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Are you a leader in Healthcare or Life Sciences curious about how your peers are tackling industry challenges with AWS? Join us at the HCLS Customer Meetup on October 23. You’ll meet likeminded industry leaders, hear about how they’re using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) to solve complex problems and take away new ideas to apply to your own mission 🧠 The in-person Boston session begins with a hands-on workshop exploring Amazon Bedrock Agents for HCLS. The rest of the day will unfold IRL and online, with special focus on bioinformatics, knowledge graphs and high-performance computing on AWS. We’ll wrap with a happy hour with food and drink sponsored by Loka 🍻 Seating for the workshop is limited, so RSVP at aws-hcls-meetup-workshop-rsvp@amazon.com with the subject “HCLS Meetup Boston Q3 2025 Workshop.” And register here to join the meetup: https://lnkd.in/dzn47XWJ Sushmitha Regulapati, Jonathan Douglas, Arturo Ochoa González

🥁🥁 New York may usually grab the headlines when it comes to AWS Summits, but in LA this week, the conversations had a new kind of intensity. What stood out to us wasn’t just the scale of the event, it was the urgency of the questions being asked: 1/ Customers are leaning into agentic AI—not as a concept, but as a capability they want live in production. Few examples exist today, but Loka was able to share stories of customers already running agents in regulated workflows, cutting manual overhead and boosting speed to insight. 2/ Enterprises are asking how to innovate under regulatory pressure without grinding to a halt. Instead of more red tape, they need governance frameworks that flex with existing SOPs. Loka is building exactly that with enterprise HCLS clients—so teams can scale GenAI confidently and stay audit-ready. 3/ Business teams are trying to make sense of GenAI without clear tools, guidance, or guardrails. Many are experimenting ad hoc with mixed results. Loka is helping companies roll out centralized platforms and playbooks, turning scattered pilots into coordinated, measurable productivity gains. We heard excitement, but also friction. And what struck us was this: no one is asking whether GenAI belongs in their business anymore. The conversation has shifted to how fast it can scale—and who can help make it real. Meanwhile, Loka and AWS teams are sprinting into year-end. Conversations are flowing, projects are launching, and the energy around LA felt like something big is taking shape 🚀 Big thanks to Kelsey Markey, Jon Zerden, Vijay Mandalam and Ken Takemura and AWS friends Danielle McCray, Nelson Lee and Scott Schreckengaust. Plus Loka’s own Emily Kruger, Jonathan Douglas, Sushmitha Regulapati, Matt Kuhlman, Regina Goodman, Shavan Patel and Darrell Draper. Amazon Web Services (AWS) #HCLS #GenAI

When the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack hit on Monday, it wasn’t automated tools that caught the data-stealing malware in action. It was Loka's Senior Engineer Daniel Pereira who spotted the issue. Daniel’s alarm bells didn’t elicit an immediate response, but he kept at it until #github, #npm and the digital security community were fully alerted and moved to act. Spurred by a shout-out from Aikido Security (yesterday’s podcast is worth a listen: https://lnkd.in/dW7irEyZ), developers everywhere are now praising Daniel’s find, and for good reason. Supply chain attacks at this scale (187 npm packages) can ripple across the entire open-source ecosystem. Read all about it at the Wiz blog: https://lnkd.in/d7bNd3km Wins like this remind us why we put people and expertise at the center of everything Loka builds. Tools are important, but diligence, curiosity and context matter most today and tomorrow. 👏 Huge congratulations to Daniel for setting the bar high and making the community safer. 👉 To protect your data from the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack: 1. Check if you’ve installed any of the 187 compromised npm packages (full list in the Wiz blog: https://lnkd.in/d7bNd3km). 2. Immediately uninstall or update affected packages to their safe versions. 3. Rotate any credentials or secrets that may have been exposed during installs. #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #SupplyChain #EngineeringExcellence

