Innovation Ambassadors

How does the cloud speed up the design and deployment of robots? On this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we feature the prototyping journey of ST Engineering.

This Singapore-based company is combining the power of robot fleets with cloud technology to create real-world innovative solutions in aerospace, smart cities, and public security. Beyond these sectors, this exploration also has important applications in security and hospitality.

Host Sara Armstrong speaks with David Yeo (Head of Solutions Business Development at ST Engineering) and Max Kenny, (Sr. Product Manager at AWS) about ST Engineering's work with AWS Envision Engineering Prototyping team to build a secure, scalable, and configurable cloud-based control system for their fleet of robots. You'll hear how the system was architected using AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon Kinesis, as well as the process for testing robots in simulated and real-life settings.

What role does cloud computing play in shaping the future of e-commerce? In this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we explore the journey of VTEX, a digital commerce platform that has revolutionized how brands and retailers reach the market and grow their online business.

Host Sara Armstrong discusses VTEX’s work with the AWS prototyping team in Brazil in this podcast. Hear from Paulo Monçores (Director of Software Engineering at VTEX), Igor Tavares (Principal Data Engineer at VTEX) and Rafael Martins (Sr. Technical Program Manager from AWS) about a new Business Health Monitoring platform that provides e-commerce merchants with actionable insights, and the challenges involved with building this prototype.

We will also dive into the underpinning cloud architecture and different technologies involved in bringing this Business Health Monitoring platform from prototype to market.

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How can cloud technology help with flood prediction and play a role in helping save lives in times of emergency?

On this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we take a close look at the journey of FloodMapp, an Australian tech company that specializes in real-time flood prediction and inundation mapping.

Our Host Sara Armstrong, Ryan Prosser, Co-Founder and CTO of FloodMapp, and Jonathan Gurfinkel, Sr. Prototyping Engineer at AWS discuss the science of flood prediction and the challenges it presents. You'll hear about the prototyping journey to build rapid experimentation platforms for the machine learning model. Go behind the scenes to see how the process is evolving to help predict emergencies and deliver early warning to reduce damage, loss of life, and financial devastation.

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What role does the cloud play in research to improve personalized medicine? Machine learning meets impactful medicine, as we showcase the journey of Bristol Myers Squibb, one of the world’s largest bio-pharmaceutical companies.

In this episode, host Sara Armstrong, speaks with Goce Bogdanoski (Associate Director, IT for Research and Early Development at BMS), Franklin Bettencourt (Lead of BMS’ Rapid Digital Solutions R&D team) and Stephen Curtis (Senior Prototyping Architect, AWS). They discuss how BMS and the AWS prototyping team developed a low-code, scalable, and composable solution that enabled scientists to compute massive data points using machine learning algorithms.

Hear about medical innovation in the making, and explore how analytics and 3D visualization techniques are advancing the application of single-cell technologies, both in drug development and clinical diagnosis.

Game on! This episode of Innovation Ambassadors showcases the journey of Light & Wonder, a global gaming company committed to creating a seamless player experience across all platforms and leveraging cloud technology to deliver this. Go behind the scenes of their collaboration with AWS’s Envision Engineering Prototype team to harness IoT services, asset tracking, and predictive maintenance to provide operators with unique insights into their games and speed up play.

Host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping) is joined by Ramin Firoozye (Sr Prototyping Architect, Envision Engineering) from AWS; Matt Lucchetti (Director of Product Management for Card Shufflers) and Rob McPeak (Software Engineering Manager for Card Shufflers) of Light & Wonder.

Listen in on their talk, focusing on the design and technology of a connected device that automatically requests maintenance, provides exact location data, and collects usage insights applied to future products. Learn about a system that works directly with AWS IoT and Greengrass and uses advanced analytics to detect usage patterns, along with a modern array of wireless technologies, including LoRa, Wi-Fi, and UltraWide Band.

**PRA Health Sciences has been acquired by ICON since the recording of this podcast.

What is cloud technology's role in helping a Global Contract Research Organization (CRO) to expand the accessibility of clinical trials? How does it help accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life?

