager, AWS | Dario Vianello, Hybrid Cloud Architect, G-Research", "Description": "See behind the build of G-Research\u2019s move to hybrid cloud. Discover how this leading quantitative research firm leveraged AWS to extend its capabilities, enabling cloud compute bursting, hybrid data processing and infrastructure footprint reduction. Explore their robust cloud foundation and security and architectural best practices, including multi-region private connectivity, role-based access control and an air-gapped hybrid setup to deploy scalable, resilient mission-critical workloads." }, { "Name": "Transforming the Product Information Healthcare\u2026", "Time": "11:45 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT214", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Will Powell, Director of Innovation and NSE Asset Lead, Deloitte | Tim Jessel, Director, Life Sciences and Healthcare Director, Deloitte | Andrew Flockhart, Director, UK MedTech Leader, Deloitte", "Description": "Medicinal product information and device instructions guide patients on how and when to administer medicine and the side effects. This information can be complex and often goes unread. Using AWS Technology, Deloitte has digitized this information, creating a solution that improves patient safety, health and the healthcare experience. Hear how the team accomplished this and the impact it has had." }, { "Name": "Agent Swarms: What They Are, Why They Matter,\u2026", "Time": "11:45 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT113", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Ann Maya, EMEA CTO, Boomi", "Description": "Think single agents are all the rage? Wait until they evolve into swarms\u2014distributed, autonomous, coordinated systems pushing machine intelligence forward. This session demystifies agents and swarms, explains their significance and reveals how to manage them. Learn to unify data, orchestrate tools and navigate multi-cloud environments to move past hype and achieve secure, enterprise AI deployments" }, { "Name": "Transforming TP ICAP: Achieving Rapid\u2026", "Time": "11:45 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT216", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Milo Constable, Principal Consultant, Slalom | Shahen Bokhari, Cloud Optimisation and Enablement Lead, TP ICAP", "Description": "Discover how TP ICAP is revolutionising prospecting to drive revenue growth, reducing test case effort, and transforming customer research. Join Slalom and TP ICAP as they showcase their collaboration in designing an AI and Innovation Centre of Excellence, delivering multiple AI POCs across the organisation, empowering them to continuously ideate, prototype, and deploy solutions." }, { "Name": "Red Hat and AWS: where simplicity meets possibility", "Time": "11:45 - 12:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT115", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Phil King, Partner Manager Focused on AWS EMEA, Red Hat | Simon Briggs, Ecosystem SA Focused on AWS EMEA, Red Hat", "Description": "In this session Red Hat will highlight its strong and lasting partnership with AWS, explore key software solutions available through AWS Marketplace - including Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Managed Ansible Automation Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - and share real-world examples of organizations benefiting from these offerings." }, { "Name": "Teaching AI to Speak 'Alfa': Building a\u2026", "Time": "12:00 - 12:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Tom Ellis, Solutions Architecture (Enterprise Software & SaaS) Manager, AWS | John Murray, Director, Office of the CTO, Alfa", "Description": "Discover how Alfa transformed their developer and user experience by implementing a Generative AI solution that provides instant answers to questions from API guidance to operational processes. This session reveals why Amazon Bedrock was selected and details the complete implementation journey from pilot to production. You'll learn how Alfa enhanced their AI's capabilities by utilising Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with their proprietary technical and business knowledge, and walk away with a practical roadmap for implementing a similar conversational AI solution in your own organisation, complete with strategies to overcome common challenges and measure business impact." }, { "Name": "Modernize mainframe applications faster using\u2026", "Time": "12:00 - 12:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI103", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Siva Perinkolam, GTM Principal BDM-Mainframe,AWS", "Description": "Modernizing and migrating mainframe applications to cloud can require prolonged efforts including assessment, planning, and project execution. Generative AI can simplify and accelerate the journey. This talk provides an overview of how Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities can intelligently automate many of the burdensome steps involved in code base analysis, code documentation, code decomposition, modernization planning, and code refactoring, and can assist modernization consultants and mainframe teams with intelligent guidance rooted in mainframe and cloud expertise. Learn how Mainframe modernization teams can focus on higher-value tasks with less undifferentiated heavy lifting and deliver modernized cloud-based applications fueling agility and innovation." }, { "Name": "Serverless Steakhouse AI: Automating Customer\u2026", "Time": "12:00 - 12:30", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Chibuike Nwachukwu, Software Engineer, AWS Community Builder", "Description": "An AI-powered, serverless assistant could automate steakhouse customer interactions - handling menus, reservations, and bookings. Using AWS Bedrock Agents, CDK, and Python, this talk explores building such an assistant. It orchestrates workflows, integrates with Agent Action Groups, Knowledge Bases, and FMs, and interacts with Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless (vector DB), and S3. Infrastructure-as-code with CDK enables seamless deployment. The Streamlit UI is deployed to ECS. This shows how AI can enhance restaurant customer service." }, { "Name": "Faculty AI - AI Agents and the future of work", "Time": "12:05 - 12:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ayman Salama, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, AWS | Andrew Brookes, Founder and CTO, Faculty AI", "Description": "Faculty\u2019s advanced expertise on delivering AI projects and their leadership in Responsible AI has propelled them into the boardrooms of top AWS customers looking to leverage GenAl, through their deployment of their AI Agent offering \"\"\"\"Frontier\"\"\"\". Faculty will highlight the importance of AI agents and their success across multiple industries (HCLS, FSI & Telco) to show why C-Suites need to adopt to this growing model to help with their growing data and AI needs in the face of upcoming industry and economic challenges." }, { "Name": "Master Multi-Cloud Security-A Practical\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT219", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Peter Hall, Cloud Specialist, Tenable | Blue Brazil, Information Security Architect, Freshfields LLP", "Description": "Join our interactive dialogue with a security leader who unified their cloud visibility using Tenable Cloud Security. Discover how they achieved streamlined risk identification, permission control, and threat detection while enhancing cyber resilience through integrated vulnerability and exposure management\u2014all with remarkable time savings." }, { "Name": "Cloud Migration Unlocked", "Time": "12:10 - 12:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT117", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Rahul Godara, Technical Account Manager, Datadog", "Description": "Migrating on-prem applications to AWS enhances scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency while freeing engineers for innovation. A successful migration requires a deployment inventory, performance visibility during traffic shifts, and user experience confirmation. This talk covers cloud migration monitoring approaches and how Datadog ensures visibility at every stage." }, { "Name": "AI-Driven DevSecOps with GitLab Duo & Amazon Q", "Time": "12:10 - 12:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT218", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Martin McVay, Sr Solutions Architect, GitLab", "Description": "In this session, we will dive into how GitLab and AWS are developing a seamless AI-powered developer experience to unify software development, security, and deployment workflows, helping organisations ship more secure software faster." }, { "Name": "Cyber Leadership 2025: Conquering Disruptions\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT120", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Gavin Evans, Director of Product Management, Trend Micro", "Description": "This session explores the evolving cybersecurity landscape, key disruptors like digital transformation, threat evolution, and regulatory shifts. It covers adversaries' tactics, ransomware, data exfiltration, cloud attacks, and AI risks. Emphasising proactive security, it outlines best practices for resilience and emerging opportunities, stressing informed leadership and proactive defenses." }, { "Name": "Creating Advocates for the Planet through NHM\u2019s\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:35", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rachel Wiles, Technology Product Manager, Natural History Museum | Vincent Smith, Head of Digital, Data & Informatics, Natural History Museum", "Description": "Discover how the Natural History Museum is transforming scientific research and championing nature restoration through a dynamic partnership with AWS. In this session, explore the Museum\u2019s innovative Data Ecosystem\u2014where cloud technologies seamlessly connect diverse taxonomies, enable real-time data ingestion, and streamline processing to supercharge biodiversity research." }, { "Name": "Future Forward: Cybersecurity and AI", "Time": "12:10 - 12:40", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "PRT341", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Fulya Sengil, Cloud Engagement Director, Palo Alto Networks", "Description": "Platformization and AI are reshaping cybersecurity. We'll outline the essential steps organizations must take to transition from a reactive, manual, and fragmented security approach to a fully integrated, automated, and proactive strategy. Join us to explore how our security platforms foster simplicity and trust, empowering security teams to drive innovation within their organizations." }, { "Name": "From machine-speed complexity to\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:40", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "PRT171", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Tim Chinchen, Field CTO at PagerDuty | Stuart Clark, Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify", "Description": "As digital operations keep expanding with AI and automation, so does complexity. Join this session to learn how Spotify is standardizing automation at scale to build operational resilience, anticipate outages, and deliver exceptional customer experience to 500M+ global users. Walk away with proven strategies to transform your incident management with AI and automation." }, { "Name": "Cloud Migration: Salmons Lessons for Data Rapids", "Time": "12:10 - 12:40", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre R", "LocationCode": "PRT139", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Manesh Tailor, EMEA Field CTO, New Relic", "Description": "As strange as it sounds, the tenacious salmon could be your guide for cloud migration. Discover how observability transforms chaotic data cascades into clear streams, providing lessons on avoiding digital rocks and mastering cross-current complexities. Leave with a sea of knowledge, ready to steer your organisation towards a future that isn't just upstream, but upstream with vision!" }, { "Name": "Zero Trust for AWS Users, Apps, Workloads, and Data", "Time": "12:10 - 12:40", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "PRT142", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Waseem Akhtar, Partner Solutions Architect, Zscaler", "Description": "As an AWS Advanced Tier Technology Partner, Zscaler protects thousands of AWS customers worldwide. Learn how Zscaler enables customers to discover and securely embrace AI, and how to prevent exposure of sensitive data with unified data protection. Hear how to secure access to modern apps (SAP and more), and also how to secure workload to internet traffic, and segment workloads." }, { "Name": "Building a Mature GenAI Platform on AWS", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre E", "LocationCode": "GAI202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Denis Batalov, Tech Leader, ML & AI, AWS | Chaitra Mathur, Principal GenAI Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Customers are developing sophisticated generative AI systems, starting with selecting the best models and building tailored solutions. To enable these applications, an FM Hub or AI gateway is setup, providing access to the most advanced Gen AI models available. As these systems evolve, they integrate complex orchestration workflows and domain-specific data for use cases like RAG and model customization. Establishing robust observability, governance, security, and responsible AI practices becomes crucial as these systems move into production. In this session, we present a mature Gen AI platform design. We will explore a comprehensive platform and dive deeper into select components." }, { "Name": "Investigate operational issues faster with AI", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "DEV303", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Satya Konathala, Senior Operations Consultant, AWS | Alex Livingstone, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect CloudOps, AWS", "Description": "Troubleshooting operational issues can be challenging while focusing on innovation. In this session, discover how to enhance operational efficiency using Amazon Q Developer, CloudWatch and Systems Manager features. Learn how Amazon Q analyses AWS configuration and observability data, presenting root cause hypotheses. Once you\u2019ve diagnosed root cause, Amazon Q provides tailored suggestions for remediation using an AWS library of curated runbooks so you can quickly remediate the issue." }, { "Name": "Modernize Legacy Code at Scale with Amazon Q\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre N", "LocationCode": "DEV302", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Prasad Rao, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Alex Dimitrov, Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this demo-heavy session, learn how Amazon Q Developer Transform uses Generative AI to accelerate the modernization of your legacy Java and .NET applications. The session focuses on two key transformation scenarios: upgrading Java applications from 8 to 21 and porting .NET applications from Windows to Linux environments. By automating these time-consuming tasks, Amazon Q Developer Transform saves developers days or months of undifferentiated work, significantly reducing manual effort and enabling teams to focus on higher-value initiatives." }, { "Name": "Beyond 11 9s of durability: Data protection and\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "DAT303", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ed Gummett, Storage Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Tom Tasker, Global Financial Services Architect, AWS | Aditya Goyal, Principal Software Engineer, Skyscanner", "Description": "Amazon S3 and Elastic File System (EFS) are designed for 11 9s of durability, strong resiliency, and high availability. However, even the most durable storage cannot protect against unintended or accidental deletions. Additionally, ransomware events are a primary reason to evaluate additional protection for your critical data. Join this session to gain insights into how Skyscanner and other customers are safeguarding their data in Amazon S3 and other AWS services. The session will cover a layered defence approach to data protection, addressing trust, resilience, and cybersecurity compliance." }, { "Name": "Build NextGen Search and Conversational AI with\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "DAT302", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Bharav Patel, Specialist Solution Architect, AWS | Shubhankar Sumar, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Jonathan Readman, Engineering Manager, Sage", "Description": "Amazon OpenSearch\u2019s scalable vector database offers robust support for building intelligent, context-aware search solutions. This session will dive into advanced retrieval techniques including semantic search for contextual relevance, multimodal search integrating text and image inputs, neural sparse search that combines semantic understanding with inverted index efficiency, and hybrid search that fuses multiple approaches in a single query. We\u2019ll demonstrate it using Ecommerce application how leveraging these techniques can significantly boost search accuracy. Additionally, we\u2019ll showcase how Sage implemented Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with OpenSearch to enhance AI-driven responses for payroll and accounting data." }, { "Name": "Unlocking Next-Level Streaming &\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre P", "LocationCode": "DAT201", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Lydia Ray, Sr Analytics Solution Architect, AWS | Sidhanth Muralidhar, AWS | Alan Thawley, Head of Engineering Customer Experience, PokerStars", "Description": "PokerStars migrated its data platform from an on-premise data center to AWS Cloud, driven by the need for better reliability, low-latency personalization, and responsible gaming guardrails. The project used AWS technologies like Amazon MSK, Managed Service for Apache Flink, DynamoDB, S3, and SageMaker. The solution provided real-time recommendations and responsible gaming for 3.4 million customers. In this session, attendees will learn how to approach to building streaming applications at scale using these AWS services." }, { "Name": "How to setup your own Cloud Quest Tournament", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC106", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Steven Mathe, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to set up your own Cloud Quest tournament, an interactive and engaging way to learn about cloud computing and AWS services. Skill Builders's Cloud Quest challenges participants to solve a series of cloud-related scenarios and tasks, fostering a fun and collaborative learning environment." }, { "Name": "Responsible generative AI: Evaluation best practices\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI301", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Fahad Ahmed, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Mehran Nikoo, GenAI GTM Strategy Lead, AWS | Alex Whitehorn, Software Engineer, Manchester Airport Group", "Description": "As large language model applications become increasingly prevalent, implementing a responsible evaluation process is essential for assessing performance and mitigating risks. Join this session to learn about best practices for responsible evaluation, including the use of open-access libraries and AWS services. We will explore the key steps in designing an evaluation plan, from defining use cases and assessing risks to selecting metrics, creating evaluation datasets, and interpreting results for actionable risk mitigation. Additionally, hear from Manchester Airport Group about how they evaluated their generative AI-based assistant throughout its journey from proof of concept to production." }, { "Name": "Building real-time interactive applications\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "DEV301", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ozioma Uzoegwu, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Zac Burns, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Whether you are building a logistics, financial trading, real time messaging, live scores application or any application that require real time updates, users expect instantaneous, real-time experiences. In many cases developers make trade-offs between providing real-time experiences vs the cost and complexity of managing the underlying solution. In this session, we will dive deep on AWS AppSync Events, a solution that will enable you to easily integrate websockets to your application to provide real time updates to your clients. You will learn how you can integrate AppSync Events to your new app or existing app to elevate real-time experience for your customers." }, { "Name": "Getting started with AWS generative AI for SAP", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre O", "LocationCode": "BIZ202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Adam Hill, WW Tech Lead SAP, AWS | Andrew Barnes-Webb, Specialist SAP SA, AWS", "Description": "Discover how SAP customers can leverage AWS generative AI capabilities to create new experiences, boost productivity, extract insights, generate code, and enhance creativity across their enterprise. Learn how to use Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q in conjunction with SAP data to redefine how business gets done and get a first-hand look at SAP customers applying generative AI and gain the insights you need to apply these capabilities to your own mission-critical SAP systems." }, { "Name": "Platform as a Product: Diverse needs of an\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre J", "LocationCode": "BIZ201", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Bryan Critchley, Principal Account Manager, AWS | Abheer Kolhatkar, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Olivier Kouame, Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering, Deliveroo", "Description": "Hear insights from Deliveroo about how they're evolving their platform into a product that works backwards from the needs of their diverse, growing and evolving business. Learn about the role that tech and business functions play and challenges and opportunities presented along this journey." }, { "Name": "How EDF Energy boosts agent productivity with\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "APP302", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Bree