Healthcare leaders, if AI Agents are on your mind and you're in LA next week, this is for you. On September 17 Loka is teaming up with the AWS HCLS team in Los Angeles to host an exclusive Roundtable Dinner on Agentic AI. We’ll dive into how we're already using agent-based AI is to transform HCLS teams: automating complex drug discovery workflows, accelerating clinical documentation and opening entirely new business models. This intimate evening is designed for thoughtful dialogue with peers and AWS + Loka leadership, all over fine dining. Seats are limited — secure yours here  👉 https://lnkd.in/gMKRScMR Sushmitha Regulapati Jonathan Douglas Sandhya Ragupathy

After spending Wednesday at AWS Partner Summit Toronto, we can tell that companies in the city—and all of Canada—are hungry for GenAI. Loka is leading the charge alongside AWS, helping businesses small and large in every industry modernize and better support their customers. Our own Alicia Hernandez Lopez spoke about a use case we’ve seen more than 100 times: intelligent document processing. BioTech leaders, we’ve built customized solutions just for you. Big thanks to all our AWS friends old and new, including Janeesha S., Jade L., Tariq Merchant, Mori Oren, Edwidge Belinga, Asad Durrani, Jennie Lynn Tran Michaela Clarke, Michael Dvorkin, Rupin Mago (He/Him), Matthew Gima, Darren Lewi, Connor Aylwin, Stefan Shetty and Nikkil Praful. We’re excited to keep building together! AWS Canada #GenAI #PartnerSummit

▶️ Some GenAI projects stall, others soar... and the difference usually comes down to how teams align, prepare their data and scale. Loka is excited to team up with the AWS HCLS team in Palo Alto and share what we’ve seen in the field over the last six months. We’ll bring real R&D use cases with BioFMs and Agentic workflows, common traps to avoid and the strategies that actually get our healthcare and life science customers to production. Sushmitha Regulapati Jonathan Douglas Jorge Moura Sampaio, PhD Gavin Phillips Damon Carp More about the event on the link 👉 https://lnkd.in/dKUDDmp9

Life Sciences companies like Latent Labs require hefty compute resources, and AWS's suite of solutions is often their best bet. Loka recently helped Latent Labs assess their needs and complete the complex process of migrating to and modernizing on AWS to better support their AI-driven R&D. We can do the same for you. Amazon Web Services (AWS) #GenAI #HCLS

🫶 It’s been three years since Loka adopted 5/4 Fridays as official policy. In that time the data we’ve collected on our hybrid 4-day workweek—and the accolades we’ve collected as a company, including AWS Innovation Partner of the Year 2024—have led us to full commitment, even evangelism, about taking every other Friday off. Our people have called 5/4s “literally life changing,” and today they’re one of Loka’s signature benefits. Find out what we’ve learned, how we’ve improved and why we have no intention on going back in the story below. https://lnkd.in/gn44kWPc #LifeatLoka #4dayworkweek #WorkplaceCultureInnovation

🫀Right now more than 100,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting life-saving organ transplants. Doctors assess transplant viability within 30 minutes of receiving a donated organ. Imagine the power to assess in 30 seconds. Specialist Direct and Loka are making it happen. Loka is helping SDI build an AI-enhanced solution on AWS to identify and classify structures within organ donor images so doctors can complete assessments in a fraction of the standard time. The result: a measurable increase in organ use, patient safety and lives saved. SDI is at the forefront of organ transplant tech and Loka is proud to give them an AI boost. W. Scott Rombach Sushmitha Regulapati Zafir Stojanovski Thiago Deeke Viek #GenAI #HCLS #TransplantTech Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The largest AWS conference in the Balkans is happening Sept. 5 at the Hotel Hills Sarajevo. This annual event brings together the brightest minds in AWS, cloud computing and modern tech trends. This year some of Loka’s best are hosting a pair of sessions. 🤩 Join Head of DevOps Miladin Papovikj and DevOps Lead Andrijana Stefanovska to learn how Loka cracked the migration speed barrier using AI and Senior Backend Engineer Mensur Mandžuka as he explains how data flows through decoupled services. They join 50 other speakers on a huge range of fascinating topics as well as Jeff Barr, Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), who will deliver the keynote. Register on the link 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCa3KSrg and we'll see you there! #AWSConference #GenAI #DevOps AWS Community Day Adria