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Healthcare & Life Sciences at re:Invent 2021- Industry Attendee Guide

Celebrating its 10th year, AWS re:Invent 2021 is gearing up to deliver a week of inspiring content, educational workshops and bootcamps, and plenty of peer-to-peer networking opportunities. This year’s conference will take place in Las Vegas from November 29th through December 3rd, and will have an engaging virtual component for those who cannot join us in person.

AWS re:Invent 2021 will offer hundreds of sessions, with more than 20 focused on the healthcare and life sciences industries. You’ll learn how AWS experts and breakthrough leaders across healthcare providers, academic research, pharma/biotech, and medical devices are using cloud technology to transform their businesses and innovate on behalf of patients. If you are in the health industry and are looking to participate in re:Invent 2021, be sure to do the following:

  • Visit the re:Invent website for everything you need to know about re:Invent
  • Register for re:Invent to attend in person or virtually
  • Review the AWS for Health Attendee Guide for information on the healthcare and life science focused sessions, workshops, resources, and networking events to help you plan your agenda
  • When you are in Las Vegas, drop by the AWS for Health Industry lounge on Level 1 of the Wynn to network with your peers and meet AWS technical and industry experts

AWS for Health breakout sessions

AWS re:Invent breakout sessions are lecture-style and one hour long. These sessions take place across the re:Invent campus and cover topics at all levels. For our virtual attendees, breakout sessions will be available on-demand.

Following is a sampling of breakout sessions featuring AWS healthcare and life science customers. A complete list of content relevant to health, including additional sessions from AWS Partners and customers as well deep dives and chalk talks on a range of topics – data lakes, FHIR, serverless architecture, virtual care platforms, machine learning, and much more – can be found in the AWS for Health Attendee Guide

  • HLC209 HealthOS: Future of data and interoperability- Featuring Anthem
  • HLC210- Revolutionizing colorectal cancer with detection innovation- Featuring Medtronic
  • HLC308- Accelerate pediatric research with ML and healthcare interoperability- Featuring Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • HLC201-S– How cloud facilitates digital transformation at Baptist Health- Sponsored by Capgemini
  • STP212– Improving the human experience in healthcare – Featuring Olive
  • WPS201– Innovating digital health equity- Featuring UC Davis Health
  • LFS305- Delivering life-changing medicines with data and AI- Featuring AstraZeneca
  • LFS306- How Baxter has innovated digital health connectivity with AWS- Featuring Baxter

Chalk Talks:

  • LFS301- GxP on AWS: Tips for becoming regulated cloud-native
  • LFS303- MELLODDY: Federated machine learning for drug discovery on AWS
  • HLC301- Predicting patient outcomes with AWS Machine Learning
  • HLC303- A guide to expediting EHR migration- featuring Wellforce
  • HLC304- See the bigger picture with machine learning for multimodal data
  • HLC305- Powering virtual patient care and communications with AWS
  • HLC306- Healthcare data center migration: best practices and approaches

Workshops:

  • LFS304- Accelerating science by unifying data silos across the enterprise
  • HLC307- Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) on AWS

Builders:

  • LFS302- Smarter pharmacovigilance with AWS Machine Learning
  • HLC302- Building a HIPAA-eligible virtual care solution on AWS

Healthcare & Life Sciences Networking Lounge

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Networking Lounge is dedicated space for industry attendees to meet with AWS experts, dive into focused topic areas, informally network and relax with peers, and interact with speakers directly following their sessions. Use this space to connect with industry colleagues at the event and meet AWS experts in Healthcare and Life Sciences. The networking lounge is located on the Wynn Level 1, and will be open Monday morning through Thursday afternoon.

Monday Nov 29th : Lounge open 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Using AI-Enabled 3D Lightfield Displays for Healthcare Solutions- Featuring Leia, Inc- 11:00 am
  • Ask the Experts about Amazon HealthLake- 1:30 pm
  • Focus on privacy, security, and governance – featuring Partner BigID for Healthcare- 2:00 pm
  • Happy Hour Networking Event: socialize with your peers and AWS Health team- 4:30 – 6:00 pm

Tuesday Nov 30th : Lounge open 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Using AI-Enabled 3D Lightfield Displays for Healthcare Solutions- Featuring Leia, Inc- 11:00 am
  • Enterprise Strategy for HCLS Business Leaders- Tom Godden, former CIO of Foundation Medicine- 10:30 am
  • Ask the Experts about Epic on AWS- featuring Wellforce, 12:30 pm
  • Focus on privacy, security, and governance – featuring Partner BigID for Healthcare- 2:00 pm
  • re:Inventing biomanufacturing at a cloud-first biotech- featuring Resilience- 3:00 pm
  • Ask the Experts about Amazon Genomic CLI- 4:30 pm

Wednesday Dec 1st : Lounge open 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

  • Using AI-Enabled 3D Lightfield Displays for Healthcare Solutions- Featuring Leia, Inc- 10:30 am
  • Focus on privacy, security, and governance – featuring Partner BigID for Healthcare- 2:00 pm
  • Ask the Experts about Hybrid solutions in Healthcare- 3:00 pm

Thursday Dec 2nd : Lounge open 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

See you soon in Las Vegas!

To learn more about how AWS is helping customers innovate across healthcare and life sciences visit, https://thinkwithwp.com/health/

Kelli Jonakin, Ph.D.

Kelli Jonakin, Ph.D.

Kelli Jonakin is the Worldwide Head of Marketing for Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Genomics Industry verticals at AWS. She comes with a background in pharmaceutical research, with a special focus on development and commercialization of biologics. Kelli received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Systems Biology from the University of Colorado, and received an NIH post-doctoral fellowship grant to study Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.