Wimbush, Principal Customer Solutions Manager, AWS | Sadiq Khan, WW Specialist SA, Connect, AWS | Alan O'Flaherty, Solutions Architect, EDF Energy", "Description": "Contact center agents are a critical part of customer service delivery. Hear from AWS and EDF Energy about how you can empower agents and increase productivity with a unified, generative AI\u2013powered workspace in Amazon Connect that provides agents the critical capabilities they need to deliver personalized service to your customers. Walk away with new ideas about how to improve agent handling of complex customer inquiries, and make every agent your best agent, starting their first day." }, { "Name": "AWS Managed Services for Your EKS Developer\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 12:55", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "APP301", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Richard Ainley, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Rachael Wonnacott, Associate Director - Container Platforms, Fidelity International", "Description": "Platform engineering teams struggle to efficiently provide AWS services beyond containers. Discover how to extend your internal developer platform to include databases and other essential services while maintaining security and compliance. We\u2019ll examine account structures and approaches featuring Fidelity International examples, helping you create experiences that balance team autonomy with enterprise governance." }, { "Name": "Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect -\u2026", "Time": "12:10 - 13:05", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Stefan Buse, AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect \u2013 Associate exam with this interactive study session. Review the AWS Certified Solutions Architect \u2013 Associate Official Practice Question Set, and get your questions answered by the subject matter expert leading the study session." }, { "Name": "The Agent Journey: Taking AI from Idea to Production", "Time": "12:10 - 13:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP202", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Kevin Shaffer-Morrison | Paul Solomon, Head of Data Science, Xelix | Dr Angie Ma, Co-Founder, Faculty | Jason Hillary, CTO & Co-Founder, Zerve", "Description": "Getting started can be hard, but so can getting to production. Join us as Xelix tells us about their story of bringing AI and AI Agents into their product, and taking it to production. Followed by a panel with startups that have deployed AI workloads and agents from idea to production. We'll discuss their journeys, struggles, and successes, and then take a step back and understand how you can take your ideas on the same journey!" }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "12:10 - 13:25", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC114", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Optimising generative AI workloads for\u2026", "Time": "12:20 - 12:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI304", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Brijesh Pati, Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "With the explosive growth of generative AI workloads, their environmental footprint has become a pressing concern. This lightning talk cuts through the complexity to deliver actionable insights on building sustainable large language model (LLM) applications. We'll examine the carbon impact across different customization approaches - from full model training to lightweight fine-tuning - and demonstrate how architectural choices significantly affect environmental costs." }, { "Name": "Building an event-driven data platform for\u2026", "Time": "12:20 - 12:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Onkar Deshpande, Sr Analytics Sales Specialist, AWS | Manuel Alfaro Solis, Head of R&D Technology, Bango", "Description": "In today's dynamic digital landscape, content providers need efficient ways to monetize their offerings. By transitioning to an event-driven architecture on AWS, Bango built a scalable, flexible data infrastructure. This empowered them to quickly develop AI-powered products for payments and subscriptions. Discover how they overcame challenges, optimized their data pipeline, and unlocked new opportunities to better serve partners and customers. Gain actionable insights to modernize your own data capabilities and drive agile content monetization." }, { "Name": "Unify data and AI with the next generation of\u2026", "Time": "12:30 - 12:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL205", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Sujata Singh, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Amazon SageMaker is evolving into more than just an AI tool. It\u2019s becoming the central hub for all your data, analytics, and AI needs. In this talk, we\u2019ll break down its newest features, from built-in data integrations to advanced analytics and AI capabilities, all in one place. You\u2019ll learn how SageMaker can streamline workflows, reduce costs, and help you build AI solutions faster." }, { "Name": "Built for the Cloud, Optimized for AI:\u2026", "Time": "12:35 - 12:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT222", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Frederic Favelin, Manager Solutions Architecture, MongoDB", "Description": "Discover how MongoDB Atlas on AWS powers Gen AI initiatives with both robust technology and dedicated teams. Seamlessly integrate data, adopt an AI-ready infrastructure, and ensure security with strong governance. Move from PoC to production using Atlas Vector Search, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Guardrail, and Amazon Managed Service for Grafana for real-time monitoring and insights." }, { "Name": "Aiven for Apache Kafka\u00ae for Seamless Integration\u2026", "Time": "12:35 - 12:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT221", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Tibs (Tony Ibbs), Developer Educator, Aiven", "Description": "Discover how Aiven for Kafka eliminates operational complexity while providing seamless cloud integrations, cost-effective tiered storage, & comprehensive monitoring tools. Accelerate time to market & optimize costs\u2014all through a service designed to securely service your streaming data & simplify your infrastructure management. Audience members can also participate in a live demonstration." }, { "Name": "Secure authentication for the era of AI agents with\u2026", "Time": "12:35 - 12:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT160", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Timm Lotter, Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta", "Description": "Through careful analysis of industry trends and extensive experimentation, Auth0 has identified four core requirements for successful and secure integration of identity in GenAI. Join this session to learn about the building blocks from Auth0 specifically designed to address these complexities and empower developers to build secure, production-ready AI applications." }, { "Name": "Maximising savings and customer impact: the AI\u2026", "Time": "12:35 - 12:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT261", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Andy Theedom, Director, PwC", "Description": "Join us to explore how PwC in collaboration with AWS drive transformative change through cloud and AI solutions, achieving efficiency and cost savings with voice automation. Learn how PwC's expertise and AWS's advanced technologies are empowering organisations such as Birmingham City Council and Medway NHS Foundation Trust to deliver impactful outcomes, improve customer experiences, and achieve continuous improvement." }, { "Name": "Transforming Customer Support with Amazon Q\u2026", "Time": "12:40 - 12:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Eric Nelson,Senior Solutions Architect ISV | Jer Jang, VP of Data Science, Iris", "Description": "Discover how IRIS revolutionized their support operations using Amazon Q Business. Learn how IRIS reduced average case resolution time while increasing CSAT scores. Explore IRIS's journey from pilot to production, including why they selected Amazon Q Business and the step-by-step implementation. See how they integrated Amazon Q with existing systems and knowledge bases, used feedback to improve answer accuracy, and tuned the solution for seasonal variance. Leave with the insights to replicate IRIS's success in your own organization." }, { "Name": "Best Practices for Customizing Amazon Q\u2026", "Time": "12:40 - 12:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI205", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Estefany Kuong Motalvan, Associate Solutions Architect", "Description": "With Amazon Q Developer, you can securely connect to your private repositories to generate even more relevant code recommendations based on your internal code repositories, ask questions about your company code, and understand your internal codebases faster. In this session, learn how to set up customizations and generate code based on your internal repos. Use the Amazon Q Developer chat in your IDE to ask questions about your internal codebase, specific functions, methods, or APIs." }, { "Name": "GitHub Actions on AWS", "Time": "12:40 - 13:40", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre T", "LocationCode": "DEV309", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Matt Laver, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Hossein Jafari, Solution Architect, AWS", "Description": "AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Actions self-hosted runners and in this interactive session, we will be covering the architecture patterns and best practices we're seeing customers adopt to take advantages of these new capabilities to deploy workloads to AWS." }, { "Name": "How I learned to stop worrying and love chaos\u2026", "Time": "12:45 - 13:15", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Simon Hanmer, UK&I Principal Consultant, GlobalLogic", "Description": "In this talk, we\u2019ll briefly explore the history of traditional testing approaches before introducing the missing piece in the testing puzzle, chaos engineering where we move beyond focusing on our code, to look at the infrastructure running our systems. We\u2019ll talk about the history of chaos engineering, before looking at Amazon\u2019s Fault Injection Service (FIS) and how it can be used to test different components, including the new lambda functionality, before moving onto a live demonstration of how we can carry out these tests." }, { "Name": "Everything Everywhere, All at Once: Simplifying the\u2026", "Time": "12:45 - 13:30", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH303", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Carol Yan | Andy Molineaux, Director of Engineering and Integrations, Kraken | Marianella Gurney, Head of Platform Strategy & Development | Growth and Innovation, E.ON | Rob Taylor, CIO GivEnergy", "Description": "The Mercury Consortium is revolutionising the transition to a low-carbon grid. Hear how industry leaders at Kraken, E.ON, UKPN, and GivEnergy are collaborating to simplify grid participation and unlock new commercial opportunities. Join us to learn how cutting-edge solutions are accelerating the green energy shift, and how AWS is enabling smarter, scalable, and more efficient integration for a sustainable future." }, { "Name": "Digital Transformation in Manufacturing:\u2026", "Time": "12:55 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Peter Brooke, Manufacturing Business Development, AWS", "Description": "This presentation explores how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is revolutionizing the manufacturing sector through comprehensive cloud-based solutions. We examine how manufacturers are utilizing AWS services to enable predictive maintenance, optimize supply chains, and implement smart factory initiatives. The presentation provides valuable insights for manufacturing leaders looking to accelerate their digital transformation journey and maintain competitive advantage in an increasingly connected industrial landscape." }, { "Name": "A GenAI-powered solution to help Amazon EU\u2026", "Time": "13:00 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI306", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Yibo Liang, Generative AI Specialist SA, AWS | Elad Dwek, Sr. GenAI Program Manager, Amazon", "Description": "The Amazon EU Design and Construction (Amazon D&C) team is the engineering team designing and constructing Amazon warehouses. We will present a question answering bot solution using a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline with a fine-tuned large language model (LLM) for Amazon D&C to efficiently retrieve accurate information from a large volume of unorganized documents, and provide timely and high-quality services in their construction projects." }, { "Name": "Powering AI agents with real-time analytics", "Time": "13:00 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT223", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Christoph Wurm, Solution Architect, ClickHouse", "Description": "AI agents are rapidly evolving with reasoning abilities and links to real-time databases. Explore their role in real-time analytics and the importance of real-time databases, as well as how systems can adapt to their needs. Learn about AI agents as a new user persona for databases and see a real-time analytics workflow using ClickHouse MCP Server and Amazon Bedrock." }, { "Name": "Ensure Your Backup Posture is Resilient\u2026", "Time": "13:00 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT164", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Mark Freelance, Senior Sales Engineer, Rubrik", "Description": "Cyber threats are evolving every day. Evolve your data protection to match with Rubrik before it's too late! Discover how Rubrik enhances your organization's cyber resilience, provides complete data visibility across your entire hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud, and ensures rapid recoverability. Don't miss out learning how Rubrik safeguards your AWS data against today's and tomorrow's cyber threats." }, { "Name": "AI Runtime Security: Securing Enterprise AI", "Time": "13:00 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT363", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Peter Bury, Domain Consultant 2, Palo Alto Networks", "Description": "The rise of Enterprise AI requires robust security. We've launched AI Runtime Security, a solution that automatically discovers AI applications, models, users, and datasets. Join our session to learn how to defend against AI-specific and foundational attacks and see how top businesses leverage AI for transformation." }, { "Name": "Kubernetes Optimization: From Complexity to\u2026", "Time": "13:00 - 13:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT262", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Skander Belli, Senior Technical Account Manager, CAST AI | Alex Cristu, Senior Solution Architect, Streamkap", "Description": "The journey to cloud cost control When Streamkap needed to rein in Kubernetes costs, they turned to Cast AI's intelligent node scaling and AI-driven workload rightsizing. Join this talk to see how they significantly reduced cloud spend and transformed team collaboration with a unified interface simplifying cluster management." }, { "Name": "Global Growth Simplified: AWS Global Passport", "Time": "13:00 - 13:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST106", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Jeff Klaus, Head of ISV Global Strategy, AWS | John McKail, Alliance Lead \u2013 EMEA, Darktrace", "Description": "In this session, you will learn how AWS Global Passport empowers customers to overcome the challenges and seize the opportunities of scaling a software business internationally. Explore how AWS Global Passport enables you to accelerate global growth by simplifying the complexities of expanding across borders. Discover strategies to navigate regulatory requirements, optimize costs, and provide a consistent customer experience worldwide. Leave this session with a roadmap to confidently scale your software business into new markets." }, { "Name": "Generative AI for contextual video\u2026", "Time": "13:20 - 13:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Amit Deol, Sr. Specialist SA, AWS", "Description": "Video advertising is a critical yet intricate medium for advertising, and generative AI offers a cost-effective solution for delivering richer, more contextually-relevant insights. This talk explores the creation of a generative AI media framework for in-depth video decomposition and understanding, leveraging LLM contextualization. Discover different prompting strategies, automated orchestration of generative AI workflows, and cost optimization benchmarks." }, { "Name": "AI for Global Sports Fan Engagement", "Time": "13:20 - 13:40", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Simon Christie, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Joshua Casey, Product Director, Endeavor Streaming", "Description": "With global audiences for popular sports brands, there is a growing need to localize content to increase engagement for non-native language speakers. Learn how Endeavor Streaming leverages AWS AI services to automatically caption and translate live sporting events into multiple languages, engaging fans" }, { "Name": "Empowering Developer Innovation: Balancing\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 13:40", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT224", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Martin, Reynolds, Field CTO, Harness", "Description": "See how to unlock developer innovation with self-service while ensuring governance, security, and compliance. Explore how integrated toolchains, executive sponsorship, and customer-focused culture create golden paths for platform engineering. Learn how guardrails encourage the right behaviours and shared workflows drive efficiency, enabling a powerful, scalable, and secure DevOps platform." }, { "Name": "2025 Cloud Threat Landscape - what can\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 13:40", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT366", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "David Okeyode, Senior Cloud Sales Engineer, CrowdStrike", "Description": "Cross-domain attacks are now mainstream. Adversaries exploit valid credentials to breach cloud environments and move laterally. Cloud-conscious actors remove log indicators in 75% of cases and account abuse represents 35% of initial access tactics. With a 26% rise in cloud intrusions, attackers leverage stolen credentials, misconfigurations, and insider threats, to compromise cloud resources." }, { "Name": "Moving From Open AI to Open Source with OPEA\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 13:40", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT225", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Farid El Chalouhi, Principal Solutions Architect, Intel", "Description": "Learn how organizations can reduce costs and better control data privacy by replacing OpenAI services with open-source microservices from the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) project running on Intel AI accelerated instances." }, { "Name": "AI: go beyond Proof of Concept with Couchbase", "Time": "13:25 - 13:40", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT265", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Sai Vajja, Senior Solutions Engineer, Couchbase", "Description": "AI agents have the potential to unlock incredible gains in productivity and growth for your business, but you still need to move beyond the Proof of Concept stage and into production! Come and discover how Couchbase Capella AI Services enables you to prepare and vectorize your data, manage different models and reuse your agents efficiently to create your applications more quickly." }, { "Name": "Exam Prep: AWS Certified AI Practitioner", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC104", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Bhavik Joshi, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "Prepare for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam with this study session. Review questions from the official practice question set. Ask questions of the subject matter expert leading the study session. Continue preparing for your exam with confidence following the four-step plan on AWS Skill Builder." }, { "Name": "Scaling to 4M users and beyond", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Laura Caicedo, SA Manager, AWS | Sean Hederman, CTO of Zilch", "Description": "Discover how Zilch transformed to a scalable microservices architecture supporting 4.5 million users with 100,000 new customers monthly. To reduce operational overhead and enable seamless scaling, they adopted Kubernetes containers, MLOps, messaging architecture, and more performant database solutions. Learn about their critical decisions and lessons learned that maintained customer experience while unlocking growth. Discover how to address similar challenges in your own technology transformation." }, { "Name": "Practical generative AI using Amazon Nova", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "GAI308", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Amit Lulla, Principal Solutions Architect ISV, AWS | Jeremy Bartosiewicz, Senior Solutions Architect Enterprise, AWS | Satoru Yamamoto, Chief AI Officer, Dentsu Digital Inc.", "Description": "Unlock the power of Amazon Nova for your business. Discover how Dentsu Digital integrate AMC (amazon marketing cloud) data with cutting-edge Nova models to deliver impact with practical generative AI applications in content production. See how Nova was built with business use cases like reel generation, conversational assistants, and multimodal content generation in mind using Bedrock multi agent collaboration. Learn the AWS strategy for delivering an exceptional out-of-the-box experience and watch live demonstrations of Nova capabilities across industries. Join this session to harness the full potential of Nova and stay ahead in the AI-driven business landscape." }, { "Name": "Accelerating auditing and compliance for\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "GAI204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mariusz Mikcinski, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect, AWS | Mark Keating, Principal Security Specialist