AWS Community Day Nordics 2018

The largest AWS community event in the Northern Europe

Helsinki, Finland - Clarion Hotel Helsinki
March 21, 2018

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AWS Community Day Nordics is here

AWS Community Day Nordics is a community-organized event featuring technical and strategic discussions led by expert AWS users, customers and partners from throughout the Northern Europe.

The event is a full day event covering several interesting topics presented with real-world cases. Topics also cover wide variety of interests and technical levels, so everyone should have interesting day from the scheduled offering.

Event is at Clarion Hotel Helsinki, venue location and info can be found at the bottom of the page.

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Registration

Reserve your seat at Eventbrite

Agenda

We are finalizing the final agenda, but the event starts with registration at 9:00 and Keynote starts at 10:00. Day concludes at 17:00.

Event covers multiple interesting topics and track. Main topics include the following, among others:

Cloud Transformation

Discussing how organizations can develop an effective strategy for their cloud adoption journey. 

Real world advise from AWS partners and customers, who have succesfully implemented cloud strategies and governance models ranging from cloud transitions to full-cloud approach.

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

The next big technology wave is coming.

Keep yourself updated about the latest updates in the AWS services and use cases.

Cloud Native & Serverless Infrastructure

Born in the cloud! Run your workloads without servers and self-maintained infrastructure. Everything about containers, lambdas and more.

schedule and Topics

Topics and schedule are subject to change.

9:00 Breakfast and registration
10:00 Opening words
Martin Buberl - Trustpilot
Serverless — it all started in Vegas
11:00 Break
11:15 Rolf Koski - Cybercom
Building successful enterprise cloud governance model
Kimmo Kantojärvi & Roope Parviainen - Solita
Make your data fly - buidling data platform in AWS
12:30 Lunch
  Track 1 (Main Hall) Track 2 (Serverless) Track 3 (Data + ML)
13:30 Pasi Niemi - Nitor Paul Lyons - Nordcloud Saku Vaittinen - VR
Model and tools for multi-team aws service development It’s Lambda’s all the way down Data driven public transport
14:00 Break
14:15 Maaret Pyhäjärvi - F-Secure Uri Savelchev & Ruben Diaz - Zalando Antonio Gusmao - Futurice
Lessons Learned in AWS building a management backend How Zalando integrates Kubernets with AWS Real-time detection of in-game chat spam for Supercell players
14:45 Break
15:00 Vivek Balakrishnan - Rovio Gonçalo Marques Pestana - New Things Co Alexander Schachtschabel - Dazzle Rocks
Learnings from game server template Configuration and secret management - Going AWS native Big games with a small team — Utilizing GameLift for fun and profit
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Johannes Verwijnen and Petteri Linden - Aino Health
Transition to serverless and leveraging AWS managed services
Closing words
17:00 Program end

Track Info

Main Track:

Hall Bysa 1 (3rd Floor)

Serverless Track:

Hall Bysa 3 (3rd Floor)

Data + ML Track:

Hall Crusell (2nd Floor)

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ORganizers

This AWS Community Day Nordics event is organized by the Community Leads of Nordic AWS user groups. The main organizers this year are:

Rolf Koski

Rolf is a Cloud Advisor and Evangelist. He is AWS Partner Ambassador and one of the leaders of AWS User Group Finland. He is mainly concentrating on strategy and governance advisory for enterprises utilizing public cloud services. He is a certified AWS Professional Architect.

Marcia Villalba

Marcia is a full stack developer originally from Uruguay living now in Finland. She is AWS Community Hero and one of the leaders of AWS User Group Finland. She also advocates in different organizations as a volunteer to increase the number of women in IT.

Speakers

We are currently finalizing the speaker roster and we will update speaker bios to this page regularly as they are rolling in.

Martin Buberl

Trustpilot - VP of Engineering

Martin is a cloud-obsessed, software engineering thought leader bringing the New York hustle to Scandinavia. At Trustpilot he’s enthusiastic about focusing on impact, delivering value and iteration speed. He’s a co-organizer of the AWS User Group in Copenhagen and mentors early-stage Startups at Venture Cup.

Pasi Niemi

Nitor - Principal Cloud Architect

Pasi is a seasoned senior architect with skills to transform business requirements into technical features. He has also guided multiple times his team through AWS ReInvent hackathons to the podium.

