Amazon's Michael Needham addresses the Advertising and Media Association of South Africa in the second episode of the AMASA CT #SpeakersSeries
Wed Jun 14, 16:00 - Wed Jun 14, 17:30
Red and Yellow School
ABOUT
AMASA CT #SpeakerSeries will host Michael Needham on the 14th of June.
Michael Needham manages Solution Architecture teams spanning Russia, Middle East and Africa, he is an evangelist of cloud technology and has registered two cloud patents while working at Amazon.
Michael and his teams work directly with customers to architect and run their applications at scale in the Amazon Web Services cloud, taking advantage of highly available compute, storage, databases and other managed services such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. His teams offer best practices to businesses in their IT transformation journey and highlight new opportunities not possible before the era of cloud. Michael has spent 19 years in IT, holds a degree from the University of Cape Town in Computer Science and a second degree in Social Anthropology and Environmental Science. Prior to Amazon, Michael was group CTO for Naspers ecommerce Africa and Middle East and M&A technical lead on 30+ of their acquisitions globally.
Michaels talk will focus on:
An in-depth look at the culture and process that drives innovation in Amazon before focusing on the way in which Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, is servicing the IT megatrends we see today: voice enabled applications, real-time systems, internet of things, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
A number of live demonstrations of this technology and applied business use cases will be shown during the session.
AMASA Speakers Series
The Cape Town AMASA Speaker Series offers AMASA CT members the opportunity to hear from some of the industry’s and country’s top marketeers, advertisers, business leaders. From business founders, to global experts and advertising gurus AMASA Cape Town will host a variety of interesting and educating speakers at our monthly #SpeakerSeries.
As part of our purpose, AMASA promises to ensure the industry remains upskilled, educated and connected on a constant basis and the Speaker Series intends to do all of these, each month.
All AMASA CT members are free to attend each event. If you would like to register as a member please contact [email protected]
To join our database please email [email protected]
Michael Needham manages Solution Architecture teams spanning Russia, Middle East and Africa, he is an evangelist of cloud technology and has registered two cloud patents while working at Amazon.
Michael and his teams work directly with customers to architect and run their applications at scale in the Amazon Web Services cloud, taking advantage of highly available compute, storage, databases and other managed services such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. His teams offer best practices to businesses in their IT transformation journey and highlight new opportunities not possible before the era of cloud. Michael has spent 19 years in IT, holds a degree from the University of Cape Town in Computer Science and a second degree in Social Anthropology and Environmental Science. Prior to Amazon, Michael was group CTO for Naspers ecommerce Africa and Middle East and M&A technical lead on 30+ of their acquisitions globally.
Michaels talk will focus on:
An in-depth look at the culture and process that drives innovation in Amazon before focusing on the way in which Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, is servicing the IT megatrends we see today: voice enabled applications, real-time systems, internet of things, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
A number of live demonstrations of this technology and applied business use cases will be shown during the session.
AMASA Speakers Series
The Cape Town AMASA Speaker Series offers AMASA CT members the opportunity to hear from some of the industry’s and country’s top marketeers, advertisers, business leaders. From business founders, to global experts and advertising gurus AMASA Cape Town will host a variety of interesting and educating speakers at our monthly #SpeakerSeries.
As part of our purpose, AMASA promises to ensure the industry remains upskilled, educated and connected on a constant basis and the Speaker Series intends to do all of these, each month.
All AMASA CT members are free to attend each event. If you would like to register as a member please contact [email protected]
To join our database please email [email protected]
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Amazon's Michael Needham addresses the Advertising and Media Association of South Africa in the second episode of the AMASA CT #SpeakersSeries
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