SA, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI brings exciting new innovations, but also presents challenges regarding responsible usage and compliance. This session guides a journey through a generative AI application and shows how AWS can provide visibility to the use of Amazon Bedrock, other related services and follow best practices for compliance and governance. Explore AWS governance and compliance services, like AWS Organizations, AWS Audit Manager, and AWS CloudTrail, that can assist you in continuously auditing your generative AI infrastructure. Learn how these services automate audit evidence collection and provide audit-ready reports to meet your compliance and audit needs." }, { "Name": "Navigating the Responsible GenAI Journey", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Anna Gruebler, Senior GenAI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Cassandre Vandeputte, Solutions Architect, AWS | Krzysztof Gluszczyk, Principal Software Engineer, Ryanair", "Description": "Unlock the transformative potential of generative AI while mitigating risks with a responsible approach. Join us as we delve into the challenges surrounding GenAI, including bias, explainability, hallucination, and toxicity. Gain invaluable insights from AWS on their responsible AI practices and the tools they offer. Additionally, learn from Ryanair's experience in responsible innovation with GenAI. Seize this opportunity to kickstart your organization's responsible GenAI journey and harness its power responsibly." }, { "Name": "Gen AI in action: from POC to business value", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Auditorium A", "LocationCode": "GAI105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Mike Dukes, Startup Specialists leader EMEA, AWS | Jon Hammant, Specialist leader, UKI, AWS", "Description": "More global leaders like Bundesliga and Trellix are taking their generative AI applications to production and realizing business impact through increased innovation, productivity, and cost savings. How are they achieving these benefits and what are the key priorities that are critical for success? Through training, professional services experts, and comprehensive generative AI offerings, AWS provides trusted guidance and tools for customers to scale with confidence. In this session, learn how new services and models like Amazon Nova, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q are delivering business value across use cases to enhance customer engagement and boost employee productivity." }, { "Name": "AWS CI/CD Mastery: Building Automated\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre N", "LocationCode": "DEV204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Omar Kahil, Sr. Delivery Consultant, AWS | Akash Kumar Sinha, Delivery Consultant, AWS", "Description": "Managing multiple tools and platforms for software development creates complexity, increases costs, and slows down delivery. AWS Developer Tools simplify this by providing a unified platform for your entire development lifecycle. In this session, you'll learn how to build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS AppConfig through infrastructure as code. You'll walk away with practical knowledge to automate your development workflow, manage feature deployments, and accelerate your application delivery using AWS native tools." }, { "Name": "Barclays Journey Modernising\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "DAT307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Sudipta Bagchi, Redshift Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Ben Horner, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | David Anderton, Head of Data Enablement, Global Transaction Bank - Barclays", "Description": "Learn how Barclays modernised their on-premises data to Amazon Redshift, achieving significant cost savings while maintaining performance and scalability. Discover practical insights from this 12-month program supporting thousands of processes and hundreds of users to optimise reporting for regulatory SLAs, along with future plans to integrate with SageMaker Lakehouse. Walk away with actionable best practices for modernising data infrastructure, based on real-world implementation experience with SAS, Business Objects and Tableau" }, { "Name": "The AI Journey at The Economist: 182 Years of\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre J", "LocationCode": "BIZ314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ahmed Raafat,Principal Solutions Architect,AWS | Prof Bogdan Vrusias - Head of AI & Data Engineering | Angelos Christidis Senior Machine Learning Engineer", "Description": "Join us to learn how The Economist, a 182-year-old media group, has successfully productionised AI by aligning people, processes and technology. We will explore how they have securely built their data architecture and AI workflows, ensuring robust operations for reliable outcomes. Discover their innovative approaches to build state of the art products and learn how AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock accelerate their journey. We'll dive deep into their ML/GenAI reference architectures, showcasing use cases from recommendation engines to predictive analytics and information retrieval. The presentation concludes with a demo and roadmap for innovations." }, { "Name": "Disruptive Innovation: Accelerating IT\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre R", "LocationCode": "BIZ204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Gary Emmerton, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Phil Scully, VP Technology and Portfolio Delivery, RS Group PLC", "Description": "Discover how calculated risks accelerate IT transformation. This talk showcases RS Group PLC's collaboration with AWS, demonstrating how less conventional initiatives drove rapid progress. Learn how bold actions achieved in weeks what traditionally took months. Explore strategies for fostering innovation, navigating hurdles, and leveraging cloud technologies. Gain insights for leaders seeking to revolutionize their IT landscape. Uncover the power of disruptive thinking in transforming your organization's technological future." }, { "Name": "Unleashing Innovation: Ocado's AWS Cloud\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre E", "LocationCode": "APP307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Imran Dawood, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Luca Marsiglio, Senior Engineering Manager, Ocado Technology | Ryan Stalbow, Staff Cloud Engineer, Ocado Technology", "Description": "Discover how Ocado transformed its cloud innovation game through a groundbreaking AWS experimentation framework. In this compelling session, uncover the secrets behind their AWS Accounts Factory that turned engineers into fearless innovators. Learn how they created a secure playground for rapid prototyping that sparked a revolution in their development culture. From zero to hero, see how Ocado's approach unleashed creative potential while maintaining rock-solid security, leading to breakthrough solutions that redefined their business success." }, { "Name": "Migrate and Modernize with Amazon EKS", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "APP305", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Liz Duke, Principal Specialist SA Containers, AWS | Mihail Stoyanov, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS | Ruben Decleyn, Head of Platform Engineering, Experian", "Description": "In this deep-dive session you will discover how migrating from on-premises to the cloud with Kubernetes is made easier with Amazon EKS features such as Amazon EKS Hybrid nodes and how scaling your Amazon EKS workloads using Karpenter is both fast and cost effective. You will also hear from Experian about their journey from a self-hosted OpenShift to a modern, scalable architecture using Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Anywhere & Karpenter. Learn how they achieved an 87% cost reduction while scaling to 5 times more monthly transactions with zero downtime across 7 AWS regions." }, { "Name": "How to Setup an AWS VPN from a Raspberry Pi", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Carel Grove, AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will explore how to set up a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection from a Raspberry Pi to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, enabling you to access AWS resources and the internet securely while on the go." }, { "Name": "Migrating to Amazon Bedrock and accelerating\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre O", "LocationCode": "GAI307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Benoit de Patoul, GenAI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Damian Niezgoda, Senior Solutions Architect ISV, AWS | Mario Kostelac, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Intercom", "Description": "Hear from Intercom, an AWS customer as they discuss their journey migrating into Bedrock. Their end-to-end journey of scaling generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock, from model selection and cost optimization to performance monitoring and observability. Gain insights into managing model access, balancing trade-offs, and future-proofing your AI strategy. Discover best practices for post-production observability, ensuring seamless operations and continuous improvement. Leverage the full potential of generative AI in your enterprise with a comprehensive approach powered by Amazon Bedrock." }, { "Name": "Centrally monitor and define priorities for all\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "GAI306", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Mayank Gupta, Senior Specialist TAM, AI/ML, AWS | Nick McCarthy, Senior WW Specialist SA, GenAI Model Customization, AWS", "Description": "Governing AI development tasks across teams and organisation can be challenging; with SageMaker Hyperpod task governance, administrators can monitor and also audit all AI development tasks centrally, define priorities and set up limit on compute ensuring the most critical tasks are prioritized and maximizing compute resource utilization, reducing model development costs by up to 40%." }, { "Name": "Accelerating Full-Stack Development with AWS\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "DEV305", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Brad Leadbetter, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS | Jenny Zhou, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS | Keith Robinson, Chief Technology Officer, Fospha", "Description": "AWS Amplify is a powerful set of tools and services that helps developers build full-stack applications quickly. Join us for a technical deep-dive featuring Fospha's success story, where their frontend-focused team rapidly delivered a production-ready analytics platform without extensive DevOps expertise. Learn how to streamline development with automated deployments, built-in authentication, and enhance your applications with generative AI using Amplify AI Kit. Through real-world examples, discover how Amplify's powerful toolset helps teams focus on solving business problems rather than managing infrastructure. Co-presented by AWS and Fospha." }, { "Name": "AWS security at scale: From development to\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Auditorium C", "LocationCode": "DEV206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Viktor Vedmich, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS | Owen Hawkins, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Discover how to enhance your cloud security posture across the entire development and production lifecycle. This session explores the AWS comprehensive security approach, covering identification, prevention, detection, response, and remediation. Learn to integrate security-by-design principles throughout your development process and use advanced detection and response capabilities. Explore how generative AI enhances security analysis and automates operations. Gain insights into building resilient architectures that evolve with emerging threats, enabling you to create more secure, scalable cloud environments." }, { "Name": "Deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL and its\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre P", "LocationCode": "DAT406", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Tim Gustafson, Principal Database Specialist SA, AWS | Shane Adams, Analytics SA Manager, AWS", "Description": "Amazon Aurora DSQL is a new serverless, distributed SQL database that uses decades of Amazon innovation and operational excellence. Join us as we dive into the design and key innovative technologies that make Aurora DSQL the ideal choice for new applications and applications which require the highest level of resiliency. Learn how active-active architecture in Aurora DSQL delivers single- and multi-Region resiliency and virtually unlimited scale." }, { "Name": "RDS Oracle: Building Enterprise Resilience for\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "DAT304", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Debojit Bhadra, Sr. Delivery Consultant, AWS | Nirav Bhatt, Delivery Consultant, AWS | Vaibhav Varde, Director Shared Services Engineering, London Stock Exchange", "Description": "This session explores building resilient RDS Oracle infrastructure with multi-region read replicas and automated failover. Learn strategies for block corruption prevention, TLS data transmission, and backup optimization. We'll demonstrate automated switchover procedures and monitoring to achieve 99.99% uptime while maintaining data consistency. Topics include replica management, backup automation, encryption, and monitoring practices for business continuity." }, { "Name": "Data foundation for analytics and AI: From\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Auditorium B", "LocationCode": "DAT208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Becky Weiss, VP/Distinguished Engineer, AWS | John Oshodi, Enterprise Solutions Architect, AWS | Matheus Guimaraes, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS", "Description": "Data decision-makers face a transformative challenge as the boundaries between analytics and AI blur, and teams need to move effortlessly between analyzing historical patterns, predicting future scenarios, and deploying AI applications. However, some organizations remain constrained by fragmented workflows, data silos, operational overhead, and limitations of scale and performance. In this session, learn how AWS\u2019s integrated storage, database, and analytics capabilities create a unified, high performance, and secure data foundation where data scientists, analysts, and engineers can collaborate seamlessly across the entire data lifecycle to power analytics and AI outcomes for the business." }, { "Name": "Building observability to increase resiliency", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "Auditorium D", "LocationCode": "APP304", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Nisha Notani, Technical Account Manager, AWS | Paul Moran, Technical Account Manager, AWS | Ian Board, Staff engineer, Just Eat Takeaway", "Description": "Observability is crucial for validating system resilience and preventing customer impact. Learn how to leverage observability best practices in AWS through Just Eat Takeaway.com's real-world experience. Discover how the right combination of operational practices, instrumentation, and tools can help you detect and mitigate potential failures quickly, ensuring robust system performance." }, { "Name": "Use Amazon EKS Auto Mode to help you\u2026", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "APP303", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Vicky Whittingham, Sr. GTM Specialist, Containers, AWS | Olawale Olaleye, Sr. Specialist SA, Containers, AWS", "Description": "In this session, learn how the recently launched Amazon EKS Auto Mode simplify managing your Amazon EKS cluster, from cluster creation and running your application, to operational requirements and everything in between. With EKS Auto Mode you can focus on your business requirements and let EKS handle the cluster management." }, { "Name": "DORA scenario testing with AWS Fault Injection Service", "Time": "13:25 - 14:10", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "APP206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Haresh Nandwani, Sr Solutions Architect, AWS | Vikas Gupta, Manager Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "DORA is a pan-European legislative framework on operational and cyber resilience in the financial sector. A key component of DORA is the requirement for regulated entities to perform digital operational resilience testing in order to help improve the resilience of their workloads. This talk outlines how customers can use AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to support the DORA requirements around scenario-based testing through a structured, iterative framework aligned to the AWS Resilience Lifecycle Framework" }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "13:25 - 14:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC111", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "AI-Powered Sustainability for SMB Growth with Sage", "Time": "13:30 - 13:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Amaya Souarez, EVP Cloud Services & Operations, Sage | Hardeep Rai, Data Lead, Sage", "Description": "In this session, learn how Sage Earth, partnering with AWS, is pioneering an AI-powered carbon emissions management solution to help SMBs overcome incomplete sustainability data. Leveraging AWS services, this platform equips SMBs to track, analyze, and act on their carbon footprint. Gain insights into Sage's approach to the Scope 3 challenge, and explore practical ways to harness AI-driven carbon management to accelerate sustainability and unlock business growth." }, { "Name": "Lessons Learnt from Maintaining Serverless\u2026", "Time": "13:30 - 14:00", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Niall Keys, Apprentice Software Engineer at Instil & AWS Cloud Club Captain for Belfast", "Description": "Serverless maintenance challenges: traffic spikes, observability issues, long-term stability. I'll share experiences maintaining a feature-complete Serverless app at Instil. Serverless lives up to the hype, but complexities around maintainability remain. Learn how to ensure your deployed Serverless workloads run smoothly for years to come, despite potential unforeseen challenges." }, { "Name": "Launch your First Web App: A Hands-On Guide", "Time": "13:30 - 14:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Jason Lee", "Description": "Embark on a transformative journey with 'Building your first Web application on AWS.' This hands-on session will guide you through the process of creating a powerful web application leveraging the robustness of AWS services. From setting up your development environment to deploying your application on AWS, you'll gain invaluable insights into cloud-based application development. Unleash your web development prowess and take your first step into the world of cloud-native applications." }, { "Name": "Automatic ground truth generation for GenAI\u2026", "Time": "13:40 - 13:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI308", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ivan Cui, Sr. Data Scientist, AWS | Samantha Stuart, Data Scientist, AWS", "Description": "This talk demonstrates best practices for generating and reviewing ground truth data with Amazon Bedrock for evaluating generative AI applications. Learn how to implement serverless pipelines that scale from SME-curated ground truth to enterprise-wide knowledge bases, apply effective LLM prompting techniques, enhance data quality, and establish a risk-based human review processes. Discover how ground truth can enable deterministic benchmarking of generative AI assistants, allowing you to track performance drift and validate improvements with metrics that align to business value." }, { "Name": "From Digital Systems to Ecosystems: Harnessing\u2026", "Time": "13:40 - 14:05", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Will Cavendish, Global Digital Services Leader, Arup | Richard Alexander, Geospatial Data Scientist, Arup", "Description": "Hear from the award-winning built environment firm Arup, as they share how data and AI, powered by AWS SageMaker, are driving real-world nature restoration. From identifying and enhancing biodiversity on projects and at city scale, to managing and improving nature-critical catchments to unlocking high-integrity markets for private investment in nature, this session will showcase cutting-edge solutions that bridge the gap between digital systems and thriving ecosystems." }, { "Name": "How KrakenFlex Are Transforming Critical\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 14:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL216", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Steven Hooper, Principal SA, AWS | Kevin Bowman, Head of Platform Engineering, KrakenFlex", "Description": "In partnership with KrakenFlex who manage over 42GW of energy assets and process over 7B readings a day in the UK, this session will recount their journey with German regulators to provide distributed energy resource management using their cloud native platform. Energy customers with regulated workloads who are interested in the use of AWS for critical workloads should attend this session to benefit from the lessons learnt and guidance on how AWS can help." }, { "Name": "Streamline Your Container Communication on\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 17", "LocationCode": "WOR309", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Henrique Santana, Senior Cloud Support Engineer, AWS | Olly Pomeroy, Senior WW Specialist Solutions Architect Containers, AWS", "Description": "Enhance your Amazon ECS container communication skills in this hands-on workshop. Through practical labs, you'll explore networking modes, Service Connect, load balancers, and VPC Lattice integration. Gain real-world experience optimizing ECS applications and learn valuable techniques to streamline container communication." }, { "Name": "Visualize and Optimize Cloud Cost Efficiency\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 15 & 16", "LocationCode": "WOR308", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Meredith Holborn, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS | Julio Chaves, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS", "Description": "In