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What’s new with Amazon QuickSight at AWS re:Invent 2024
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,000 technical sessions, a partner expo, after-hours events, and so much more. This year’s re:Invent will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 2 to December 6.
Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With QuickSight, all users can meet varying analytic needs from the same source of truth through modern interactive dashboards, pixel-perfect reports, natural language queries, and embedded analytics. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impacts faster.
This post walks you through the details of all QuickSight related sessions and activities to help you plan your conference week accordingly. These sessions should appeal to data and analytics teams, product and engineering teams, and lines of business and technology leaders interested in modernizing their BI capabilities to transform data into actionable insights for all.
To access the session catalog and reserve your seat for one of our BI sessions, you must be registered for re:Invent. Register now!
Keynotes
KEY002 | CEO Keynote with Matt Garman
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Venetian Ballroom F
Join AWS CEO Matt Garman to hear how AWS is innovating across every aspect of the world’s leading cloud. He explores how we are reinventing foundational building blocks as well as developing brand new experiences, all to empower customers and partners with what they need to build a better future.
KEY003 | Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and AI, AWS – Keynote
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST | Venetian | Level 2 | Venetian Ballroom F
Join Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data at AWS, to discover how you can use a strong data foundation to create innovative and differentiated solutions for your customers. Hear from customer speakers with real-world examples of how they’ve used data to support a variety of use cases, including generative AI, to create unique customer experiences.
Innovation Talks
AIM250-INT | Modern data patterns for modern data strategies
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Technology (Storage, Streaming, Messaging, and Cloud Migration), AWS
Moied Wahid, EVP, CTO for Financial Services & Data (FSD), Experian
Raveendranathan Loganathan, Executive Vice President, Salesforce
Tuesday December 3 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PST) | Venetian | Level 5 | Palazzo Ballroom B
CTOs and CDOs must adapt their data strategies to manage both the explosive growth of data and its mission-critical usage to drive application experiences that span personalized user experiences, petabyte-scale business analytics, and real-time AI inference in applications in every industry. To keep pace and optimize for the business, leaders must balance governance with flexibility and scale by separating data growth from data usage using emerging patterns like data semantic layering. In this talk, discover how AWS customers manage data growth and usage at exabyte scale, and explore AWS capabilities to evolve your data strategy for this rapidly changing landscape.
INV202-INT | Creating business breakthroughs with Amazon Q
Dilip Kumar, Vice President, Amazon Q Business, AWS
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Venetian | Level 5 | Palazzo Ballroom B
Generative AI is reinventing work, creating major competitive advantages for early movers. The biggest question is how quickly your organization can find breakthroughs to create value for your business. This talk explores ways to use Amazon Q Business, Amazon QuickSight, AWS App Studio, and other tools to bring generative AI-powered assistance to business users, helping them discover information, analyze it for insights, create content from those insights, and take action to do their jobs. This talk also includes both demos of new functionality and customers who have implemented Amazon Q Business in a variety of use cases.
Breakout Sessions
BSI101 (Level 100) | Reimagine business intelligence with generative AI
Monday, Dec 2 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Wynn | Level 1 | Lafite 4 | Content Hub | Turquoise Screen
In this session, get an overview of the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight. Learn how analysts can build interactive dashboards rapidly, and discover how business users can use natural language to instantly create documents and presentations explaining data and extract insights beyond what’s available in dashboards with data Q&A and executive summaries. Hear from Availity on how 1.5 million active users are using Amazon QuickSight to distill insights from dashboards instantly, and how they are using Amazon Q internally to increase efficiency across their business.
BSI102 (Level 100) | What’s new with Amazon QuickSight
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas F
Join this session to explore all the latest Amazon QuickSight innovations across dashboards, visualization, pixel-perfect reports, embedding, and more. Learn what’s new with Amazon Q in QuickSight, and how new generative BI capabilities are further empowering business analysts and business users to be data-driven.
