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Key outcomes
Discover how to enable institutions and organisations to scale in order to meet demand from students, faculty and staff for a virtual learning environment
Learn how digital tools can be highly complementary to face-to-face learning for a hybrid learning environment
Find out how local and global institutions are leveraging the cloud to extract data in order to understand the student’s experience, improve student retention and improve student throughput
Explore how to effectively deliver remote teaching & learning; whilst lowering costs to achieve your institutional outcomes
Find out how to drive growth and innovation through cloud technology!
Agenda
How cloud technologies are facilitating online learning
Linda Siso , Head of Education, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Public Sector Keynote Address: The role of cloud technology in digitally transforming South Africa's education system
Kgwaridi Buti Manamela , Deputy Minister, Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Panel Discussion
Fifi Peters , Financial journalist
Linda Siso , Head of Education, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Oleg Figlin , Vice President, EMEA, Blackboard
Prof. Eunice Ndeto Ivala , Director: Centre for Innovative Educational Technology, CPUT
Dolf Jordaan , Deputy Director of E-learning, University of Pretoria (UP)
About AWS
For almost 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 80 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Spain, and Switzerland. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
To learn more about AWS, visit: aws.amazon.com
