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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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Amazon Web Services (AWS) invites you to join us in New York City for the AWS Genomics Community Day on October 11, 2024. 


The AWS Genomics Community Day brings together genomics researchers, bioinformatics scientists and engineers, clinicians, executives and enthusiasts to showcase how AWS and AWS partners empower genomics research and clinical workloads.


Throughout the day, hear AWS genomics customer stories, AWS specialist talks, partner sessions, and hands-on workshops in an environment focused on learning, collaboration and networking.

 At this time, the Parallel AWS Workshops have reached capacity. All registrant submissions will be added to the wait-list.


Topics include:

  • AWS’ approach to genomics for healthcare and research

  • Customer innovation with AWS and Amazon

  • Healthcare and research customer cloud journeys

  • Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

  • Presentations on solutions and platforms from AWS genomics partners including Illumina, DNANexus, Seqera, Basepair, Memverge and more

  • Hands-on workshops on AWS HealthOmics and how to integrate and analyze multimodal data

Who should attend

·       AWS’ approach to genomics for healthcare and research

·       Customer innovation with AWS and Amazon

·       Healthcare and research customer cloud journeys

·       Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

·       Presentations on solutions and platforms from AWS genomics partners including Illumina, DNANexus, LifeBit, Seqera, Basepair, Memverge and more

·       Hands-on workshops on AWS HealthOmics and how to integrate and analyze multimodal data

 

Speakers

Jing Gao, Vice President and Head of Clinical Informatics, Illumina


Jeffrey Lee, Associate Director of Cloud Architecture, Takeda


Li-San Wang, PhD, Co-Director Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine


Stephen Kingsmore MD, DSc - CEO and Chairman, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine


Mona Nafde, Executive director of IT and Data Governance, Regeneron Genetics Center


Emily Kruger, Chief Innovation Officer, Loka


Matt Newman, SVP & GM, Pharma and Diagnostics, DNANexus


Bob Dolin, Senior Informaticist, Elimu Informatics


Amit Sinha PhD, CEO and Founder, Basepair


Gao Wang PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center


Jing Xie, VP, GTM and partnerships, Memverge


Steve Marshal, Senior Director of Bioinformatics, Flagship Pioneering


Rob Lalonde, Chief, Commercial Partnerships, Seqera


Yohann Portier, Head of Data Engineering, Tessera Therapeutics


Aaron Jeskey, Principal Cloud Architect, PTP


Ankit Malhotra, PhD, Worldwide Public Sector Genomics Lead, Global Healthcare and Non-profits, AWS


Sujaya Srinivasan, Worldwide Public Sector Genomics Technical Lead, AWS


Olivia Choudhury PhD, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS


Andrew Crabb, Senior Solutions Architect, Academic Medical Centers, AWS


Manish Jain, Senior Manager, Solutions Accelerator, Global Non-profits, AWS

Genomics researchers, clinicians, bioinformatics scientists and engineers, executives and enthusiasts

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8:30 AM

Registration and networking breakfast


9:00 AM

Welcome - How AWS helps accelerate genomics for research and healthcare

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Partner keynote - Unlocking Genomic Discoveries with Illumina Connected Software Solutions

Jing Gao, Vice President and Head of Clinical Informatics, Illumina

9:50 AM

Introduction to AWS HealthOmics

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Scaling to MultiOmics Analysis using AWS HealthOmics

Jeffrey Lee, Associate Director of Cloud Architecture, Takeda

10:20 AM

AWS for research

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Democratizing Alzheimer’s Research through the NIAGADS data commons

Li-San Wang, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn

10:50 AM

Networking break


11:10 AM

Generative AI for Genomics

AWS

11:20 AM

Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Scientific Productivity

Mona Nafde, Executive Director of Data and Governance, Regeneron

11:40 AM

Channeling Data and Generative AI into Novel Therapeutics

Emily Kruger, Chief Innovation Officer, Loka

12:00 PM

Accelerating Precision Medicine in a Secure Computing Environment

Nirav Amin, Senior Director Solutions, DNANexus

12:20 PM

Networking Lunch


1:00 PM

Parallel AWS Workshops

Workshop 1: AWS HealthOmics
Workshop 2: Building Multimodal data analyses using AWS Health, ML and Analytics services

*Both workshops have reached capacity, additional registrants will be added to the wait-list.

**Please make sure to bring your laptop if you sign up for any of the workshops.

1:00 PM

Enabling advanced clinical decision support with FHIR Genomics Operations: An AWS HealthOmics implementation

Bob Dolin, Senior Informaticist, Elimu Informatics

1:15 PM

Accelerating the Adoption of AWS HealthOmics Using Basepair’s Point & Click GUI

Amit Sinha, CEO, Basepair

1:30 PM

Analysis of Population-Scale Omics Data to Dissect Genetic Factors in Alzheimer's Disease using MemVerge on AWS

Gao Wang, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Jing Xie, VP, GTM and partnerships, Memverge

1:50 PM

Turbocharging Research: Harnessing the Power of Cloud-Based Bioinformatics

Steve Marshal, Senior Director of Bioinformatics, Flagship Pioneering and Rob Lalonde, Chief, Commercial Partnerships, Seqera

2:10 PM

Unifying Diverse Computational Workloads on AWS

Yohann Portier, Head of Data Engineering, Tessera Therapeutics and Aaron Jeskey, Principal Cloud Architect, PTP

2:30 PM

Panel discussion: Future of genomics powered by the cloud

Stephen Kingsmore, President/CEO at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine; Li-San Wang, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn; Gang Wu, Director, Center for Applied Bioinformatics, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital

3:15 PM

Closing remarks


3:30 PM

Networking reception


Speakers

Jing Gao

Vice President and Head of Clinical Informatics, Illumina

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.


Jeffrey Lee

Associate Director of Cloud Architecture, Takeda

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

Li-San Wang, PhD

Co-Director Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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.

Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc

CEO and Chairman, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine

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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Mona Nafde

Executive Director of IT and Data Governance, Regeneron Genetics Center

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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Emily Kruger

Chief Innovation Officer, Loka

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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Nirav Amin

Senior Director, Solutions, DNANexus

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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Bob Dolin

Senior Informaticist, Elimu Informatics

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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Amit Sinha, PhD

CEO and Founder, Basepair

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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Gao Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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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Jing Xie

VP, GTM and Partnerships, Memverge

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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Steve Marshal

Senior Director of Bioinformatics, Flagship Pioneering

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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Rob Lalonde

Chief, Commercial Partnerships, Seqera

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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Yohann Portier

Head of Data Engineering, Tessera Therapeutics

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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Aaron Jeskey

Principal Cloud Architect, PTP

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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Gang Wu

Director, Center for Applied Bioinformatics, St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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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Ankit Malhotra, PhD

Global Genomics and Precision Medicine Lead, AWS

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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Sujaya Srinivasan

Worldwide Public Sector Genomics Technical Lead, AWS

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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Olivia Choudhury, PhD

Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS

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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Andrew Crabb

Senior Solutions Architect, Academic Medical Centers, AWS

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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Manish Jain

Senior Manager, Solutions Accelerator, Global Non-profits, AWS

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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