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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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EMR on EKS Builders Workshop

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About the event

With the increasing importance of Big Data and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to global businesses and industries, Kubernetes has emerged as a popular platform to run data workloads due to improved agility, scalability, and portability. Kubernetes offers improved portability for data workloads between different environments, such as on-premise data centers, public clouds, and edge locations. It provides a unified environment for managing both stateful and stateless applications, making it easier to run a wide range of data workloads and supports frameworks like Spark, Flink, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and others, making it easier to run data processing jobs and orchestrate ML pipelines in cloud-native or on-prem environments.


EMR is a fully-managed big data processing service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). EMR allows users to easily process large amounts of data using popular open-source data-processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive. However, deploying and scaling data workloads on Kubernetes remains a challenge for many customers. Please join us for an EMR on EKS Builders Workshop at a location near you.


Why Attend?

During the workshop, you will gain hands-on experience and learn:
1. How Kubernetes simplifies infrastructure management­

2. How Amazon EMR on EKS can reduce cost and optimize performance for big data workloads­

3. Best Practices for implementing EMR on EKS inclusive of blue-prints for accelerating time to value

Who should attend

This event is for cloud professionals interested in gaining hands-on experience in EMR on EKS with a view to reducing costs and simplifying infrastructure management.

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Compute

Database migration

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Machine Learning

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8:00AM - 8:45AM

Registration, Breakfast and Networking

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8:45AM - 9:00AM

Welcome, Introductions and Workshop Overview

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

9:00AM - 9:30Am

Why AWS EMR on EKS for Big Data Workloads?

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

9:30AM - 10:15AM

Automated cost optimization for EMR on EKS with Pepperdata

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

10:15AM - 10:45AM

Voice of the Customer

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source blogging tool and content management system

10:45AM - 11:00AM

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11:00AM - 11:30AM

EMR on EKS Best Practices

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11:30AM - 12:00PM

Data on EKS Blueprint(s)

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12:00PM - 1:00PM

Lunch

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1:00PM - 1:30PM

Cost Optimization Best Practices

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1:30PM - 4:00PM

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4:00PM - 5:00PM

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The Horizon of AI

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

1:00PM - 2:00PM

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3:00PM - 4:00PM

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9:00AM - 10:00AM

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Indira Balakrishnan

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Indira Balakrishnan is a Principal Solutions Architect in the AWS Analytics Specialist SA Team. She is passionate about helping customers build cloud-based analytics solutions to solve their business problems using data-driven decisions. Outside of work, she volunteers at her kids’ activities and spends time with her family.

Kinnar Kumar Sen

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Kinnar Kumar Sen is a Sr. Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focusing on Flexible Compute. As a part of the EC2 Flexible Compute team, he works with customers to guide them to the most elastic and efficient compute options that are suitable for their workload running on AWS. Kinnar has more than 15 years of industry experience working in research, consultancy, engineering, and architecture.


Sekar Srinivasan

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Sekar Srinivasan is a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS focused on Big Data and Analytics. Sekar has over 20 years of experience working with data. He is passionate about helping customers build scalable solutions modernizing their architecture and generating insights from their data. In his spare time he likes to work on non-profit projects, especially those focused on underprivileged Children’s education.

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Parul Saxena

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Parul Saxena is a Big Data Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, focused on Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation, where she provides architectural guidance to customers for running complex big data workloads over AWS platform. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends. 

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Narendra Gupta

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Narendra Gupta is a solutions architect at AWS, helping customers on their cloud journey with focus on AWS Analytics Services. Outside of work, Narendra enjoys learning new technologies, watching movies, and visiting new places. 


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Saurabh Bhutyani

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Saurabh Bhutyani is a Principal Big Data Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. He is passionate about new technologies. He joined AWS in 2019 and works with customers to provide architectural guidance for running scalable analytics solutions and data mesh architectures using AWS analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon DataZone.

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Mark Kidwell

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mark Kidwell is a Chief Architect at Autodesk

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Dan Marx

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Dan Marx is the VP of Sales of Pepperdata

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Kirk Lewis

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Kirk Lewis is a Senior Solutions Architect at Pepperdata

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