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Our trophy case is getting full! 🏆 Loka has now achieved the AWS Migration Competency, giving us SIX total competencies in the last 18 months. We’re too modest to include so many emojis in one LI post. With the Migration Competency, AWS recognizes Loka as a partner that “provides solutions or has deep experience helping businesses move successfully to AWS, through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations." To which we say yes, that's us. Are you ready to let Loka guide you onto the cloud? #AWS #Migration #AWSPartner https://lnkd.in/gRDQTWyN

Big news from the Loka executive team today: We're proud to announce that Emily Kruger has been promoted to Chief Innovation Officer! 🧠 Emily is a rockstar ex-Amazonian who spent the last 15 years as a technical product leader building AI/ML, infrastructure and big data platforms for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others. In her two years at Loka she has forged strong relationships between AWS and our customers, opening up a treasure trove of opportunities for all parties and paving the way to AWS Premier Tier status. If you’ve ever worked with Emily, you know her brilliance, commitment and sheer awesomeness. She’s a unicorn, combining cutting-edge technical skills with a keen sense of what customers need to succeed 🦄 As CIO, Emily will not only continue leading our sales team but will also drive our high-level company strategy and innovation across customer and key partnerships. This leadership ensures that partners and customers recognize her executive role in advancing Loka's mission. Thanks for your hard work, Emily, and congrats on becoming our new CIO! We’re in good hands, and we're just getting started 🙌 #CIO #LifeAtLoka #Innovation

Happy Pride Month, everyone! 🌈 Loka wouldn’t be what we are without the diverse spectrum of individuals who bring their best selves—and their full selves—to work every day. You are seen, you are respected and you are valued. In the tech industry, innovation thrives on diversity, and at Loka, we're committed to providing an open, safe environment for all of our employees, all across the globe. Wherever home is, Loka embraces the same beliefs, traditions and morals that our Lokals hold dear. Our paid marriage leave policy is designed to be inclusive, supporting various cultural, religious and personal ceremonies and legal unions. Additionally, we're proud to have provided financial support for same-sex adoption and marriage in the past, demonstrating our commitment to fostering a supportive environment for all our employees. Working with entrepreneurs, startups and companies of all sizes, we understand that our strength lies in our diverse perspectives and experiences. Together, our differences make us stronger than any one of us can be alone. We’re thrilled to celebrate our collective humanity all month long. 🌍 🎉

🧬✨What if the future of healthcare is already here? Earlier this week, we had the privilege of discussing this very idea with some incredible people from AWS and the healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) sector at the Waterbar in San Francisco 🌟 Our CEO Bobby Mukherjee had the opportunity to engage with leaders on all sides. It was inspiring to discuss the innovative ways HCLS pioneers are leveraging GenAI and BioLLMs - not for a distant theoretical "someday" but for today. The possibilities of HCLS looks brighter than ever, and we're thrilled to be part of this journey with such a dynamic AWS team. Looking forward to more conversations and collaborations that drive the next wave of innovation Eric Zimmerman, Heli Maldonado, Matt Pearson, Tony Cerqueira, Ujjwal Ratan, Jillian Forde, Lindsay Smith, Michelle S., Ori Neidich, Kris Fleming, Marcel Frenkel, PhD, Mark Hallen, Matthew Ko, Imran Qureshi, Eddie Abrams, Coleman Stavish🚀 #HCLS #AWS #GenAI #BioLLMs #Healthcare #LifeSciences AWS for Healthcare & Life Sciences Amazon Web Services (AWS) Loka

PyCon Colombia 2024 wrapped up in beautiful Medellín last weekend after three full days of all things Python. Eager participants came in from across the globe, and we're still thinking about the crucial insights we absorbed and the talented people we hung out with 🍻 Many Lokals left a big impression on the PyCon audience, including expert presenters Alejandro Gómez Montoya, Juan Bernardo Benavides Rubio, Daniela Isaza and María Fernanda Rojas Castro, plus Carlos Alejandro Jiménez Holmquist and José Ribón, who generated major action with their Lego giveaways from the Loka booth! Additional props to Isa Monsalve, Valentina Ayala Ramírez, Juliana Silva Cortés, Matea Londza Shumkovska, Juan Pablo Medina Escudero and Daniel Goldberg 👋 for putting so much creativity and enthusiasm into ensuring Loka made a splash at the event. Feels good to be an integral part of such a talented, tight-knit and hardworking community 🤝 We're already looking forward to the next installment. See you at PyCon 2025! #PyCon #Python #CodersUnite

👏🏽 Sometimes you've got to celebrate your CEO. Here's to our fearless leader, Bobby Mukherjee, who's been lending his limited time to the next wave of Stanford University visionaries and world-changers 🌎

⏰ T-minus 30 minutes til one the biggest AWS webinars of the year! Today leaders from Loka and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are going deep on the intricacies of taking your GenAI POC into production. More than 3,500 people have registered so far—are you one of them? Shout out to Loka's VP of Product Emily Kruger and Senior Machine Learning Engineer Telmo Felgueira and AWS' Aramide Kehinde, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, AI/ML and Priya Arora, Global Head of Generative AI Center of Excellence for bringing the knowledge 🧠 See you soon... #GenAI #AWSPartners #POCtoProduction https://lnkd.in/gN_eWuAE

🚨Loka is LIVE on Twitch.tv/awsonair! If you want to see the practical steps to build a GenAI POC, catch our own Diogo Monteiro Pinto Caldas de Oliveira with Jillian Forde right now! Loka #genai #awsonair Amazon Web Services (AWS)

I'm thrilled to share that I recently had the honour of being a guest lecturer at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - Skopje It was an amazing opportunity to engage with passionate students and discuss more about automation testing and testing practices in general in the IT industry. During the lecture, we talked more on the topic “Modern Automation Testing with Cypress," testing real-world applications, and exploring current trends in the automation testing world. A heartfelt "Thank you" to the academic society and people engaged into Software Quality and Testing subjects for the warm invitation and big kudos to Loka and Trajche Kocev for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the academic community and inspire future professionals.

So you have a GenAI POC—a good first step. But moving into production is a whole different ballgame ⚾ Join us in one week for the next Loka-AWS mind meld. On Wednesday, June 5, leaders from both companies will demystify the complexities and challenges of taking your GenAI POC into production in a one-time-only webinar. Topics will include: • How to ensure scalability and ROI of generative AI solutions • How to unlock proprietary data securely and compliantly • Comparing your options for building from scratch, buying or adopting models off the shelf, or fine-tuning them • How to evaluate accuracy and performance of generative AI systems • The legal and security considerations to keep in mind for running models on an ongoing basis Thanks to Loka's VP of Product Emily Kruger and Senior Machine Learning Engineer Telmo Felgueira and AWS' Aramide Kehinde, Sr. Partner Solution Architect, AI/ML and Priya Arora, Head of Generative AI Center of Excellence for bringing the knowledge 🧠 The clock is ticking! Register NOW for this free event! https://lnkd.in/gDYyfHqW