Douglas Bellin

Heineken N.V. is the world’s second-largest brewer, operating over 173 breweries in more than 65 countries. They focus on sustainable and long-term value creation.

Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs) are industrial operations powered by advanced automation, an amazing group of associates, and AWS. In this session, take a virtual tour of an Amazon FC to see how miles of conveyors, advanced automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, and AWS come together to get Amazon Prime customers their packages in as fast as one day.

AWS is helping industrial organizations complete their Industry 4.0 journeys to transform their business operations. Hear from American multinational conglomerate corporation 3M, and learn how 3M was able to aggregate data from multiple, disparate sources across different functions within its business to create a single view of materials tracing in an AWS data lake.

Engineering and planning teams use simulation tools to understand how real-world behavior affects their work, but the storage and compute resources required can be costly to maintain on premises. Arup’s City Modelling capability is helping plan for the future using open agent-based model (ABM) approaches to simulate people’s activities and travel behavior in cities and countries.