AWS FinTech Mentorship Day

President / CEO

R. Harrison

CompanyName

Dec

2019

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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9:00AM - 10:00AM

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9:00AM - 10:00AM

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Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

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AWS FinTech Mentorship Day

August

2020

9:00AM

5:00PM

BST

RSVPs Closed

About the event

Join us for group mentor sessions for FinTech startups with an AWS startup expert to get your questions answered. Group mentor sessions provide opportunities for startup leaders to discuss key challenges and FinTech best practices with startup experts and their peers. All sessions will be held virtually, with one startup mentor and six peers. When registering, please indicate your first and second session topic choices. Our team will do our best to accommodate your preferences.

Please note: Mentor sessions are reserved on a first come, first served basis; and due to high demand we may not be able to accommodate all requests. If we are able to accommodate your request, you'll hear from our team within a few days of your registration with additional session details.

Who should attend

Startups from FinTech Australia, from early stage to late/growth-stage, who are seeking fundraising guidance, technical support, business advice, and mentorship.

In partnership with:

Startup mentors

David Engel

Startup Business development manager - fintech

aws

Kim Anderson

digital innovation lead

aws

Darren Booth

partner, national head of cyber security & privacy risk consulting

RSM Australia

Cathryn Lyall

Co-Founder

Seed money australia / seismic foundry

Rahul Kulkarni

partner solutions architect

aws

Trent Haag

executive director

Itoc Australia

Nick Baker

venture associate

NAB Ventures

Euan Walker

CTO / CPO

verrency

Akash Jain

sr. solutions architect - financial services

aws

Helder Klemp

Co-founder

dnx solutions

Group mentor session topics

Fundraising: Best Practices for FinTech Founders

Which verticals are likely to be winners in 2020? Will we see pivots from B2C to B2B? How will current market challenges affect funding strategies? What types of investment are available for FinTech founders currently? Join this session to discuss funding challenges and how the AWS Activate programme can help early stage founders launch and grow their businesses.

Building a Next Generation FinTech with AI/ML

Whether you're developing a product to detect and prevent fraud or want to improve your customers' experience, AI and Machine Learning can open up an entire world of possibilites. Learn more about the three layers of our AI/ML stack and get actionable insights that you can deploy today.

Data as a Differentiator: How FinTech Startups Can Transform the Customer Experience

Knowing your customer and improving the client experience has been a strong USP for many FinTech companies. Find out how to make the most out of data trends and how to intelligently extract insights from customer data to provide real-time value to the end-user.

Tools for Building Your MVP on AWS

Two of the most critical technical decisions for FinTech founders are correctly scoping what comprises an MVP and how to make pragmatic decisions on how to build it. In this session you will get practical advice on 1) how to prioritise which features should go in to your MVP, avoid scope creep, and determine what is the "minimum" to build, and 2) how to choose the right development approaches and select the right infrastructure options that can enable you to develop your product with high velocity and at a low cost.

Best Practices for Selling to Enterprise

For startups, selling in to Enterprise customers can be daunting. Making contact, finding the decision-maker, navigating procurement, completing the contract. These are time-consuming, complex challenges that many startups struggle to navigate. This session will give you an opportunity to learn best practises for selling into Enterprise customers.