Dr. Bratin Saha
Vice President of AI & ML

Dr. Bratin Saha leads the ML and AI services at AWS, where he helped build one of the fastest-growing businesses in the company’s history. The growth was so remarkable that in 2022, Harvard Business School wrote three case studies that documented his work. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (General Management Program), Yale University (PhD in computer science), and Indian Institute of Technology (BS in computer science). He has more than 70 patents granted (with another 50+ pending) and more than 30 papers in conferences/journals. Prior to landing at Amazon, he worked at NVIDIA and Intel, leading different product groups that spanned imaging, analytics, media processing, high performance computing, ML, and software infrastructure.

AIM337 | Using AWS tools to manage foundation models (FMs) at scale

AIM335 | Train and tune state-of-the-art ML models on Amazon SageMaker

AIM336 | Use RAG to improve responses in generative AI applications

G2 Krishnamoorthy
Vice President of Analytics

Ganapathy (G2) Krishnamoorthy leads data lake services (AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR), data integration (AWS Glue, AWS Glue Elastic Views, Amazon AppFlow), Amazon DataZone, OpenSearch, and Amazon QuickSight. He brings two decades of experience working with databases, big data analytics, and machine learning (ML). Prior to AWS, he built and ran big data warehouse and storage systems (the analytics and ML platform) at Facebook (Meta). During his 16 years at Microsoft, he worked on the SQL Server database, Azure Analytics, and Azure ML.

ANT317 | How Rivian builds real-time analytics from electric vehicles

ANT206 | Modern data governance customer panel

ANT326 | Set up a zero-ETL-based analytics architecture for your organizations

Francessca Vasquez
Vice President of Professional Services

Francessca Vasquez is a thought leader of business and technology cloud transformations. She and her global team deliver the processes and tools to facilitate digital innovation throughout the customers cloud journey. In this role, she has oversight of solutions architecture, customer solutions, innovation engineering, and workforce transformation. As the Executive Sponsor for the AWS CIO Council, Francessca listens to customer feedback to continuously improve the customer experience. She is an active participant in non-profits that inspire diversity, inclusion, and equitable access in STEM.

DOP202 | Realizing the developer productivity benefits of Amazon CodeWhisperer

CMP209 | Generative AI panel: Moving beyond the hype and realizing value

SEC214 | Threat modeling your generative AI workload to evaluate security risk

Wendy Bauer
Vice President, Automotive and Manufacturing

Wendy Bauer joined AWS in October 2019 and leads the global Automotive & Manufacturing organization. She’s responsible for supporting the world’s largest automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), suppliers, and cross-segment manufacturing companies to accelerate their digital transformation journeys while maximizing value creation. Wendy spent more than 20 years in the automotive industry in leadership roles across both OEMs and tier 1 suppliers. Her experience spans sales, product strategy and business development, engineering, purchasing, and quality. Wendy has been recognized as a Software-Defined Vehicle Innovator Leader by MotorTrend (2023) and as one of the top 100 Leading Women in the North America Auto Industry (2020) and a Rising Star – OEM and Supplier (2016) by Automotive News.

MFG101 | Improving manufacturing at Panasonic Energy

AUT202 | Building a highly automated driving platform on AWS

MFG106 | Product engineering innovation with Toyota Motor and Autodesk

Dilip Kumar
Vice President, AWS Applications

Dilip Kumar leads the organization responsible for business applications that bring the power of machine learning and generative AI to services for supply chains, contact centers, marketing and advertising, user productivity, and retail identity and checkout. A 20-year Amazon veteran, he focuses on innovations for business users across industries and vertical markets, leading AWS teams delivering on-demand scalability, reliability, flexibility, and AI/ML engines that drive AWS services. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

BIZ217 | Empower superior contact center agent service with Amazon Connect

BIZ204 | Seamless and quick ERP integration with AWS Supply Chain

BIZ212 | Enhancing SaaS application productivity with generative AI

Nandini Ramani
Vice President of Monitoring & Observability

Nandini Ramani leads the monitoring and observability cloud services organizations for AWS. For more than two decades, Nandini has been working to break down tech industry barriers and pioneer the design and development of visionary products and go-to-market strategies for industry-transforming startups and global organizations such as Oracle. An innovator with 17 patents, she has been recognized as one of the most powerful female engineers by Business Insider, named one of the PharmaVoice 100, and is listed in the Hall of Femme honoring female luminaries.

