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Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Life Sciences Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing up to be our biggest yet and we have an exciting program planned with five keynotes, 18 leadership sessions, and over 500 breakout […]

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Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Healthcare Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing up to be our biggest yet and we have an exciting program planned for the Healthcare industry with five keynotes, 18 leadership sessions, […]

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Defining the digital model for convenience retailing

The very definition of convenience retailing is an experience of access and ease for shoppers. There’s no ambiguity. The experience must be convenient, period. And the convenience store, or c-store, market is huge. In 2019, 3.1% of the US GDP resulted from $647.8 billion in combined in-store and fuel sales at c-stores. With nearly 153,000 […]

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PathSpot: Enabling handwashing hygiene, innovation, and insights

  PathSpot provides the travel and hospitality industry a hygiene management system designed to protect businesses and their customers from contaminants and ensure effective and frequent handwashing. PathSpot has raised over $10M in venture funding to date, most recently a $6.5M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures. PathSpot has been featured as one of […]

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Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Travel and Hospitality Industry Guide

Check back often as this page will be updated in the lead up to re:Invent 2020. Right now you can register for re:Invent but the individual session are not yet live for viewing or sign up. Once they are, we’ll hyperlink to each session and provide our official re:Invent guide for the travel and hospitality […]

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How casino companies can progress in the face of disruption

This post is authored by Jihwan Ko who served as an MBA intern for the AWS Travel and Hospitality team with a focus on the casino segment. — As with nearly every other industry around the world, the global pandemic has adversely affected all segments of the travel and hospitality business. In the casino-resort segment, […]

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OpenVINO™ AMI now available on AWS for accelerating oil & gas exploration

Guest authored by Dr. Manas Pathak, Global AI Lead for Oil and Gas at Intel & Dr. Ravi Panchumarthy, Machine Learning Engineer at Intel — Introduction Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer State-of-the-art performance not only for traditional computer vision applications but also for seismic interpretation. Geoscientists can use CNNs for basin-wide quick look interpretation of […]

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Make the most of AWS re:Invent 2020 – Automotive Attendee Guide

AWS re:Invent routinely fills several Las Vegas venues with standing-room only crowds, but we are bringing it to you with an all-virtual and free event this year. This year’s conference is gearing up to be our biggest yet, and features programming specific to the Automotive Industry. We have an exciting re:Invent schedule planned, featuring five […]

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AWS releases smart meter data analytics

Introduction Utilities have deployed MDMS (Meter Data Management Systems) since the late 90’s and MDMS deployments have accelerated alongside the deployment of smart metering and advance metering infrastructure (AMI) at utilities worldwide. MDMS collect energy consumption data from smart meter devices and send it to utility customer information systems (CIS) for billing and further processing. […]

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How to find key geoscience terms in text without mastering NLP using Amazon Comprehend

Geosemantics is the application of linguistic techniques to geoscience. Geoscientists often have access to more reports than they can reasonably read so they are commonly challenged in filtering through reports to find relevant information (for example, this report about the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring shale plays. Traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques such as Named […]

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