MongoDB Atlas @ National Film and Sound Archive – From Ideation to Production

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT! LIVE STREAM VIEWERS CAN STILL WATCH IT LIVE ON TWITCH! PLEASE RSVP ONLY FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE!

This will be an in-person event! We are meeting again this month in the Canberra AWS Office... come along and say hi in person, have some food on us and hear from Shahab Qamar about the work he has been involved in for the National Film and Sound Archive!

This session will cover how MongoDB helped NFSA model its catalogue data into MongoDB Atlas on AWS, covering:

• Going from SQL to the Document mental model.
• Designing the ETL, search indexes, facets, public API and the frontend (AWS EC2, Cloudfront, WAF, CloudWatch and ELB) and React frontend development (AWS Amplify).
• The MongoDB Atlas developer experience.
• Exploring data using MongoDB Charts.
• Beyond full-text search/future: Exploration of vector search support in MongoDB for generative AI.

Speaker: Shahab Qamar, Software Engineering Manager, NFSA
Shahab currently leads the software engineering team at the NFSA which develops innovative solutions for the whole organisation in areas of workflow automation, search (lexical, LLM-based), speech recognition, named entity recognition, knowledge graphs and API development at scale. Previously, Shahab worked with Government and Academic institutions delivering content management and search related solutions.
Shahab is always on the lookout for interesting engineering problems that are meant to make our lives a little easier. Shahab also holds a PhD in Machine Learning in Smart Transportation Systems. In his thesis, he proposed an algorithm that assists drivers find suitable parking spots on busy CBD streets using queuing theory and neural nets.

The schedule for the evening is as follows:
5:30 pm - Food and networking with everyone
6:00 pm - Presentation start (LIVE STREAM STARTS HERE), beginning with a curated summary of whats new in AWS this month
6:15 pm - Main presentation
7:15 pm - Presentation end and networking

Please RVSP for the event here so we can get catering numbers right, and we also need a list of names of attendees for our office security folk to sign people in on the day. If you get stuck outside of our office, send John Hyland or Brian Farnhill (the event organisers here) a message and we'll send someone downstairs to get you. We should have an AWS employee downstairs up to 6pm to help guide people in.