Events

AWS Immersion Day

A day of workshops that illustrate how Amazon Web Services can help support your startup

Hosted by: MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program

The MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are hosting a day of workshops that illustrate how AWS can help support your startup.

Session 1: Startups Day One
10:00–11:15 am

  • Meet Startups Manager Vincent Ponzo and Solution Architects Roshan Kothari and Itzik Paz of the AWS Startups Team. Learn about the variety of ways AWS can support you on your journey as a founder and a startup. This session will address the most common questions founders have when launching on AWS. Learn how to use AWS to build your web-stack, how to choose the right database and how to build your machine learning solution. Most importantly, learn how to build a secure and compliant solution from the start.
  • Technical Proficiency: Low-level technical expertise. Relevant to non-technical founders and technical founders.

Session 2 : Best Practices for Setting Up Your AWS Account Working Session
12:00–2:00 pm

  • Join for a pizza lunch at noon followed by a hour-long session that will discuss base-level best practices for getting started on AWS. These include securing the root account, creating users, groups and permissions, discussing roles and policies, using the AWS certificate manager to generate a cert and use with your website/app/api. They’ll also discuss how to set your AWS infrastructure (VPC, serverless and hybrids). Stay for Q&A until 2:00 pm.
  • Technical Proficiency: Low/mid-level technical expertise. Relevant to non-technical founders and technical founders.

Session 3: AWS SageMaker Lab
2:30–4:30 pm

  • Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. This workshop demonstrates the main features of SageMaker via a set of straightforward examples for common use cases. The first module in particular shows how to do exploratory data analysis, run hosted training, and stand up hosted model endpoints via SageMaker Jupyter notebook instances, the AWS CLI, and the SageMaker console.
  • Technical Proficiency: Mid-level technical expertise and basic machine learning knowledge. Relevant to technical founders and those interested in machine learning.

About AWS Startup Team:

The AWS Startup Team is comprised of a small group of serial founders and/or current investors who are chartered to help startups scale with AWS and all things Amazon. Collectively the AWS Startup Team’s previous experiences include founding over 70 startups that have raised over $3.5B with 23 exits (4 IPO’s).

The AWS Startup Team currently manages thousands of relationships with VC’s and Accelerator programs worldwide. One of the biggest value adds we bring founders is access to our Startup Solutions Architects. These are AWS product experts who work with the top funded startups around the globe advising them on how to scale and host hundreds of millions of customers like Netflix, Airbnb, Slack and more. The AWS Startup Team also works closely with high potential startups to bring the rest Amazon.com ecosystem to the table to help with partnerships, customer acquisition and funding.

Details

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

  • Session 1: Intro to AWS and Startups Day 1
    10:00–11:30 am
  • Session 2: Best Practices for Setting Up Your AWS Account Working Session
    12:30–2:00 pm
  • Session 3: AWS SageMaker Lab
    2:30–4:30 pm

Sign up for each workshop individually. All students are welcome to join for any number or combination of sessions in any order.

All sessions take place in MIT Room 1-131

For more information and to register, visit the event page.