This year I will be heading back to Las Vegas for re:Invent 2022. My third re:Invent and for first time post Pandemic. I have looked over the session catalog and here my picks for 2022.

Community

The following are some sessions that follow AWS Ambassadors, Heros, and Community Builders are presenting at:

Matt Houghton: Migrating 600 databases to AWS and making them better, faster, and cheaper

COM311
This dev chat covers the entire journey of a real-life large-scale database migration from Oracle on premises to PostgreSQL on AWS. Learn about the process and unique details, issues, and tips learned from zero-downtime database migration, change data capture, and schema conversion. Find out how the migration not only made the databases cheaper by eliminating licensing costs, but also sped up development and helped the application run faster. Finally, find out about the missing features the migration team needed for PostgreSQL and how they open-sourced them.

Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session type: Dev Chat
Location: Hall B, Expo, Developer Lounge, Booth #2818,

Rolf Koski: Building a sustainable practice for tomorrow

PEX201
Do you want to have a positive impact on environmental sustainability when you advance your practices? Attend this session to learn how to reimagine your sustainability posture, innovate new lean solutions, and optimize your cloud workloads with a positive impact on the environment. Learn about user patterns, software designs, and AWS service considerations that organizations of any size can apply to their workloads to transform businesses into a sustainable future. This session is intended for AWS Partners.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Session level: 200 - Intermediate
Session type: Breakout Session
Location: Level 1, Encore Ballroom 2, Encore

Jon topper: MKT306: Build or transform to an AWS Well-Architected SaaS using AWS Control Tower

MKT306
Building AWS Well-Architected infrastructure is fundamental to building SaaS products that meet demanding compliance requirements around security, performance, and reliability. With AWS Marketplace professional services offerings, you can achieve compliance certification quickly and reduce per-tenant onboarding time. Join this chalk talk to learn best practices and approaches from experts.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session type: Chalk Talk
Location: Level 1, Montrachet 1, Wynn

Jimmy Dahlqvist: An IoT-enabled smoker for great BBQ

COM203
Maintaining a good temperature is important if you want to make really good BBQ. In this dev chat, take a look at how to create an IoT-enabled BBQ smoker using Raspberry Pi and AWS IoT Greengrass. Dive deep into the AWS services you need to create a serverless, event-driven system, using services like AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EventBridge that can be used to monitor and notify you when a temperature falls outside of a specified range.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Session level: 200 - Intermediate
Session type: Dev Chat
Location: Venetian

Martijn van Dongen: Terraform providers using AWS CloudFormation custom resources

BOA316
Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK support a broad set of AWS services. Often, users want to automate more and even create resources that are not supported out of the box. In this session, explore how to build CloudFormation custom resources using your chosen programming language or Docker container. This method has been successfully used with CloudFormation and CDK, and it also works well with Terraform. Using Terraform modules, you only have to add a few lines of code to your projects to use a custom provider. Explore how this solution is designed to be secure, simple, future-proof, and reliable.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session type: Breakout Session

AI & ML

New approaches to implementing quantum algorithms

QTC403
While it is becoming easier to implement popular quantum algorithms on hardware through services like Amazon Braket, it can be challenging to generalize these algorithms, prepare them to run at scale, and code them in a way that is both efficient and hardware-aware. Many organizations have begun investigating quantum computing but have discovered that moving forward with developing algorithms that are production-ready can seem like an insurmountable challenge. In this chalk talk, join AWS and Classiq, an AWS Partner and quantum software company, to walk through a customer journey for a financial use case based on Amazon Braket.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: MGM Grand

Extract AI-driven customer insights using Post-Call Analytics

AIM402
Companies are transforming existing contact centers by adding AI/ML to deliver actionable insights and improve automation with existing telephony systems. Join this workshop to learn how to use the AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) Post-Call Analytics solution to derive AI-driven insights from virtually all customer conversations. Explore how you can automatically generate insights like sentiment, call issues, agent actions, and outcomes, as well as detect entities. See how you can increase the accuracy of the transcriptions using the custom vocabulary features of Amazon Transcribe. Finally, move on to building analytics dashboards on Amazon QuickSight to report the metrics that are important to your business. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMa
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: WorkshoÅp
Location: Mandalay Bay

Train and deploy large language models on Amazon SageMaker

AIM405
Join this chalk talk to dive deep into training and hosting large language models for high accuracy and low cost using Hugging Face Transformers on Amazon SageMaker. Also, hear how Mantium achieved high-throughput training and low-latency inference for large transformer models using SageMaker distributed training libraries and DeepSpeed on SageMaker.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

From cutting-edge ML research to product with the Amazon Research Awards

AIM408
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) offers unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits to support research at academic institutions and nonprofit organizations in areas that align with the mission to advance customer-obsessed science. Join this session to learn about current state-of-the-art research from ARA awardees and how you can take advantage of these cutting-edge ML innovations using AWS services.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Mandalay Bay

