LAS VEGAS DAY02 - DeepRacer Round 1 Virtual Qualifiers and Scale Public Sector Partner Business with AI, Cybersecurity and more

November 28, 2023

LAS VEGAS DAY02 - DeepRacer Round 1 Virtual Qualifiers and Scale Public Sector Partner Business with AI, Cybersecurity and more

Breakfast at the Venetian

At the Venetian for breakfast...

Breakfast! - Free for convention pass holders

Look at how many tables there are for breakfast...

Water filling stations - We do not often think of logistics but these are vital for a successful convention.

There are also these AWS ambassadors that help visitors with information about the numerous activities of the convention.

DeepRacer Round 1 Virtual Qualifiers

Brooklyn Bowl | 1000 – 1400

Highlights: Met up with AWS DeepRacer Rep, Natasya and learned about how the global DeepRacer League is run. I also spoke with Ray and Robin from DBS Singapore, as they shared their experiences participating in the Singapore Nationwide DeepRacer, and now, the DeepRacer Finals at Las Vegas Re:Invent.

During this session 72 finalists from 6 regions (N America, S America, EU & UK, Asia Pacific & Japan, Greater China Region and Middle East & Africa ) compete for the top 5 timings so that they can decide the 30 best racers for the Grand Final. The racers that missed out on qualifying still get a chance to participate in a “Wildcard” elimination round for the last 2 slots for the Grand Final.

Most of the DeepRacer participants are males working or studying in tech. You can view some of their stories here.

Team Singapore (NLB, AWS, and the Singapore DeepRacer racers)

It is a casual coding environment with plenty of food and drink

Did I mention food?

Me, Robin and Ray

Listening to the starting brief

Participants submitting their models to race

Working on their models...

Racers from the different regions try for the top 5 timings

The final qualifying leaderboard. Singapore was close but missed out on automatic qualification.

PEX102 | Scale public sector partner business with AI, cybersecurity, and more RESERVED

Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3002 | 1500 - 1600

Synopsis:

In this session, hear about how to grow and transform your partner business in the public sector. Consider how you can harness the power of generative AI, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge technologies to help government, regulated healthcare, nonprofit, and aerospace and satellite customers digitally transform and achieve mission-critical outcomes. Join Jeff Kratz, Vice President of AWS Public Sector Channels and Alliances, for exclusive insights into new launches and AWS Partner program updates designed to boost the growth of AWS Partners in the public sector. Also hear a generative AI use case demo by the Nebraska Judicial Branch. This session is intended for AWS Partners.

Jeff Kratz, Vice President of AWS Public Sector Channels and Alliances

Governments are using AWS to achieve their mission

Swindon has over 100 languages and spends a lot of time and money on translation services. They now use AI to reduce the cost of translation

Papua New Guinea use AI to increase tax compliance for land management

Governments grapple with problems such as not being able to compete on salary for tech talent, slow procurement processes etc.

Example of scaling with the government – The telephone

Example: Nebraska Judicial Branch handles 285,000 cases a year

To automate the filing process, they wondered if they should build new or buy. Eventually, they adopted an AWS solution that not only sped up the filing and information retrieval process using AI, but kept the data secure (The data is still kept by the Nebraska Judicial Branch)