8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Morning Training – Cloud Essentials for Startup Leaders (Separate RSVP required) | Venue: Ballroom 3
Build a Cloud strategy that helps you meet business objectives.
This course is for start-up leaders who seek an overall understanding of the fundamental concepts of cloud computing. Learn how a cloud strategy can help you meet business objectives. The course dives into the business value of the cloud through customer examples, exploring industry trends, and the Cloud Value Framework, which helps you understand the business value of building on AWS by assessing cost and value impact. Separate registration is needed.
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9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Registration
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks | Venue: Ballroom 1&2, 7/F
Robert Wang, Managing Director, Hong Kong & Taiwan, AWS
10:15 AM – 10:20 AM
Speech by Honourable Guest | Venue: Ballroom 1&2, 7/F
Albert Wong, CEO, HKSTP
10:20 AM – 10:50 AM
Fueling Innovation at Every Stage of Your Startup Journey – from Ideation to Global Scale | Venue: Ballroom 1&2, 7/F
Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate, AWS
Patrick Tu, CEO & Cofounder, Dayta AI
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM
Road to Web3 Mass Adoption | Venue: Ballroom 1&2, 7/F
Hao Yu Kun, Senior Director, Wanxiang Blockchain
11:10 AM – 11:35 AM
Generative AI for every start-up | Venue: Ballroom 1&2, 7/F
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has been a focus for Amazon for over 20 years, and many of the capabilities customers use with Amazon are driven by ML, including with start-ups. AWS has played a key role in democratising ML, making it accessible to anyone who wants to use it. Providing customers with access to scalable compute capacity, the ability to collect and store a massive proliferation of data, and opportunity to leverage a rapidly advancing set of ML technologies. But AI is now at an exciting inflection pointKanpur Investment. It’s never been a better time to be a builder, and we believe most customer experiences and applications will be reinvented with generative AI. So come learn how AWS brings the power and promise of generative AI to start-ups of any size
Dean Samuels, Chief Technologist, AWS
11:35 AM – 11:55 AM
Networking Break
Technical Track
Business TrackKolkata Stocks
11:55 AM – 12:30 PM
Simplify your Kubernetes environment with EKS Blueprints | Level 300 | Venue: Ballroom 3
Kevin Coleman, Head of GTM, Kubernetes, AWS
Alick Wong, Solutions Architect, AWS
Panel Discussion: Different Fundraising Paths for Startups | Venue: Ballroom 1 & 2
In 2023, it is more important than ever for startups to gain the proper exposure and be connected to the right parties for fundraising. In this session, we will speak with guests from an accelerator, a VC and also corporate ventures, to deep dive into their preferences, insights and advices on startup fundraising options.
Benny Lee, Head of Private Equity BD, AWS
Jimmy Ng, Senior Investment Manager, Gobi PartnersSurat Investment
Jing Shi, Head of Investment, MTR Lab
Teddy Lui, CEO, HKAI Lab
12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch Break (Lunch not included)
1:45 PM – 2:20 PM
GoodNotes’ ML Journey: transforming note-taking with AI innovation | Level 200 | Venue: Ballroom 1 & 2
In this session, Goodnotes will share their successful story in ML adoption journey, including the initiative, their team, culture, challenges and technologies towards AI innovation for their note-taking platform, as well as being ready for Generative AI.
Angus Fong, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, GoodNotes
Hei Chow, Solutions Architect, AWS
Product design evolution – how to adapt to the market | Venue: Ballroom 3
Every startup initially has an idea, but over time, this idea would get challenged by markets and customersIndore Stock. The ability to learn and adjust the product design is a key survival skill for every startup. In this session, startups’ services and products are examined from inside out, and product teams will explain how their products grow with the constant changing markets and customer demands.
Matthew Lee, Founder & CEO, Fill-Easy
Kyle Wong, Co-founder & CEO, PanopticAI
2:25 PM – 2:55 PM
Unlocking Actionable Insights – Clickstream Analytics and Logging with AWS for Startups | Venue: Ballroom 1 & 2
Alvin Cheung, Analytics BD Specialist, AWS
Shing Poon, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
From local to global – the startup expansion story | Venue: Ballroom 3
It is always a founder’s dream to see the startup business grow and expand across cities and regions. In this session, we bring in startups with aspiration to sell beyond Hong Kong, and let them tell their stories on how the businesses have grown across borders.
Kevin Law, APAC Director of Business Development, CoinDesk Indices
Jonathan Linstow, Head of Commercial, China, Heals Healthcare
Chris Wang, Startup Business Development Manager, AWS
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM
3:15 PM – 3:50 PM
Startup AI Journey Panel Discussion (PantheonLab, Votee, AlterMe AI) | Level 100 | Venue: Ballroom 1 & 2
Mark Birch, Principal Startup Advocate, AWSJaipur Stock
Ivan Lau, Co-Founder, Pantheon Lab
Jacky Chan, CTO, Votee
Alice Lyu, Co-Founder, AltermeAI
Venture Innovation – Startup Elevator pitch🚀 | Venue: Ballroom 3
Come to witness startups deliver captivating elevator pitches to influential decision-makers from renowned enterprises. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to witness the birth of groundbreaking ideas and engage with visionary innovators. No separate registration is required.
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3:55 PM – 4:30 PM
Preparing for Your Next Growth: Evolving Your Architecture Beyond Monoliths with Cloud Design Patterns | Level 300 | Venue: Ballroom 1 & 2
Agra Wealth Management