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 and a $2.7B valuation. Before Oscar, Mackenzie was one the original engineers at Tumblr where he helped scale the infrastructure to 20B page views a month eventually selling to Yahoo! for $1.1B. He’s worked in a diversified set of industries including global media (MTV/Viacom), global Shipping (DHL), and more. He also holds numerous advisory roles at companies providing technical and business guidance around the world.
Join us for blockchain and ledger database sessions, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, and networking opportunities led by AWS and its startup partners during the AWS Blockchain event at the San Francisco Loft.
Thursday will open with an overview session on AWS products and services for blockchain and ledger database, and we'll fill out the rest of the day with deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and a happy hour.
This event is free to attendees. Please register to secure your seat.
Startup business leaders, technical founders, and developers who are eager to learn how to run lean-and scale fast to build their next big thing.
Development teams, engineers, architects, and system administrators from startups-who are eager to learn how to deploy applications in highly available, scalable architectures.
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Blockchain technology is evolving rapidly. Are you ready to take advantage of blockchain’s use cases for the enterprise? In this session, learn about blockchain and its enterprise use cases, how AWS views blockchain technology, get introduced to our services, and learn about the features of our new managed blockchain service, Amazon Managed Blockchain, which makes it easy to build and manage scalable Hyperledger Fabric networks on AWS.
Many organizations build system-of-record applications with ledger-like functionality because they want to maintain an accurate history of their application data. However, ledger applications are usually implemented using relational databases, making building audit functionality with relational databases time consuming, prone to human error, and requiring custom development. This led us to build the world’s first fully managed ledger database, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB). Amazon QLDB is a new class of database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log. Come to this session to learn about the features and functionality of Amazon QLDB, and see a live demo.
Learn how to set up a blockchain network and deploy your first application using Amazon Managed Blockchain. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will build a blockchain network for a Non-profit organization - to allow the Non-profit to distribute funds without an intermediary, ensuring immutable transactions and full transparency to a donor about how his/her donation is being used. Using Hyperledger Fabric on Amazon Managed Blockchain, workshop attendees will create a peer node and connect the node to the Non-profit blockchain network. In the example application, donors can register their profiles with the Non-profit network, review the Non-profit and the causes they support, and donate funds to the Non-profit. Using smart contracts, the Non-profit will distribute the funds and the network will track how each donor's donation is allocated. In addition to donors viewing how their contributions have been spent, donors can view all donations received by the Non-profit as well as how these donations have been spent.
