Overview

This session is exclusive to Dubai Future Accelerators – Cohort 8 Participants.

As part of our goal at the Dubai Future Accelerators program, we aim to help the companies succeed by opening up opportunities for them to connect to our wider ecosystem to learn, grow and build their network during and after the program.

Ashish Sinha, Early Stage startups-Lead, at AWS MENA, Sr. Startup BDM will join us and will give us more insights on the following topics:

• Introduction about Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Why AWS has become the platform of choice for the majority of startups
• Overview of AWS programs to support startups, and more

Speaker:

Ashish Sinha, Early Stage startups-Lead, AWS MENA (Sr. Startup BDM)

Ashish leads the Early stage startup segment at AWS-MENA, helping startups in MENA region to scale, grow, and become successful. He has 12+ years of experience in the startup ecosystem. He began his career helping build Snapdeal.com (Horizontal E-commerce platform in India) then moved on to help establish Wadi.com (Ecommerce platform in MENA) subsequently moving on to work with Souq.com (now Amazon). He is a strong advocate for innovation and technology, with a strong focus on solving for the bigger ideas which have numerous economic and life improvements impact. He seeks to help and mentor more technology founders and entrepreneurs VALIDATE, LAUNCH and SCALE their startup journey. To date Ashish has coached, trained and mentored over 50 startups and entrepreneurs, guiding them through the complicated avenues of being a business owner & help them start early & scale fast. He is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) & is fluent in English, Hindi & Mandarin.

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This session is hosted in partnership with

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon.com’s cloud computing business unit, and AWS has been innovating on behalf of business customers since 2006 by providing on-demand availability of computer system resources such as computing power and database storage via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Cloud computing has been particularly advantageous to startups both from a cost standpoint and for the speed and efficacy of business it enables.