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AWS Glue: Hands-on Optimization Workshop
Oct
 
28
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2023
October
 
28
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2023
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7:00PM
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10:00PM 
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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.

 

Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.

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AWS Glue: Hands-on Optimization Workshop

2020 Global series

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About the event

Attend this hands-on workshop to learn how to optimize costs and increase performance of your AWS Glue workloads.


Customers leveraging or exploring AWS Glue often have questions, such as:

- Is their existing AWS Glue workload optimized?

- What new AWS Glue features can they leverage?

- How can they adopt AWS Glue best practices in their current data pipelines?


This optimization workshop is designed to provide hands-on education and training for data engineers, data analysts and data scientists, whose job responsibilities include developing and managing ETL (extract, transform and load) processes.


You will work in AWS Glue Studio to author, tune, and run specific scenarios to compare and contrast how these best practices can improve your existing data integration jobs.


The AWS team will provide individual AWS environments for you to configure, explore, and build with AWS free of charge.

Who should attend

This virtual workshop (Level 300-400) is ideal for data engineers, data analysts and ETL developers who already have basic working knowledge of AWS Glue components such as AWS Glue Crawlers, AWS Glue Catalog and AWS Glue Studio.

Speakers

Harsh Vardhan, Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS
Navnit Shukla, Sr. Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS
Arun A K, Analytics Solutions Architect, AWS
Brian Dolan, Sr. Glue Go-to-Market Specialist, AWS

Agenda

9:00AM - 9:10AM

Welcome and introductions


9:10AM - 9:50AM

Presentation: AWS Glue optimization


9:50AM - 10:00AM

Presentation: AWS account setup


10:00AM - 11:45AM

Lab

10:30am-10:40am Break

11:45AM - 12:00AM

Closing


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9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

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

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1

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

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Breakout Session 2

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

Speakers

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.


Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

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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