Amazon Web Services Hackday in PH on July 14

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, is helping to empower a community of Asean builders with skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services on AWS, with the launch of its annual education and hackathon event, AWS Hackdays 2018.

AWS Hackdays provide developers with opportunities to enhance their skillsets by building innovative AI and ML-based solutions.

By harnessing AWS technologies, the solutions created are seen to potentially contribute to positive social and economic results in the region, and inspire the next generation of developers.

AWS Hackdays will be held in the Philippines on July 14. AWS Hackdays will also run in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand on selected dates between June 27 and July 17.

During the 12-hour hackathon, participants will have access to AWS services including Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy ML models; Amazon Polly to build speech-enabled applications; and Amazon Lex to build chatbots.

As part of this year’s competition, participants are invited to form teams of two to four people, and build solutions around the topics of transportation, media and entertainment, e-commerce, and fintech.