Choosing the right ML instance for training and inference on AWS

AIM407
As a data scientist, choosing the right compute instance for your workload on AWS can be challenging. On AWS, you can choose from CPUs, GPUs, AWS Trainium, and Intel Habana Gaudi to accelerate training. For inference, you can choose from CPUs, GPUs, and AWS Inferentia. This chalk talk guides you through how to choose the right compute instance type on AWS for your deep learning projects. Explore the available options, such as the most performant instance for training, the best instance for prototyping, and the most cost-effective instance for inference deployments. Learn how to use Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender to help you make the right decision for your inference workloads.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk

Maximize margins with AI/ML dynamic pricing models

TRV401
Many airlines want to adapt pricing in real time to match market conditions, making pricing models more complex. In this chalk talk, learn how you can use machine learning to drive increased margins with the appropriate risk mitigation and customer experience controls. Using Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis, walk through data feature engineering considerations, example model approaches for demand forecasting, and margin adjustment techniques using search and booking data.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Mandalay Bay

Prepare data and model features for ML with ease, speed, and accuracy

AIM326
Join this chalk talk to learn how to prepare data for ML in minutes using Amazon SageMaker. SageMaker offers tools to simplify data preparation so that you can label, prepare, and understand your data and engineer model features. Walk through a complete data preparation workflow, and learn how to extract data from multiple data sources and transform it using the prebuilt visualization templates in SageMaker Data Wrangler. Then, discover how to store, update, retrieve, and share model features using SageMaker Feature Store for usage in training and inference.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

Explainable attention-based NLP using perturbation methods

BOA401
Explainable AI has gained a lot of attention from both legislators and the scientific community. There are many advantages of being able to explain the reasoning behind the decisions a model makes, top among them are fairness, accountability, and causality. More and more, explainability is used to improve both human and machine decision-making in a mutually reinforcing loop. This session specifically focuses on post hoc local explainability for transformer-based NLP. This session first details the general and scientific methods for explaining BERT and then explores challenges for a real-world implementation.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: MGM Grand

Build human-like customer experiences with conversational AI

AIM403
Today’s contact centers provide omnichannel services so that customers can interact by chat or phone. With shorter hold times, chat has helped solve some of the challenges associated with traditional voice-based contact centers, but it is still constrained by the need for live agents. While interactive voice response (IVR) systems help with some automation, their deterministic behavior frustrates many customers. Contact centers can solve for this using conversational AI. In this workshop, learn how you can use powerful conversational AI with Amazon Lex, Amazon Kendra, and the Amazon Chime SDK to build fully automated human-like chat experiences and alleviate challenges with IVR systems. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Mandalay Bay

Exploring applications of QNNs and Monte Carlo simulations

QTC402
This chalk talk provides a close look at several cutting-edge applications for future quantum computers. First, learn how AWS Partner QC Ware and healthcare industry leader Roche are using Amazon Braket to build more interpretable and well-behaved quantum neural networks (QNNs) for medical image recognition. Then, discover how QC Ware and financial services organizations are building solutions with Amazon Braket to speed up financial Monte Carlo simulations.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

Scaling ML training and inference workloads on Amazon EC2 and PyTorch

CMP401
Attend this chalk talk with Meta PyTorch and AWS to learn about distributed training, accelerated inference, bin-packing models, and scaling with PyTorch on AWS. In addition, hear about relevant large-companies that use AWS infrastructure and services for distributed training and to serve thousands of models with low latency and cost.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Mandalay Bay

Train and host foundation models with PyTorch on AWS

AIM404
Foundation models with hundreds of billions of parameters activate new applications for machine learning. Models such as OPT-175B, BLOOM, Jurassic, GPT-3, and DALL-E demonstrate exciting new use cases for text and image generation, but training and serving these models for inference poses new challenges. In this session, learn how to train and serve foundation models at scale using PyTorch on AWS. Discover how to reduce training time and cost by optimizing compute, network communication, input/output, checkpointing, and offloading from GPUs to CPUs. Also learn how to pick the right model parallelization strategies and best practices for training and serving these models.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Venetian

Elastic Fabric Adapter advanced topics for AI/ML and HPC

CMP407
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), built on the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol, is the foundation for scaling message passing interface (MPI) and NVIDIA Collective Communications Library–based high performance computing (HPC) and machine learning (ML) codes at AWS. This builders’ session addresses application scaling challenges and is led by an AWS EFA team principal engineer. It includes a roundtable-style discussion, so come prepared to share your thoughts and questions. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Builders' Session
Location: Wynn