Uri Savelchev

Zalando - DevOps Engineer

Originally from St Petersburg, Uri is a passionate IT architect with knowledge of modern technologies combined with a rich experience of their deployment.

Ruben Diaz

Zalando - DevOps Engineer

Ruben started as a developer and moved towards DevOps Engineering. He's driven by developer's wellbeing and service excellence.

Kimmo Kantojärvi

Solita - Data Architect

Kimmo has 15 years experience in data intensive solution architectures and projects. Last few years he has focused especially on AWS and has professional certification. He is also coordinating Solita’s AWS partnership in technical matters together with AWS personnel.  

Roope Parviainen

Solita - Data Architect

Roope works at Solita as a Data Architect in team specialized in Industrial Internet of Things. He has background in software development and traditional Data Warehousing. At the moment Roope works with modern data and information management platforms with Finnish top companies where the focus is building services around IoT to support generating new businesses.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

F-Secure - Lead Quality Engineer

Maaret is a results-oriented software development professional with a focus on testing - the skill to acquire relevant on-time information about the product.

Priyanka Udharamani

F-Secure - Senior Full Stack Developer

Priyanaka is a detail oriented and focused java professional, always ready for new initiatives.

António Gusmão

Futurice - Senior Data Scientist

Antonio is a a resourceful IT professional with interest and experience in Business and Tech and a passion for Artificial Intelligence. He has deep comprehensive analytical skills in addition to hands-on experience designing and building large scale ML systems.

Saku Vaittinen

VR Group - Cloud Architect

Saku comes from developer bacground and currenlty works as Cloud Architect. His experience is from the both sides of the table, workin as a consultant and also as an architect for his employees own services.

Alexander Schachtschabel

Dazzle Rocks - Senior Software Developer

Alexander has background in mobile gaming and now part of mobile gaming startup, driven by the burning desire to make meaningful and social gaming experiences for the global audience.

Gonçalo Marques Pestana

New Things Co - Senior Software Developer

Gonçalo Pestana is a senior software engineer interested in distributed systems, security, and cloud development. He's currently working as a backend developer and cloud architect in the banking industry. He's also excited about the decentralised web and related technologies.

Vivek Balakrishnan

Rovio - Server Developer

A passionate software developer focussed on developing solutions for games and game servers.

Paul Lyons

Nordcloud - Serverless Ambassador & Cloud Architect

Paul is a long-time server-side developer, specialising in messaging and distributed patterns. Now that the world has gone serverless, he's enjoying the feeling of living in the future. 

Johannes Verwijnen

Aino Health - CTO

Johannes has been involved in machine learning and data analytics for the past ten years. He has been involved with leading software development for both small and large companies. Johannes also does part-time teaching in Algorithms and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki.

Petteri Linden

Aino Health - Development and Product Manager

Petteri has almost 20 years of experience on software development and leading software development projects. He has also consultancy background on various projects such as developing BI-reporting and creating new services and processes related to the occupational health and employee work ability management.

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Our sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors, who make this event possible.

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform “in the cloud”.

https://aws.amazon.com/

Cybercom

Cybercom is an IT consulting company enabling companies and organisations to benefit from the opportunities of the connected world and to enhance their competitiveness. Combining technical edge and strong business insight we provide innovative and sustainable solutions.

https://www.cybercom.com/

Solita

Solita is an agile data and digital business consulting company. We are your guides in the digitalizing world. We create services and business with our customers, starting from first ideas and design to implementation and continuous development. 

https://www.solita.fi/en/

FAQ

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can I join AWS User Group

A: Find closest one in the Nordics from here: nordics.aws-usergroups.com

Q: What is the AWS Community Day Code of Conduct?

A: AWS expects all Community Day participants (attendees, staff, speakers, sponsors, etc.) to behave in such a way as to create a safe, supportive learning environment while at the conference and any conference-related events. We will not tolerate any form of harassment or offensive speech or behavior, including relating to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or disability. Participants engaging in behavior deemed by AWS as discriminatory or offensive will be asked to leave the conference or related event immediately. Anyone witnessing such behavior is encouraged to contact an AWS Community Day staff member so direct action can be taken. This is true for any community-led AWS event.  

Get in touch with us

We are always happy to hear from you. You can reach us at awsfin@awsfin.org

Venue Info

Event is at Clarion Hotel Helsinki. Check exact location from the map below.