this hands-on workshop you will learn about technical implementation guidance for various FinOps use cases. You will learn continuous monitoring and governance mechanisms, cost visualization capabilities with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards, and cost optimization strategies like rightsizing resources. You will also learn how you can align cloud usage with business objectives and foster a culture of cost awareness through collaboration between finance, engineering, and business stakeholders. Bring your laptop!" }, { "Name": "Amazon Bedrock Multi-Agent Collaboration\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 8 & 11", "LocationCode": "WOR307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Jeremy Bartosiewicz, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Rohan Ghosh, Solutions Architect, AWS | Maira Ladeira Tanke, Tech Lead Bedrock GenAI Agents, AWS", "Description": "Welcome to the Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration workshop. The goal of this workshop is to give you hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock Agents new multi-agent collaboration capability, the easiest way to build, deploy and manage multiple AI agents working together." }, { "Name": "Serverlesspresso: Build an Event-Driven Application\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 17", "LocationCode": "WOR206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Letizia Trapletti, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and more. Create a scalable, serverless web application that allows users to order coffee and baristas to keep track of and fulfill orders. You must bring your laptop to participate." }, { "Name": "Hands-on with Amazon Q in QuickSight: A\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 9 & 10", "LocationCode": "WOR205", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Abhinath Kumar, GTM Specialist Solutions Architect - Amazon Q, AWS | Radhika Jakkula, GTM Specialist Solutions Architect - Analytics, AWS", "Description": "Explore the Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight. Experience authoring visuals and refining them using natural language. See how business users can leverage natural language to generate data stories to create customizable narratives or slide decks from data. Discover how natural language Q&A with Amazon Q helps users gain insights beyond what is presented on dashboards while executive summaries provide an at-a-glance view of data, surfacing trends and explanations." }, { "Name": "Amazon Bedrock Workshop: Building and\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 8 & 11", "LocationCode": "WOR204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rohan Ghosh, Solutions Architect, AWS | Jeremy Bartosiewicz, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Gareth Hastings, Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Dive into rapid application development with Amazon Bedrock in this hands-on workshop. Learn to leverage foundation models to accelerate your prototyping process and bring ideas to life. Explore Bedrock's key features, understand model selection best practices, and gain practical experience building functional prototypes. Through guided exercises, create, test, and iterate on applications while integrating AI capabilities. Perfect for developers, product managers, and tech enthusiasts." }, { "Name": "Use Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for\u2026", "Time": "13:45 - 17:30", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suites 9 & 10", "LocationCode": "WOR310", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Elena Madrazo Paniagua, Associate Specialist SA, Analytics, AWS", "Description": "Unlock the full potential of your business with the next-generation of Amazon Sagemaker! In this hands-on workshop, you'll explore how to apply GenAI and data-driven strategies to solve real-world business challenges. Through a practical, step-by-step approach, you'll gain experience using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to design and implement AI-powered solutions that drive growth and efficiency. Whether you're working with marketing, sales, or operational goals, this workshop will guide you through using data insights to create impactful strategies that deliver measurable results. Whether you're a data scientist, engineer, or business leader, this workshop will help you turn complex challenges into actionable opportunities with the power of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio." }, { "Name": "Build Generative AI Apps for the Enterprise with\u2026", "Time": "13:50 - 14:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT327", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Steven Totman, Chief Architect Field CTO Office, Informatica", "Description": "Data professionals come explore Informatica's blueprint on our IDMC platform, demonstrating no-code/low-code Agent AI framework to speed development of AI apps with Amazon Bedrock, using trusted-data & semantic intelligence. Adopting enterprise-grade AI apps in production hinges on a solid data foundation, ensuring scalability, data quality, MDM, integration, & governance for trustworthy outcomes." }, { "Name": "Shine a light on your security blind spots", "Time": "13:50 - 14:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT228", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Craig Saunderson, Senior Strategy Advisor (Security), Splunk, a Cisco company", "Description": "Move from reactive to proactive to counter today's evolving threats. Federated Analytics extends the power of Splunk security and observability tools to even more security data conveniently centralized in Amazon Security Lake. That means more information at your fingertips, richer context to quickly respond to threats and close gaps, more flexible data management, and an agile, modern SOC." }, { "Name": "What 300 business owners wish they knew when\u2026", "Time": "13:50 - 14:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT167", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Nelson Chan, Senior Account Manager UKI, Automat-it", "Description": "Join us for a deep dive into the world of startups in which we will examine the challenges of entrepreneurship, drawing from the experiences of 300 businesses. From highs to lows, we'll dissect common pitfalls and share practical insights to help you avoid these. Whether you're a serial entrepreneur or a newcomer, this talk is key to unlocking startup success." }, { "Name": "Derisk GenAI Deployments with Dynatrace and\u2026", "Time": "13:50 - 14:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT226", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Kris Muhi, Principal Product Manager, GTM, Dynatrace | Magdalena Gargas, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Learn the practical steps to successfully running GenAI applications at scale. In this session, Dynatrace and AWS will guide you through planning, deploying, and observing GenAI applications using Amazon Bedrock and Dynatrace AI/LLM Observability. Gain actionable knowledge on monitoring, cost optimization, debugging, and governance to effectively manage risks and maximize ROI of AI investments." }, { "Name": "Intelligent Document Processing with Bedrock\u2026", "Time": "14:00 - 14:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Senthil Mohan, ISV Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) offers a streamlined solution to automate your intelligent document processing (IDP) workflows at scale. BDA eliminates the need to manage complex tasks like classification, extraction, normalization, or validation. With BDA, your unstructured documents will be transformed into business-specific, structured data outputs. These can be customized to seamlessly integrate with your existing systems and workflows. Learn how to leverage BDA to automate document-intensive tasks and make more informed decisions." }, { "Name": "AWS Made Simple: Building a\u2026", "Time": "14:00 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW102", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Spencer Sutton", "Description": "This session breaks down AWS's Well-Architected Framework into practical concepts you can use right away. Learn how the five pillars\u2014Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization\u2014guide better cloud solutions. Through real examples, discover how these principles inform architectural decisions and help avoid common mistakes. Whether you're new to cloud or an experienced architect, gain actionable insights for building resilient, secure, and cost-effective solutions." }, { "Name": "Build, Customize, and Deploy Gen AI and\u2026", "Time": "14:00 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "PRT169", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Zaynab Elmawardy, Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA", "Description": "Join this session to learn how to streamline AI workflows with NVIDIA AI on AWS. Discover how to deploy LLMs using NVIDIA NIM microservices integrated with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and in the AWS Marketplace. Explore NVIDIA NeMo for data curation, customization, retrieval, and guardrails. Hear from a customer who shows how using NVIDIA microservices on AWS accelerates AI innovation." }, { "Name": "The hitchhiker's guide to AWS CloudWan.", "Time": "14:00 - 15:00", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre T", "LocationCode": "APP310", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Fiona Armada, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Barbara Bogadescu, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS", "Description": "Embark on an intergalactic adventure through the vast CloudWAN universe! From single-region greenfield explorations to multi-region global conquests, explore the newest features of AWS Cloud Wan:network segmentation, service insertion, AWS Direct Connect, and SD-WAN integration with Tuneless Connect. Discover the ultimate question: AWS Transit Gateway or CloudWAN? Don't panic, just network like a pro as we guide you through the dos and don'ts of these new AWS features for Cloud Wan services." }, { "Name": "How to transform customer services using\u2026", "Time": "14:10 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Dantis Stephen, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS | Geordee George, Head of Technology Innovation, Wickes", "Description": "This session explores how organizations can transform their customer service through truly natural, intelligent chatbot interactions. We will dive into practical architecture patterns for building effective conversational experiences using Amazon Lex, enhanced by the power of Generative AI through Amazon Bedrock. We will discover how Wickes, a leading UK home improvement retailer, transformed their customer service by building an innovative AWS GenAI solution and learn about their journey, experiences and lessons learned." }, { "Name": "Smarter Migration: Cutting Compute & Licensing\u2026", "Time": "14:15 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT143", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Mike Thompson, Sr Manager - Product Management, AMD", "Description": "Join AMD to learn how EPYC-powered instances optimize compute costs and accelerate AI readiness. Discover strategies to reduce TCO, cut licensing expenses, and enhance performance\u2014whether migrating from on-prem or running on AWS. Explore how AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment can uncover savings while maximizing your AWS investment." }, { "Name": "NatWest\u2019s GenAI Journey", "Time": "14:15 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT259", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Euan Wielewski \u2013 Head of Applied AI, NatWest | Nikhil Nashikkar - Digital Partner, Wipro", "Description": "In early 2023, NatWest started a journey to re-invent it's Kepler Machine Learning Platform for GenAI era. In this Spotlight session, Euan Wielewski \u2013 Head of Applied AI at NatWest, will take you on that journey, highlighting key architectural decisions and how the development of key GenAI features were linked to business value." }, { "Name": "Shifting left: Eval-First AI Agents for Amazon\u2026", "Time": "14:15 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT246", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Vincent, Koc, Developer Advocate, Comet", "Description": "Explore how integrating evaluation loops and end-to-end tracing into your generative AI agents can enhance observability, governance, and performance in Amazon SageMaker deployments. This session outlines a shift-left approach tailored for DevOps and platform engineers, enabling real-time insights and robust risk management." }, { "Name": "NatWest\u2019s GenAI Journey", "Time": "14:15 - 14:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT259", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Euan Wielewski \u2013 Head of Applied AI, NatWest | Nikhil Nashikkar - Digital Partner, Wipro", "Description": "In early 2023, NatWest started a journey to re-invent it's Kepler Machine Learning Platform for GenAI era. In this Spotlight session, Euan Wielewski \u2013 Head of Applied AI at NatWest, will take you on that journey, highlighting key architectural decisions and how the development of key GenAI features were linked to business value." }, { "Name": "Serverless Observability - less to manage, harder\u2026", "Time": "14:15 - 14:45", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM305", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Raphael Manke, Senior Product Engineer, Dash0", "Description": "The talk demystifies serverless observability using OpenTelemetry. It covers strategies, best practices, and tools, highlighting high cardinality, conventions, context, and tooling. It compares cloud and third-party solutions, discussing simplicity, costs, and maintenance. The goal is to provide a comprehensive understanding of tackling observability challenges in serverless environments and actionable insights for implementation." }, { "Name": "How Technology is Shaping the Future of\u2026", "Time": "14:15 - 15:00", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH305", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "TBC | TBC | TBC", "Description": "Step into a transformative era where cutting-edge cloud technology and digital innovation converge with a deep commitment to sustainability. This panel is for those who are in the creative industries: now is the time to harness the dual power of digital transformation and environmental stewardship to redefine media and broadcast production." }, { "Name": "SaaS meets generative AI: Multi-tenant patterns &\u2026", "Time": "14:20 - 14:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST209", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Aswathy Prasad, ISV Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "What does it mean to bring Generative AI into a multi-tenant environment? What are the nuances in the architecture that you would need to do, to abide by the SaaS pillars such as data partitioning, tenant isolation and pricing? Software providers need to consider how tenants are mapped to models, how inferencing is scaled for tenants, and how LLMs are tuned to meet tenant-specific needs. In this session, dig into these intersections between multi-tenancy and AI including the common design, performance, isolation, and experience challenges that come with making GenAI part of your SaaS offering. Learn to identify the patterns and strategies to consider when applying generative AI in a SaaS environment." }, { "Name": "Always-On with AWS: Building Application\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW101", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Deva Suresh Bellary", "Description": "In today's data-driven world, safeguarding your data is paramount. This session explores the best practices for building backup and disaster recovery solutions on AWS. Discover how to leverage AWS services like DRS and AWS Backup to create reliable, scalable, and cost-effective backup strategies. Learn about replication techniques, data archiving, and recovery procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of unforeseen circumstances." }, { "Name": "Exploring Automated Reasoning Checks in\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "GAI312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Georgi Botsihhin, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS | Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS", "Description": "Learn how AR helps build transparent, responsible generative AI applications with AR Check - a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that uses sound mathematical techniques to reduce hallucinations, validate generative AI responses and explain them in an auditable way. See how the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy can help users generate more accurate LLM responses on highly regulated topics, such as operational workflows, HR policies and more. Learn about the different use cases for AR Checks and how to get started today." }, { "Name": "Customize FMs with advanced techniques\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI311", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Sam Sanders, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Miguel Cristino, Sr. GenAI Specialist, AWS | Felix Laumann, Director of Data Science, Mimecast", "Description": "Amazon SageMaker AI allows data scientists and ML engineers to accelerate their Generative AI journeys by deeply customizing publicly available foundation models (FMs), and deploying them into production applications. Join this session to learn how you can use Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to evaluate FMs, select an FM, customize it with advanced techniques, and deploy it \u2014 all while implementing AI responsibility, simplifying access control, and enhancing transparency. Hear from Mimecast, a leading cybersecurity company, as they leveraged FM fine-tuning to create advanced GenAI-powered email protection with Amazon SageMaker AI." }, { "Name": "Customizing models for enhanced results:\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "GAI310", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Anastasia Tzeveleka, Sr. GenAI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Aris Tsakpinis, Sr Specialist Solutions Architect, GenAI, AWS | Vitaliy Zasadnyy, Business Engineering Lead, R&D, Meta", "Description": "Unleash the power of customized AI by fine-tuning generative AI models in AWS to achieve higher quality results. Discover how to adapt foundation models like Meta's Llama models to your specific use cases and domains, boosting accuracy and efficiency. This session covers the technical process, from data preparation to model customization techniques, training strategies, deployment considerations, and post-customization evaluation. Further, you will receive practical guidance on implementing architectural patterns using AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. Gain the knowledge to take your generative AI applications to new heights, harnessing tailored, high-performance models that give you a competitive advantage." }, { "Name": "Soaring High, British Airways' Enterprise\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre J", "LocationCode": "BIZ206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mutiu Salami, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | James Dean, Head of Cloud Platforms, British Airways | Jake Hendy, Principal Engineer, British Airways", "Description": "British Airways\u2019s (BA) Enterprise Cloud Platform currently manages over 1000 Production AWS accounts for BA, providing a comprehensive and highly effective governance framework. The platform's advanced capabilities have empowered BA to achieve unprecedented levels of visibility and control over its cloud resources, allowing BA to make informed, data-driven decisions that allow BA to deliver faster and achieve greater operational efficiency" }, { "Name": "Cost effective auto scaling using Karpenter, KEDA,\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "APP312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Islam Mahgoub, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Natasha Wright, Sr. GTM Spec, Containers, AWS | Dan Massie", "Description": "Apps sometimes suffer from extended start-up time, and when customers deploy in Kubernetes, they usually have to choose between cost efficiency by having a fully elastic compute environment and scaling to 0, and performance by maintaining un-utilized pods to avoid the cold start problem. In this talk, we demonstrate how 10x Banking was able to achieve the two by using Karpenter as a high-performance auto scaler, KEDA for scaling to 0, and CRaC -- an OpenJDK project that allows for starting a Java application from a warmed-up image." }, { "Name": "How Evri reimagined their CX with Amazon Connect", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Auditorium D", "LocationCode": "APP211", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Nawaz Varda, Senior Solution Architect Amazon Connect, AWS | Russell Yeates, Principal WW Specialist Seller, Amazon Connect | Elaine Turley, Head of Customer Experience, Evri", "Description": "Evri, the UK's largest dedicated parcel company, was experiencing low CSAT in their contact centre. In response, new digital assistant and voice IVR channels using Amazon Connect & Amazon Lex were introduced. These new applications achieved much higher success rates, enhancing self serve and more than doubling customer CSAT. Subsequently, their voice IVR has significantly reduced call abandonment, improved first contact resolution and enhanced the customer experience." }, { "Name": "Saving \u00a310M: E.ON's Amazon Textract Driven\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "APP208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Amit Dhingra, UKI AGS Snr. AI/ML Sales Spec, AWS | Tan Takher, Data Scientist, GenAI Innovation Centre, AWS | Samuel Charlton, Product Manager, E.ON Energy", "Description": "E.ON Energy partnered with AWS ProServe to develop Meter AI Diagnostics, the utility industry's first AI-powered solution for remote meter video analysis. This innovation addresses E.ON's significant operational challenge of 2,600 weekly meter-health related site visits at \u00a3180 each, totalling \u00a323 million annually. The solution could save up to \u00a310M per year for E.ON and its customers, leverages Amazon Textract enabling