Using AutoML to develop deep learning solutions automatically

BOA402
Many companies, startups and enterprises alike, do not have the teams and processes needed to create their own research teams. The promise of AutoML is that it allows companies and scientists to create deep learning solutions without possessing a deep knowledge of deep learning. This workshop focuses on describing AutoML methods and walks you through a practical example of creating a solution on a public dataset using AutoGluon, an open-source AutoML framework developed by AWS. Finally, look into Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which is developed using AutoGluon. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Mandalay Bay

Deploy deep learning models with hyperscale performance on SageMaker

AIM401
In this workshop, explore the hardware and software optimizations available for deep learning model deployment, when and how to use them, and the impact on the model performance and cost. Learn how to run thousands of deep learning models using Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints and reduce model serving costs. Learn how to use the AWS Neuron SDK to compile and deploy models on AWS Inferentia chips. Lastly, dive deep into model compilation and optimization techniques using TensorRT and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server features to achieve hyperscale inference on Amazon SageMaker. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Venetian

architecture

Achieving extreme resiliency through recovery-oriented architectures

ARC401
This chalk talk describes application partitioning strategies, failure mitigations, and trade-offs for designing extremely resilient recovery-oriented architectures. Developers can achieve extreme levels of resilience by building redundant application replicas and designing routing policies that can detect and remove impaired application replicas from service: these are called recovery-oriented architectures. Using recovery-oriented architectures, service owners can make changes one replica at a time and can immediately remove a replica from service when it experiences an impairment. When application replicas are aligned to AWS fault domains, including Availability Zones or AWS Regions, infrastructure impairments can be contained to an individual application replica and applications recove...
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Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Wynn

Proactive auto scaling for optimal cost and availability

CMP412
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups allow you to extract the elasticity benefits of the AWS Cloud. In this workshop, learn how to make the most of the latest innovations from Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to further improve your web application availability at lower costs. Specifically, dive into using a combination of predictive scaling, dynamic scaling, and warm pool features to automatically launch and terminate capacity with changing demands throughout a day. With more responsive and proactive scaling, you run only the required number of instances at any time of the day, reducing the cost of overprovisioned Amazon EC2 instances. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Venetian

Concepts to take your Kubernetes operations and scale to the next level

CON402
In this workshop, learn about Kubernetes best practices and dive into the critical concepts, tools, and configurations necessary to ensure application health. Gain hands-on experience securing, scaling, and observing Kubernetes to identify, debug, and improve overall performance. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: MGM Grand

Advanced VPC design and new Amazon VPC capabilities

NET302

This is must see if you studying for a the SA Pro Exam

Amazon VPC gives you more control over your AWS virtual networking environment. Given this ability, have you ever wondered how new Amazon VPC features might affect how you design your AWS networking infrastructure or change your current architecture? In this session, learn about the new design and capabilities of Amazon VPC and how you might use them.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Level 1, Forum 121, Caesars Forum

A day in the life of a billion requests

SEC404
Every day, sites around the world authenticate their callers. That is, they verify cryptographically that the requests are actually coming from who they claim to come from. In this session, learn about unique AWS requirements for scale and security that have led to some interesting and innovative solutions to this need. How did solutions evolve as AWS scaled multiple orders of magnitude and spread into many AWS Regions around the globe? Hear about some of the recent enhancements that have been launched to support new AWS features, and walk through some of the mechanisms that help ensure that AWS systems operate with minimal privileges.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Venetian

AWS Nitro: Enhancing security and future-proofing your instances

CMP404
AWS has completely reimagined the virtualization infrastructure with the AWS Nitro System, which provides a rich collection of building blocks that offload many traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and software to deliver high performance, high availability, and high security while reducing virtualization overhead. In this chalk talk, dive deep into the Nitro System and discover how AWS extended the Nitro System’s modern hardware and software so organizations can run their workloads well beyond the typical lifetime of the underlying hardware.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Grand

Enhancing OS and application security on AWS Graviton–based instances

CMP409
AWS Graviton processors feature key capabilities that enable you to run cloud-native applications securely and at scale. AWS Graviton3 processors feature always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. In this chalk talk, dive deep into how developers can build secure applications using pointer authentication.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

Enabling multi-party analysis of sensitive data using AWS Nitro Enclaves

CMP403
In this chalk talk, learn how to utilize AWS Nitro Enclaves, take advantage of its unique capabilities, and integrate with services such as AWS KMS. Use these options to enable collaboration and multi-party computation of sensitive datasets in a secure manner, without revealing the dataset of any party to another.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

Building modern data architectures on AWS

ARC313
The modern data architecture is an evolution from data warehouse and data lake–based solutions, and it allows you to query data across your data warehouse, data lake, and purpose-built analytics services to gain faster and deeper insights that would not be possible otherwise. In this session, learn how to design, create, and operate a modern data architecture on AWS by using AWS purpose-built data services. Also learn about modern data architecture concepts, why customers are adapting to it, modern data architecture pillars, reference architectures, and best practices while building modern data architectures on AWS for optimal performance and cost effectiveness.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Caesars Forum

