Industry guide: Financial Services
This guide highlights sessions and learning opportunities at re:Invent 2024 specifically for financial services professionals. Whether this is your first re:Invent or you’ve joined us in the past, our team is dedicated to ensuring that we maximize the return on your investment.
Scott Mullins
General Manager, AWS Financial Services, AWS
On behalf of the AWS Financial Services team, welcome to re:Invent 2024. Whether this is your first time attending or you’ve joined us for one in the past, we’re grateful that you’ve chosen to invest your time with us. Our team is dedicated to ensuring that we maximize the return on your investment as you spend your week at re:Invent.
This guide contains a curated list of recommended breakout sessions, led by your industry peers, that are specifically intended for financial institutions. It also contains hands-on technical sessions led by members of the AWS Financial Services team as well as recommendations for additional breakout sessions relevant to the financial services industry.
As always, we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the meantime, be sure to keep an eye on the AWS for Financial Services website and follow us on our LinkedIn page to stay up to date on all things financial services at re:Invent.
Innovation talks
COP202-INT | Building the future of cloud operations at any scale
As technology evolves rapidly, business and IT leaders continue to ask: How do we operate at lower cost, improve efficiency, and enhance security and compliance posture while exceeding customer expectations? At AWS, we want to help every customer benefit from transforming their IT operations. Join this talk to learn how you can transform your IT operations to be more agile, resilient, efficient, and secure; make operations more intelligent to eliminate repetitive tasks; and get deeper insight for better decision-making. See a demo of the latest innovations, and explore impactful customer stories.
Breakout session
AIM116-S | “Black swan” vs. “green swan”: Powering sustainability with data & AI (sponsored by Capgemini)
In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, traditional data and risk models are struggling to keep pace with the complexities of climate change and sustainability challenges. This session dives into pioneering a journey as a frontrunner in using data and technology to navigate this uncharted territory to proactively identify and mitigate climate-related financial risks while unlocking the opportunities presented by the sustainability transition. Explore how to harness the power of data and AI to drive growth for a sustainable future, and learn how to implement a forward-thinking approach to transform risk management into a competitive advantage. This presentation is brought to you by Capgemini, an AWS Partner.
API313-NEW | [NEW LAUNCH] Private API integration for Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions
For organizations migrating and modernizing workloads on private networks, integrating disparate systems while securing sensitive data is a major challenge. This session explores how Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions with AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice allow seamless integration and orchestration across public and private environments. Learn to build event-driven architectures (EDAs) connecting to private container workloads like Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS—all without custom code. Explore best practices for securely exposing private endpoints, improving developer productivity by unifying application architectures that combine AWS services and internal applications. Gain insights into reducing development overhead by integrating workloads across containerized, monolithic, and heterogeneous environments with secure connectivity during migration and modernization initiatives.
MAM115-S | Accelerate your "Road to 3X" with Fujitsu’s AI-driven modernization (sponsored by Fujitsu)
Fujitsu champions modernization as the catalyst for driving digital transformation (DX), sustainable transformation (SX), and green transformation (GX). In this session, discover how Fujitsu Uvance can help you achieve your 3X goals. Learn how to leverage Fujitsu's deep IT expertise and consultative approach, AWS Blu Age, and cloud technology to modernize mainframe, UNIX, midrange, and Windows systems so you can unlock data-driven insights, ensure business resilience, and build an agile foundation for future growth. Explore modernization best practices, including proven methodologies for migrating and modernizing legacy systems. Also learn how Fujitsu is using AI and data-driven insights in the modernization process. This presentation is brought to you by Fujitsu, an AWS Partner.
BLC306 | Accelerating Web3: Blockchain innovation with AWS Cloud infrastructure
Discover how industry leaders leverage AWS to build scalable, secure Web3 solutions. Explore the complete Web3 stack on AWS, from optimized compute to our robust infrastructure backbone. Learn about Amazon Managed Blockchain and automated node runners for effortless blockchain deployment. Uncover AI-driven analytics for blockchain data and get tips for maximizing AWS compute in Web3 projects. Hear an introduction to Web3 blueprints for rapid development and see a showcase of real-world applications in decentralized technologies. Join this session and learn how AWS's comprehensive cloud services are revolutionizing blockchain innovation and unlocking new possibilities in the Web3 landscape.
AIM263-S | Advancing state-of-the-art science and AI in financial services (sponsored by Capital One)
As organizations look to build and scale their AI efforts in a cloud-enabled enterprise, it’s more important than ever to take an integrated approach that mobilizes cross-functional partners, enables the use of cutting-edge tools, and stays at the forefront of the latest science and applied research. In this session, Capital One shares insights from building programs for generative AI at scale, tools and platforms that help data scientists and engineers put models into production, and insights for using state-of-the-art AI research advances to inform and evolve enterprise AI capabilities and applications. This presentation is brought to you by Capital One, an AWS Partner.
SUS305 | Assessing climate risk with spatial analysis on AWS
Organizations around the globe are reacting to a rapidly changing physical environment. To stay resilient, customers need to quickly develop scalable systems to ingest and analyze large datasets with real-time climate and location information. From assessing climate impact to managing environmental risk, with Amazon Redshift support for spatial data and native integration to ML models through Amazon SageMaker, customers can rapidly develop analysis that helps them respond to natural world changes. In this session, learn how Tokio Marine Highland uses CARTO’s spatial analytics platform on AWS to manage climate risk and assess impacts of severe weather to its business.
SUS305-SC1 | Assessing climate risk with spatial analysis on AWS [SIMULCAST]
Organizations around the globe are reacting to a rapidly changing physical environment. To stay resilient, customers need to quickly develop scalable systems to ingest and analyze large datasets with real-time climate and location information. From assessing climate impact to managing environmental risk, with Amazon Redshift support for spatial data and native integration to ML models through Amazon SageMaker, customers can rapidly develop analysis that helps them respond to natural world changes. In this session, learn how Tokio Marine Highland uses CARTO’s spatial analytics platform on AWS to manage climate risk and assess impacts of severe weather to its business.
