AWS Startup Day in Sydney
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My colleagues Steve Gilles, Hannah Field and I were delighted and honoured to attend to the AWS Startup Day event in Sydney. It was a great half day mini conference, held at the beautiful AWS offices in the Sydney CBD. We attend a number of conferences, and were pleasantly surprised at the half-day, two-stream (business and technical) format 👏
The talks were inspiring, the questions were thoughtful, and the crowd was engaging and welcoming. As an added bonus, we got to see our ex-Lookahead colleague Matt Allen 🎉 host the Business-focused stream and chair a panel of startup industry leaders. Awesome job AWS on your inaugural Startup Day Sydney 🇦🇺 event!
Here’s a brief recap of the day’s events, with a few of our favourite tweets.
Amazing Keynotes from Mackenzie Kosut (AWS) and Chris Sharkey (Autopilot)
VC Do’s and Don’t’s - What makes you jump out of bed?
“If you’re talking to a VC who promises to solve all your problems - run a mile! That’s not how it works.” James @airtreevc #AWSStartupday
— Catherine Eibner (@ceibner) November 1, 2017
Some good advice for start-ups working with VCs
Keynote speaker @mkosut giving some impressive stats about startups launching with AWS. #AWSStartupday pic.twitter.com/UwRxcPacZz
— Kris Howard 💃 (@web_goddess) October 31, 2017
Interesting Startup and AWS services growth stats
“Friends don’t let friends use SQL for user authentication” - Ed Lima @ #AWSStartupDay 😂 pic.twitter.com/tm9i5KbsGW
— Glenn Gillen (@glenngillen) November 1, 2017
Friends and SQL - Funny and also useful!
Video Recap of AWS Startup Day, Sydney Version