In this episode, host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping) and Angela Lindstrom (Principal Technical Program Manager) from AWS speak with Dr. Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez (Sr. VP for Scientific and Clinical Affairs & Head of the Global Center of Excellence Strategy for Decentralized Clinical Trials) and Lane Nichols (Exec Director of Product Management Connected Health) from ICON, to discuss the prototype that integrated ICON's connected health system with Amazon Lex, and Amazon Connect.

Learn how ICON and AWS Prototyping collaborated to meet the expectations of a new generation of clinical investigations in this behind-the-scenes look at the art of the possible. This episode's guests share how study participants recorded their experiences using voice interactions and the challenges they faced in analyzing these interactions to extract usable information.

When companies have to make decisions that affect the lives of millions, they rely on decision science. On this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we’re showcasing the journey of New Zealand-based Montoux and their work with AWS to integrate serverless technology into their leading decision science and actuarial automation platform for life and health insurers.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping at AWS is joined by Klaas Stijnen (Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Montoux) and Chitraleka Creta, AWS Prototype Engagement Manager to discuss their collaboration on a scalable and configurable platform based on serverless technology to simplify the actuarial model replication process, speed up model processing time and increase transparency.

It’s a story of digital transformation, and putting the power of cloud technologies into the hands of expert actuaries. Go behind the scenes with Montoux and the AWS Prototyping team on this episode of Innovation Ambassadors.

In the world of sports broadcasting, the perfectly-selected replay is the payoff for the audience. On this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we’re showcasing the journey of Eurosport, a company leveraging Machine Learning (ML)-powered video processing service and working with Amazon Web Services on a prototype that classifies frames and segments of sporting events to identify exciting moments worthy of a replay.

Host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping) and Kevin Oleniczak (Prototyping Manager) from AWS, speak with Marc Amiot (VP of Information Technology) from Eurosport about what it takes to automate the generation of replay clips from sporting events through a cost-effective and low-latency cloud architecture. You'll hear how they automate and integrate these capabilities into a production ecosystem that scales to support various tournaments, serving fans across Europe.

This episode explores the AWS services that Eurosport leveraged to power their replay generation pipelines for live and video-on-demand content. Listen in and dive into the Media Replay Engine (MRE) open source framework, used to build automated video clipping and replay (highlight) generation pipelines for live and video-on-demand content.

How does Tyson Foods — the world's second largest processor of chicken, beef, and pork – leverage the power of the cloud to optimize their inventory and order fulfillment? Hear about Tyson Foods' journey and how they collaborated with AWS Prototyping teams to explore emerging technologies. This episode explores how they are meeting their goals of increased transparency, accuracy, and sustainability in their processes to deliver high quality and service to their customers, while reducing waste.

Host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping) and Tanner McRae (Sr. Solutions Architect) from AWS, speak with Barret Miller (Sr. Manager, Emerging Technology) and Jeremy Gerard (Lead Developer for Emerging Technology) from Tyson Foods about their partnership with the AWS America Prototyping team to implement computer vision powered solutions to their inventory tracking — and the lessons of going from prototype to pilot to scaled production.

In this episode we talk with MUFG Investor Services, one of the world’s leading financial services that provides holistic and customized solutions that meet operational, financial and regulatory needs of customers across the investment lifecycle.

What does it take to automate data extraction from a vast number of unstructured document formats? Listen in and find out how MUFG Investor Services is leveraging Machine Learning (ML) and natural language processing capabilities of the cloud to create a generalized data processing solution for a broad range of documents types.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping and John Dixon, Sr. Solutions Architect from AWS, speak with Evangelos Skianis, CTO for MUFG and Vasilis Sotiris, Head of Data Engineering & Strategy for MUFG, about the AWS prototyping team engagement that enabled experimentation without having to spend time on the infrastructure configuration. Get a behind-the scenes look at the architecture that combined services like Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda to process contextually sparse documents.

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