COP331-S | Automated, contextual, fully searchable backups (sponsored by Eon)
Join Eon and AWS to explore advanced capabilities for cloud backup and recovery. Learn about the AWS resilience methodology and how Eon provides full visibility of cloud resources with intelligent, context-aware classification. Discover how Eon’s automated backup policy management ensures you only back up what’s necessary, eliminating the need for manual tagging. Learn about lightning-fast search across backups and granular restoration down to a single database row and file. Eon also enables direct SQL queries from database backups, introducing a new, accessible backup storage tier. This session is ideal for cloud operations and IT leaders focused on resilience and efficient recovery. This presentation is brought to you by Eon, an AWS Partner.
HYB201 | AWS wherever you need it: From the cloud to the edge
While most workloads can be migrated to the cloud, some remain on premises or at the edge due to low latency, local data processing, or digital sovereignty needs. In this session, learn how AWS services like AWS Outposts, AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS IoT support hybrid cloud and edge computing workloads such as multiplayer gaming, high-frequency trading, medical imaging, smart manufacturing, and generative AI applications with data residency requirements.
SEC225-S | Best practices for cyber readiness, recovery, and rebuild (sponsored by Commvault)
Cyber resilience is an essential skill for organizations with the recent rise of ransomware and security incidents. In this session, learn how to build for resilience for your cloud-native workloads and gen AI stacks, how to automate the testing of your cyber recovery practice in a clean, on-demand cloud environment, and how to simplify discovery and accelerate the rebuild of your composable application dependencies. Leave this session with actionable guidance on how to better secure and recover your AWS resources in line with AWS and Commvault best practices. This presentation is brought to you by Commvault, an AWS Partner.
MAM331 | Blackstone's AWS odyssey: Agility, automation, & efficiency unleashed
Discover how Blackstone achieved remarkable agility and efficiency through its cloud modernization journey on AWS. Learn its approach to application modernization and how it migrated quickly to AWS. Gain insights into how it boosted developer productivity leveraging automation and implementing actionable patterns. Uncover the secrets behind its success—the transformative process that demanded a cultural shift. Modernization is easier, faster, and more efficient on AWS, but realizing the full business benefits requires a builder-centric mindset. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from Blackstone's trailblazing experience.
BLC403 | Blockchain wallets on AWS: Secure, smart, and scalable
Join this session for a deep dive into blockchain wallets and explore how to build them using AWS services. Learn about AWS Nitro Enclaves, a confidential computing solution enabling robust key management for blockchain apps. Hear from Circle, a financial technology platform, as they share how USDC, Programmable Wallets, and AWS empowers developers to deliver 24/7 payments and financial services globally. Additionally, Fireblocks, a leading expert in multi-party computation (MPC) wallets, shares insights from building innovative solutions on Nitro Enclaves. Whether you're new to blockchain wallets or looking to stay ahead, this session offers insights on the latest advancements in the space.
FSI320 | Bloomberg: Lessons learned from building and training LLMs on AWS
Secure and efficient model training is essential to any organization looking to build generative AI capabilities that deliver return on investment. Bloomberg, a leader in AI/ML in financial services, shares lessons learned from building and training large language models—and, subsequently, small language models—on AWS. Find out how Bloomberg navigated challenges across the model development process, including managing massive data volumes across a large network of GPU nodes, and see how automating and templating infrastructure, data storage, and transit pathways help keep data safe and secure while rendering the training process less error-prone, helping teams quickly launch model training projects.
HYB318 | Building generative AI applications with on-premises and edge data
Customers in regulated industries are looking to leverage generative AI with sensitive data that must remain on premises due to data residency requirements. Additionally, some customers with data generated at the edge need to run small language models (SLMs) locally for real-time processing. This session explores how to select, fine-tune, and deploy SLMs for on-premises and edge use cases using AWS hybrid and edge services. Learn how to run Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with on-premises data to improve prompt outcomes. Understand model trade-offs across accuracy, performance, and cost efficiency, and discover architectural best practices for security, scalability, and high availability.
ARC334 | Building resilient applications on AWS with Capital One
Are you concerned about running mission-critical applications on AWS? Did you know that AWS hosts mission-critical applications for some of the largest and most-regulated businesses on earth? In this session, discover the patterns and principles of AWS resilience best practices. Then, hear Capital One showcase its next-generation design and deployment patterns that push the boundaries of resilient architectures and support its most critical business processes. Learn about the AWS services it uses, the tradeoffs it must consider, and the decision matrix that guides developers to the right pattern for the right use case.
COP208-S | DBS Bank: Transforming quant pricing engine with AWS and Intel (sponsored by Intel)
DBS Bank, a leading financial services group in Asia, has successfully transformed its Quant pricing and risk engines by using modern AWS and Intel technologies. Learn about the DBS Quant team’s minimalist and elegant solution, which required less development effort and enabled fast delivery, rapid customer request for quote pricing, and large-scale risk evaluation. Explore how AWS and Intel’s scalable, robust, and efficient cloud service helped DBS Bank achieve faster pricing speed, better customer experience, short time to market, and reduced costs. Hear from experts as they share the latest trends in risk simulation and how cloud optimization can help you achieve your goals. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.
HYB307 | Delivering low-latency applications at the edge
AWS hybrid and edge services extend AWS from Regions and Availability Zones to local metros, on premises, and the far edge, bringing AWS closer to your end users and workloads. In this session, learn how you can run latency-sensitive applications in more locations around the world with AWS Local Zones, AWS Wavelength Zones, AWS Outposts, and the AWS Snow Family. Discover how organizations are deploying applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies across media and entertainment content creation, cybersecurity, digital advertising, healthcare research, high-frequency stock trading, virtual reality technology, and more.
MAM327-S | Finding your voice in the age of AI (sponsored by RingCentral)
In an era where AI is rapidly transforming voice communications, what makes your own voice matter? The nuances of real human conversation have never been more critical to business success. In this session, learn from a world-leading expert in the art of speaking and gain a unique perspective on the role of human speech in shaping AI-driven communication technologies. Explore how business leaders can leverage AI capabilities and human conversational skills to create superior customer experiences and satisfying employee interactions. This session is designed for business leaders, technology innovators, customer experience professionals, and anyone interested in the future of voice communication and their own voice. This presentation is brought to you by RingCentral, an AWS Partner.
