AWSome Day Oslo 2025

Thursday

,

February

1

2024

9:00AM

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12:00PM

EST

Last Mile Registration

For registrations after September 7th, please register here.

About the event

Join us for the premier AWS event in Norway, where cloud innovation meets strategic insights.

AWSome Day Oslo 2025 brings together industry leaders, technical experts, and cloud enthusiasts for a full day of learning, networking, and inspiration.

The event kicks off with an inspiring keynote session featuring Ragnar Harper, Head of Technology, AWS Norway, Per Christian Berg, Head of Development, Visma Enterprise AS, Regina Jarstein, Head of Service Provider Management at NBIM, and Matthias Patzak, Enterprise Strategist, AWS.

Following the keynote, attendees can choose from 16 specialized breakout sessions across multiple tracks designed to provide comprehensive knowledge and strategic perspectives for your cloud journey, including cloud innovation, artificial intelligence, core services, modern development, security and digital transformation.

Who should attend

This event is designed for technology leaders and CxOs seeking cloud transformation strategies. We welcome solutions architects, cloud engineers, software developers, and DevOps professionals. The content is valuable for data scientists, ML engineers, and business decision makers. Cloud security professionals will find relevant insights across all tracks. Anyone interested in AWS cloud services will benefit from attending. No technical knowledge is required to participate.

Speakers

AWSome Day Oslo 2025 features a diverse lineup of industry experts. Speakers include AWS technical and business leaders and solutions architects. Innovative customers will share real-world success stories. Strategic partners will showcase cutting-edge solutions. Industry thought leaders driving digital transformation will offer their perspectives. These speakers will provide valuable insights across our technical and business tracks. Attendees will gain a comprehensive view of cloud innovation and implementation strategies. Please refer to the agenda below for the full list of speakers.

Agenda

9:30AM - 10:30AM

Welcome & registration

10:30AM - 11:30AM

Keynote

Ragnar Harper, Head of Technology, AWS Norway

Per Christian Berg, Head of Development, Visma Enterprise AS

Regina Jarstein, Head of Service Provider Management, NBIM

Matthias Patzak, Enterprise Strategist, AWS

11:30AM - 12:30PM

Lunch

12:30PM - 1:00PM

Breakout session

Please select one of four available session tracks.

Business Track:

Untangle your organizational hairball

Speaker: Matthias Patzak, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Room: OSLOFJORD

Technical Track Back2Basics:

Aiba.ai - Protecting 100 million Children Online with Responsible AI on AWS

Speaker: Andreas Holen, Head of Platform Operations, Aiba.ai
Room: TROLLFJORD

Technical Track AI-ML / Analytics:
Automating customer support with Amazon Bedrock: Tibber's journey from vision to production

Speakers: Jens Nasholm, Head of Automated Support and Tooling, Tibber; Antonio Martellotta, Senior SA, AWS
Room: SOGNEFJORD

Technical Track Modern Development:

DNB - FinOps at Scale: DNB's Journey with AWS

Speakers: Steve Laver, Head of Cloud Platform, DNB; Elisabeth Vileid, Business Controller, DNB; Elshan Hasanov, Sr. TAM, AWS

Room: HADANGERFJORD

1:15PM - 1:45PM

Breakout session

Please select one of four available session tracks.

Business Track:

Security for Executives - AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Speaker: Mustafa Isik, Chief Technologist, Public Sector EMEA, AWS

Room: OSLOFJORD

Technical Track Back2Basics:

NBIM - A journey of discovery into the development of AWS products

Speaker: Håkon Brynildsen, Head of Cloud, NBIM
Room: TROLLFJORD

Technical Track AI-ML / Analytics:
Vy - 40 Languages, Zero Barriers: Building Production AI That Actually Works for Multilingual Teams

Speaker: Sigurd Johnsen Setså, AI/ML Engineer, Knowit
Room: SOGNEFJORD

Technical Track Modern Development:

Schibsted - Scaling Varnish on AWS - How Norway's Leading News Platform Handles Millions of Requests Per Second

Speaker: Filip Golonka, Head of DevOps, Schibsted

Room: HADANGERFJORD

1:45PM - 2:15PM

Coffee break

2:15PM - 2:45PM

Breakout session

Please select one of four available session tracks.

Business Track:

Generative AI real world use cases

Speakers: Luke Buckley, CSO and Founder, ConnectMyApps; Ina Conrado, AI Innovation Lead, Salesforce Norway; Jan Valle, Financial Services Lead, Salesforce Norway; Robert Hansen, Head of Salesforce & CRM Solutions, Entercard

Room: OSLOFJORD

Technical Track Back2Basics:

AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Speaker: Mustafa Isik, Chief Technologist, Public Sector EMEA, AWS
Room: TROLLFJORD

Technical Track AI-ML / Analytics:

Yara- AI journey to autonomous agents: Manufacturing use cases with AWS

Speakers: Taimur Qureshi, Director Data Science, Digital Core Solutions, Yara; Yongyos Hon Kaewpitakkun, Principal Data Scientist, Yara
Room: SOGNEFJORD

Technical Track Modern Development:

Vimond - Autoscaling Kubernetes Workloads with Karpenter

Speaker: Matte Remo Luzzi, Engineering Team Lead, Vimond, Yves Hwang, Sr. SA, AWS

Room: HADANGERFJORD

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Breakout session

Please select one of four available session tracks.

Business Track:

Modern data strategy: how Tibber is building a data driven organization

Speakers: Daniel Burke, CDO, Tibber; Antonio Martellotta, Senior SA, AWS

Room: OSLOFJORD

Technical Track Back2Basics:

Sporveien - Building a Solid Foundation: Sporveiens Cloud Platform

Speakers: Martin Aamodt, Senior Cloud Architect, Sopra Steria; Alexander Felipe Øines, Cloud Engineer, Sporveien
Room: TROLLFJORD

Technical Track AI-ML / Analytics:

How Perplexity built AI search and agents on Vespa.ai

Speaker: Jon Bratseth, CEO, Vespa.ai
Room: SOGNEFJORD

Technical Track Modern Development:

Norsk Tipping - Giving $800M back to the society with responsible AI on AWS

Speaker: Ole-Petter Thorsrud, Team Lead CCOE, Norsk Tipping

Room: HADANGERFJORD

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Networking reception & drinks

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Agenda

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Breakout Session 2

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source blogging tool and content management system

Speakers

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.

Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

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.

Speakers

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.

Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

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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