Innovation Ambassadors

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.

Get a behind the scenes look at the journey of Provectus Algae, a growing biotech startup that is creating a cost-effective way to convert atmospheric CO2 to valuable resources. What role does cloud technology play in environmental sustainability? You’ll hear about how algae growth can be optimized by using information technology to inform physical systems.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping at AWS speaks with Dr. Andreas Huemer, Head of Information Technology at Provectus Algae about the potency of combining nature and technology, and how their teams collaborated to define the approach and technical architecture required for industrial scale bio-tech solutions.

Get a behind the scenes look at Holo-Light’s journey into building an immersive software that makes it easier to visualize and review designs in a 3D environment. As Augmented Reality (AR) technology evolves, the need for enhanced computing grows along with it. Listen in to find out how cloud technology meets the demand of high performance combined with low latency.

What does it take to create a highly immersive, secure and user-friendly AR experience? You’ll learn about the AWS Prototyping team’s approach to helping Holo-Light innovate and uncover the best architecture for preventing rendering latency of 3D content in Holo-light’s virtual environments.

Host Sara Armstrong, Sr. Manager of Worldwide Prototyping at AWS speaks with Lorenzo Alleva, Director Digital Labs at Bridgestone about prototyping solutions addressing critical safety improvements for vehicle drivers, by alerting them of potential tire hazards in real-time!

How is cloud technology helping the world’s biggest tire manufacturer go the extra mile in driver safety? Get a behind the scenes look at Bridgestone's journey into building an innovative tire monitoring system as part of their vision around vehicle mobility solutions. As mobility evolves, AWS and Bridgestone collaborate on tire design and safety features by harnessing data from software simulators and real world connected vehicles.

Get a look at the “craft of the possible”, as AWS host Sara Armstrong and Bridgestone’s Lorenzo Alleva discuss how their companies are leveraging the power of Machine Learning and Amazon Connected Vehicle Solution to inform vehicle drivers about potential hazards. You’ll find about the engagement between AWS’s Prototyping team and Bridgestone’s Digital Lab that led to the deployment of a system that derives meaning from interaction between tires and the road surface -- all this without installing any additional hardware in the car!

In today’s world, opportunities are realized through innovation and could technology is enabling organizations to experiment quickly to develop solutions to real world problems. In each podcast episode, we welcome guests from wide range industries around the world and delve into a recent prototype project – we cover the challenges our Customers faced, the technical approach we took, and the solutions we unlocked together. Come Join us on our journey!