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Rianne van Veldhuizen
VP, AWS Australia & New Zealand
Rianne van Veldhuizen is the Vice President for AWS in Australia and New Zealand. Rianne is passionate about helping our customers grow and innovate quickly, using cloud solutions to meet their business and digital ambitions. Prior to her current role, Rianne served as Managing Director for AWS in Australia and New Zealand, and previously led the Small and Medium Business (SMB) division across Asia Pacific and Japan. Before joining AWS, she held several senior leadership positions at IBM across both the Asia Pacific and European regions.

Francessca Vasquez
VP Professional Services and GenAI Innovation Centre, AWS
Francessca Vasquez is the Vice President of Professional Services and Generative AI (GenAI) Innovation Centre for AWS. She leads AWS's global consulting and product services, overseeing the sales and delivery P&L and customer engagements across public sector, commercial, and partner businesses worldwide. Francessca drives the co-innovation and service delivery of emerging technologies, such as generative AI, quantum computing, and application modernisation, helping customers successfully build and deploy generative AI solutions. Her team connects AWS AI and Machine Learning experts with customers globally to envision, design, and launch cutting-edge generative AI products, services, and processes. As Executive Sponsor for both the AWS Global CIO Council and AWS Partner Collective, Francessca strengthens strategic partnerships and enhances customer outcomes through collaborative innovation. Under her leadership, AWS Professional Services helps organisations accelerate their digital transformation and unlock the full potential of cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.

Session catalogue
To help you get the most out of your AWS Summit experience, we have curated our content to cover a range of topics and technical depth. Topics you can learn about include generative AI, architecture, cloud operations, data and analytics, DevOps and developer productivity, machine learning, migration, networking and global infrastructure, security, serverless, and more.
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100 – Foundational
Designed to give an overview or introduction to AWS services. These sessions focus on features, functions, and benefits, with content that highlights basic use cases and showcases how a service or feature can be used in your applications and how it can be integrated with other services.
200 – Intermediate
Sessions assume a general knowledge of the topic and provide a technical deeper dive into a service or use case. This content typically includes architecture, integration, and configuration of common use cases. Sessions provides tips and tricks, best practices, or high-level troubleshooting guidance.
300 – Advanced
Sessions assume proficiency of the topic and typically cover in-depth architecture, development, deployment and migration examples. It drills into how a service can be used and dives deep into customer use cases. Sessions covers complex design, development, and deployment best practices that address the needs of experienced AWS users.
400 – Expert
Sessions for advanced or expert AWS customers. These sessions are geared toward super-skilled users who want to learn the deep inner workings of AWS services. Sessions demonstrates complex design, development, and deployment strategies to help the audience dive deep into the topic.