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Your guide to AWS Analytics at AWS re:Invent 2023

Join the AWS Analytics team at AWS re:Invent this year, where new ideas and exciting innovations come together.

For those in the data world, this post provides a curated guide for all analytics sessions that you can use to quickly schedule and build your itinerary. Book your spot early for the sessions you do not want to miss. You can do this through the attendee portal, and if you cannot make it in person, get a free pass to watch the live sessions online.

We are raising the bar this year on learning while having fun! Visit us at the AWS Analytics Kiosk in the AWS Village at the Expo to discover the AWS Analytics Superhero in you, participate in a playful quiz and AWS book signing events. Watch this space for additional details.

2023 AWS Analytics Superheroes

We are excited to introduce the 2023 AWS Analytics Superheroes at this year’s re:Invent conference! Are you lightning fast and ultra-adaptable like Wire Weaver? A shapeshifting guardian and protector of data like Data Lynx? Or a digitally clairvoyant master of data insights like Cloud Sight? Join us at the Analytics kiosk to learn more about which AWS Analytics Superhero you are and receive superhero SWAG!

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Keynotes

KEY002| Adam Selipsky (CEO, Amazon Web Services) | Tuesday, Nov. 28 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PDT)

Join Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, as he shares his perspective on cloud transformation. He highlights innovations in data, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and machine learning that are helping AWS customers achieve their goals faster, mine untapped potential, and create a better future.

KEY003| Swami Sivasubramanian (Vice President, Data and AI at AWS) | Nov. 29 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PDT)

A powerful relationship between humans, data, and AI is unfolding right before us. Generative AI is augmenting our productivity and creativity in new ways, while also being fueled by massive amounts of enterprise data and human intelligence. Join Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and AI at AWS, to discover how you can use your company data to build differentiated generative AI applications and accelerate productivity for employees across your organization. Also hear from customer speakers with real-world examples of how they’ve used their data to support their generative AI use cases and create new experiences for their customers.

KEY005 | Dr. Werner Vogels (Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com) | Nov. 30 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PDT)

Join Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com’s VP and CTO, for his twelfth re:Invent appearance. In his keynote, he covers best practices for designing resilient and cost-aware architectures. He also discusses why artificial intelligence is something every builder must consider when developing systems and the impact this will have in our world.

Analytics Innovation Talk

ANT219-INT | G2 Krishnamoorthy | (Vice President of Analytics) | Data drives transformation: Data foundations with AWS analytics | Nov. 30 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PDT)

Data is the differentiator that drives your current business needs while simultaneously preparing you for the future. As your company transforms, you need a data foundation for business applications, new technical innovations, and data-driven business initiatives. Join G2 Krishnamoorthy, Vice President of AWS Analytics, to discuss strategies for embedding analytics into your applications and ideas for building a data foundation that supports your business initiatives. With new capabilities for self-service and simpler builder experiences, you can democratize data access for line-of-business users, analysts, scientists, and engineers. Hear inspiring stories from adidas, GlobalFoundries, and University of California, Irvine.

Breakout sessions

re:Invent breakout sessions are lecture-style, 1-hour long sessions delivered by AWS experts, customers, and partners.

Monday, Nov 27 Tuesday, Nov 28 Wednesday, Nov 29 Thursday, Nov 30

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT321 | How Rocket Companies run their data science platform on AWS

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT325 | Amazon Redshift: A decade of innovation in cloud data warehousing

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PDT)

MGM Grand

ANT319 | Building an open source data strategy on AWS

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT326 | Set up a zero-ETL-based analytics architecture for your organizations

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

SVS307 | Scaling serverless data processing with Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT202| What’s new in Amazon DataZone

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT204 | What’s new with Amazon EMR and Amazon Athena

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT203 | What’s new in Amazon Redshift

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT208-S | Build cloud data management across analytics, ML and generative AI applications (sponsored by Informatica)

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT322 | Modernize analytics by moving your data warehouse to Amazon Redshift

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT209 | Optimizing TCO for business-critical analytics

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT210 | Improve your search with vector capabilities in Amazon OpenSearch Service

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

COM308 | Serverless data streaming: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and AWS Lambda

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT329 | Best practices for analytics and generative AI on AWS

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT324 | Easily and securely prepare, share, and query data

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT220 | What’s new with AWS data integration

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT320 | How Electronic Arts modernized its data platform with Amazon EMR

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT317 | How Rivian builds real-time analytics from electric vehicles

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (PDT)

MGM Grand

ANT303 | What’s new in AWS Lake Formation

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Caesars Forum

ANT301 | What’s new in Amazon OpenSearch Service

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

BSI203 | Enhance your applications with Amazon QuickSight embedded analytics

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11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT318 | Accelerate innovation with end-to-end serverless data architecture

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4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT207 | Understand your data with business context

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1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Venetian

ANT201 | Accelerate innovation with real-time data

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5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

ANT350 | Security analytics and observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service

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1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

BSI101 | Generative BI in Amazon QuickSight

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2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

BSI205 | What’s new with Amazon QuickSight

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5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT205 | Curate your data at scale

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5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT323 | Smarter, faster analytics with generative AI and ML

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Chalk talks

Chalk talks are an hour-long, highly interactive content format with a small audience. Each begins with a short lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Monday, Nov 27 Tuesday, Nov 28 Wednesday, Nov 29 Thursday, Nov 30

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PDT)

Wynn

OPN311 | Extending OpenSearch

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT336-R | Governed data sharing with Amazon DataZone and AWS Lake Formation [REPEAT]