Canary deployment with metrics-driven rollback ability for Amazon ECS
CON409
In this builders’ session, learn about the importance of deployment strategies and how to implement a CI/CD strategy using AWS CodeSuite services for performing canary deployments on Amazon ECS, with AWS App Mesh for communication between the microservices. The session also covers what can be achieved with AWS CodeDeploy and the differences in our reference architecture, which does not require ELBs for internal communication. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Builders' Session
Location: Caesars Forum

Serverless

Best practices for advanced serverless developers

SVS401
Are you an experienced serverless developer? Do you want a helpful guide for unleashing the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads? Are you wondering whether to choose a stream or an API as your event source, or whether to have one function or many? This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful cheat codes that you can use to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance serverless applications and uses real customer scenarios to illustrate the benefits.
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Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Mandalay Bay

Automated testing for serverless applications

COM401
During this dev chat, learn briefly about the theory behind testing serverless applications in the cloud, using real AWS services instead of locally emulated resources. The chat covers common and advanced topics, such as how and when to write integration, and when end-to-end tests; how to test asynchronous workflows; and how to configure your serverless project so that tests can be fully automated. Bring your questions for answers using suitable examples, including code samples and demos.

Date: Wednesday, November 30
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Dev Chat
Location: Venetian

Analytics

How Poshmark accelerates growth via real-time analytics & personalization

ANT342
In this session, learn how Poshmark is focusing on achieving top-line growth through personalization and enhanced user experience. The initial approach of using batch processing for personalization and security did not meet expectations for customer experience improvement. To enhance customer experience, Poshmark designed real-time personalization using real-time event capture with Amazon MSK and real-time data enrichment with Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon SageMaker and Kinesis Data Firehose supported real-time personalization by saving copies of the personalizations to Amazon S3. This solution improved customer experience, reduced security risks, and allowed end users to more confidently interact with the Poshmark app.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Session level: 300 - Advanced
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Caesars Forum

Build a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics

DAT401
In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases. Discover how to apply development patterns using Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to build a fully functional and scalable bookstore ecommerce application and dive deep into best practices along the way. Basic familiarity with AWS concepts and services such as IAM, VPC, networking, and storage services is recommended. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Caesars Forum

Event detection with Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

ANT403
In this workshop, take on the role of a technology manager for a Las Vegas casino. Your assignment is to create a stream processing application that identifies customers entering your casino who have previously gambled with large sums of money and sends you a text message when big spenders sit down at a gaming table. To do this, use Amazon MSK to capture events, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio to detect events of interest, and AWS Lambda with Amazon SNS to send you a message for any events. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Wynn

Deliver a connected travel experience with distributed data mesh

TRV402
As more travel and hospitality businesses migrate to the cloud, there’s an opportunity to integrate global datasets to offer travelers and guests a seamless, connected experience across the businesses they interact with on a single journey. Learn how your organization can interact with trusted third-party entities while protecting customer data and adhering to privacy regulations by synchronously and asynchronously serving your data as a product in a distributed, decentralized, and multi-cloud data mesh.

Date: Monday, November 28
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Chalk Talk
Location: Caesars Forum

Human vs. machine: Amazon Redshift ML inferences

ANT402
In this builders’ session, use Amazon Redshift machine learning (ML) capabilities to draw inferences for a speed race between humans and machines. A training dataset from previous races is provided for you to build and train an ML model. Use simple SQL to build the ML model and then draw inferences using the inference dataset provided. You must bring your laptop to participate.

Date: Tuesday, November 29
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session level: 400 - Expert
Session Type: Builders' Session
Location: Caesars Forum

Other

How Amazon uses AWS IoT to improve sustainability across its buildings
IOT204
Sustainability has quickly become a top operational priority for companies managing large real estate portfolios. A key challenge companies face is deciding how to make their efforts more data-driven, starting at the edge. This means rethinking the IoT layer for a new generation of cloud-based insights that can scale to meet the needs of companies that manage millions of square feet of physical space. In this session, see how Amazon uses AWS IoT services in its physical locations to scale sustainability efforts and remove blockers that impede data-driven decision-making.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session level: 200 - Intermediate
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Caesars Forum

Take these open-source tools on your AWS adventure
BOA202
You’ve set out on a grand adventure to learn, build and expand on AWS. Like any good adventure, it has its challenges. Time to gear up! Grab your best tools and gear to help you on your way. In this session, have a look at open-source tools that can help make your AWS adventure easier. See something for security and permissions, something for cost management, and a few more things for building in the cloud—tools like Infracost, IAMLive, and more.

Date: Friday, December 2
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session level: 200 - Intermediate
Session Type: Breakout Session
Location: Venetian

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