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AWS Events for December 2011

Here is what we have on the calendar for December, 2011:

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User Groups:

-- Jeff;

 

December 06, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Events for November 2011

Here's what we have in store for November:

Webinars:

Talks:

Conferences:

User Groups:

  • November 5 - JAWS-UG - Osaka - Ken Tamagawa - Osaka, Japan (Television Osaka)
  • November 10 - JAWS-UG - Kyoto - Akio Katayama - Kyoto, Japan (Hatena)
  • November 26 - JAWS-UG - Hamamatsu - Hideki Ojima - Hamamatsu, Japan (Act City Training Center)
  • November 27 - JAWS-UG - Shizuoka - Hideki Ojima - Shizuoka, Japan (Shizuoka Sangyo Gijyutu Senmon Gakko)

-- Jeff;

November 08, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Free Live Stream of AWS GovCloud Summit II

Due to an overwhelming response, the live registration for tomorrow's AWS GovCloud Summit has been closed.

We will be streaming the entire event and I invite you to sign up now. The event will feature keynote addresses by GSA CIO Casey Coleman and Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels, customer presentations, how-to sessions, information on FISMA and ITAR compliance, and tracks specifically designed for technical and senior manager audiences.

You will also get to hear from the following government presenters:

  • Shawn Kingsberry - Chief Information Officer, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
  • Gus Hunt - CTO, Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Don Preuss - Head-Systems, National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information.
  • Tim Stitely - Director of Administrative Operations, Health and Human Services, Program Support Center.
  • Khawaja Shams - Senior Solutions Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • Todd Myers - Chief Technology Adviser, NSG Expeditionary Architecture.

There will be one stream for the morning keynotes and customer sessions and three parallel streams for the Executive, Architect, and Solution tracks in the afternoon.

The Executive track will cover Oversight and governance, the AWS GovCloud, cloud payment and pricing models, compliance, and standards.

The Architect track will cover best practices for architecting in the cloud, migrating applications to the cloud, application security best practices, and selecting storage options.

Again, the stream is free and you can sign up here.

 -- Jeff;

 

October 17, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Web Event: Running a Lean Startup on AWS

Are you thinking about kicking off a lean startup and wondering what the buzz is all about? In his new book, The Lean Startup, author and entrepreneur Eric Ries (co-founder of IMVU) outlines key principles of the ideal lean startup:

  1. Customer-centric, rapid iterations on the product.
  2. Application of agile software development methodologies.
  3. Use of platforms enabled by open source and free software.

Because lean startups and the Amazon Web Services go together like chocolate and peanut butter (to overuse a perfectly delicious stereotype), we have set up a special four hour web event to show you how to combine and better understand them. This event is geared toward business founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and technical founders who want to understand a bit more about the roles of business and technology in the typical lean startup.

The event will start at 10 AM Pacific Time on Thursday, October 27th. We'll have four speakers:

  1. Eric Ries.
  2. Matt Wood, AWS Technical Evangelist.
  3. Matt McIlwain, Venture Capitalist with the Madrona Venture Group.
  4. A top secret lean startup.

The event is free but you need to register in order to view it online.

-- Jeff;

October 10, 2011 in Events | | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Events for October 2011

This is what we have on our calendars for October:

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October 03, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Big Data Hackathon at SPLASH/OOPSLA (Portland, October 2011)

I'll be running a Big Data Hackathon at the SPLASH/OOPSLA Conference in Portland, Oregon next month.

Hackathons are participatory event. You don't show up to watch or to hang out; you show up to lead or to join a team of other developers to imagine, create, and build something cool and useful in the course of a single day. This may sound impossibly ambitious. It is not. You can get a lot done when you can ignore your inbox and simply focus on the task at hand. The ability to tap in to high-level services certainly helps, as does the fact that everyone shows up expecting to work.

We'll hack from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Sunday, October 23rd. The day will be structured as follows:

  1. Introduction, welcome and agenda
  2. Short sponsor talks.
  3. Idea pitches from the audience.
  4. Team formation.
  5. Hacking.
  6. Team presentations.
  7. Judging.

