Last April 21, 2014 The Chief technology officer Dr. Werner Vogel’s and the Amazon.com Vice president is set to speak before local tech startup companies to help them determine the best low cost and easy-to-use infrastructure necessary to scale and grow their business.
The Kickstart Venture’s, Inc.’s Startup mixer is the special guest of Vogel’s, a regular event at the globe tower in bonifacio global city, that stimulates interactions and collaboration among startup founders, mentors, and Investors on April 30.
Kickstart Ventures, Vice-President and Head of Community Engagement, Christian Besler, said “we are excited about the visit of Dr. Werner Vogel’s. It only shows Amazon’s strong belief in the Philippines as a growing market for cloud services. Startups in the Kick start investment portfolio have been using Amazon web Services since the early days, thus, it is a rare treat for all of us to meet the person instrumental in making new technologies such as this possible. We are also extremely proud to have him as a speaker for the startup Mixer. Everybody’s looking forward to learn more from him.”
Being responsible for driving Amazon’s technology vision, Dr. Werner Vogel’s vast experience and knowledge is expected to benefit local startups which are always exploring ways to leverage and monetize digital media services and social networking.
Vogel’s will talk about Amazon Web Services (AWS), a broad set of global compute, analytics, applications, database, storage, and development services that help organizations move faster, scale applications, lower IT costs. These services power a wide variety of workloads including web and mobile applications, warehousing, data processing, archive, storage, among others.
All 17 startups under Kickstart’s portfolio currently enjoys USD2, 500 worth of free credits from AWS and Better performing startups also get an additional USD5, 000 worth of credits which they can use in whatever way they want. And aside from AWS, Vogel’s will also discuss the 2014 trends coming out of Silicon Valley and show startups can learn and again from them.
