Cloud Nomads hosted a day of business and technical sessions, networking, and personal engagement with AWS EMEA leaders — designed to inspire, educate, and build trust between Cypriot customers’ and partners’ executives and IT professionals, and AWS.
What attendees learned
- How to transform an organization using the cloud.
- How similar organizations in the region are harnessing AWS Cloud technology and AWS funding to achieve their missions.
Who it was for
Relevant to customers’ technology and sales leaders, and practice/delivery leads, welcoming all levels and disciplines.
What was covered
Cloud Nomads and AWS Senior EMEA Migrations business development specialists and Solutions Architects talked about leveraging AWS’s industry-leading innovations in infrastructure and cloud-native services to transform business, presenting best practices for migrating business-critical applications, data, and infrastructure to the AWS cloud.
Agenda
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:30–10:15 | Arrival (Coffee & “Bake Shop”) |
| 10:15–10:30 | Welcome to Day 1 |
| 10:30–11:00 | The Playbook to a Successful Migration |
| 11:00–11:15 | Innovating the Amazon Way |
| 11:15–11:30 | Break |
| 11:30–12:00 | Driving Innovation: Developments in Compute, DBs, Analytics, AI & ML |
| 12:00–12:30 | Voice of the Customer — Customer Success Stories |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch, Networking & Cocktails |
Featured Speakers
William Newberry has been working in technology since he got his first email account in 1979. He has worked with large enterprises around the world to adopt successive waves of technology — first client/server, then the internet, and now cloud. An Australian national, he has worked in Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe. Since 2013 he has worked in Eastern Europe, first as Azure Lead at Microsoft. He is now Principal Business Development Manager for the AWS Migration Acceleration Program, and has already helped hundreds of customers migrate and get the most value from transitioning to the AWS cloud.
Xanthos Symeou has been a steadfast advocate since his early days in 2011. Over the course of nearly a decade, he has lent his expertise to large enterprises in the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Japan, and others, guiding them on their transformative cloud journeys. Beginning his odyssey as an AWS Cloud Architect at companies like Accenture and Thomson Reuters in London, UK, he now leads Cloud Nomads, the pioneering AWS Advanced Partner in Greece and Cyprus, helping companies with their cloud migration journey. His unwavering commitment to customer success has already helped countless organizations migrate to and derive maximum value from the AWS cloud.
AWS team & speakers
- Michalis Frangos — MUFG Investor Services, Head of Data Science & AI
- Ioannis Koutrakos — Strategic Accounts
- Marianna Georgiadi — Territory Manager
- Sebastian Lahme — Partner Solution Architect
- Lefteris Chaniotakis — Sr. Enterprise Account Manager
- Marios Parthenios — Senior Solutions Architect, CEE
- Giannis Prapas — Head of Digital Native Business (DNB), CEE Expansion
- Thanos Gkikas — Key Account Manager, ISV
- Peter Voorneveld — Sr. Account Executive, Digital Native Business (DNB)
- Leonidas Drakopoulos — Tech Lead, Greece, Cyprus, Malta
- Orestis Varlamis — Account Executive, Enterprises