BSI201 (Level 200) | Supercharge your apps with embedded Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Q
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 119
This session explores how you can enhance your applications with embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight and the generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q. Learn best practices for integrating interactive visualizations, natural language queries, and data Q&A without managing infrastructure. Hear how Docebo uses embedded analytics to serve over 4,000 customers worldwide. Discover how Southeast Asia’s leading ecommerce enabler, aCommerce, empowers clients with immediate insights into competitive analysis for over 250,000 brands by harnessing the power of Amazon Q embedded in their Ecommerce Market Insights platform, Ask IQ.
BSI202 (Level 200) | Amazon QuickSight: Unified pixel-perfect reporting and dashboards
Monday, Dec 2 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 232 | Content Hub | Turquoise Screen
In this session, learn how Amazon QuickSight helps you build dashboards and pixel-perfect reports using the same data sources in a single experience. See a demo on how to construct reports in QuickSight, including using Amazon Q to generate reports using natural language. Gain insights into the key distinctions between pixel-perfect reports and dashboards, as well as the benefits of moving reporting to the cloud, such as scalability, accessibility, and cost savings.
BSI205 (Level 200) | Migrate to QuickSight: Reduce costs and increase productivity
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Chairmans 366
In this session, discover best practices for migrating from legacy BI to Amazon QuickSight. Learn how transitioning to the AWS Cloud-based BI service can help you reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve performance. Planning migrations involves more than validating technology. You need a sound plan around what processes, governance strategies, and assets will be converted like-for-like vs. refreshed or consolidated. We’ll cover proven strategies for structuring your migration process to QuickSight. Itaú, the largest LATAM private bank, will share their migration journey from legacy systems to Amazon QuickSight, reaching 7,800 authors and 22,000 active users through 5,500 dashboards. Hear how Whole Foods navigated the feature differences between various visualization tools and QuickSight, and their strategy for their enterprise data migration.
BSI206 | Scale BI to all your users with Amazon Q in QuickSight
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mandalay Bay | Level 3 South | South Seas F
In this session, you learn how to bring BI to everyone in your organization using Amazon Q in QuickSight. Explore connecting different data sources, managing users and groups at scale, and implementing operational best practices. Discover how to secure your deployment while enabling centralized access management and controlled data discovery. Learn best practices for using the generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight, allowing users to access insights with natural language.
Chalk talks
BSI302-R (Level 300) | Embedded analytics: An architectural deep dive [REPEAT]
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | Montrachet 1
Dive into the architecture of embedding customized, interactive visuals and dashboards into your applications with Amazon QuickSight and the generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q. Explore best practices for maintaining a consistent branded experience within your applications. Learn about architectural patterns and deployment options around authentication, authorization, and automation, and how to embed AI-powered data Q&A to help you build integrated experiences.
This session will also be repeated Thursday, Dec 5 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST | MGM Grand | Level 3 | Premier 309
BSI303-R (Level 300) | Best practices to operationalize BI deployments at scale [REPEAT]
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST | Wynn | Convention Promenade | La Tache 1
Explore best practices for building enterprise-grade DevOps pipelines to automate the management of Amazon QuickSight assets like datasets and dashboards. In this chalk talk, experts discuss strategies for promoting vetted assets across environments, creating backups for resiliency, and replicating content across accounts and AWS Regions for disaster recovery. Learn how to implement automated pipelines to deploy BI assets and make them available to all users consistently. Walk away with insights into deploying robust, scalable processes for backup/restore; promoting QuickSight assets across environments; and replicating assets across Regions.
This session will also be repeated Wednesday, Dec 4 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Forum 126
BSI304 (Level 300) | Security and governance: Safeguarding your data with Amazon QuickSight
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PST | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Boulevard 156
In this chalk talk, explore security best practices for Amazon QuickSight, with a focus on access control and data protection. Learn how to use AWS IAM Identity Center integration to simplify and secure user experiences. Understand techniques for propagating identities to other services and data sources, enabling streamlined user access and data security. Gain insights into implementing robust access controls and safeguarding sensitive information. Discover advanced security features of QuickSight, such as row-level and column-level security and encryption.
