Baskar Sridharan is Vice President for AI/ML Services & Infrastructure, where he 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.
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Deep dives hosted by AWS thought leaders
AI/ML
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Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Dr. Baskar Sridharan
Vice President, AI/ML Services & Infrastructure, AWSAIM276-INT | Generative AI in action: From prototype to production
Learn 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.
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Amazon Q Business
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Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Dilip Kumar
Vice President, Amazon Q Business, AWSINV202-INT | Creating business breakthroughs with Amazon Q
Get 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.
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Analytics
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Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Sirish Chandrasekaran
Vice President, Amazon Redshift, AWSRick Sears
Director, Data Processing & Experiences, AWSANT204-INT | Beyond boundaries: Converging analytics and AI to reshape the future
Get strategies for driving business innovation and value with AWS data foundation and analytics capabilities for analytics, machine learning, and generative AI applications. Find out how customers like you are deploying a tightly integrated, open, and well-governed data strategy on AWS that helps them manage a wide range of data-driven workloads while ensuring their data is accessible to their entire data workforce. And learn how AWS is simplifying data-driven initiatives by weaving generative AI directly into data services.
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Architecture
Shaown Nandi
Director, Technology, AWSBen Cabanas
APJ Director, Technology, AWSThis talk explores how advanced architectural breakthroughs and generative AI are revolutionizing application design. Learn how to modernize applications using cutting-edge tools and techniques, develop a modern data strategy, and navigate the rapidly evolving cloud landscape. Explore the innovative ways AWS customers are building applications in the cloud, and discover best practices to help you navigate the rapidly changing architectural landscape.
Cloud operations
Nandini Ramani
Vice President, Search, Observability, & CloudOps, AWSAs technology evolves rapidly, business and IT leaders continue to ask: How do we operate at lower cost, improve efficiency, and enhance security and compliance posture while exceeding customer expectations? At AWS, we want to help every customer benefit from transforming their IT operations. Join this talk to learn how you can transform your IT operations to be more agile, resilient, efficient, and secure; make operations more intelligent to eliminate repetitive tasks; and get deeper insight for better decision-making. See a demo of the latest innovations, and explore impactful customer stories.
Containers, instances & serverless compute
Anthony Liguori
VP/Distinguished Engineer, AWSAWS offers the most comprehensive set of capabilities, continually innovating across our infrastructure and services so you can build, run, and scale applications in the cloud, on premises, and at the edge. Join Anthony Liguori, VP & Distinguished Engineer of AWS Compute & Networking, to learn how AWS innovations are transforming the computing landscape. Anthony highlights the latest instance, containers, and serverless technology innovations.
Databases
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Thursday, Dec. 5 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
G2 Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Database Services, AWSJeff Carter
Vice President, Databases & Migration Services, AWSDAT201-INT | AWS databases: The foundation for data-driven and generative AI apps
Discover how AWS is further reducing operational burden so your teams can more easily connect their data and focus on delivering business value. Understand AWS multi-region capabilities for globally distributed applications. And learn how AWS databases’ vector capabilities for generative AI applications.
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Data foundation
Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President, Technology (Storage, Streaming, Messaging, and Cloud Migration), AWSCTOs and CDOs must adapt their data strategies to manage both the explosive growth of data and its mission-critical usage to drive application experiences that span personalized user experiences, petabyte-scale business analytics, and real-time AI inference in applications in every industry. To keep pace and optimize for the business, leaders must balance governance with flexibility and scale by separating data growth from data usage using emerging patterns like data semantic layering. In this talk, discover how AWS customers manage data growth and usage at exabyte scale, and explore AWS capabilities to evolve your data strategy for this rapidly changing landscape.
Developer
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Thursday, Dec. 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Adam Seligman
Vice President, Developer Experience, AWSDOP220-INT | Reimagining the developer experience at AWS
Dive into the pioneering approach AWS takes to integrating generative AI across the entire software development lifecycle. Explore the rich ecosystem of technical resources, networking opportunities, and knowledge-sharing platforms available to you with AWS. Learn from real-world examples of how AWS, developers, and software teams are leveraging the power of generative AI to creative innovative solutions that are shaping the future of software development.
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Financial services
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Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Scott Mullins
Managing Director, Financial Services, AWSFSI201-INT | New tools, no limits: Pushing the envelope in financial services
Learn 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.
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Generative AI for customer service
Pasquale DeMaio
Vice President, Customer Experience Services, AWSGenerative AI promises to revolutionize customer interactions, ushering in a new era of automation, cost efficiencies, and responsiveness. However, realizing this transformative potential requires a holistic approach that harmonizes people, processes, and technology. Through customer success stories and demonstrations of the latest AWS innovations, gain insights into operationalizing generative AI for customer service from the Vice President of Amazon Connect, Pasquale DeMaio. Whether you’re just starting your journey or well on your way, leave this talk with the knowledge and tools to unlock the transformative power of AI for customer interactions, the agent experience, and more.
Healthcare and life sciences
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Thursday, Dec. 5 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Dan Sheeran
General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWSHLS201-INT | Accelerating healthcare & life sciences innovation with generative AI
Discover 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.
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Media and entertainment
Samira Panah Bakhtiar
General Manager, Global Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports, AWSThe entertainment industry is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by changing audience preferences and new technologies. Organizations are innovating with AWS to captivate audiences through video, gaming, music, and film. Generational preferences for user-generated content and livestreaming have accelerated this evolution, with gaming emerging as a dominant force. Additionally, generative AI is revolutionizing the industry, enabling innovation in advertising, content monetization, and experiences. As consumers demand more interactive experiences, traditional companies are diversifying and exploring new partnerships. Attend this talk to gain insights into the latest trends and learn how industry leaders are using cloud technologies to enhance engagement and monetization.
Migration and modernization
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Tuesday, Dec. 3 | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Dr. Asa Kalavade
Vice President, Migrations & Modernization, AWSMAM238-INT | Automating migration and modernization to accelerate transformation
Explore 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, and mainframe systems. AWS services and infrastructure to migrate, modernize, and build experiences that have transformed their businesses.
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Networking & content delivery
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Thursday, Dec. 5 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Colm MacCárthaigh
VP/Distinguished Engineer, AWSNET201-INT | The power of cloud network innovation
Explore 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.
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Security, compliance & identity
Chris Betz
Chief Information Security Officer, AWSGet insights from AWS CISO Chris Betz on how you can capitalize on transformative security innovations from AWS to move fast and stay secure. Learn how AWS empowers organizations to confidently integrate and automate security into their products, services, and processes so security teams can focus their time on work that brings the highest value to the business. Hear how AWS applies its experience, knowledge, and best practices to remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting of security. Chris also shares how AWS is helping to make the internet more secure by scaling security innovation and investing in the security community.
Storage
Andy Warfield
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer, AWSAWS storage services serve as the cornerstone for data-driven innovation, providing the essential building blocks for modern enterprises. In this talk, explore how the fundamental attributes of AWS storage services—high durability, availability, scalability, and price performance—empower organizations to excel in virtually any workload scenario. From powering cutting-edge AI/ML initiatives to enabling real-time analytics and supporting business-critical applications, AWS storage services deliver the agility and resilience needed in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. Discover how businesses use these capabilities to accelerate insights, drive business growth, and fuel transformative innovations across diverse industries and use cases.