MAM206-S | Indexless observability: How to decrease your observability costs (sponsored by Coralogix)
While the cost of observability is often discussed, the main driver of cost—indexing—is rarely explored. In this session, explore the role of indexing in observability and learn how far you can go by being a little more savvy about how you process your data. This presentation is brought to you by Coralogix, an AWS Partner.
COP211-S | Itaú and Intel: Innovating for cloud optimization and performance (sponsored by Intel)
Itaú’s cloud transformation has been critical in meeting their FinOps objectives. In this session, learn how Itaú’s internal lab—Intel Cloud Center of Expertise, a cutting-edge setup for testing and optimizing companywide solutions using Intel's latest Xeon processors, Intel Accelerator Engines, and software—has helped heighten their customer services and experiences. Explore their learnings in cloud performance, optimization, and use of AI in supporting Itaú's cloud journey, and discover how you can replicate their success to reach your objectives in any industry. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.
XNT313 | Migrate and modernize a Microsoft-based banking solution with AWS
To enhance customer service, risk management, and back-office optimization, 81% of global banks plan to adopt AI/ML by 2026. To adopt these new technologies, many banks need to address a significant challenge: getting their data out of siloed legacy platforms into the cloud. In this session, learn about recommended migration, optimization, and modernization activities to move an on-premises Microsoft-based application stack to AWS. Learn how to evaluate your technical and licensing options to run your Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, and Active Directory workloads on AWS. Become equipped to help your organization drive better business outcomes with data-driven decision-making.
HYB308 | Migrating your VMware workloads with on-premises dependencies
While most VMware workloads can be easily migrated to the cloud, some need to stay on premises due to application interdependencies, data residency requirements, or timeline constraints. Join this session to learn how AWS hybrid and edge services like AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones allow you to migrate in place and modernize at your own pace. Dive deep on various migration pathways with Outposts and the migration tools and programs that you can use to simplify and accelerate transition to the cloud.
MAM217-S | Modernize financial service apps with the cloud & as-a-service models (sponsored by Intel)
The financial services industry faces increasing challenges with legacy technical debt and rising costs associated with large and critical systems. These systems are at risk of becoming unviable unless hardware, software, transition, and services solutions are presented. DXC Luxoft has created Luxoft Beyond in collaboration with Intel and AWS to accelerate, streamline, and cost-optimize the transition of critical applications to the cloud. This session discusses the applicability of as-a-service models for critical systems, explores DXC Luxoft’s transition of their own EarlyResolution platform to custom Intel-powered Amazon EC2 instances, and highlights the benefits that these models can realize for your organization. This presentation is brought to you by Intel, an AWS Partner.
FSI324 | New York Life: Data platform modernization to generative AI innovation
New York Life (NYL) modernized its on-premises data platform to enhance analytics, performance, and automation for its critical insurance operations. To meet these objectives, NYL built a scalable data lake and reporting platform on AWS using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Redshift. In this session, NYL shares lessons learned from moving off its legacy platform to a modern data lake and how having a modern data foundation accelerated their generative AI journey. Learn how NYL is using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock to improve employee productivity and front-line agent experience.
AIM124-S | Powering technology lifecycle innovation with AWS services & Amazon Q (sponsored by Accenture)
Generative AI (gen AI) is transforming Accenture’s service delivery through the GenWizard platform. In this session, Accenture leadership explores GenWizard’s critical role in enhancing key service areas, boosting operational efficiency, accelerating project timelines, and delivering customized client solutions. Hear about the integration of gen AI within Accenture’s CIO services and its impact on internal IT services. Furthermore, gain insights from key learnings from their gen AI enterprise deployment, which has improved decision-making, supported developer tool investments, fostered innovation, and facilitated collaboration with technology partners. Accenture executives illustrate how AWS services, including Amazon Q, are instrumental in maintaining Accenture’s edge in the swiftly changing technology environment. This presentation is brought to you by Accenture, an AWS Partner.
SEC331-S | Precision AI and security action plans: A path to optimal remediation (sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)
Join this session for an exploration of how Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks uses Precision AI to revolutionize cloud security. Learn how Prisma Cloud’s AI-driven action plans accelerate prioritization and remediation of complex threats with pinpoint accuracy. Discover how action plans, powered by Precision AI, provide steps to mitigate risks with minimal effort. Learn how to address critical vulnerabilities while simultaneously resolving multiple related risks. See how to enhance security on AWS with action plans and an AI-based security platform, and discover actionable insights to fortify your cloud infrastructure. This presentation is brought to you by Palo Alto Networks, an AWS Partner.
PRO303 | Scaling to new heights: Coinbase migrates to Amazon EKS and scales 10x
In this session, explore how Coinbase successfully scaled multiple strategic initiatives by using AWS Professional Services. This session covers the evolution of Coinbase and AWS Professional Services work streams, highlighting how this cross-organizational collaboration created a marked transformation in terms of Coinbase’s cost optimization and ability to scale. Coinbase’s scaling requirements are based on extremely unpredictable market movements. The Coinbase and AWS Professional Services teams were able to implement a migration from Amazon EC2 virtual machines with controlled scaling to achieve massive cost optimization, AWS Graviton capability, and scaling characteristics to meet Coinbase’s traffic needs and customers’ high uptime expectations.
SEC328-S | Secure your AI application ecosystem from development to runtime (sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)
As AI applications introduce new components like models, plugins, and datasets, each element presents unique risks. Discover how Palo Alto Networks and Precision AI can help you manage risks throughout the AI lifecycle and also detect and prevent polymorphic threats. Explore Palo Alto Networks’ Secure AI by Design offerings: AI Security Posture Management and AI Runtime Security. These solutions protect your entire AI stack—covering data, supply chain, applications, and runtime—ensuring your AI/ML environments are secure, compliant, and resilient. This presentation is brought to you by Palo Alto Networks, an AWS Partner.