This particular hackathon will be focused on the concept of "Big Data." Think about taking Columbia University's 500 GB Million Song  Dataset (conveniently available as an AWS Public Data Set) and doing something interesting with it, such as finding songs that slowly build in intensity. What could you do with a collection of 250,000 Material Safety Data Sheets, some economics data, some gene sequences, a US census, or 80 years of daily global weather measurements?

Attendees are free to use the technology and data sets of their choice. I will be supplying the teams with some AWS usage credits to make it easy to use EC2, Elastic MapReduce, and our other services.

If this sounds like a great way to spend a Sunday, then you need to do the following:

  1. Sign up for the Hackathon. Space is limited, but we still have a few seats left.
  2. Start thinking about what you would like to build and how you would like to pitch it.
  3. Consider signing up for an AWS account.
  4. Show up and have a great time.

I am also looking for an additional sponsor or two. The ideal sponsor would have a product or service that would be of interest to someone who is working with Big Data. Please get in touch with me (email to awseditor@amazon.com) and we can discuss the details.

I hope to see you in Portland next month!

-- Jeff;

September 28, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Media and Entertainment Summit - This Coming October in Los Angeles

We are hosting an AWS Media and Entertainment Summit at the Sofitel hotel in Los Angeles in early October.This half-day event will give you the information that you need to use AWS on your own cloud computing projects. We've put together an action-packed agenda to make the best possible use of your time:

The event will feature customer presentations from PBS, Ooyala, and Netflix. After they have presented, you'll have the opportunity to ask them questions as part of a customer panel.

Michelle Munson, CEO of Aspera, will talk about media ingestion and high speed data transfer, an essential element of any cloud-based media architecture.

Following Michelle's presentation, you will get to hear from three senior members of our product teams:

  • S3 Senior Manager Dan Winn will talk about storage.
  • EC2 Principal Product Manager Deepak Singh will discuss transcoding and rendering.
  • CloudFront General Manager Tal Saraf will discuss content delivery.

Ariel Kelman, Director of AWS Marketing, will emcee the event.

The event is free, but seating is limited, so register now.

Update: If you cannot attend in person, perhaps you can watch our live stream! This is also free, but you do need to register.

-- Jeff;

 

September 13, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Events for September 2011

Here's what we are doing this month in AWS-land:

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September 09, 2011 in Events | | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Amazon Technology Open House - October 4, 2011

I will be keynoting an Amazon Technology Open House at our South Lake Union offices on October 4, 2011.

You'll have the opportunity to meet and to hang out with the leaders of the various AWS services, learn about recent engineering innovations at Amazon, and to win one of two Kindles that we'll be giving away during the evening.

We'll also have some local beer and pretzels.

The event is free but space is limited and you need to preregister if you would like to attend. See you there!

-- Jeff;

September 08, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AWS Events for August 2011

Here's what's happening in AWS-land for August of 2011:

Webinars:

Talks:

  • August 2 - Introduce Amazon S3, the cloud storage service - Ken Tamagawa - (TKP Shibuya Conference Center)
  • August 6 - Introduce AWS with technology demonstration - Ken Tamagawa - (Aoyama Diamond Hall)
  • August 24 - Introduce the latest user cases - Ken Tamagawa - (Pasona Tech Seminar Room at Omotesando)
  • August 27 - Ruby on Amazon Cloud - Ken Tamagawa - (Pasona Tech Seminar Room at Gofukubashi)
  • August 30 - Amazon Cloud Business Strategy -Introduce AWS user cases - Ken Tamagawa - (Akihabara Dai Building)
  • August 30 - All About AWS for IPA Super Creators - Ken Tamagawa -
  • August 31 - How to utilize Amazon Cloud for the next-generation disaster recovery - Ken Tamagawa - (Tokyo International Forum)

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August 01, 2011 in Events | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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