Amazon Web Services, Wipro open tech launch pad in Sydney

A state-of-the-art innovation centre has opened in Parramatta, designed to empower Australian businesses to adopt cloud services.

Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres joined leading information technology Wipro Limited and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for an official virtual opening of the Wipro-AWS Launch Pad.

The Wipro-AWS Launch Pad will offer in-house technical expertise for businesses as well as the physical studio to help enable seamless cloud adoption and improve business operations.

Ayres said the Launch Pad is built open the NSW Government’s commitment to help businesses transform and adapt to a new way of working. The NSW Government has invested $1.6 billion into a Digital Restart Fund to make NSW the digital capital of the Southern Hemisphere.

“Our relationship with India is focused on creating strong pathways for trade and investment, with a particular emphasis on the digital and technology sectors. I’m delighted to see the strength of NSW’s relationship with India celebrated in Western Sydney. Wipro started its journey in Australia more than 15 years ago and now has more than 1000 employees in NSW alone,” Ayres said.

Wipro’s Senior Vice President and Business Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Manoj Nagpaul, said Wipro is seeing rising demand from clients in the Asia Pacific region.

“This state-of-the-art centre focuses on delivering the best of Wipro offerings on Amazon Web Services to meet this demand and enable digital transformation for our clients,” Nagpaul said.

AWS Head of Partner Success for Asia Pacific and Japan, Corrie Briscoe, said Australian businesses have an opportunity to tap into the combined expertise of Wipro and AWS to accelerate digital transformation.

“We are pleased to support Wipro to showcase truly innovative experiences that can be developed on AWS. Wipro’s solutions, coupled with the security and scalability that AWS offers, helps us to effectively problem-solve for customers, bring efficiencies to their operations and accelerate their move to the cloud,” Briscoe said.

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