AIM271-S | Securing applications with AWS and Palo Alto Networks (sponsored by Palo Alto Networks)
As businesses increasingly adopt hybrid and multicloud environments, they must take steps to mitigate risk and maintain a high security bar. Protecting your applications and data from sophisticated cyber events is more important than ever. Join this lightning talk to hear Palo Alto Networks product creators and leading-edge customers delve into the specific network security challenges faced in hybrid cloud environments. This talk also explores strategies for deploying and seamlessly managing Palo Alto Networks’ leading network security solutions on your AWS and hybrid cloud environments. This presentation is brought to you by Palo Alto Networks, an AWS Partner.
MAM329-S | Shaping the future of insurance at Lincoln Financial (sponsored by DXC Technology)
In the rapidly evolving insurance landscape, insurers face the challenge of modernizing legacy systems and enhancing customer experiences while also optimizing their operations and effectively managing risk. In this panel discussion, learn how Lincoln Financial is approaching transformation, and gain insight into the trends that are driving change, barriers to transformation, impacts on customers and employees, and the partnerships that enabled Lincoln Financial’s successful modernization efforts. Also learn how Lincoln Financial collaborated with DXC and AWS to create and execute a migration path using DXC Assure Cloud. This presentation is brought to you by DXC Technology, an AWS Partner.
AMZ202 | Streamlining software development across Amazon.com with Amazon Q
Amazon strategically integrated the Q Developer platform across its entire software development lifecycle, enabling developers to work more efficiently and effectively. In this session, look at how Amazon leverages Q Developer to optimize software lifecycles. From requirements gathering to deployment, Q Developer streamlines workflows and enhances productivity at every stage. Attendees learn about Amazon’s JDK upgrade journey, proactively upgrading business-critical applications from JDK 8 to the modern JDK 17. Discover the strategies, challenges, and lessons learned from Amazon’s use of Q Developer, and gain valuable insights to take your own development processes to new heights.
MAM228-S | Unlocking efficiency: Transformed claims processing with generative AI (sponsored by Deloitte)
Discover how Deloitte, Securian Financial, and AWS implemented a generative AI–assisted process to bring significant savings and efficiency for large group insurance carriers. Explore the challenges of adopting a generative AI–driven process and how a human-in-the-loop approach can expedite adoption. Learn how using Amazon Bedrock and combining generative AI, traditional ML, and business rules can achieve 40–70% efficiency gains, reducing claim processing time to less than 5 minutes. This session demonstrates how these advancements help companies overcome growth limitations imposed by manual processing and expand their footprint. This presentation is brought to you by Deloitte, an AWS Partner.
AIM269-S | Using open source blueprints for building AI applications (sponsored by MongoDB)
Generative AI is advancing rapidly, making it crucial to adopt an open architecture that supports learning and accelerates application development. Integrating MongoDB at the core of an AI stack, especially within open source AI blueprints, boosts the AI development lifecycle. MongoDB’s ability to handle large, diverse datasets (including vector data), coupled with its scalability and flexible schema, make it essential for AI-driven architectures. By centralizing data management and offering seamless integration with AI models, MongoDB accelerates development, deployment, and scaling of AI applications. It simplifies complex data workflows and ensures that AI solutions are robust, adaptable, and prepared for real-world challenges. This presentation is brought to you by MongoDB, an AWS Partner.
HYB309 | Well-architected for data residency with hybrid cloud services
With concerns over data privacy, security, and digital sovereignty, many countries across the world are strengthening data residency laws to keep personal and sensitive data within their borders. For organizations operating across multiple geographies, it can be challenging to meet the evolving data residency laws. In this session, following the AWS Well-Architected Framework, explore the best practices around data residency when using hybrid cloud services, including AWS Local Zones, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, and AWS Outposts.
CDN306 | You are under a DDOS attack! Are you ready to respond?
Do your operational teams know how to respond in the event of an attack? Have you architected with a DDOS strategy in mind? This talk guides you through the steps that help you react when under attack. Explore AWS tools you should leverage and best practices you can follow to proactively prepare for such scenarios. Learn how to identify and respond to DDOS attacks using services such as Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and AWS Shield Advanced.
Builders' session
MAM316-R | Accelerate from monolith to modern developer platform with gen AI [REPEAT]
Traditional monolith applications are challenging to modernize, restricting the ability to innovate. Adding new functionality using cloud-native architecture and microservices helps organizations maximize resiliency, efficiency, and agility. This builders’ session showcases an end-to-end modernization journey. Learn how to onboard your development team quickly to AWS by abstracting the complexity of cloud-native architecture using generative AI and actionable blueprints available in a secure internal developer platform (IDP) using Backstage and Harmonix on AWS. Please be sure to have your free AWS Builder ID established before attending. You must bring your laptop to participate.
MAM316-R1 | Accelerate from monolith to modern developer platform with gen AI [REPEAT]
Traditional monolith applications are challenging to modernize, restricting the ability to innovate. Adding new functionality using cloud-native architecture and microservices helps organizations maximize resiliency, efficiency, and agility. This builders’ session showcases an end-to-end modernization journey. Learn how to onboard your development team quickly to AWS by abstracting the complexity of cloud-native architecture using generative AI and actionable blueprints available in a secure internal developer platform (IDP) using Backstage and Harmonix on AWS. Please be sure to have your free AWS Builder ID established before attending. You must bring your laptop to participate.
