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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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.
The next big technology wave is coming.
Keep yourself updated about the latest updates in the AWS services and use cases.
Born in the cloud! Run your workloads without servers and self-maintained infrastructure. Everything about containers, lambdas and more.
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 |
Main Track:
Hall Bysa 1 (3rd Floor)
Serverless Track:
Hall Bysa 3 (3rd Floor)
Data + ML Track:
Hall Crusell (2nd Floor)
This AWS Community Day Nordics event is organized by the Community Leads of Nordic AWS user groups. The main organizers this year are:
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.
We are currently finalizing the speaker roster and we will update speaker bios to this page regularly as they are rolling in.
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.
Originally from St Petersburg, Uri is a passionate IT architect with knowledge of modern technologies combined with a rich experience of their deployment.
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 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 is a results-oriented software development professional with a focus on testing - the skill to acquire relevant on-time information about the product.
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.
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 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.
A passionate software developer focussed on developing solutions for games and game servers.
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 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.
We would like to thank our sponsors, who make this event possible.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform “in the cloud”.
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.
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.
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