Workshops
BSI204-R (level 200) | Hands-on with Amazon Q in QuickSight: A step-by-step workshop
Wednesday, Dec 4 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PST | Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3006
In this workshop, explore the generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight. Experience authoring visuals and refining them using natural language. Learn how business users can use natural language to generate data stories to create highly customizable narratives or slide decks from data. Discover how natural language Q&A with Amazon Q helps users gain insights beyond what is presented on dashboards while executive summaries provide an at-a-glance view of data, surfacing trends and explanations. You must bring your laptop to participate.
This workshop will also be repeated Thursday, Dec 5 | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM PST | Venetian | Level 3 | Lido 3006
BSI301 (Level 300) | Pixel-perfect reporting and data visualization with Amazon QuickSight
Tuesday, Dec 3 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM PST | MGM Grand | Level 1 | Grand 113
In this workshop, gain hands-on experience with data visualizations and pixel-perfect classic banded and prompted reports with Amazon QuickSight, using the generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q. Learn best practices for programmatically generating highly formatted static and interactive reports, securing data access, and automating delivery of insights in various formats. Discover how consumers can schedule reports for automatic delivery. Develop the skills to create reports, dashboards, and visualizations in QuickSight, along with the understanding for how to use natural language with Amazon Q to boost your productivity. You must bring your laptop to participate.
Other activities
Powered by Generative AI & BI Executive Roundtable
Thursday, Dec 5 | 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM PST | Encore Las Vegas | Room: Beethoven 2
At this 2-hour executive roundtable, see the newest generative AI/BI technology in action, ask questions of and provide feedback to Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Q product leadership, and network with AWS and your peers about how they’re leveraging AWS to create a winning data strategy. Executives in product, engineering, and analytics roles at both software companies and enterprises are invited to register.
Generative AI Lounge – Meetings
Reach out to your account manager to set up a one-to-one meeting with specialists and service leaders in our Generative AI Lounge.
Amazon Q in QuickSight Kiosk
Visit our team at the Amazon Q in QuickSight kiosk on the expo floor in the AWS Village.
Follow along virtually with QuickSight at re:Invent
AWS re:Invent Corner is now live on the QuickSight Community! View the QuickSight session list, learn about events, and stay up to date on feature launches. After re:Invent, find and share QuickSight session recordings—all from one place.
Do you love QuickSight and sharing data-driven insights with others? Consider becoming an Amazon QuickSight Community Learning Champion! Watch this session to learn about the program, how you can get involved, and the benefits of becoming a member. Ready to become a Learning Champion? Fill out this survey.
Useful resources
Whether you plan on attending re:Invent 2024 in person or view available content virtually, you can always learn more about QuickSight through these helpful resources:
- QuickSight Community – Level up your BI learning journey. Explore hundreds of learning resources: searchable Q&A, demos, weekly learning events, blogs, learning dashboards, Developer Corner, and posts about our new features! Also check out our new Q Corner to learn about generative BI in QuickSight.
- AWS Databases & Analytics LinkedIn – Follow to stay up to date about latest analytics launches and workshops, and engage with the data community.
- QuickSight YouTube channel – Subscribe to stay up to date on the latest QuickSight workshops, how-tos, and demo videos.
About the Authors
Heather Hughes is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Amazon QuickSight, AWS’ cloud-native, unified BI service. She has 15 years of experience marketing and positioning enterprise software for some of the world’s leading solutions, at companies like WYSE, VMware, and MapR, prior to joining AWS.
Kristin Mandia is the Senior Online Community Manager for Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Web Services’ cloud-native, fully managed BI service.
Sandipan Bhaumik (Sandi) is a Principal Analytics Solution Architect based in London, UK. He helps customers modernize their data infrastructure, optimize data platforms for efficiency, and innovate new solutions to drive value from data. Sandi leads the Amazon QuickSight technical community in AWS that runs global programs to upscale field knowledge on QuickSight.