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Loka was honored to partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for last week's Genomics Community Day in New York. Our Chief Innovation Officer Emily Kruger joined the best and brightest scientists, engineers and executives in HCLS to showcase the cutting-edge GenAI and Data use cases launching the next wave of innovation RIGHT NOW 🚀 Emily dove into the life science data journey, plotting the three phases as we've seen them: Centralize & Normalize, Process, and Extract Value. With a leading biotech customer as our as example, she shared how we're helping extract value with GenAI solutions like Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock. More than half of Loka's clients operate in HCLS, leveraging our AWS expertise to make better use of their data and create better experiences for leaders, scientists and patients alike. As they grow we grow--and the entire ecosystem benefits 💪 Thanks to our friends at AWS Olivia Choudhury, PhD, Sujaya Srinivasan, Kajsa Puckett and all our fellow presenters. #AWS #Genomics #HCLS #GenAI

Pause. Inhale. Exhale. Let's take a moment to give World Mental Health Day the respect it deserves 🧘 Today is an important reminder to prioritize mental health. But the need continues year-round, and at Loka we answer the call by giving our people every other Friday off. We call it 5/4 Fridays, and it adds up to 26 additional days of a year. Lokals spend their 5/4 Fridays however they want--personal projects, family time, outdoors... the choice is theirs. And the results benefit everyone. After almost three years (!) since launching 5/4 Fridays, we've demonstrated that building a recurring recharge into our schedule directly translate to happier, healthier, more eager and more engaged people. We also include wellness check-ins, workshops and support groups. We encourage any business to give it a try. Learn more about our radical approach to wellness in our original launch article >>> https://lnkd.in/gNQtfEzi Here's to 365 days of mental wellness--starting with tomorrow's 5/4 Friday! #LifeatLoka #WorldMentalHealthDay #RadicalBenefits #MentalHealth

Conversation over dinner just hits different 🍽 Last night Loka and Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted an executive dinner for SaaS and ISVs at Lamb’s Club in New York. The setting was intimate, the mood collaborative and the company impressive. On the menu: GenAI. Loka's Emily Kruger spotlighted how GenAI can help speed innovation in SaaS companies, including frameworks for building a successful GenAI use case. AWS’s Akshay Patel refuted overheated claims that GenAI will kill SaaS: SaaS is more than architecture, he said, as it elevates LOBs with the best business model. GenAI adds fuel to that model. That kind of perspective-shifting insight only comes from experience. We left the night with a mutual understanding of our customers’ goals and a better sense of our partners as avid, committed leaders in cutting-edge software development. Cheers to that 🥂 Thx to David Bissainthe, Olivier Bissainthe, Ellis Wong and Christopher Yeung for attending and to Laura Su, Chinar Patel, Justin J. Leto, PE, MBA, PMP, Vaibhav Sabharwal and Franck Noel of AWS for hosting alongside Loka’s Emily Kruger, Joe Whitehouse and Sushmitha Regulapati. #GenAI #AWS #SaaS #ISV #TechOverDinner

London is calling, and Loka and AWS are ready to answer 📞🇬🇧 Together stepping into the UK market and throwing open the door to all the innovation that GenAI on AWS can bring. If you're a UK-based business leader or startup founder, we want to meet you! Which is why, in just a few days, we're debuting a monthlong GenAI Loft as a gathering space for stimulating exchange and collaboration. To kick it off Loka and AWA are co-hosting the GenAI Loft Launch Party on Monday, Sept. 30, at White Rabbit Studios in Shoreditch. Join us and leaders from Lightspeed, Anthropic, Synthesia, Good Tech Advisory and PolyAI for a night of networking and socializing, plus keynotes, a GenAI artist demo and a State of the Union panel--PLUS GenAI cocktail making and GenAI DJs to keep things interesting. The launch party is already at capacity, but there are other daily events throughout the month, including talks on the future of work, investment trends and fundraising, data strategy and GenAI for founders, plus live demos of GenAI tech in art, voice, video and more. 🚀💂♂️ Check out the full schedule and register at the link below. See you in London!  #GenAI #AWS #London AWS Startups Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Looking for an inside track to capturing investor attention? Loka’s GenAI experts can help 🧲 Cortado, a startup disrupting the property-management status quo, came to Loka to implement GenAI into their platform and secure additional investment. 🏃 Together Loka and Cortado launched a design sprint, prototyping a variety of viable GenAI solutions. From there we developed a fully functioning MVP: an AI Copilot that automated 90% of in-app messaging, plus an interface to visually represent it. 🔒 Maintaining user trust in these automated systems is essential, so the Copilot intelligently diverts urgent matters to human assistants. With these new assets, Cortado co-founders Harry Dubke and Perry Griffith reported a 700% (🤯) increase in investor inquiries. Best of all, Amazon Web Services (AWS) generously funded part of the project cost. By empowering property managers with GenAI, Loka is helping set a new standard for intelligent rental management—and the right people are taking notice. What can we do for your business? See the full case study 👉 loka.com/work/cortado #GenAI #PropertyManagement #InvestorRelations #AWS AWS Startups

