What is AWS Startup Day?

Designed for startup founders and technical staffs, the AWS Startup Day Hong Kong is a free full-day event focused on delivering technical and business content to enable and accelerate startup innovation and growth.

You can choose your learning path from a combination of sessions focused on product innovation, technology applications, and the business of startups. There'll be opportunities to speak one-on-one with mentors, learn more from startup pitches and get introduced to AWS go-to-market programs specifically designed for startups. You'll also get to hear from fellow entrepreneurs and challenger brands around how they've been addressing customer needs through use of the AWS platform. You will gain business and technical insight through seminars, hands-on workshop, exclusive enterprise pitch and mentor sessions.

So whether you're a new startup looking to launch, or an existing startup looking for ways to scale and grow your business, we'll provide the knowledge and learning opportunities to inspire you to take action.

Who should attend?

• Startup business and technical founders, and developers who are eager to learn how to run lean and scale fast to build their next big thing.
• Development teams, engineers, architects and system administrators from startups who are eager to learn how to deploy applications in highly available, scalable architectures.

Keynote Speaker

Paul Duffy, Tech Leader - Startups, AWS

Paul Duffy leads world-wide Solutions Architecture efforts at Amazon Web Services for Startups, ensuring that early-stage companies can get the right technical architectural guidance at the right time as they build their products. Other roles at AWS since joining in 2011 have included leading the Startup Marketing team, building the Product Marketing team from scratch, and managing a team of Solutions Architects in New York. Outside of Amazon, recent roles have included leading product marketing at Stripe and product at Runnable.