AWS Research Day for University of Missouri

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Friday

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October

10

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2025

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8:00AM

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3:00PM

CDT

About the event

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hosting Research Day for higher education institutions to explore cloud computing strategies and solutions for academic research. The event features technical presentations complemented by hands-on demonstrations and academic use cases.

Participants will gain comprehensive knowledge of AWS research computing services and learn effective ways to implement cloud technologies in their research workflows. The sessions cover research on AWS, high-performance computing, machine learning applications, and collaborative research tools designed for academic environments.

Who should attend

This event is designed for researchers, faculty members, IT professionals, and students from higher education institutions.

Speakers

Scott Friedman, Principal Business Development Manager, Research Computing, Amazon Web Services

Claudiu Farcas, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Ashish Pandey - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri

Matthew R. Keeler, Director – IT Research Support Solutions – University of Missouri Division of IT

Nate Roettgen, Director of IT Infrastructure, University of Missouri

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Agenda

8:00AM - 8:30AM

Breakfast and Check-in

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Guest Speaker from University of Missouri

9:30AM - 10:15AM

Research on AWS

Learn how to start your research on AWS. We will review some research use cases and introduce some cloud research programs to get you started.

10:15AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30AM - 11:15AM

Research Computing with High Performance and Accelerated Computing

Deep dive in cloud compute and storage, cloud HPC, accelerated computing and a demo of bursting into cloud.

11:15AM - 12:00PM

Introduction to Research Data Management and AI/Machine Learning on AWS - SageMaker Unified Studio

High-level introduction to Research Data Management and Machine Learning and how to do ML in Amazon SageMaker.

12:00PM - 1:00PM

Networking Lunch

1:00PM - 3:00PM

Workshop: SageMaker Examples for Research

In this hands-on lab, we will walk you through no-code ML using Amazon SageMaker Canvas, and several other ML examples in Amazon SageMaker Studio.

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

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.

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.

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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