Baskar oversees the strategic direction and development of key services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and essential data platforms like Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and AWS Glue. Prior to his current role, Baskar spent nearly six years at Google, where he contributed to advancements in cloud computing infrastructure. Before that, he dedicated 16 years to Microsoft, playing a pivotal role in the development of Azure Data Lake and Cosmos, which have significantly influenced the landscape of cloud storage and data management. Baskar earned a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University and has since spent over two decades at the forefront of the tech industry.
Innovation talks
Innovation talks are where AWS experts weigh in on essential topics such as data for generative AI, cloud operations, network and content delivery, and migration and modernization. We’ll be adding more innovation talks in the coming months, so keep checking this page as we get closer to AWS re:Invent.
Deep dives hosted by AWS thought leaders
AI/ML
Baskar Sridharan
Vice President, Database & AI, AWSLearn how to transition generative AI from prototypes to production. This includes building custom models, implementing robust data strategies, and scaling architectures for performance and reliability. Additionally, the session will cover empowering business users to drive innovation and growth through this transformative technology.
Amazon Q Business
Dilip Kumar
Vice President, Amazon Q Business, AWSGet an overview of Amazon Q Business capabilities including its ability to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete assigned tasks. Learn how Amazon Q Business goes beyond search to enable AI-powered actions. Explore how simple it is to build applications using Amazon Q Apps. Examine new ways to improve complex application building using AWS App Studio. And discover how to build richer analytics using Amazon Q in QuickSight.
Architecture
Shaown Nandi
Director, Technology, AWSBen Cabanas
WW Director, Technology, AWS Global SalesDive deep into architectural best practices and patterns. Learn to leverage generative AI tooling for faster application design. And discover how AWS customers optimize cloud architecture to save costs and increase performance.
Cloud operations
Nandini Ramani
Vice President, Monitoring and Observability, AWSExplore how AWS is innovating to make it even easier and faster to operate in the cloud and improve governance, security, resilience, and performance. Learn how you can transform your IT operations to be more agile, efficient, and secure; make operations more intelligent to eliminate repetitive tasks; and get deeper insight for better decision-making.
Containers, instances & serverless compute
David Brown
Vice President, Compute & Networking, Amazon EC2, AWSDiscover how you can run any application on AWS, including enterprise applications, HPC, generative AI, containers, databases, and games. Learn how AWS has met customer demands through silicon innovation, new service introductions, and cost optimization. And explore how customers have used AWS compute technology to innovate their businesses.
Databases
G2 Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Database Services, AWSJeff Carter
Vice President, Databases & Migration Services, AWSLearn how AWS databases’ vector capabilities for generative AI applications. Understand AWS multi-region capabilities for globally distributed applications. And discover how AWS is further reducing operational burden so your teams can more easily connect their data and focus on delivering business value.
Data foundation
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President, Technology (Storage, Streaming, Messaging, and Cloud Migration), AWSEvery modern business is a data business, and organizations need to stay nimble to balance data growth with data-driven value. In this talk you’ll understand how to recognize the latest signals in changing data patterns, and adapt data strategies that flex to changes in consumer behavior and innovations in technology like AI. Plus learn how to evolve from data aggregation to data semantics to support data-driven applications while maintaining flexibility and governance. Hear from AWS customers who successfully evolved their data strategies for analytics, ML, and AI. And get practical guidance on implementing similar strategies using cutting-edge AWS tools and services.
Financial services
Scott Mullins
General Manager, Financial Services, AWSLearn how financial institutions are working with AWS to push past traditional technical boundaries to move their businesses—and the broader industry—in new directions. Understand how new capabilities are helping financial services companies personalize customer experience at scale, improve business decision making, and efficiently meet the capital needs of consumers and businesses. Explore how financial institutions are deriving greater value from their data and applying generative AI to improve productivity and engage more directly with their customers. And learn directly from industry leaders how they built and are running the systems and applications that power the industry on AWS.
Generative AI for customer service
Pasquale DeMaio
Vice President & General Manager of Amazon Connect, AWSExplore the evolution of customer service and the increased importance of conversations as enterprise data. Discover innovations across agent empowerment, automation, and self-service using AI. Learn about Amazon’s flexible approach to generative AI to optimize and streamline customer experience workflows. And dive into stories about migrating to Amazon Connect and the benefits customers have realized.
Healthcare and life sciences
Dan Sheeran
General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWSDiscover how AWS is continuing to make it easier for healthcare and life sciences organizations to leverage generative AI across their organizations—as well as create scalable data foundations to fuel their generative AI initiatives. And hear from customers about how they’ve successfully moved beyond proof of concepts to recognize real business value with generative AI.
Media and entertainment
Samira Bakhtiar
General Manager, Global Media and Entertainment, Games, and Sports, AWSDiscover the latest trends across the media and entertainment, games, and sports industries, including how audience preferences and technology advances are driving change. Find out how AWS is helping entertainment customers enhance audience engagement, increase operational efficiency, and augment monetization strategies. And learn from customers about how they are navigating changes and innovation in these industries.
Migration and modernization
Asa Kalavade
Vice President, Migrations & Modernization, AWSExplore how AWS is continuing to invest in simplifying the most complex migration and modernization tasks. Learn about the next generation of innovations to move and improve your mission-critical applications and data, including .NET, VMware workloads, mainframe systems, and legacy databases. And discover how customers are using the latest AWS services and infrastructure to migrate, modernize, and build experiences that have transformed their businesses.
Networking & content delivery
David Brown
Vice President, Compute & Networking, Amazon EC2, AWSExplore new AWS content delivery features and capabilities. Hear from AWS customers who are using networking services to run any workload. Plus learn how AWS is always working to improve the performance, security, and reliability of its network.
Security, compliance & identity
Chris Betz
Chief Information Security Officer, AWSUnderstand how automating security processes can accelerate innovation cycles. Learn the benefits of integrating security from the ground up in cloud migrations and development. Get insights on how to leverage trusted AWS Partners for comprehensive cloud security solutions. And explore strategies for optimizing security team efficiency and enabling innovation.
Storage
Andy Warfield
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, AWSExplore how AWS Storage serves as the foundation for data-driven innovation. Learn how AWS Storage optimizes performance for diverse workloads, from AI/ML to analytics. Discover how AWS Storage meets the demands of next-generation applications. And unpack real-world examples of how customers are leveraging AWS Storage to fuel digital transformation.