Our re:Invent 2022 guide: data & analytics

In the countdown to AWS re:Invent, Josh Lopez our GM of Cloud and AWS Ambassador shares his thoughts on which sessions will benefit your digital transformation journey. Josh is passionate about sharing his experience and knowledge of AWS and, ahead of AWS re:Invent in Vegas this month, has studied the event guide with a view to ensuring he’s at the sessions that he can get the most out of.

AWS re:Invent 2022 is only a few weeks and whether you’ll be travelling to Las Vegas or absorbing all the content digitally, I’ll give you my take on the must see Data & Analytics sessions. If you haven’t yet registered, head over to https://reinvent.awsevents.com/register/ and you’ll be able to take in all the below sessions.

The following are sessions that I recommend you register for, and I’ve provided sessions if you’re in Las Vegas and sessions if you’re watching along digitally.

If you’re in-person at Las Vegas, here are my recommendations

• Automate content moderation and compliance with AI
  Date & Time: Monday, November 28 @ 12:15PM – 1:15PM PT
  Type: Chalk Talk
  Overview: In this chalk talk, learn how to efficiently moderate high volumes of user-generated content across media types with AI. Discover how to add humans in the moderation loop to verify low-confidence decisions and to continuously improve ML models to keep online communities safe and inclusive and to lower content moderation costs.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/AIM306-R

• Build analytics applications using Apache Spark with Amazon EMR Serverless
  Date & Time: Monday, November 28 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT
  Type: Workshop
  Overview: In this workshop you will learn how to build an Apache Spark–based application and run it using Amazon EMR Serverless. Start with developing your application locally in VS Code and use GitHub Actions to test and run the application on Amazon EMR Serverless, then debug in-progress applications. Note: you must bring your laptop to participate.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/ANT309-R

• Accelerate the ML lifecycle with Amazon SageMaker low-code tools
  Date & Time: Wednesday, November 30 @ 11:30AM – 1:30PM
  Type: Workshop
  Overview: In this workshop, discover how to use SageMaker low-code tools, including SageMaker Data Wrangler, SageMaker Autopilot, and SageMaker JumpStart, for ML. Note: you must bring your laptop to participate.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/AIM201

If you’re watching digitally or in-person Las Vegas, here are my recommendations

• Boost ML development productivity with managed Jupyter notebooks
  Date & Time: Thursday, December 1 @ 11:00AM – 12:00PM
  Type: Breakout Session
  Overview: In this session, discover how to use quick-start, collaborative Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks to increase productivity across all steps in your ML development.
  More Details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/AIM320

• Modernize and gradually migrate your data model from SQL to NoSQL
  Date & Time: Thursday, December 1 @ 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PT
  Type: Breakout Session
  Overview: This session will walk through more about tools and practices for gradually migrating a SQL database model to Amazon DynamoDB and building the right APIs with AWS AppSync and GraphQL.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/BOA321

• Modernize and gradually migrate your data model from SQL to NoSQL
  Date & Time: Thursday, December 1 @ 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PT
  Type: Breakout Session
  Overview: This session will walk through more about tools and practices for gradually migrating a SQL database model to Amazon DynamoDB and building the right APIs with AWS AppSync and GraphQL.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/BOA321

• Better business decisions with ML & Amazon SageMaker Canvas, feat. Samsung
  Date & Time: Wednesday, November 30 @ 2:30PM – 3:30PM
  Type: Breakout Session
  Overview: In this session, learn how you can use SageMaker Canvas to access and combine data from a variety of sources, clean data, build ML models to generate predictions with a single click, and share models across your organization to improve productivity.
  More details: https://portal.awsevents.com/events/reInvent2022/sessions/AIM207

Re:invent is all about learning how to continue to transform your organisation using the latest services provided by AWS. The full re:Invent session catalog is now live so you’ll be able to tailor the experience to your needs. Enjoy re:invent and keep on focusing on harnessing your data to drive insights!

I’m always excited to showcase the art of the possible in AWS. I can’t wait to see what more will be possible after this year’s re:invent. Next week I’ll tell you about my pick of the containers and serverless sessions.