remote diagnosis of issues like disconnected meters, allowing customer self-resolution or targeted engineer deployment. Currently in field trials, this technology promises to improve customer satisfaction while establishing a new benchmark for physical device diagnostics across utilities and similar industries." }, { "Name": "Exploring Automated Reasoning Checks in\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "GAI312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Georgi Botsihhin, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS | Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS", "Description": "Learn how AR helps build transparent, responsible generative AI applications with AR Check - a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that uses sound mathematical techniques to reduce hallucinations, validate generative AI responses and explain them in an auditable way. See how the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy can help users generate more accurate LLM responses on highly regulated topics, such as operational workflows, HR policies and more. Learn about the different use cases for AR Checks and how to get started today." }, { "Name": "Customize FMs with advanced techniques\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI311", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Sam Sanders, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Miguel Cristino, Sr. GenAI Specialist, AWS | Felix Laumann, Director of Data Science, Mimecast", "Description": "Amazon SageMaker AI allows data scientists and ML engineers to accelerate their Generative AI journeys by deeply customizing publicly available foundation models (FMs), and deploying them into production applications. Join this session to learn how you can use Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to evaluate FMs, select an FM, customize it with advanced techniques, and deploy it \u2014 all while implementing AI responsibility, simplifying access control, and enhancing transparency. Hear from Mimecast, a leading cybersecurity company, as they leveraged FM fine-tuning to create advanced GenAI-powered email protection with Amazon SageMaker AI." }, { "Name": "Customizing models for enhanced results:\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "GAI310", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Anastasia Tzeveleka, Sr. GenAI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Aris Tsakpinis, Sr Specialist Solutions Architect, GenAI, AWS | Vitaliy Zasadnyy, Business Engineering Lead, R&D, Meta", "Description": "Unleash the power of customized AI by fine-tuning generative AI models in AWS to achieve higher quality results. Discover how to adapt foundation models like Meta's Llama models to your specific use cases and domains, boosting accuracy and efficiency. This session covers the technical process, from data preparation to model customization techniques, training strategies, deployment considerations, and post-customization evaluation. Further, you will receive practical guidance on implementing architectural patterns using AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. Gain the knowledge to take your generative AI applications to new heights, harnessing tailored, high-performance models that give you a competitive advantage." }, { "Name": "Boost Developer Efficiency with Amazon Q\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Auditorium C", "LocationCode": "DEV308", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Chris Williams, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Askar Serikov, Solutions Architect, AWS | Chris Williams - Principal Platform Engineer", "Description": "Imagine having an AI-powered development team that handles your most time-consuming tasks. That's exactly what Amazon Q Developer Agents deliver. Moving beyond basic code generation, these intelligent agents automate complex workflows including feature implementation, code reviews, test generation, and documentation updates - with minimal oversight needed. Join us to see how DVLA uses these powerful agents to help developers ship better code faster and revolutionise the modern development workflow." }, { "Name": "Data Foundations for AI Innovation", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP304", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Chris Wood, Sr. Startup SA, AWS | Dheeraj Mudgil, Sr. Startup SA, AWS | Iain Niven-Bowling, CTO, Harbr Data | Tom Peirson-Webber, VP Engineering, Harbr Data", "Description": "While 70% of organizations struggle with data initiatives, successful companies leverage modern data architectures for AI and AI Agents. Transform your data infrastructure into a competitive advantage through intentional strategy and AWS capabilities. Learn how Apache Iceberg data lakes, zero-ETL patterns, and automated governance enable AI agents and accelerate progress from data to insights. Real-world examples show how startups democratize data access, power generative AI applications and agents, and drive revenue growth." }, { "Name": "Understand your customers better with a\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC204", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Bruce Garner, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "We are not only producing more data than ever, we are also producing real-time data that is streaming from a host of sources like social media platforms and sensors embedded in attached to various devices. That data comes in structured and unstructured forms. In this session, explore the AWS services needed to build a complete data solution to store, access, transform, analyze, and predict so you can put your data to work to make better, more informed decisions, respond faster to the unexpected, and uncover new opportunities." }, { "Name": "Generative AI Architecture patterns in Production", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "GAI309", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Pranav Sharma, Lead Architect, AWS | Johan Esbjorner, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | John Williams, Co-CEO, Amplience", "Description": "Launching Generative AI applications in production requires careful considerations around model selection and evaluations, Fine tuning vs RAG, security, privacy, hallucination control and cost management. In this talk, we dive deep into common architecture patterns, security guardrails, governance approaches and optimisation tricks developed by supporting hundreds of AWS customers launch their Generative AI workloads in production globally across popular use cases like content generation, Chatbots, document search and more." }, { "Name": "AWS infrastructure as code: A year in review", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "DEV307", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Varvara Semenova, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, AWS | Jonah Craig, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS | Brian Long, Head of Engineering, Tines", "Description": "Manual infrastructure management and inconsistent deployment practices can slow down innovation. In this session, discover how modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK are transforming the way organisations build and scale their cloud infrastructure. Through Tines\u2019 journey from startup to unicorn status, you\u2019ll learn how to leverage the latest IaC features to automate infrastructure deployment, ensure consistency, and accelerate development cycles. Leave with practical strategies to modernise your infrastructure management and empower your teams with automated, declarative deployments." }, { "Name": "Unlocking Business Growth at the Financial Times\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "DAT311", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ismail Makhlouf, Senior Data Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS | Douglas Holland, Senior Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS | Dimitar Terziev, Technology Director, The Financial Times", "Description": "Learn how to design your analytics system to scale with your business needs. Explore the different patterns of multi-cluster architectures and best practices to deploy them cost-effectively. Learn how the Financial Times overcame their system challenges by using a combination of architectural patterns to create an extensible design that enabled growth, reduced time to value, achieved performance targets, and shared data across its enterprise." }, { "Name": "Building BBC\u2019s Machine Learning Platform with\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Auditorium B", "LocationCode": "BIZ208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mark Tritton, Senior Customer Solutions Manager, AWS | Andrew McConachie, Principal Customer Solutions Manager, AWS | John Ewing, Lead Architect - Data Platform, BBC", "Description": "Large enterprises going through digital transformations face common challenges including legacy processes, compressed timelines, scalability, silos (data and people), and friction points. AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA), a transformation methodology adopted by hundreds of companies, helps overcome these challenges, bridging the gap between business goals and technology solutions. In this session, learn directly from BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) how they used EBA to rapidly deliver new Machine Learning Hub capabilities, developing best practices and repeatable patterns for future adoption. Find out how to build end-to-end solutions with EBA's practical guidance to build scalable success patterns which accelerate business value." }, { "Name": "From Silicon to Solutions: Innovation through Arm\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre N", "LocationCode": "BIZ105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Cheryl Razzell, UKIR Specialist SA Leader, AWS | Gary Campbell, Executive Vice President - Central Engineering, Arm | Karima Dridi, Head of Productivity Engineering, Arm", "Description": "Explore how the Arm and AWS partnership is revolutionizing silicon innovation and accelerating value across mobile, infrastructure, and automotive sectors. This session reveals how cloud-native approaches have transformed Arm's engineering culture, dramatically shortened chip design cycles, and enabled faster time-to-market. Learn how this cultural and technological transformation is driving business growth through custom silicon, optimized development tools, and innovative industry-specific solutions" }, { "Name": "Navigating cloud migration: Planning a\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "APP309", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Dattaprasad Sadwelkar, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Dave Yewlett. Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "This Breakout pulls back the curtain on cloud-to-AWS migration challenges and successes, featuring real-world experiences of customers who moved from other clouds to AWS and offering best practices from the trenches. Discover the strategic considerations that prompted migration, as well as technical hurdles and innovative solutions to overcome them. The talk covers aspects of networking, data migration, application refactoring, and architectural optimization, equipping you with knowledge and tools to navigate your migration journey." }, { "Name": "Develop your Cloud Skills using AWS Skill Builder", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Stefan Buse, AWS Technical Instructor, AWS | Nicole Demiray, Learning Solution Spec, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will explore how you can leverage the AWS Skill Builder platform to develop and enhance your cloud computing skills. AWS Skill Builder is a comprehensive learning platform that provides a wide range of free digital courses, hands-on labs, and other resources to help you build expertise in various AWS services and cloud computing concepts." }, { "Name": "Conquer AI performance, cost, and scale with AWS\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "GAI315", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Christian Melendez, Principal Specialist Solution Architect for Compute, AWS | Guy Ben-Baruch, Principal Solutions Architect Data and GenAI, Telecom, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI promises to revolutionize industries, but its immense computational demands and escalating costs pose significant challenges. To overcome these hurdles, AWS designed purposely built AI chips including AWS Trainium2 and AWS Inferentia2. In this session, get a close look at the innovation across silicon, server, and data center." }, { "Name": "Conquer AI performance, cost, and scale with AWS\u2026", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "GAI315", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Christian Melendez, Principal Specialist Solution Architect for Compute, AWS | Guy Ben-Baruch, Principal Solutions Architect Data and GenAI, Telecom, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI promises to revolutionize industries, but its immense computational demands and escalating costs pose significant challenges. To overcome these hurdles, AWS designed purposely built AI chips including AWS Trainium2 and AWS Inferentia2. In this session, get a close look at the innovation across silicon, server, and data center." }, { "Name": "Amazon Nova understanding models", "Time": "14:30 - 15:15", "Location": "Auditorium A", "LocationCode": "GAI314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Vikesh Pandey, Principal Solutions Architect, GenAI, AWS | Antonio Rodriguez, Principal Solutions Architect, GenAI, AWS | Scott Harding, AI Data and Technology Lead, TP ICAP", "Description": "Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, available exclusively on Amazon Bedrock. Join this session to learn about the performance of Nova models across cost, latency and quality benchmarks. Also, Discover how TPICAP used Nova models to automate vendor contract analysis, transforming a manual process into an automated workflow achieving an 85% time efficiency gain." }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "14:30 - 15:35", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC113", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Scoring AI: A practical approach to validating\u2026", "Time": "14:35 - 14:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI110", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Barbara Ristau, Senior Technical Curriculum Developer, AWS Training & Certification | Mark Eliason, Senior Learning Consultant, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI offers great potential, but validating output quality can be challenging. AWS Training and Certification is innovating with generative and human intelligence while driving quality through content scoring. Learn how to adapt generated content while improving accuracy and trustworthiness. By examining when and why scoring matters, we provide actionable insights into creating a disciplined, repeatable process for measuring AI outputs within a range of budgets." }, { "Name": "Overcoming Complexity and Meeting Digital\u2026", "Time": "14:35 - 14:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL209", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mustafa Isik, Snr Mgr Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Organizations across the public sector and highly regulated industries are facing increasing complexity in meeting digital sovereignty requirements as the landscape continues to evolve. Join this lighting talk to learn more about how the AWS sovereign-by-design approach is helping organizations address their unique needs while driving ongoing innovation. Discover how the AWS range of sovereign cloud offerings, including the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud, and our AWS Partner Network can support your compliance, data residency, and resiliency requirements as you continue to advance on your cloud journey." }, { "Name": "Adopting a Usage-to-Value Framework for AI\u2026", "Time": "14:40 - 14:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT348", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Andreas Zartmann, CEO, DigitalRoute | Stephen Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, DigitalRoute", "Description": "As embedded & native AI reshapes business models, traditional finance systems can't keep up. Seat-based licensing and subscription pricing falter as real-time usage ties directly to revenue\u2014often blocked by outdated systems & manual workflows. Discover how AWS Customers can leverage the usage-to-value framework to turn raw AI usage into accurate billing, streamlined reconciliation, & new revenue." }, { "Name": "Avoid today\u2019s innovation becoming tomorrow\u2019s\u2026", "Time": "14:40 - 14:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT252", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ben Scowen, VP - UKI Cloud Enterprise Practice Leader, Kyndryl", "Description": "Avoid the innovation doom loop through AI driven Product and Platform Engineering Summary: Scaling your business with tech is challenging with the choice, permeations & pace of evolution. The upside is innovation, the downside is tech debt. So how do we avoid today\u2019s innovation becoming tomorrow\u2019s tech debt, to break the \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"innovation doom loop\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"; & avoid AI becoming our next example? Learn how an AI-driven product & platform engineering approach solves this problem, with Kyndryl and AWS." }, { "Name": "Code, Cloud & Runtime: One Security Strategy\u2026", "Time": "14:40 - 14:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT229", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Chris Frost, Solutions Engineer, Wiz", "Description": "Apps today live everywhere\u2014code, cloud, runtime. But security? Still stuck in silos. Wiz breaks barriers, connecting the dots from repositories to runtime. We help you spot and fix risks early, with guardrails for developers and advanced detection in the cloud. Join our session to learn how to unify security for fast, secure development." }, { "Name": "Cyber Resilience and Recovery to Enable\u2026", "Time": "14:40 - 14:55", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT247", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ian Wood, Sr Director Technology Sales Northern Europe, Commvault", "Description": "In this session we explore the challenges of building for cyber resilience and how Commvault\u2019s diverse solution set provides robust protection and recovery for hybrid, cloud-native workloads and particularly AWS environments. Learn how your organisation can stay secure and resilient in the face of cyber threats, with practical strategies and best practices tailored for wherever you are in your cloud adoption journey" }, { "Name": "Transitioning from SQL Server to Aurora\u2026", "Time": "14:50 - 15:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST110", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Thirumalai Aiyalu, ISV Solutions Architect, AWS | Toby O'Rourke, Chief Technology Officer, FundApps", "Description": "FundApps migrated from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora Serverless, enabled by Babelfish. This transition improved scalability and reduced costs. Learn how FundApps navigated the migration, leveraged Babelfish, and achieved benefits in scalability, cost-optimization, and operational efficiency. Discover insights to empower your organization's cloud migration and unlock the potential of serverless databases" }, { "Name": "Practical applications of Amazon's rerank model", "Time": "14:55 - 15:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI311", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Corvus Lee, Sr AI/ML Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Explores how to use Amazon's rerank model to enhance your search, recommendation engine, or retrieval augmented generation applications. You will learn how organizations leverage rerank models to enhance user experiences, understand different evaluation metrics to assess the effectiveness, and look at design patterns to integrate with existing or new applications." }, { "Name": "Serverless Kubernetes for AI: DeepSeek on EKS\u2026", "Time": "15:00 - 15:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL210", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Miraj Ranpura, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "In this demonstration, we\u2019ll walk you through how to host DeepSeek-R1 model on AWS using Amazon EKS. We are using Amazon EKS Auto Mode for the the flexibility and scalability that it provides, while eliminating the need for you to manage the Kubernetes control plane, compute, storage, and networking components." }, { "Name": "Money-saving tips for the frugal serverless developer", "Time": "15:00 - 15:30", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Yan Cui, Developer Advocate, Lumigo", "Description": "Let\u2019s explore some common costly mistakes in AWS and serverless and learn actionable tips for cutting down waste and reducing your AWS bill. Whether you\u2019re looking to cut down on CloudWatch costs or improve cost-efficiency for your serverless application, we\u2019ve got some helpful tips for you." }, { "Name": "From idea to POC: A step by step guide for early\u2026", "Time": "15:00 - 15:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW106", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Ayushi Goyal", "Description": "This session designed to help organizations navigate the journey of cloud adoption. This session will provide a practical roadmap for transforming innovative ideas into successful Proof of Concepts (POCs) on the AWS platform. Attendees will learn best practices, strategies, and tools to streamline the PoC process, mitigate risks, and accelerate time-to-market. Whether you're an early adopter or exploring cloud migration, this session will equip you with the knowledge and resources to turn your vision into a tangible cloud-based solution." }, { "Name": "DoiT x On The Beach: A Journey Through\u2026", "Time": "15:05 - 15:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT249", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Kate Gawron, Database Specialist, DoiT | Carl Johnstone, Platform Architect, On the Beach", "Description": "Join On the Beach and DoiT as they reveal valuable insights and positive outcomes from their collaboration on Amazon EKS optimization. Learn