Helsinki | Wednesday, 21 March 2018
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.
Date & Venue
This event was held on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at Clarion Hotel Helsinki (Tyynenmerenkatu 2, 00220 Helsinki).
Topics
Event covers multiple interesting topics and tracks. 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.
Agenda
The event hours were 9:00 - 17:00 with breakfast and registration starting at 9:00.
| Time | Track 1 (Main Hall) | Track 2 (Serverless) | Track 3 (Data + ML) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Breakfast and registration | ||
| 10:00 |
Opening words
Martin Buberl - Trustpilot |
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| 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:15 |
Rolf Koski - Cybercom
Kimmo Kantojarvi & Roope Parviainen - Solita |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 |
Pasi Niemi - Nitor Model and tools for multi-team AWS service development |
Paul Lyons - Nordcloud It's Lambda's all the way down |
Saku Vaittinen - VR Data driven public transport |
| 14:00 | Break | ||
| 14:15 |
Maaret Pyhajarvi - F-Secure Lessons Learned in AWS building a management backend |
Uri Savelchev & Ruben Diaz - Zalando How Zalando integrates Kubernetes with AWS |
Antonio Gusmao - Futurice Real-time detection of in-game chat spam for Supercell players |
| 14:45 | Break | ||
| 15:00 |
Vivek Balakrishnan - Rovio Learnings from game server template |
Goncalo Marques Pestana - New Things Co Configuration and secret management - Going AWS native |
Alexander Schachtschabel - Dazzle Rocks 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 |
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| 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)
Organizers
This AWS Community Day Nordics event is organized by the Community Leads of Nordic AWS user groups. The main organizers this year are:
Speakers
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.
Kimmo Kantojarvi
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.
Antonio Gusmao
Futurice - Senior Data Scientist
Antonio is 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.
Goncalo Marques Pestana
New Things Co - Senior Software Developer
Goncalo 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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
solita.fiFAQ
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Contact
For sponsorship enquires, feedback or any general question, please send an email to info@awscommunitynordics.org.