FSI304 | Build a financial assistant with Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock Agents
Financial institutions manage complex, document-intensive workflows to perform financial analysis and reporting. In this session, build an assistant that enhances financial document processing and improves productivity using multimodal large language model (LLM) capabilities and a knowledge base built with Amazon Q. Also, learn how to use Amazon Bedrock Agents to create a single view for financial analysis on documents, structured content, and APIs. This approach can help you interact with these data sources, summarize financial statements, and generate prospectus documents including charts and data tables. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC302-R | Learn to deploy and self-manage blockchain nodes on AWS [REPEAT]
Join this builders’ session on empowering blockchain innovation to learn how to deploy blockchain nodes effectively using AWS technology. Led by AWS solutions architects, the session highlights the AWS Blockchain Node Runners initiative, an open source project that simplifies the complexities of blockchain deployment on AWS. Gain insights into the development processes, and explore deployment strategies. This session is ideal for both blockchain enthusiasts and professionals seeking to enhance their deployment capabilities on AWS with a variety of blockchain protocols, such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and more. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC302-R1 | Learn to deploy and self-manage blockchain nodes on AWS [REPEAT]
Join this builders’ session on empowering blockchain innovation to learn how to deploy blockchain nodes effectively using AWS technology. Led by AWS solutions architects, the session highlights the AWS Blockchain Node Runners initiative, an open source project that simplifies the complexities of blockchain deployment on AWS. Gain insights into the development processes, and explore deployment strategies. This session is ideal for both blockchain enthusiasts and professionals seeking to enhance their deployment capabilities on AWS with a variety of blockchain protocols, such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and more. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC302-R3 | Learn to deploy and self-manage blockchain nodes on AWS [REPEAT]
Join this builders’ session on empowering blockchain innovation to learn how to deploy blockchain nodes effectively using AWS technology. Led by AWS solutions architects, the session highlights the AWS Blockchain Node Runners initiative, an open source project that simplifies the complexities of blockchain deployment on AWS. Gain insights into the development processes, and explore deployment strategies. This session is ideal for both blockchain enthusiasts and professionals seeking to enhance their deployment capabilities on AWS with a variety of blockchain protocols, such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and more. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC302-R2 | Learn to deploy and self-manage blockchain nodes on AWS [REPEAT]
Join this builders’ session on empowering blockchain innovation to learn how to deploy blockchain nodes effectively using AWS technology. Led by AWS solutions architects, the session highlights the AWS Blockchain Node Runners initiative, an open source project that simplifies the complexities of blockchain deployment on AWS. Gain insights into the development processes, and explore deployment strategies. This session is ideal for both blockchain enthusiasts and professionals seeking to enhance their deployment capabilities on AWS with a variety of blockchain protocols, such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and more. You must bring your laptop to participate.
FSI328-R | Make applications highly resilient with AWS Fault Injection Service [REPEAT]
Application resilience is critical to the highly regulated financial services industry, and AWS tools and best practices can help you meet required levels of resilience and reliability. During this gamified builders’ session, compete with peers to evolve a simple, non-resilient banking application into a highly resilient architecture. This application uses technologies common in the financial services industry, including Java, containers, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka. Learn how to improve your application so that it can successfully pass the different tests AWS Fault Injection Service generates, such as a database failover, a container reboot, or an Availability Zone loss.
FSI328-R2 | Make applications highly resilient with AWS Fault Injection Service [REPEAT]
Application resilience is critical to the highly regulated financial services industry, and AWS tools and best practices can help you meet required levels of resilience and reliability. During this gamified builders’ session, compete with peers to evolve a simple, non-resilient banking application into a highly resilient architecture. This application uses technologies common in the financial services industry, including Java, containers, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka. Learn how to improve your application so that it can successfully pass the different tests AWS Fault Injection Service generates, such as a database failover, a container reboot, or an Availability Zone loss.
FSI328-R1 | Make applications highly resilient with AWS Fault Injection Service [REPEAT]
Application resilience is critical to the highly regulated financial services industry, and AWS tools and best practices can help you meet required levels of resilience and reliability. During this gamified builders’ session, compete with peers to evolve a simple, non-resilient banking application into a highly resilient architecture. This application uses technologies common in the financial services industry, including Java, containers, PostgreSQL, and Apache Kafka. Learn how to improve your application so that it can successfully pass the different tests AWS Fault Injection Service generates, such as a database failover, a container reboot, or an Availability Zone loss.
Chalk talk
QTC204-R1 | Accelerating enterprise innovation with Quantum Embark [REPEAT]
This chalk talk will dive into the customer experience with the newly launched Quantum Embark program, designed to help enterprise customers fast track their quantum computing journey. Through hands-on workshops centered on real-world business use cases, enterprise users have sharpened their quantum computing skills and paved the way for innovative solutions. Join to learn how the Quantum Embark program can transform an organization’s approach to quantum computing, from initial exploration to practical implementation, all on hardware available through Amazon Braket.
QTC204-R | Accelerating enterprise innovation with Quantum Embark [REPEAT]
This chalk talk will dive into the customer experience with the newly launched Quantum Embark program, designed to help enterprise customers fast track their quantum computing journey. Through hands-on workshops centered on real-world business use cases, enterprise users have sharpened their quantum computing skills and paved the way for innovative solutions. Join to learn how the Quantum Embark program can transform an organization’s approach to quantum computing, from initial exploration to practical implementation, all on hardware available through Amazon Braket.
HYB311 | Achieve low latency with AWS Local Zones
With over 40 Local Zones located in major metros across the world, AWS leverages these Local Zones to run applications that require low latency, bringing your services closer to users regardless of their location. This interactive chalk talk dives into real-world use cases to demonstrate how Local Zones can enhance network performance. Learn how you can run your low latency applications in Local Zones. Explore the power of Local Zones in optimizing your application’s responsiveness and security.
HYB310 | Addressing data residency requirements with hybrid and edge services
Data residency is a critical consideration for organizations that collect and store sensitive information, including personal identifiable information (PII), financial data, healthcare data, or information pertaining to national security. To help organizations operating across multiple geographies drive innovation while meeting data residency requirements, AWS offers multiple global infrastructure offerings like AWS Regions, AWS Dedicated Local Zones, AWS Local Zones, and AWS Outposts. In this interactive chalk talk, learn how these infrastructure offerings can help you accelerate digital transformation while meeting data residency needs.
STG306-R1 | Advanced security patterns on Amazon S3 [REPEAT]
Amazon S3 security settings and access controls are suitable for virtually any workload. In this chalk talk, equip yourself with proven patterns for managing access at scale. Learn how to optimize policy usage, scale beyond AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy limits, and secure your data lake perimeter.
BLC305 | Architecting a blockchain tokenization framework
Join AWS blockchain specialists in this interactive chalk talk to unpack the creation and deployment of cloud-native tokenization frameworks for digital assets on AWS. Explore how Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB), services from AWS Partners, and open source AWS Blockchain Node Runner Blueprints can enable robust and well-architected tokenization solutions for both private and public blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) use cases. Learn key design considerations for digital asset representation, regulatory compliance/reporting, automated lifecycle management, and smart contracts and digital asset custody. This talk offers practical insights for financial institutions and developers to jump-start tokenization projects on AWS.