about the technical aspects, cost optimization strategies, and improved tool visibility achieved in this project. You'll also hear firsthand about invaluable real-world experiences and successes, alongside key takeaways to enhance your own cloud infrastructure." }, { "Name": "Augmented Software Architecture: A New\u2026", "Time": "15:05 - 15:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT254", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Bill Wilson, Head of Data and AI Solutions, NTT DATA", "Description": "Bill Wilson will discuss incorporating AI into the software architecture and design process - synthesizing information from multiple sources to accelerate the software lifecycle. Bill will explain how his team used Claude Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock as a foundation for Augmented Software Architecture at Virgin Media O2 to generate design documentation powered by a knowledge graph (GraphRAG)." }, { "Name": "Building AI Content Curation on AWS", "Time": "15:05 - 15:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT253", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Byron Allen, Director AI/ML, Mesh-AI | Sergei Batishchev, Lead Data Scientist, Mesh-AI", "Description": "Discover how your organisation can develop an intelligent content curation system using AI on AWS. In this talk Byron and Sergei will cover the technology behind it and how to unlock the benefits. Technologies used include AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic." }, { "Name": "Empowering Developers for Secure AI Adoption", "Time": "15:05 - 15:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT130", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Alex Ley, Director, Snyk Learn, Snyk", "Description": "Want to leverage AI in your software development process without compromising security? This talk will empower developers to safely adopt AI by equipping them with the skills to build secure applications using AI-powered code assistants. We'll also discuss how AI is changing developers' roles and the importance of continuous, SDLC-integrated, specialized training with platforms like Snyk Learn." }, { "Name": "Enabling Agentic AI with Multi-Agent Orchestrator", "Time": "15:10 - 15:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST211", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Nihilson Gnanadason, Sr Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Discover strategies for transforming your software platform with intelligent AI agents using AWS services. In this session, explore different implementation approaches and learn about the multi-agent-orchestrator framework. See how you can effectively deploy and manage AI agents across various hosting environments, unlocking the power of automation and intelligence. Gain insights to accelerate your own software platform transformation and leverage AWS services to build robust, adaptable systems powered by AI agents" }, { "Name": "Breaking Barriers: Empowering Climate\u2026", "Time": "15:10 - 15:35", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Dan Lewis, Director of Product Management, Sage | Amaya Souarez, Executive Vice President, Cloud Services & Operations, Sage", "Description": "Dive into the Sage Earth Carbon Accounting API\u2014a game-changing solution that's making sustainability simple, automated, and scalable for small businesses. Backed by AWS\u2019s stack\u2014from AI/ML to advanced data networking\u2014Sage Earth is helping organisations transform data reporting from a challenge into an opportunity. Learn about new commercial possibilities through AWS Marketplace and practical steps to embed sustainability features into your applications or platforms." }, { "Name": "AI-Accelerated Fault Finding and Repair of\u2026", "Time": "15:15 - 15:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Apurwa Pawar, Solutions Architect, AWS | Matthew Reynolds, Digital Products Software Lead, CMR Surgical", "Description": "Diagnosing issues in this CMR Surgical's Versius robotic system is time-consuming, requires high availability for exceptional patient care. We present an AI-driven approach (developed in a 2-day hackathon) to analyze robot logs, compares them with global service records, and generates insights, empowering engineers to rapidly diagnose and fix issues. By accelerating response times and enhancing operational efficiency, this solution supports surgeons in delivering life-changing care, improving the overall effectiveness of the Versius system." }, { "Name": "Understand the deep security & privacy\u2026", "Time": "15:20 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre T", "LocationCode": "GAI428", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Andrew Kane, WWSO Tech Lead GenAI Security, AWS | Gabrielle Dompreh, AI/ML Specialist SA, AWS", "Description": "Amazon Bedrock is designed to always keep your data safe and secure, with none of your data being used to train the supported models. Whilst the inference pathways are straightforward, there are many nuances within features that use your data for other non-inference purposes, such as Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Agents and Knowledge Bases. In this session, explore the architectures, secure data flows and the complete life-cycle and usage of your data within these features, as you learn the deep details of Amazon Bedrock\u2019s security capabilities." }, { "Name": "FinOps at TP ICAP: Optimizing Cloud Costs\u2026", "Time": "15:25 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL211", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Renato Gentil, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS | Shahen Bokhari, Cloud Optimization and Enablement Lead, TPICAP", "Description": "Explore TP ICAP's transformative FinOps journey with AWS, where strategic optimization drove a remarkable 37% cost reduction in 2023 and 31% carbon emission cut over three years. Discover how intelligent use of Savings Plans, reserved instances, and Spot instances, combined with advanced AWS tools like Compute Optimizer and Cloud Intelligence Dashboards, enabled significant financial and environmental gains. Learn how their collaborative approach is modernizing cloud infrastructure." }, { "Name": "The New Standard for Logging: Fast, Scalable,\u2026", "Time": "15:30 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT244", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Mike Neville-O'Neill, Head of Product, Bronto | Benoit Gaudin, Head of Engineering and Operations, Bronto", "Description": "Bronto redefines what's possible with logs. Powered by AWS services like Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda, our subsecond search across massive volumes of data unlocks use cases that once seemed out of reach\u2014without legacy platform pricing. We\u2019ll unpack our unique architecture (indexless search, log-based metrics, high-efficiency compression, and more) and share how customers achieve visibility without compromise" }, { "Name": "Real-Time Analytics At Scale with Postgres on\u2026", "Time": "15:30 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT258", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Ramon Guiu, VP Product, Timescale", "Description": "Some databases are built for real-time analytics in customer-facing applications, where low-latency queries and high-ingest performance are essential. Others are designed for internal BI and reporting and optimized for large-scale aggregations and batch processing. In this session, Timescale VP of Product Ramon Guiu will cover what real-time analytics is, ideal architectural patterns for real-time analytics in customer facing applications, and a new benchmark for real-time analytics." }, { "Name": "Introducing groundcover: Observability for the Cloud", "Time": "15:30 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - Artemis Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT272", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Shahar Azulay, Co-founder & CEO, groundcover", "Description": "Join our session to discover how groundcover uniquely combines the power of our eBPF-based sensor with a game-changing Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) architecture to completely disrupt observability. As a full-stack platform \u2014 covering Logs Management, APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, and Real User Monitoring \u2014 groundcover ensures all your data stays inside your environment at all times. groundcover can ingest data from many sources, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, and is also available on AWS Marketplace. Learn about our zero-instrumentation deployment and get a firsthand look at a live demo led by our Co-founder and CEO, Shahar Azulay." }, { "Name": "Using multi-modal search and Generative AI to\u2026", "Time": "15:30 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT250", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rob Kernutt, Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic", "Description": "Hear how to get the most out of disparate data sources by unifying them in the Elastic Search AI Lake by deriving meaningful insights from your data and building elevated user experiences with AWS Bedrock on the Elastic Search AI platform." }, { "Name": "Architecture Patterns for Multi-tenant\u2026", "Time": "15:30 - 15:45", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST212", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Canberk Keles, ISV Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "As applications evolve, choosing the right multi-tenant architecture for secure search on Amazon OpenSearch is crucial. In this session, learn key strategies for index-level isolation, shared index approaches, and security configurations to deliver powerful search experiences with complete data separation between tenants. Leave with a clear understanding of the architecture and implementation details needed for secure, high-performing search in your multi-tenant applications." }, { "Name": "AI-Powered Holiday Picks for Travel Agents with\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 15:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI313", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Vishnu Vardhini, Solutions Architect, AWS | Naren Gakka, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Join us for this lightning talk to discover how travel agencies can deliver personalized, real-time holiday recommendations using Amazon Bedrock. We'll demonstrate how generative AI-powered solutions can empower agents to provide tailored experiences that boost customer satisfaction and drive bookings. Learn how serverless technologies and foundation models can create dynamic, intelligent systems that give travel agencies a competitive edge with faster, smarter recommendations that meet evolving customer needs." }, { "Name": "Transforming Lives: Circle Gas\u2019 Clean Cooking\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre E", "LocationCode": "BIZ209", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Jamila Jamilova, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS | Elena Lobodina, Chief Executive Officer, Circle Gas", "Description": "Circle Gas is transforming lives in developing markets by making clean cooking accessible and affordable. Using smart technology and a pay-as-you-go model, they're helping families switch from harmful cooking fuels to safer LPG gas solutions, making clean cooking accessible to millions of households." }, { "Name": "The Future of AI and Data: Trends in Modern Data\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre R", "LocationCode": "BIZ111", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "David Bloch, Principal EMEA Data/GenAI Strategist, AWS", "Description": "Companies are collecting more data than ever before yet still many businesses struggle to unlock the value of data. Join this session to hear about the main trends in modern data strategy and learn from many different customer success stories. These include topics around data ethics, modern data communities, governance, embedded analytics and generative AI" }, { "Name": "Modernising Rail Health: How Steamhaus Enabled\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "APP216", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Fabio Petriccione, Technical Account Manager, AWS | Tom Misiukanis, Principal Architect Consultant | Bobby Gilbert, Senior Director of Digital Transformation, Sperry Rail", "Description": "Join this session to learn how Sperry Rail, a century-old rail inspection company, transformed their business by leveraging AWS. They modernised from a traditional infrastructure to cloud-native with AWS Partner, Steamhaus. Using AWS managed services, this transformation now enables Sperry Rail to analyze thousands of miles of critical rail safety data within minutes of collection. Learn how you too can embark on this transformative journey, regardless of your company's age or size." }, { "Name": "Build without limits with AWS Cloud infrastructure", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Auditorium D", "LocationCode": "APP215", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Gunnar Grosch, Principal Developer Advocate, AWS | Chara Gravani, GenAI engineering manager, AWS", "Description": "Organizations of all sizes are looking to solve big challenges, turn ideas into reality, and innovate faster. This requires a secure and reliable infrastructure that delivers high performance at low costs and scales without limits, while offering technology choices tailored to an organization\u2019s specific needs. In this session, learn how builders are using AWS Cloud infrastructure to create and run critical applications that meet customer and business needs. Explore AWS innovations, starting from the silicon and extending to data centers across the globe. Discover how AWS can accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and support global scale for your organization." }, { "Name": "The GTM Readiness Playbook: Go-To-Market\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP105", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Saumitra Ganguly, Senior Manager, AWS | Shamal Thaker, Head of GTM, Atomico & Elisabeth Duijnstee, CEO, Compasslabs | Kyle Galbraith, CEO, Depot.dev | Steven Marconi, CEO CloudMargin", "Description": "In a landscape where 75% of founders identify Go-To-Market (GTM) as their primary challenge and most sought-after area for guidance, understanding GTM readiness has never been more crucial. This candid panel discussion brings together experienced founders and GTM strategists to explore what true go-to-market readiness looks like. We'll examine how successful startups efficiently leverage finite resources \u2013 whether that's people, channels, or budget \u2013 to maximize ROI while maintaining sustainable cost of sales and competitive advantage." }, { "Name": "Using multiple agents for scalable generative AI\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI319", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Hasan Poonawala, Senior AI/ML Solutions Architect for HCLS, AWS | Andrew Osborne, Director, R&D IT - Data, Analytics & AI, Engineering, AstraZeneca", "Description": "Join this session to learn how AstraZeneca transformed their Drug Development Data Platform (3DP) using Amazon Bedrock agents. Learn how they created specialized agents to orchestrate tasks, extract insights and generate visual outputs from several clinical and regulatory data products. We focus on streamlined data access, enhanced knowledge exploration, and a reusable and scalable architecture with automated evaluation metrics to ensure the robustness and performance of the agents." }, { "Name": "How GBG Scaled Cloud Operations with\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "DEV312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Josh Hart, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Naresh Nagpal, Solutions Architect, AWS | Gareth Evans, Head of Platform Engineering, GBG", "Description": "Lengthy infrastructure provisioning and manual operations limit your organization's ability to scale. In this session, learn how to architect with highly scalable AWS services to support rapid business growth, illustrated through GBG's journey from month-long provisioning cycles to a streamlined self-service DevOps platform. You'll understand key architectural decisions for scaling, when to break down services, and how to optimize costs while maintaining security. The session combines architectural best-practices with real-world implementation insights to help you prepare for your own scaling challenges. You will leave understanding practical strategies for building scalable infrastructure, implementing self-service DevOps, and managing complex deployments." }, { "Name": "Full Steam Ahead: Trainline's Dynamic Move\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Auditorium B", "LocationCode": "DAT312", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Jack Bark, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Lee Hannigan, Sr. DynamoDB Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Jamie Beaumont, Director of Architecture & Engineering, Trainline", "Description": "Join us to explore how Trainline have migrated their mission-critical databases from EC2 hosted SQL Server to Amazon Managed Databases and more specifically Amazon DynamoDB, challenging conventional relational database paradigms. Learn about the decision-making process, technical implementation, and tangible benefits realised through this migration, gaining insights into Trainline's approach to modernising their core infrastructure." }, { "Name": "Accelerate modernisation of VMware workloads\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre N", "LocationCode": "DEV310", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Siva Shanmugam, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Olushola Oladipupo, Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Ready to learn about how the new Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities can simplify and automate the modernization and migration of VMware environments to AWS? This session shows you how Amazon Q Developer accelerates transformation projects from discovery, planning, and replatforming to deploying your VMware environments in Amazon EC2. Learn how the generative AI\u2013powered capabilities help you scale and innovate by streamlining VMware migrations to AWS in a matter of months." }, { "Name": "The value of AWS Certifications in your\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC108", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Fred Hoskyns, Senior Account Manager, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will explore the strategic importance of AWS certifications within an enterprise's cloud computing initiatives. As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption and digital transformation efforts, the need for skilled and certified AWS professionals has become increasingly critical." }, { "Name": "Code with a generative AI\u2013powered assistant:\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC102", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Eyal Tamir, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS | Nir Zilberman, Sr. Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI\u2013powered assistant that helps you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications throughout the software development lifecycle. In this breakout session, learn about the benefits, features, typical use cases, technical concepts, and cost of using Amazon Q Developer. Review an architecture that uses Amazon Q Developer in interactive and asynchronous environments to chat with applications and customize and transform code." }, { "Name": "Generative AI for security in the real world", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "GAI420", "Level": "Level 400", "Speaker": "Isabelle Mos, Solutions Architect, AWS | Laura Verghote, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI use cases for the business world abound, but how can security practitioners leverage this technology? This session explores real-world examples of generative AI use cases for solving security challenges. We'll examine specific examples, such as red team/blue team operations, incident response, and SOC use cases, demonstrating how services like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, and Amazon SageMaker can be used to enhance security operations. Discover practical solutions that can amplify the impact of your security teams." }, { "Name": "Unleash your creativity with Amazon Nova video\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "GAI321", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Dinesh Rajput, Senior PMT, AGI FMs | Kris Schultz, Senior Solutions Architect GenAI AGI | Yanyan Zhang, Senior GenAI Data Scientist", "Description": "Explore Amazon Nova's AI-powered content creation capabilities, focusing on both image and video generation. Learn about features including text-to-image, image editing, text-to-video generation and video storyboarding. This session demonstrates how these advanced tools can transform written concepts into dynamic visual content, streamlining creative workflows and enhancing storytelling possibilities. Ideal for marketers, content creators, and business strategists interested in leveraging AI for visual content creation." }, { "Name": "Boost Foundation Model inference performance\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre O", "LocationCode": "GAI318", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Vivek Gangasani, Sr. GenAI Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Dmitry Soldatkin, Sr. GenAI Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Join us to learn how to efficiently deploy popular open-source models, such as DeepSeek R1, Qwen, and Llama3, using advanced inference engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TGI. We'll demonstrate Amazon SageMaker AI's latest optimization features\u2014including scale-down-to-zero, accelerated autoscaling, speculative decoding, and inference components\u2014that dramatically reduce costs while improving throughput and reducing latency. Through practical examples featuring models like Llama 3.3, you'll discover how to achieve optimal price-performance for your generative AI workloads." }, { "Name": "Supercharge your apps with embedded Amazon\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "GAI317", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Roy Yung, Senior QuickSight Solutions Architect, AWS | Zhiying Lee, Solutions Architect, AWS | Federico Carugati, Product Manager - Analytics Products, Docebo", "Description": "Data analytics and Machine Learning becomes a more and more important role in business decision making. With dashboard embedded in business application, user can get information more efficiently in their daily operation. With the emergence of Q, we can further assist business users to facilitate the information gathering process by using natural language. In this session, AWS and Docebo will show you how embedded QuickSight dashboard can accelerate decision making in this use case" }, { "Name": "Streamline RAG and model evaluation with Amazon\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "GAI316", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Rajesh Sripathi, Sr AIML/GenAI Specialist SA, AWS | Tara O'Kane, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS | Julian Wiffen, Chief of AI and Data Science, Matillion", "Description": "In this session, we will explore Amazon Bedrock\u2019s new built-in RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge model evaluation capabilities, designed to help you improve and productionize your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and foundation models, including custom and imported models. We will also discover how to create and manage evaluation jobs and analyze performance with critical quality and responsible AI metrics using Amazon Bedrock. We then have our customer Matillion, talk through practical examples of how they have been able to systematically evaluate quality of LLM outputs a variety of use-cases, using some of the Amazon Bedrock features we discussed today." }, { "Name": "Deep Dive: Next Generation of Amazon\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "DAT314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Sandipan Bhaumik, Principal Analytics SA, AWS | David Sansom, Head of Data Technology Platforms, NatWest", "Description": "Discover how Amazon SageMaker is evolving into a comprehensive platform that unifies data analytics and AI workloads. This deep dive will explore how Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies all your data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, including S3 Tables, and Amazon Redshift data warehouses helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. Learn how these advancements accelerate AI innovation while reducing operational complexity and costs. NatWest will join us to share their story of leveraging the lakehouse approach to transform their machine learning initiatives. Don't miss this opportunity to understand how Amazon SageMaker is reshaping enterprise AI development." }, { "Name": "Iceland.co.uk: Boosting Sales with\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre P", "LocationCode": "DAT313", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Charlie Coleman, Solutions Architect, AWS | Damian Janik, Platforms Engineer, Iceland | Ben Ford, Lead DevOps Engineer, Iceland", "Description": "In the rapidly evolving retail landscape, data-driven insights have become a pivotal force in enhancing customer experiences. By leveraging comprehensive customer data, businesses can deliver highly targeted shopping experiences that boost customer engagement and revenue performance. Using a combination of Amazon S3, Athena and Personalise, Iceland utilized detailed transactional and behavioural data to create personalized shopping basket recommendations, leading to a notable increase in basket size. This approach focused on analysing customer shopping behaviours and preferences to tailor product suggestions, thereby optimizing the shopping experience through data-driven personalization." }, { "Name": "Best practices for serverless developers", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Auditorium C", "LocationCode": "DEV311", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ronan Prenty, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services | Priyanka Bettaswamygowda, Solutions Architect, AWS | David Adegbiyi, Head of Engineering, Cancer Research UK", "Description": "Do you want to take advantage of the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads? This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful insights that experts can use to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications. Discover how Cancer Research UK modernized their donation platform using AWS Serverless tools like Lambda and API Gateway to create an efficient payment processing system. Their real-world example demonstrates architectural best practices for both modernizing legacy systems and building new solutions." }, { "Name": "How AWS migration & modernization\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "Auditorium A", "LocationCode": "BIZ210", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Veliswa Boya, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS", "Description": "Maximize the value of your legacy systems and accelerate your organization\u2019s journey to the cloud. Discover how AWS is revolutionizing migration and modernization, turning complex challenges into opportunities. Explore cutting-edge services that redefine digital transformation, from AI-powered discovery tools to automated refactoring solutions. Learn how industry leaders use these tools to reduce costs, eliminate licensing issues, and speed up innovation. Whether you\u2019re a business decision-maker, IT leader, or technical professional, this session will equip you with strategies to drive your organization\u2019s cloud transformation. Join us to transform your legacy systems into a springboard for innovation with AWS." }, { "Name": "Bringing the AWS experience on-premises:\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre J", "LocationCode": "APP320", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Perry Wald, Principal GTM SSA Hybrid Edge UK, AWS | Chris McEvilly, Sr. GTM Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "While most workloads can be easily migrated to the cloud, some need to remain on-premises due to data sovereignty, low latency, or local data processing requirements. In this session, learn how AWS Outposts extends the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools on-premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Discover breakthrough AWS innovations at the edge of the cloud with Outposts. Explore how you can leverage AWS capabilities on-premises for use cases such as VMware migration, generative AI with regulated data, and in-place modernization of mission-critical workloads. Dive deep into hybrid cloud architecture and design considerations." }, { "Name": "Automatically Provision & Operate sporting Live\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "APP313", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Colin Willis, Solutions Architect, AWS | Jon Robins, Principal SA, StreamAMG", "Description": "Live sports streaming providers face mounting pressure to reliably deliver hundreds of concurrent events while controlling infrastructure costs. This session reveals how StreamAMG successfully scaled their OTT streaming operations on AWS using cloud-native automation. You'll learn practical strategies for implementing CDK automation and event-driven architectures to handle high-volume streaming demands. Our proven approach helps you reduce manual operations, improve reliability, and optimize costs across your streaming infrastructure. You'll also learn how StreamAMG achieved seamless delivery of 100+ simultaneous football and tennis events while maintaining broadcast-quality performance." }, { "Name": "Building an adaptive compute grid with\u2026", "Time": "15:35 - 16:20", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "APP314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Urmila Raju, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | David Bewick, Chief Technology Officer & Founding Partner, Coremont | Nick Owen, Head of Software Engineering & Partner, Coremont", "Description": "Discover how Coremont rebuilt their financial calculation platform to dynamically balance workloads between AWS Fargate (for Amazon ECS) and AWS Lambda. Journey from their static compute grid to an elastic platform that efficiently balances cost and performance. Learn how they architected a system leveraging AWS Fargate for baseline capacity while automatically bursting to AWS Lambda for peak demands, maintaining sub-5-second SLAs across thousands of parallel calculations while tackling challenges in workload distribution and networking at scale." }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "15:35 - 16:40", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC112", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Cloud4Green: Transforming Data into\u2026", "Time": "15:45 - 16:10", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Hilary Tam, Sustainability Leader, EMEA | Eric Hannon Partner, McKinsey", "Description": "Join us for an exclusive session on Cloud4Green, a groundbreaking collaboration between McKinsey and AWS, where we introduce AutoMACC, the ultimate solution for managing sustainability data. In this session, you\u2019ll discover how AutoMACC streamlines data management, enabling organizations to measure, optimize, and accelerate their sustainability efforts with unprecedented efficiency. Through a live demonstration, you\u2019ll see firsthand how AutoMACC empowers businesses to take faster, smarter action on climate goals. This solution is ready to help your organization overcome the complexities of sustainability, transform data into actionable insights, and drive measurable environmental impact. Don\u2019t miss the opportunity to learn how AutoMACC can be the catalyst for your next step in achieving your climate objectives, whether you're a data leader, sustainability expert, or business innovator." }, { "Name": "Visual Content Creation with Amazon Nova: From\u2026", "Time": "15:45 - 16:15", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM207", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Guido Nebiolo, Generative AI Manager, Reply", "Description": "This talk will explore the capabilities of the Nova FM family and the quality of the results. It will discuss how to build a pipeline that combines the different models to create a complex video output, starting from an idea using an agent-based generative AI architecture. The session will provide insights into leveraging these AI tools to generate innovative and engaging video content, highlighting the potential of this approach in various creative and artistic applications." }, { "Name": "Intelligent Data Insights for Customers Using\u2026", "Time": "15:50 - 16:05", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST213", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Islam Mahgoub, ISV Sr Solutions Architect, AWS | Sorina Veres, Product Owner, RWS | Ian Parnell, Senior Product Manager, RWS", "Description": "In this session, you'll see how Amazon QuickSight's AI-powered Q&A can transform your BI process. Learn how the RWS team used QuickSight Q to build Trados Smart Insights, empowering customers to get natural language answers to their data questions in seconds. Discover how this cutting-edge technology can help you cut complexity, reduce risks, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions - so you and your business users can focus on what matters most. Experience the power of reinvented BI." }, { "Name": "Develop Serverless Applications with\u2026", "Time": "15:50 - 16:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL212", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Tomasz Grzybowski, Associate Scaling SA, AWS", "Description": "Join this lightning talk for a demo of how Amazon Q Developer can boost productivity building serverless applications. See how Amazon Q can support code generation, transformation, and unit testing, and how it can help throughout the software development lifecycle. Learn how Amazon Q Developer can support developers in learning how to build serverless applications." }, { "Name": "Leapfrogging from Mainframe to Cloud for\u2026", "Time": "15:55 - 16:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - Atlas Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT374", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Pankaj Kulkarni, Head of Europe Enterprise Verticals, Tech Mahindra", "Description": "Banks and financial institutions are leapfrogging from legacy mainframes directly to cloud infrastructure to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and enhance agility which bypasses incremental upgrades, enabling institutions to modernize core systems, deploy digital services faster, and scale operations securely." }, { "Name": "Oil and Gas GenAI solution for Well Interventions", "Time": "15:55 - 16:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Alex Newton, Data Scientist, AWS | Ram Nutakki, Head of Digital Innovation, INOES Energy", "Description": "Oil wells generate vast amounts of unstructured data, which reservoir engineers traditionally analyze manually to make decisions about well improvement strategies. INEOS Energy and GenAIIC collaborated to develop an innovative Generative AI solution that addresses this challenge. The system extracts information from unstructured documents and adds the information into structured databases. By using LLMs to analyze the extracted data, INEOS Energy can now generate novel insights from historical well interventions and oil production data. This advancement enables reservoir engineers to forecast future well interventions with greater accuracy, ultimately enhancing decision-making processes and operational efficiency in the oil industry." }, { "Name": "From Amazon Redshift to dashboards in 15\u2026", "Time": "15:55 - 16:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - Athena Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT255", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Uri Bahar, Director Solution Engineering, Sisense | null", "Description": "In this session, see how Sisense turns Amazon Redshift data into embedded insights in a React app\u2014in under 15 minutes. Explore the flexibility of Sisense's analytics platform as a service and how it empowers developers and data teams to quickly create and embed analytics using a streamlined, innovative approach." }, { "Name": "Idea to Impact: Top Game-Changing Ways to Use\u2026", "Time": "16:00 - 16:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - New to AWS", "LocationCode": "NEW104", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Houssam Ebrahim", "Description": "Generative AI is rapidly transforming industries, and AWS offers a comprehensive suite of services to help new customers harness its power. This session will explore the top entry points, including Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Textract, enabling attendees to kickstart their Generative AI journey seamlessly. Attendees will gain insights into best practices, real-world use cases, and strategies for leveraging these services effectively, accelerating their path to innovation and competitive advantage in the realm of Generative AI." }, { "Name": "How Amiqus Leveraged AWS to Revolutionize UK\u2026", "Time": "16:10 - 16:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS for Software & Technology Theatre", "LocationCode": "AST115", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Callum Murray, CEO & Founder, Amiqus", "Description": "Discover how Amiqus uses AWS to revolutionize UK government hiring and onboarding. As the power behind the largest contingent framework, Amiqus will showcase their secure, efficient, and compliant cloud approach. Learn how they've transformed civil servant hiring, reducing onboarding from weeks to hours while maintaining high standards. Walk away with insights on benchmarking trusted, fast, and accurate hiring for government operations." }, { "Name": "Reimagining Automotive Marketing with\u2026", "Time": "16:15 - 16:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI215", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Huong Vu, Senior Data Scientist, AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre | Satyam Saxena, Applied Science Manager, AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre", "Description": "This talk explores a novel evaluation method for AI-generated car images, focusing on different visual aspects of big-ticket item such as luxury cars. We developed a systematic approach that combines segmentation models and large language models to enhance image quality assessment. The results provide detailed insights into image accuracy, enabling developers to identify gaps in their training pipelines. This method improves efficiency in evaluating AI-generated images, ensuring higher quality outputs while reducing reliance on subjective human judgment." }, { "Name": "Unlocking Cybersecurity using Generative AI", "Time": "16:15 - 16:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL213", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Alex Goff, UK&I Area Security Leader, AWS | Cory Smith, Senior Security Consultant, AWS", "Description": "Customers love to find ways to prioritise alerts and resolve problems faster. Security teams often have limited resources and are keen to understand how AI and Generative AI can help them sift through the noise. In this lightning talk you\u2019ll hear from AWS Professional Services and GenAI Innovation Centre leaders share their experiences in how we're solving things internally and how we're helping customers such as Formula One build solutions to resolve issues at scale across their enterprise." }, { "Name": "Modernizing Legacy and Building Future Ready\u2026", "Time": "16:20 - 16:35", "Location": "AWS Zone - Apollo Partner Theatre", "LocationCode": "PRT156", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Dougie Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer, Aegon UK | Ajay Upreti, Head - AWS Business (EMEA), Tata Consultancy Services", "Description": "Aegon UK built a secure, scalable digital savings and retirement platform using AWS cloud computing, and microservices. They also modernized their legacy contact centre with an Amazon Connect solution, enhancing customer/agent experience and reducing operational costs. The platform streamlines advisory services, serves as a foundation for future automation and digital channel expansion." }, { "Name": "Sustainable Innovation: Legal & General\u2026", "Time": "16:20 - 16:45", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH208", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Tariq Surty, IT Transformation Director, L&G Retail | Vamsi Bhogireddy, Technology Leader, Green IT Practitioner, SRE and Devops Advocate, L&G Retail", "Description": "Learn about how L&G Retail are balancing the demands of innovation with sustainability: building on their reputation for innovatively enabling operational efficiencies and customer experience using AWS Generative AI and Machine Learning, to now reduce the carbon footprint of their applications." }, { "Name": "Building a Serverless Podcast Workflow:\u2026", "Time": "16:30 - 17:00", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - AWS Community Lounge", "LocationCode": "COM308", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Jon Goodall, Lead Cloud Engineer, Logicata", "Description": "In this talk, we will go through a practical example of using AI and Serverless to achieve a business outcome related to the automation of content creation. I'll talk about a number of serverless tools and how you can use them to create multi-step workflows. You will walk away with actionable tips and tricks on using Amazon Bedrock." }, { "Name": "Scaling GenAI in Learning: From Prototype to\u2026", "Time": "16:35 - 16:50", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI216", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Courtney Garvin, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services | James Mullaney, CTO, Learning Pool", "Description": "Discover how Learning Pool revolutionised management skill development with 'AI Conversations.' By leveraging Amazon Bedrock, serverless architecture, and CloudFront with Lambda@Edge, they transformed their idea into a production-ready conversational simulation platform in weeks, not months. The result? Enterprise-grade performance, swift customer adoption, and measurable business outcomes that showcase how AWS can be used to build and scale GenAI solutions." }, { "Name": "Reducing Bias with Cognitive Based Prompt\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:00", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL214", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Steph Gooch, Senior Solutions Architect Advocate, AWS", "Description": "Social biases in foundation models can perpetuate harmful stereotypes in AI applications. This session demonstrates how to use cognitive prompting and Amazon Bedrock's responsible AI framework to reduce stereotypical responses in production environments. Drawing from published research, we'll demonstrate: - Understanding what bias there are in AI and how these affect responses - Using Prompt Engineering - Integration with Bedrock Guardrails for additional bias detection and intervention" }, { "Name": "Are you well-architected?", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 12", "LocationCode": "TNC206", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Richard Colborne, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "Most businesses depend on a portfolio of technology solutions to operate and be successful every day. How do you know if you and your team are following best practice or what the risks in your architectures might be? In this session, learn how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive architectural advice and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you measure and improve your technology portfolio." }, { "Name": "Enhance your AI Practitioner Certification\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Expo - Training and Certification", "LocationCode": "TNC109", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Bhavik Joshi, Sr AWS Technical Instructor, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we will explore how to leverage the AWS Skill Builder platform to enhance your preparation for the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification. As artificial intelligence and machine learning become increasingly important in driving digital transformation, the demand for skilled AI practitioners has grown