AWS re:Invent 2017

Hess Corporation is a leading global independent energy company engaged in exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas. Early in Hess's journey to the cloud, they operated the AWS platform in a manner similar to how they operated their on-premises data centers, creating a number of challenges. In this session, Hess Corporation discusses how they worked to further optimize their use of the AWS Cloud following their data center migration. They also cover technical strategies implemented to improve security, governance, and financial reporting and examine changes to their corporate culture that encourage innovation while improving cost controls.

Many organizations are awash in different types of data, yet they struggle to rapidly use these assets to improve operations and benefit customers. In this session, we explore best practices from deployments at leading global organizations that have unlocked value with C3 IoT and AWS. We also address how the C3 IoT platform has pre-integrated over 40 AWS services, enabling developers and data scientists to build and deploy enterprise scale big data, AI, and IoT applications in one-tenth of the time and cost.   Session sponsored by C3 IoT, Inc.

C.H. Robinson, Intuit, and Scopely hold a fireside chat with Redis Labs' CMO to discuss the challenges of deploying large-scale applications that need to support personalized user experiences based on real-time insights. The architects from these companies share how Redis Enterprise operates as the primary datastore and tackles the issues of maintaining consistency in geo-distributed deployments, ingests massive amounts of data while executing hybrid transactions-analytics functions, and balances workloads between RAM and SSDs while performing hundreds of thousands of operations per second with sub-millisecond latency. In this business-technical session, you learn about diverse use cases and capabilities of Redis, a highly popular in-memory NoSQL database, including job and queue management, machine learning, streaming, search, geo-spatial indexing, fast data ingest, and high speed transactions. Session sponsored by Redis Labs

Leading Edge Forums (LEF) has labelled the synergistic combination of cloud computing and machine intelligence (MI) as ‘the Matrix': the combination of cloud services such as IaaS, IoT, MI, and edge computing. For companies to thrive, they need to know the answers to the following questions: How are successful companies harnessing the power of the Matrix? How do they structure their organizations? What makes them so agile? How do they attract and retain skilled employees? LEF studies successful businesses and learns what makes them great. Our 6-month research program has dived deep with multiple AWS customers to understand not only their use of the technology, but also the business transformation program that allowed them to maximize the value that AWS provides. Attend this session to learn more about the research that has been done, client examples, observations that the LEF has made and how this can be used to help drive your transformation program. Session sponsored by DXC Technology

Compass Group, better known for its brands, Bon Appetit, Eurest, Canteen, Wolfgang Puck, among others, is one of the world's largest foodservice companies, serving millions of people daily and employing over 500,000 associates across all continents. Compass Group relies on SAP to run their business, from supply chain and financials to payroll. Compass Group started deploying their SAP Landscape on AWS a few years ago, first in India and LATAM, where they deployed SAP Business Suite on HANA. Subsequently, they moved their Japan SAP Landscape on Microsoft SQL to AWS. Last year, they migrated both their EMEA SAP Business Suite on Oracle as well as their UK SAP Business Suite on DB2 to AWS. In this session, Compass shares the details this journey, the benefits they gained running SAP on AWS, and the lessons they learned. They also discuss how they integrated their different SAP Landscapes with other legacy systems, how they architected for resiliency, and what's next in their journey.

As a China-based global technology company that is helping some of the world's largest energy providers transition into renewable energy, Envision Energy is leading a digital disruption of the traditional energy system. In this session, Envision discusses how they used the AWS Cloud to create a technology infrastructure that connects and orchestrates millions of smart energy devices around the globe for their Energy IOT platform. They also review how AWS is used to host Envision's core systems, including SAP and Citrix.

Amazon MQ is a new managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ manages the work involved in setting up an ActiveMQ message broker, from provisioning the infrastructure, to installing the software and ongoing maintenance. It supports industry-standard messaging APIs and protocols, so you can switch from any message broker to Amazon MQ without re-writing the supported applications. This session provides an overview of how Amazon MQ makes enterprise messaging and migration more manageable. You'll learn how you can use Amazon MQ to launch a production-ready message broker in minutes. Guest speakers from Volvo WirelessCar and GE will share how they're using messaging in their own applications and systems, and the advantages enabled by a managed ActiveMQ service on AWS.

Artificial Intelligence is here this time, to stay. For the Enterprise, AI materializes into solutions that improve customers' experiences by optimizing, automating, and personalizing high-volume tasks while lowering cost and time to market, therefore accelerating innovation. In this session, we cover AWS' AI products and services that enable innovation in the enterprise while maintaining compliance with different regimes such as HIPAA, PCI, and more. Finally, we discuss enterprise architectures on AWS for machine learning and deep learning workloads.

The cloud offers a first-in-a-career-opportunity to constantly optimize your costs as you grow and stay on the bleeding edge of innovation. By developing a cost-conscious culture and assigning the responsibility for efficiency to the appropriate business owners, you can deliver innovation efficiently and cost effectively. This session will review a wide range of cost planning, monitoring, and optimization strategies featuring real-world experience from AWS customers.

VMWare Cloud on AWS allows your teams to migrate existing assets to the AWS Cloud quickly by using tools you are already familiar with. VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware's enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to Amazon's public cloud, delivered as an on-demand, elastically scalable, cloud-based VMware sold, operated and supported service for any application and optimized for next-generation, elastic, bare metal AWS infrastructure. This solution enables customers to use a common set of software and tools to manage both their AWS-based and on-premises vSphere resources consistently. This session uses practical, real world customer deployment examples to dives deep on hybrid cloud network connectivity, data protection best practices, and AWS native service integrations. Attendees will walk away with practical guidance and tips on getting the best of both worlds with VMware and AWS hybrid cloud solution.