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App Modernization for Media & Entertainment Companies

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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

 

Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.

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Media and entertainment companies are facing business challenges that involve a broad transformation in the IT processes that support them. These companies often work in the cloud because it gives them the ability to support streaming services at scale, customize content for customers, integrate third-party content, implement innovative promotion and monetization models, and enhance their audience experience.


Many media and entertainment companies have built serverless modern applications to help them scale up quickly and provide responses to a high number of requests in a short period of time.


How have these companies implementing modern applications in AWS? How was their journey? How have they been able to optimize operations and reduce costs? In this panel, three IT executives, from the world’s top media and entertainment companies, will share their experience in adopting modern applications in the cloud.

Who should attend

The event will be of interest to Media and Entertainment VP’s, Directors, Managers and Project Managers in the following roles :

IT / Technology / Innovation, Content Management, Streaming Architectures, Change Management, Customer Channels, APIs, Customer Experience, Software Development, IT Architecture, Cloud Center of Excellence.

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Pavlo Voznenko

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Seven.One Entertainment Group

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Majid Fatemian

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Luca Mezzalira

M&E Principal Specialist Solutions Architect


Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Alfredo Velasco

Senior Business Development Leader, App Modernization US East


Amazon Web Services (AWS)

 

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12:00 PM - 12:05 PM

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- Welcome and Introductions
- App Modernization in Media and Entertainment
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- Reasons for App Modernization
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- Operations and Governance
- Benefits and Learning
- Long-term strategies and challenges

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Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.


Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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