DEV333 | Automating insurance claims and policy management using generative AI
Insurance companies manage extensive procedure documents, making manual processing time-consuming and complex. This session introduces a generative AI-based solution to automate and scale these operations. This innovative solution leverages generative AI to transform operations processing into an automated and scalable solution. Learn how to build an end-to-end generative AI-based robotic process automation (RPA) solution to understand procedure documents with rules, tables, and images and perform operations according to customers’ data by leveraging generative AI and large language models (LLMs). This approach is ideal for industries that require efficient handling of large-scale documentation.
HYB401 | AWS hybrid cloud and edge computing from the lens of VMware architects
This chalk talk explores the Amazon EC2 concepts of instance recoverability, placement groups, and auto scaling from the perspective of AWS Outposts and how VMware architects can draw parallels to VMware features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Affinity Groups, and stretched clusters. The talk also covers how you can design resilient architectures between two Outposts in the same location using intra-VPC routing. Additionally, learn how you can leverage AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts.
SEC340 | Cyber resilience: Implementing data vaults to mitigate risks
How can you ensure that your mission-critical assets are accessible, recoverable, and resilient in the face of a cybersecurity incident? This chalk talk provides comprehensive strategies to enhance your data protection and recovery capabilities. Explore robust data vault architectures and how they can help you meet stringent regulatory requirements from the Bank of England, New York Department for Financial Services, and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Learn system design principles to improve recoverability and business continuity, empowering you and your organization to bolster operational resilience.
AES303-R1 | Degas uses generative AI on AWS to help smallholder farmers in Ghana [REPEAT]
Degas Ltd., a Japanese agri-fintech startup, uses generative AI to help 65,000 smallholder farmers in Africa. In this chalk talk, learn how Degas developed a geospatial foundation model on Amazon SageMaker to tackle climate change and improve life on earth. Discover how Degas leveraged SageMaker to build their geospatial foundation model which, using only small fine-tuning datasets, can be customized to solve a variety of common earth observation problems using satellite imagery, such as flood and drought detection, wildfire prediction, land cover segmentation, building change detection, and deforestation detection.
AES303-R | Degas uses generative AI on AWS to help smallholder farmers in Ghana [REPEAT]
Degas Ltd., a Japanese agri-fintech startup, uses generative AI to help 65,000 smallholder farmers in Africa. In this chalk talk, learn how Degas developed a geospatial foundation model on Amazon SageMaker to tackle climate change and improve life on earth. Discover how Degas leveraged SageMaker to build their geospatial foundation model which, using only small fine-tuning datasets, can be customized to solve a variety of common earth observation problems using satellite imagery, such as flood and drought detection, wildfire prediction, land cover segmentation, building change detection, and deforestation detection.
AES306 | Deliver accurate all-weather Earth observation data with gen AI on AWS
Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites capture detailed images of Earth in light-obscured conditions and let customers consistently monitor changing conditions. Learn how to use a deep learning-based algorithm, combined with Amazon SageMaker, to reconstruct optical imagery from SAR data and create synthetic cloud-free images up to four times resolution for agriculture and utility infrastructure monitoring. Find out how customers use Amazon SageMaker and data lakes on Amazon S3 for near real-time data retrieval and analysis.
FSI302-R | Guardrails for financial services LLMs with Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker [REPEAT]
Financial institutions need to exercise caution when it comes to incorporating large language models (LLMs) in customer-facing products due to the risk of hallucinations. It’s also important to implement robust safeguards against the inadvertent sharing of sensitive data. In this chalk talk, learn strategies to refine datasets, maintain high-quality inputs, and customize LLM outputs to meet the precise requirements of the financial services industry. Walk through how you can use Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker to fine-tune LLMs, and gain practical insights that can help you unlock the power of generative AI while maintaining business-critical controls and compliance.
FSI302-R1 | Guardrails for financial services LLMs with Amazon Bedrock & SageMaker [REPEAT]
Financial institutions need to exercise caution when it comes to incorporating large language models (LLMs) in customer-facing products due to the risk of hallucinations. It’s also important to implement robust safeguards against the inadvertent sharing of sensitive data. In this chalk talk, learn strategies to refine datasets, maintain high-quality inputs, and customize LLM outputs to meet the precise requirements of the financial services industry. Walk through how you can use Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker to fine-tune LLMs, and gain practical insights that can help you unlock the power of generative AI while maintaining business-critical controls and compliance.
FSI309 | Harnessing the power of small language models in financial services
Financial institutions are using large language models (LLMs) to improve employee productivity and transform the customer experience. But LLMs are not always the right choice for every application. This chalk talk explores how small language models (SLMs) can offer you the speed and precision you need to solve specific problems without compromising on power and utility. Explore task-specific and task-agnostic SLM architectures, data strategies, and techniques for domain adaptation, fine-tuning, and pre-training using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. Discover post-training optimizations that highlight effective strategies for reducing model size while enhancing the performance of generative AI applications.
STG303-R1 | How to optimize AWS storage for generative AI and ML workloads [REPEAT]
Scaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high-quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized for performance scalability. Getting this wrong can lead to unexpected cost and performance issues. In this interactive chalk talk, get answers to your questions related to selecting and optimizing storage for AI and ML workloads so you can build better, innovate faster, and deploy at scale.
DEV327 | Latency optimization: From theory to practice
In this session, hear how to efficiently run latency sensitive workloads in AWS. Customers learn how to choose proper AWS services in order to optimize and measure latency indicators. Take a deep dive into different communication protocols and networking optimizations from client applications to corresponding computing environments with a help of generative AI, and summarize this knowledge in simple and practical mental models. Knowledge learned here can be used to improve user experiences and increase returns on investments in digital products.
