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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We are celebrating our first full year of showcasing the most compelling AWS Prototyping stories!

In this special episode, we look at the key themes that emerged from revealing chats with customer guests across industries, including Holo-light, Icon, Bridgestone, NBLA and EB Research.

How is cloud technology enabling companies to innovate, experiment and succeed in their fields? Hear directly from those on the front line of innovation about the biggest lessons and challenges from Prototyping engagements. Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of AWS Worldwide Prototyping speaks with Angela Lindstrom, Principal Tech Program Manager, Marten Payne Senior AWS Prototyping Engineer and Markus Bestehorn, Principal, Prototype Engineering Manager in a year-end wrap-up and look to the future.

Find out how AWS Prototyping worked with Australia's leading full-service telecommunications provider, TPG Telecom, to create simple smart home products and services for their customers by the process of "working backwards".

In this episode, host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping, speaks with Amin Javed, Head of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives for TPG Telecom, along with Richard Taylor, Head of AWS Digital Innovation and Ryan Cross, AWS Prototyping Engagement Manager. They discuss how TPG Telecom unified their IoT ecosystem to deliver a virtually seamless, end-to-end smart home experience for their customers. Additionally, they’ll address the challenges they faced in developing, delivering, and scaling this solution.

Latitude Financial Services (LFS), a leader in consumer finance in Australia and New Zealand, is applying cloud innovations to revolutionize how people borrow money.

By engaging the AWS prototyping team, LFS continues to help consumers build more effective money habits, while also securing their large scale customer data in a cost-effective way.

How does a company in a highly regulated industry protect their customer's data at scale without spending millions of dollars a day to assure security and compliance? In this episode, you’ll find out how AWS supports LFS's mission to build cost-efficient frameworks that identify, classify, and secure sensitive data. Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping, and Adrian Dimech, Sr. Prototyping Engineer at AWS, are joined by Shahid Faiz, Lead Data Engineer at LFS on this latest episode.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the journey of Springs, one of the largest manufacturers of home textiles in the Americas, and their mission to improve your sleep health through innovation and the support of AWS Prototyping.

What happens when a textile manufacturing company known for sleep comfort products start extends their mission to sleep health? In this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we explore how AWS is helping Brazil-based Springs to catalyze the creation of their first cloud-connected product, and develop a sleep tracker that uses ML to learn from the sleeper’s habits.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping and Leticia Santos, Sr. Prototyping Architect at AWS speak with Josue Alencar, Springs CIO, about building a legacy for a company founded by his grandfather by forging a future in collaboration with the AWS Prototyping team. They discuss how the process behind realizing the ambitious goal of creating the most accessible embedded sleep tracking device on the market.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the journey of Vimana Tech, a technology company based in Australia with a mission to bring ethical AI solutions to a broad range of industries.

What does it take to make Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) accessible to the general public and not just big businesses? In this episode, we explore how AWS is supporting Melbourne-based Vimana Tech’s vision of consumerizing A.I.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping at AWS speaks with Joel Kuperholz, CEO of Vimana Tech, about his love for experimentation and how his collaboration with AWS Prototyping team realized the ambitious goal of delivering actionable business insights to everyone from farmers, to retailers, to construction companies. Listen on AWS, Spotify or your favorite streaming service.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the journey of Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting for workforce development.

How can machine learning support human learning? In this episode, we explore how AWS is supporting Bangalore-based Infosys’s vision of intelligently up-skilling it’s large technical workforce.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping at AWS speaks with Arpan Patro, Principal at Infosys about the experimentation and challenges involved in building a collaborative prototype.