Curious about how top startups are already driving impact with Generative AI? This week we held a GenAI Discovery Day with Anthropic at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) office in San Francisco to show how it’s done!  📈 Our teams shared the essential steps for successful GenAI implementation, including picking the right foundation model and scaling your solutions on AWS. Startup leaders left with strategies they can immediately apply to their own companies--as well as great things to say about working with us. "In my 35 years of work experience, I haven't come across a consulting partner like Loka. They were very professional, no ego and got the project done. I just sat back and watched. I drove two hours to be here to talk about my experience with Loka." --Elton Broudy, CEO Brandcil 🙏 Loka is helping companies of all kinds accelerate with GenAI. Learn how at one of our upcoming GenAI Discovery Days! We'll be in Chicago next week and more cities across the US in the near future. Join us and let’s discuss how Loka can support your GenAI initiatives and launch you ahead of the competition 🚀 Thanks to everyone who joined us for the panel and for the follow-up happy hour: Telmo Felgueira Sushmitha Regulapati Max Boyd Shavan Patel David Swanson Brendan Slattery Marvin Gersho Robert Cunnie Jose Luis Romero Moscoso Timur Cuceloglu Yarnall #GenAI #DiscoveryDay #AWS #Anthropic

POV: You’re in the audience at the AWS Partner Summit in Toronto and AWS’ Christopher Sullivan shouts out your company from the stage 🇨🇦 😊 Yesterday Chris cited Loka’s industry-leading success rate in moving GenAI projects from POC to production and we’re STILL blushing. This is our first time at AWS Summit in Toronto but it won’t be our last. The Canadian market is well past the tipping point and Loka is ready to jump in. Great to connect AWS partners Peter Silye and Tariq Merchant with Loka’s Alicia Hernandez Lopez as well. Toronto is beautiful, the vibe is high and we’re ready to make big things happen together 🤝 Canadian business leaders and entrepreneurs: If you’re interested in not just exploring a POC but also moving it into production, get in touch to find out why we’re leading the way in successful implementations. #GenAI #AWS #Canada Amazon Web Services (AWS)

🚀 Last week, we teamed up with NVIDIA and AWS for an exclusive deep dive into how NVIDIA's BioNemo tools can revolutionize AI-based projects in life sciences. From speeding up drug discovery to transforming research, we showed how pairing NVIDIA's tech with AWS's infrastructure can unlock breakthroughs. Loka is proud to bridge the gap, offering expertise and AWS funding access to help customers leverage these cutting-edge tools. A big thank you to everyone who made this event a success. Looking forward to seeing the groundbreaking work that comes from these collaborations Alexandra Marsters Rory Kelleher John Dzialo Xin Yu Amrita Sarkar, Ph.D., MBA Renee Y. Telmo Felgueira Sushmitha Regulapati Emily Kruger Matea Londza Shumkovska Daniel Goldberg 👋 Keith Gonzales PhD Max Boyd Shavan Patel #AI #LifeSciences #BioNemo #AWS #NVIDIA #Innovation Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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