FSI303 | Optimize data lifecycle management for regulatory compliance at scale
Financial institutions want to take advantage of the exponential growth of data while also complying with regulatory requirements. In this chalk talk, learn how you can effectively manage your data lifecycle, from the data lake to regulatory compliance. Explore a solution that persists Oracle databases in Amazon S3 while leveraging AWS Lake Formation for granular entitlements. Streamline workforce management through AWS IAM Identity Center with permission sets for access controls. Also, dive deep into Iceberg tables, which enable concurrent row-level operations—including inserts, updates, and deletions—to meet regulatory retention obligations and provide atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (ACID) transactions to maintain data integrity.
OPN308-R | Optimizing quantitative research workloads with open source tools [REPEAT]
In this chalk talk, learn how to power your quantitative research workloads on AWS using open source tools and frameworks. Explore the technical capabilities of solutions like Ray, Apache Spark, and Apache Iceberg, and learn how to seamlessly integrate them with AWS services to build cost-effective, scalable, and high-performance computing environments. Discover strategies for reducing total cost of ownership, optimizing Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and leveraging services like Amazon S3 and Amazon FSx for Lustre. Leave empowered to harness open source and accelerate your quantitative research initiatives.
OPN308-R1 | Optimizing quantitative research workloads with open source tools [REPEAT]
In this chalk talk, learn how to power your quantitative research workloads on AWS using open source tools and frameworks. Explore the technical capabilities of solutions like Ray, Apache Spark, and Apache Iceberg, and learn how to seamlessly integrate them with AWS services to build cost-effective, scalable, and high-performance computing environments. Discover strategies for reducing total cost of ownership, optimizing Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, and leveraging services like Amazon S3 and Amazon FSx for Lustre. Leave empowered to harness open source and accelerate your quantitative research initiatives.
BLC402 | Racing ahead: Enhancing crypto exchange performance with AWS
In the high-stakes world of crypto trading and decentralized finance (DeFi), speed is everything. Join us to explore how AWS empowers platforms to achieve ultra-low latency. Dive into why millisecond improvements matter and receive a step-by-step guide to supercharging your crypto infrastructure. Learn how strategic datacenter placement, proximity hosting, advanced networking, optimized compute, and networking partners can give you the edge. Discover AWS-specific services that can revolutionize your platform's performance. Whether you're running an exchange or building DeFi protocols, this chalk talk equips you with the tools to stay ahead in the race for speed.
FSI308-R1 | Realizing full data mesh potential with AWS and partner integration [REPEAT]
Financial institutions are increasingly embracing data mesh architectures to derive maximum value from their data assets. To realize the full potential of a cohesive data mesh strategy, organizations are seamlessly integrating best-in-breed analytics and ML platforms from AWS Partners with AWS native analytics services. This chalk talk explores architectural patterns and approaches that address data interoperability challenges between AWS and its partner platforms. Dive into metadata federation options, enabling a unified view of data assets across disparate systems, including third-party data catalogs and AWS Glue Data Catalog. This talk also explores data governance considerations to ensure compliance, security, and data lineage.
FSI308-R | Realizing full data mesh potential with AWS and partner integration [REPEAT]
Financial institutions are increasingly embracing data mesh architectures to derive maximum value from their data assets. To realize the full potential of a cohesive data mesh strategy, organizations are seamlessly integrating best-in-breed analytics and ML platforms from AWS Partners with AWS native analytics services. This chalk talk explores architectural patterns and approaches that address data interoperability challenges between AWS and its partner platforms. Dive into metadata federation options, enabling a unified view of data assets across disparate systems, including third-party data catalogs and AWS Glue Data Catalog. This talk also explores data governance considerations to ensure compliance, security, and data lineage.
BIZ317 | Reimagine customer service for financial services with Amazon Connect
In this chalk talk, you will discover how to deliver re-imagined customer service interactions for Financial Services use cases using Amazon Connect. Attend this session to learn how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver faster, more accurate financial services interactions, including processing, fraud reduction, and improved experience for your customers and agents.
FSI307 | Securing sensitive data processing with AWS Nitro Enclaves
To maintain data privacy and comply with regulations, financial institutions must proactively reduce the attack surface area of their data-processing applications. This chalk talk explains how to leverage AWS Nitro Enclaves to enhance security for sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII). Explore best practices for securely storing and processing sensitive data, including encryption, secure data storage, and isolated compute environments applied to payment authorization processes and cardholder information protection. Learn to navigate the complexities of data protection and secure payment processing using AWS services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB.
FSI314-R1 | Service event replay: Stress-testing your architecture’s resilience [REPEAT]
In this chalk talk, explore the effects of service disruptions on financial services applications and how you can address them. Learn how to assess the resiliency of your own architectures and develop strategies to strengthen your response and recovery capabilities. Review example architectures in detail and replay past service events to analyze system reliability and identify potential vulnerabilities. Leave this talk equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to ensure your architectures can withstand disruptions, strengthen your approach to operational resilience, and minimize the impact of large-scale events.
FSI314-R | Service event replay: Stress-testing your architecture’s resilience [REPEAT]
In this chalk talk, explore the effects of service disruptions on financial services applications and how you can address them. Learn how to assess the resiliency of your own architectures and develop strategies to strengthen your response and recovery capabilities. Review example architectures in detail and replay past service events to analyze system reliability and identify potential vulnerabilities. Leave this talk equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to ensure your architectures can withstand disruptions, strengthen your approach to operational resilience, and minimize the impact of large-scale events.
FSI301 | Unlock near real-time financial news insights with generative AI
The speed and proliferation of news impacting financial markets poses a perennial challenge for investors needing to make informed decisions in a dynamic environment. This chalk talk introduces an open source solution that clusters news into concise summaries and provides up-to-the-minute insights using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. Learn about the architecture and integration of AWS services to achieve a throughput of dozens of articles per second and cluster over one million articles per day. Explore how performance benchmarks, optimization techniques, and the use of generative AI can help portfolio managers and traders better manage risk and rapidly adapt their portfolios.
BLC304-R1 | Using generative AI and LLM to extract value from Web3 data [REPEAT]
Uncover the potential of LLMs in the realm of on-chain and off-chain data analysis and their potential to power Web3 analytics and security. Explore how Web3 data analytics companies can use LLMs to cluster and segment wallets and transactions, revealing connections between related entities. Furthermore, discover how Web3 protocols and blockchain security auditing firms can leverage LLMs to detect transaction sequences resembling previous hacking attempts, fortifying their security postures.