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT316 | Fast-track streaming ETL with AWS streaming data services

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT347 | Using natural language to author data integration applications

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

OPN308-R | Build and operate a Zero Trust Apache Kafka cluster [REPEAT]

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT338-R | Migrate legacy ETL to AWS Glue [REPEAT]

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT339 | Optimizing Apache Spark workloads with Amazon EMR Serverless

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT314 | Migrating self-managed Apache Flink to fully managed on AWS

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT333-R | Data integration with AWS Glue and Amazon MWAA [REPEAT]

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT328 | Accessing open table formats for superior data lake analytics

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

STG328 | Powering your data lakes and analytics with Amazon S3

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT341 | Reduce downtime and optimize costs through data pipeline observability

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

ANT315 | Accelerating value from data: Migrate from batch to stream processing

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

BSI302 | Architecting governed BI for all users with Amazon QuickSight

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT340 | Powering observability with AI and Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT342-R | Scaling analytics with data lakes and data warehouses [REPEAT]

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT311-R | Stream data and build transactional lakes with AWS Glue streaming [REPEAT]

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT403 | How to migrate your Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT346-R | Understanding zero-ETL with AWS analytics [REPEAT]

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

STG336-R | Scale data lake access control and enhance governance with Amazon S3 [REPEAT]

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT337 | Identify and remediate security threats with Amazon OpenSearch Service

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT327-R | 5 steps to successfully migrating to Amazon OpenSearch Service [REPEAT]

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT334 | End-to-end data and machine learning governance on AWS

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT344 | Self-service analytics for all

.4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

BSI301-R | Architectural patterns for embedded analytics using Amazon QuickSight [REPEAT]

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

BSI401 | DevOps strategies for Amazon QuickSight business intelligence assets

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT343 | Securely manage data across organizational boundaries

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

TRV303 | Build a digital concierge for travelers and guests with generative AI

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2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT335 | Get the most out of your data warehousing workloads

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5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT349-R | Advanced real-time analytics and ML in your data warehouse [REPEAT]

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Builders’ sessions

These are 1-hour small-group sessions with up to nine attendees per table and one AWS expert. Each builders’ session begins with a short explanation or demonstration of what you’re going to build. When the demonstration is complete, bring your laptop to experiment and build with the AWS expert.

Monday, Nov 27 Tuesday, Nov 28 Wednesday, Nov 29

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT313-R | Use data catalogs to improve self-service analytics [REPEAT]

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

OPN401 | Apache Hudi on AWS: Tuning for cost and performance

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT308-R | Build large-scale transactional data lakes with Apache Iceberg on AWS [REPEAT]

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

BSI206 | Scale enterprise BI securely with Amazon QuickSight

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Workshops

Workshops are 2-hour interactive sessions where you work in teams or individually to solve problems using AWS services. Each workshop starts with a short lecture, and the rest of the time is spent working the problem. Bring your laptop to build along with AWS experts.

Monday, Nov 27 Tuesday, Nov 28 Wednesday, Nov 29

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

BSI201 | Build dashboards, reports, and explore generative BI in Amazon QuickSight

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

ANT306 | Build a data foundation to power your generative AI applications

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT312 | Using Amazon OpenSearch Service as a vector database for gen AI apps

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT305-R | Log analytics made easy with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless [REPEAT]

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Mandalay Bay

ANT401-R | Event detection with Amazon MSK and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink [REPEAT]

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11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

MGM Grand

BSI202 | Quickly build predictive dashboards using no-code ML and generative BI

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2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT310 | Share data across Regions and organizations for near-real-time insights

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11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT304-R | A pragmatic approach to data governance on AWS [REPEAT]

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11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (PDT)

Venetian

AIM350 | Personalized marketing content with generative AI and Amazon Personalize

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12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Ceasars Forum

ANT402 | Protect and securely share the right data

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12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT307 | Connect and analyze all your data with zero-ETL approaches

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Code talks

Code talks are similar to our popular chalk talk format, but instead of focusing on an architecture solution with whiteboarding, the speakers lead an interactive discussion featuring live coding or code samples. These sessions focus on the actual code that goes into building a solution. Attendees will learn the “why” behind the solution and see it come to life, and even the errors that are bound to happen. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and follow along.

Monday, Nov 27 Tuesday, Nov 28 Wednesday, Nov 29 Thursday, Nov 30

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT332-R | Customize Amazon Athena to integrate with new data sources [REPEAT]

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT345 | Simplify working with data across multicloud with AWS analytics

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT)

Wynn

ANT405 | Build a Flink application on Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT)

Wynn

AIM366 | Data preparation for ML at scale with Amazon SageMaker notebooks

Conclusion

We hope this post acts as your go-to resource for navigating the AWS analytics track at re:Invent 2023. For staying in the know about the most recent trends and advancements in AWS Analytics, follow our dedicated LinkedIn page. Visit the Amazon QuickSight guide to learn what’s new in Business Intelligence.


About the authors

Imtiaz (Taz) Sayed is the WW Tech Leader for Analytics at AWS. He enjoys engaging with the community on all things data and analytics. He can be reached via LinkedIn.

Navnit Shukla serves as an AWS Specialist Solution Architect with a focus on Analytics. He possesses a strong enthusiasm for assisting clients in discovering valuable insights from their data. Through his expertise, he constructs innovative solutions that empower businesses to arrive at informed, data-driven choices. Notably, Navnit Shukla is the accomplished author of the book titled “Data Wrangling on AWS.” He can be reached via LinkedIn.