exponentially, making the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification a valuable asset for professionals looking to showcase their expertise in this domain." }, { "Name": "Investor Panel - What investors are looking for\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "AWS Zone - Startup Loft", "LocationCode": "SUP106", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "Sam Edge, Head of Startup BD, AWS | Ash Arora, Partner, LocalGlobe | Chris Adelsbach, Investor | Tom Wilson, Partner, Seedcamp", "Description": "Join us for an exclusive panel with leading investors discussing the evolving venture capital landscape. Gain insights into current and future investment trends across UK, EMEA, and global markets. Our panelists will share their investment theses for 2025 and beyond, highlighting sectors with the greatest potential. Whether you're a founder seeking funding, an investor, or an industry professional, this panel provides crucial information to navigate market trends and make informed decisions." }, { "Name": "Scaling generative AI workloads with efficient\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre K", "LocationCode": "GAI329", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Ayman ElSayed, Solutions Architect, AWS | Kait Healy, Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "As you build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications, using and managing the right set of models for the outcomes you desire becomes key. Amazon Bedrock is introducing several features designed to help you find the right models and help you enhance cost-efficiency while maintaining world-class performance and accuracy. Attend this session to learn about Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, Intelligent Prompt Routing, and Model Distillation." }, { "Name": "What's new with Q Business", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Auditorium A", "LocationCode": "GAI230", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "David Pessis, Director GenAI GTM, Amazon Q | Mayur Udernani, Principal AI/ML Sales, AWS", "Description": "As enterprises grapple with fast technological change, join this session to learn about the latest product releases with Amazon Q Business. The session dives into the latest features and enhancements of Amazon Q Business, demonstrating how to deploy an Amazon Q Business application that leverages your enterprise content\u2014empowering employees to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks." }, { "Name": "Agents at the frontier: Advanced techniques for\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre G", "LocationCode": "GAI322", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Diana Alvarado, Sr Specialist Solutions Architect Amazon Bedrock, AWS | Stephen Hibbert, Senior AI Prototype Architect, AWS | Matthew Farrelly, ML engineering manager, Trainline", "Description": "Foundation models gain real-world impact when combined with tools and agents that can take action. In this session, learn how practical approaches to prompt engineering and system design can help orchestrate intelligent workflows by connecting Amazon Bedrock models with external systems through tools and agents. See this in action through Trainline's transformation of their customer experience with the Trainline travel assistant." }, { "Name": "Evolving Data & Compute Technologies on AWS -\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre H", "LocationCode": "DAT216", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Jonathan Kerr, Senior Database Solution Architect, AWS | Jon Hammant, UKI Specialist Sales Leader, AWS | Jon Fautley, Head of Cloud, Qube Research & Technologies", "Description": "In this session we will explore how Qube Research & Technologies uses AWS compute & data technologies to support it\u2019s global algorithmic trading organisation. We\u2019ll hear about how modernisation has unlocked performance and scale for key workloads. We will hear about the evolution of the Qube-RT data platform used for trading strategies and research. We will share how Qube-RT leverage managed database services to power the platform, and to satisfy the rapid growth and resilience the business requires to stay competitive." }, { "Name": "Transforming Oracle WL: Deep Dive into RDS, &\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre R", "LocationCode": "DAT215", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Simon Cunningham, AWS | Varvara Murphy, AWS", "Description": "In this session, we'll explore the diverse Oracle Database offerings available for Oracle Enterprise workloads on AWS. We'll discuss various migration patterns, delve into High Availability architecture designs, and introduce the new Oracle @ AWS offering. To wrap up, we'll focus on cost optimization strategies aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, highlighting the AWS products, services, and tools that can help you maximize efficiency and minimize expenses for your Oracle deployments on AWS." }, { "Name": "Transforming to Cloud Native in the UK Public\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Auditorium C", "LocationCode": "BIZ203", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Stephen Walker, Solutions Architect, AWS | Philip Stephenson, Lead Cloud Architect, NHS Business Services Authority", "Description": "Explore how a UK Public Sector organization partnered with AWS to transform its IT infrastructure. This session covers the journey of building a robust landing zone, selecting optimal technologies, and migrating existing systems to the cloud. Discover the challenges faced, how they were overcame and gain insights into public sector cloud adoption best practices including security, performance optimization, and business-friendly design. Uncover practical lessons for your own cloud transformation journey." }, { "Name": "10 years of Cloud \u2013 How to not clutter your AWS\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre E", "LocationCode": "DEV213", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Rakshith Rao, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS | Johannes Gehrs, Sr. Software Development Engineer, Reliability Engineering, Adobe", "Description": "As organisations scale their AWS footprint, managing resources becomes increasingly complex. Organising large numbers of accounts, managing infrastructure as code (IaC) at scale, and identifying underutilised resources centrally are some of the challenges. In this session, we'll dive deep into these challenges as Adobe shares the lessons learnt from over a decade of running large-scale workloads on AWS. You'll learn practical approaches to simplify Cloud Governance, manage IaC effectively, and optimise your cloud spend through actionable tips." }, { "Name": "From Zero to Production in 30 Days: How Serverless\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre F", "LocationCode": "DEV314", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Matt Meckes, Sr GTM Specialist, Container, AWS | Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer, Motorway.co.uk", "Description": "Many organisations struggle to balance rapid innovation with maintaining secure, reliable systems, and addressing technical debt in legacy systems. Learn how Motorway, the UK\u2019s fastest-growing used car marketplace, embraced AWS Serverless to fuel rapid growth. We will explore how they empowered teams to launch a product from idea to revenue in just 30 days while maintaining security and scalability. Discover practical strategies for building new applications and refactoring legacy applications to serverless, building automated security controls, and optimising costs without compromising speed. Whether you're a startup or enterprise, you'll gain actionable insights to accelerate product development while maintaining operational excellence." }, { "Name": "Unlocking Data Value: Align Technology with\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre L", "LocationCode": "BIZ213", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Peter Hughes, UKI AGS Sr Analytic Sales Specialist, AWS | Antje Bustamante, VP Data, Funding Circle", "Description": "A modern data strategy is only as powerful as the culture that embraces it. In this talk, Antje Bustamante (VP Data at Fundingcircle) shares how they aligned a scalable data platform with a data-driven mindset to drive real business impact\u2014while fostering a culture that learns from mistakes and continuously improves. Learn practical strategies to bridge the gap between technology and culture, turning data into a competitive advantage" }, { "Name": "The future of your VMware-based\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre J", "LocationCode": "BIZ212", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Martyn Storey, Sr Mgr GTM Specialist, AWS", "Description": "Choosing the right cloud destination for your VMware-based workloads is crucial for your business. Join this session to learn how AWS collaborates with customers to navigate this journey. AWS provides proven migration pathways\u2014including Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) that simplifies moving VMware Cloud Foundations (VCF) environments to AWS\u2014and purpose-built services offering prescriptive guidance to assist you on your cloud journey. Explore the available options and paths to achieve the right mix of migration, modernization, and innovation that can help you meet your current and future business goals. Discover how AWS and AWS Partners are committed to helping you transform your VMware environments seamlessly." }, { "Name": "Simplify AWS Networking with PrivateLink and VPC\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre Q", "LocationCode": "APP317", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Nicola Arnoldi, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Yashar Araghi, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Navigate the maze of multi-account and multi-VPC networking as this session unveils battle-tested strategies for creating seamless cloud connectivity using PrivateLink and VPC Lattice." }, { "Name": "Powering the Future: Fusion Energy\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre N", "LocationCode": "APP219", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Satheesh Maheswaran, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS | Colin Bridger, Principal Specialist, AWS | Shaun de Witt, Head of High Performance Data Analytics, UK Atomic Energy Authority", "Description": "Fusion energy promises a carbon-free, safe, and abundant power source. This presentation, partnering with UK Atomic Energy Authority, explores fusion energy's potential and AWS's role in its development. We'll discuss how AWS's high performance computing accelerates fusion research, from theory to practical power plant deployments. Focus areas include fusion energy principles, UKAEA's research, AWS's role in fusion simulations, and AWS technologies meeting computational challenges. Learn how the synergy between fusion science and cloud." }, { "Name": "Design well-architected networks on AWS", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "North Zone, Theatre I", "LocationCode": "APP218", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Cabosart Vincent, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services | Adam Palmer, Principal GTM SSA Core Network UK, AWS", "Description": "Elevate your AWS networking expertise by learning how to design well-architected networks on AWS. This session explores the tradeoffs of multi-AZ and multi-Region architectures, design challenges when connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises datacenters and how to build a scalable DNS infrastructure on AWS. Finally, we will consider several common network architecture patterns on AWS, such as application ingress and egress. Leave equipped with the insights needed to create resilient, secure, and scalable network infrastructure on AWS." }, { "Name": "Self-paced Labs: Come and go as you please", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Level 3 - Capital Suite 13", "LocationCode": "TNC110", "Level": "Level 100", "Speaker": "N/A", "Description": "In these self-paced labs, practice your craft in a live AWS sandbox environment. In contrast to a simulation or demo, explore real-world cloud scenarios like spinning up a virtual machine or database, saving files to the cloud, and more with step-by-step instructions in the AWS Management Console. Try any of the more than 125 self-paced labs on your own. Instructors are available for questions. Come and go as you please\u2014 labs take 30 to 90 minutes." }, { "Name": "Unlocking power of structured data with\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre S", "LocationCode": "GAI327", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "David Bounds, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Irene Marban Alvarez, Solutions Architect, AI/ML,AWS", "Description": "In this session, learn how the new structured data retrieval capability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is empowering organizations to unlock the value of their structured data. The fully managed solution with a natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) module removes the complexity, empowering developers to send natural language queries about their data and receive SQL queries, result sets, or narrative responses\u2014all through a simple API call." }, { "Name": "Generative AI meets multi-tenancy: Inside a\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre O", "LocationCode": "GAI326", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Dr Anil Giri, Solutions Architect ISV, AWS | Mehran Najafi, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Victor Popsecu, Head of Architecture, SteelEye", "Description": "Multi-tenancy in generative AI introduces unique architectural challenges. This session explores a real-world multi-tenant solution, examining data partitioning, tenant isolation, onboarding, and service tiering. Learn how to create customized AI experiences for different tenants using Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge bases, and vector databases. SteelEye, a compliance tech and data analytics company, will share their practical experience building a Gen-AI SaaS solution with AWS's cloud and AI/ML services." }, { "Name": "The AWS approach to secure generative AI", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre M", "LocationCode": "GAI323", "Level": "Level 300", "Speaker": "Mehak Mann, Technical Account Manager, EMEA ISV, AWS | Louise Fox, Senior Security Solutions Architect, AGS", "Description": "At AWS, safeguarding the security and confidentiality of customers\u2019 workloads is a top priority. AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure and services have built-in security and privacy features to give customers control over their data. Join this session to learn how AWS thinks about security across the three layers of our generative AI stack, from the bottom infrastructure layer up to the top layer, which includes applications that leverage LLMs and other FMs to make work easier." }, { "Name": "Enhancing software vendors\u2019 gen AI features\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Auditorium D", "LocationCode": "GAI224", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Shalabh Srivastava, Principal Consultant,AWS | Emanuele Levi, Solutions Architect ISV, AWS", "Description": "Generative AI is reshaping the way we interact with information and tackle complex tasks. Discover how the newest capabilities in Amazon Q Business change the game for software vendors wanting to revolutionize how they deliver generative AI features to their end users. In this session, ISVs can learn how to create personalized end-user experiences powered with data from other applications that is secure, permission-aware, and sets them apart from the competition." }, { "Name": "Goldman Sachs' Lakehouse: high quality\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "Auditorium B", "LocationCode": "DAT218", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Gerrard Cowburn, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Tim Smith, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs", "Description": "Data is the backbone of modern decision-making, but centralizing it is only the tip of the iceberg. Entitlements, secure sharing, and just-in-time availability are critical challenges for any large-scale platform. Discover how Goldman Sachs built their Legend Lakehouse platform using S3, Step Functions, and ECS, with support for consumption via Glue, Lambda, and Athena. Understand how they leverage Iceberg for interoperability across multiple analytic query engines. Learn how they share data securely, with data governance native to the platform. Gain insights into the challenges faced and innovative solutions applied to untangle their complex landscape and inform decision-making across the firm." }, { "Name": "Scaling Genomics Research HPC with AWS\u2026", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre P", "LocationCode": "DAT217", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Michael Mueller, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS | Corey Johnson, Principal Software Engineer, Genomics England | Piero Dalle Pezze, Lead Bioinformatics Engineer, Genomics England", "Description": "AWS HealthOmics Sequence Store provides scalable, highly durable and cost-effective storage for genomics data. In this session, we will explore how Genomics England leverages the Sequence Store S3 API coupled with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 to provide a performant file system interface to access genomic data and maintain backward compatibility with existing bioinformatics tools. Learn how this approach enables Genomics England to modernise and future-proof storage for the National Genomics Research Library without disrupting HPC-based research workloads in their trusted research environment hosted on AWS." }, { "Name": "Build a data foundation to fuel generative AI", "Time": "16:40 - 17:25", "Location": "South Zone, Theatre U", "LocationCode": "GAI225", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Claire Sheridan, Snr Mgr Solutions Arch., AWS | Radhika Jakkula, GTM Specialist SA Analytics, AWS | Jonathan Davis PhD, Head of Data Science, Zurich Insurance UK", "Description": "Data has long been considered a strategic asset by organizations, but generative AI puts a renewed emphasis on the importance of a data strategy. Organizations need specialized tools and proven approaches to make generative AI truly work for their unique business needs. This session covers the essential data patterns and practical tools that transform generic AI applications into powerful, customized solutions that deeply understand your organization and customers. You'll leave with actionable frameworks to implement AI effectively while maintaining compliance and security. You'll also learn how Zurich Insurance UK achieved success by partnering with AWS to build value-driving AI products within their regulated environment." }, { "Name": "Fine-Tuning LLM-as-a-Judge for Scalable\u2026", "Time": "16:55 - 17:10", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI217", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Sujeong Cha, Deep Learning Architect, AWS | Morgane Van Ermengem, Legal Engineering Lead, Robin AI", "Description": "Robin AI aims to revolutionize the legal industry by leveraging AI. While the company has relied heavily on human evaluators to ensure the quality of their AI generated summaries, they recognize the scalability limitations of this approach. Robin AI, in collaboration with Generative AI Innovation Center, fine-tuned large language models as evaluators, in other words, fine-tuning an LLM-as-a-Judge (LLMaaJ). This novel approach outperforms the vanilla LLMaaJ by injecting proprietary legal knowledge into the LLM, making evaluation scalable and more accurate." }, { "Name": "Amazon S3 Tables: Unified Data Storage & Analytics\u2026", "Time": "17:00 - 17:20", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS Village", "LocationCode": "VIL215", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Satish Mane, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS", "Description": "Amazon S3 Tables, powered by Apache Iceberg, make it easier than ever to store, manage, and analyze data at scale. In this talk, we\u2019ll dive into how S3 Tables leverage Iceberg\u2019s open table format to enable fast queries, schema evolution, and seamless integration with analytics and AI tools. You\u2019ll learn how this new approach simplifies data management, reduces costs, and eliminates the need for complex ETL processes." }, { "Name": "Sustainable Business Transformation with\u2026", "Time": "17:00 - 17:25", "Location": "Sustainability Zone - Urban Nature Hub", "LocationCode": "UNH209", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Andrew Morrow, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS | Hitesh Vekaria, Senior Solutions Engineer, Snowflake", "Description": "Organizations face growing challenges in managing and deriving actionable insights from their sustainability data. This session explores how Snowflake and AWS collaborate within the Sustainability Data Fabric solution framework to help customers integrate, manage, and analyze sustainability data across their organization.This collaboration unlocks sustainability use cases, from product carbon footprint calculation to energy and water use optimization." }, { "Name": "Modernize mainframe applications faster using\u2026", "Time": "17:15 - 17:30", "Location": "AWS Zone - AWS & NVIDIA GenAI Pavillion", "LocationCode": "NVI218", "Level": "Level 200", "Speaker": "Karthick Periyasamy, Senior GTM SSA Mainframe UK, AWS", "Description": "Modernizing and migrating mainframe applications to cloud can require prolonged efforts including assessment, planning, and project execution. Generative AI can simplify and accelerate the journey. This talk provides an overview of how Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities can intelligently automate many of the burdensome steps involved in code base analysis, code documentation, code decomposition, modernization planning, and code refactoring, and can assist modernization consultants and mainframe teams with intelligent guidance rooted in mainframe and cloud expertise. Learn how Mainframe modernization teams can focus on higher-value tasks with less undifferentiated heavy lifting and deliver modernized cloud-based applications fueling agility and innovation." } ]