BLC304-R | Using generative AI and LLM to extract value from Web3 data [REPEAT]
Uncover the potential of LLMs in the realm of on-chain and off-chain data analysis and their potential to power Web3 analytics and security. Explore how Web3 data analytics companies can use LLMs to cluster and segment wallets and transactions, revealing connections between related entities. Furthermore, discover how Web3 protocols and blockchain security auditing firms can leverage LLMs to detect transaction sequences resembling previous hacking attempts, fortifying their security postures.
Workshop
MAM309 - Accelerate mainframe modernization at scale with generative AI
Explore how generative AI capabilities with AWS Mainframe Modernization Automated Refactor with AWS Blu Age accelerate mainframe modernization while seamlessly integrating with your current tools, processes, and team's expertise. In this workshop, learn how to use generative AI to discover code summaries, explanations, and user screen design previews; analyze assisted classification; and transform both supported and unsupported legacy source code to build and deploy new Java applications to the AWS Mainframe Modernization service. You must bring your laptop to participate.
FSI306 - Amazon Bedrock Agents: Revolutionize data analysis & customer service
Analyzing complex datasets can be time-consuming and resource intensive. In this workshop, learn how to move from analysis to action faster and with minimal manual effort. Build an agent-based generative AI application that quickly links multiple data sources and produces meaningful insights using Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Discover how to integrate these agents with services like Amazon RDS and Amazon S3 as well as online data sources to improve customer interactions, personalize product offers, and identify new opportunities. Your application will demonstrate how financial institutions can revolutionize customer service while respecting guardrails for responsible AI. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC303-R1 - Analyze Bitcoin and Ethereum data with AMB Query [REPEAT]
Blockchains are rich with historic data, but analyzing this data can be technically challenging. In this workshop, learn how to access Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet balances and other transaction data via Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query. Also, discover how you can use AMB Query and other services to support cross-chain applications. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC303-R - Analyze Bitcoin and Ethereum data with AMB Query [REPEAT]
Blockchains are rich with historic data, but analyzing this data can be technically challenging. In this workshop, learn how to access Bitcoin and Ethereum wallet balances and other transaction data via Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Query. Also, discover how you can use AMB Query and other services to support cross-chain applications. You must bring your laptop to participate.
NTA404 - Empower executives: Self-service dashboards with Generative BI
In today’s data-driven business landscape, executives and decision-makers need real-time access to actionable insights. However, traditional business intelligence (BI) tools often require technical expertise and can be time-consuming to navigate. This hands-on workshop shows you how to empower your executives to get insights on their own. Leverage the latest Generative BI capabilities in Amazon QuickSight to build a powerful executive dashboard in minutes using natural language. Learn how Amazon Q makes it easier for business users to understand data with executive summaries, context-aware Q&A, and data stories that help drive decisions from insights. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AIM206-S - From prototype to production: Build a RAG app using DataStax and AWS (sponsored by DataStax)
DataStax offers a comprehensive platform to accelerate AI application development and deployment that supports RAG applications from prototype to production with high relevancy, low latency, and scalability. In this workshop, learn more about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and explore how to use DataStax Astra DB, Langflow, and Amazon Bedrock to ultimately build a complete gen AI chatbot. You must bring your laptop to participate. This presentation is brought to you by DataStax, an AWS Partner.
NTA305 - How to enable near real-time data analytics with a zero-ETL approach
This workshop explores an AWS zero-ETL solution for real-time data analytics, focusing on key components like data ingestion, processing frameworks, and delivery mechanisms. Utilizing Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon S3, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora MySQL, the workshop demonstrates how organizations can bypass traditional ETL bottlenecks. Discover how this approach enables near real-time analytics for a comprehensive customer view. Learn how to streamline data integration and enhance data utilization across applications. Explore how you can use AWS services to achieve faster insights, better data management, and more efficient analytics processes, ultimately leading to improved decision-making and customer experiences. You must bring your laptop to participate.
HYB304 - Implement RAG without compromising on digital sovereignty
As governments and standards bodies develop data protection and privacy regulations, organizations increasingly need to combine the use of generative AI tooling in the cloud with regulated data that need to remain on premises to meet data sovereignty requirements. In this workshop, learn how to extend Amazon Bedrock Agents to hybrid and edge services like AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones to build distributed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications with on-premises data for improved model outcomes. Get hands-on with Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, and AWS hybrid and edge services, and build Amazon S3 compliant workflows using a hybrid S3 compatible solution. You must bring your laptop to participate.
BLC401 - Non-custodial blockchain wallets with AWS Nitro Enclaves
This Web3 workshop offers a hands-on approach to creating robust, user-friendly cryptocurrency wallets with enhanced functionality and reduced complexity. Learn how to build a non-custodial blockchain wallet using AWS Nitro Enclaves. Discover how to maintain user control over keys and funds while using a backend signing service. Explore how enclave-based solutions can simplify client-side operations and enable advanced features like social recovery, all while preserving user privacy and security. You must bring your laptop to participate.
AIM315 - Transforming intelligent document processing with generative AI
This workshop covers the use of generative AI models for intelligent document processing tasks. It introduces intelligent document processing and demonstrates how generative AI can enhance capabilities like multilingual optical character recognition (OCR), document classification based on content/structure/visuals, document rule matching using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models, and agentic frameworks that combine generative models with decision-making and task orchestration. Join this workshop to learn practical generative AI applications for streamlining and automating document-centric workflows. You must bring your laptop to participate.
FSI305 - Uncover hidden connections in financial data with generative AI
To gain a competitive advantage, financial institutions often need to look beyond structured data sources to uncover differentiated insights. In this workshop, use generative AI to build knowledge graphs that can identify market correlations hidden in vast amounts of unstructured data. Explore an end-to-end process for analyzing annual reports using Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to automate entity extraction and disambiguation to hydrate an Amazon Neptune graph that captures market trends, competitors, supply chains, and key personnel. Finally, ingest news articles into the knowledge base to discover how potential second- and third-order impacts of seemingly unrelated press can affect an investment portfolio. You must bring your laptop to participate.