COP339 | What’s new with AWS observability and operations

COP340 | What’s new with AWS governance and compliance

COP343 | Building observability to increase resiliency

David Brown
Vice President of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

David Brown joined AWS in 2007 as a software developer based in Cape Town, South Africa, working on the early development of Amazon EC2—a web service that provides secure, resizable compute and networking capacity in the cloud. Over the last 15 years, he’s held several roles within the Amazon EC2 organization, shaping the service into what it is today. Prior to joining AWS, David worked as a software developer within a financial industry startup.

CMP102 | What’s new with Amazon EC2

CMP201 | A deep dive on AWS infrastructure powering the generative AI boom

CMP306 | Deep dive into the AWS Nitro System

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
Vice President, Technology

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec leads the essential data services that AWS customers use to create modern cloud-based applications using analytics, machine learning, and generative artificial intelligence. Business Insider recently named her to The AI 100 and Cloudverse 100 lists, which recognize the top 100 people innovating in AI and the cloud. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Mai-Lan is a pioneer in helping organizations take advantage of cloud-based technologies to transform their businesses. She is also an advisor to the board of Asians@Amazon, a sponsor for women in technology at AWS, and the owner of a monthly leadership training series. She is passionate about AWS initiatives that maximize human potential.

ANT219-INT | Data drives transformation: Data foundations with AWS analytics

AIM245-INT | Innovate faster with generative AI

ANT331 | Build an end-to-end data strategy for analytics and generative AI

Jeff Carter
Vice President, Databases and Migration Services

Jeff Carter is responsible for several database services, including Amazon RDS open source and commercial, Amazon Neptune, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), Amazon Timestream, and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). Prior to his current role, he was VP of Data at Amazon.com, CISO for Amazon.com, and VP/GM of Database/Platforms at Teradata.

Rahul Pathak
Vice President of Relational Database Engines

Rahul Pathak leads Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QLDB. Prior to his current role, he was VP of Analytics at AWS, where he worked across the entire AWS database portfolio. He has cofounded two companies, one focused on digital media analytics and the other on IP geolocation.

DAT403 | Build a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics

ANT307 | Connect and analyze all your data with zero-ETL approaches

DAT309 | Advanced caching design patterns with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Adam Seligman
Vice President, AWS Generative Builders

Adam Seligman leads the teams that make it easier for builders to create applications on AWS. He has worked as a leader in the tech industry for more than 20 years in roles at Salesforce, Google, and Microsoft. Adam is passionate about democratizing technology and believes that every developer should have access to the same powerful tools and resources—regardless of their background or experience level.

DOP201 | Best practices for Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI coding companion

DOP205 | Accelerate development with Amazon CodeCatalyst

FWM201 | What’s new with AWS AppSync for enterprise API developers

Bill Vass
Vice President of Engineering

Bill Vass oversees more than 42 cloud and edge technologies that allow AWS customers to efficiently store, analyze, manage, and retrieve information. Before joining AWS, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Robotics, Inc., a pioneering cloud-based solutions company that designs and builds autonomous robots. He’s also held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems Federal and at Sun. During his time in the public service sector, Bill worked for the Secretary of Defense in the Office of the CIO and as CTO and tech lead for the U.S. Army’s personnel systems worldwide. Before his work at the DoD, he developed large-scale commercial information technology engineering and business systems solutions for defense system integrators and the oil, gas, and ocean engineering industries.

IOT211 | Revolutionize businesses and elevate customer experiences with AWS IoT

HYB201 | AWS wherever you need it

CMP213 | Confidently run your production HPC workloads on AWS

Scott Mullins
Managing Director and General Manager of Worldwide Financial Services

Scott Mullins is responsible for leading the development and implementation of AWS strategic global initiatives in the financial services industry. He began his career as an equity trader and has worked in the financial services industry for the past 26 years, at firms such as Nasdaq, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide. As the leader of the AWS Financial Services organization, Scott works closely with industry leaders, global regulators, and policymakers to transform the industry and evolve the technology that powers it. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Scott is a recognized thought leader who is quoted in industry media. He recently served on the advisory board of the FinTech Sandbox and on the U.S. FDIC’s Subcommittee on Supervision Modernization.

FSI201 | How to deliver business value in financial services with generative AI

FSI317 | JPMorgan Chase: One data platform for reporting, analytics, and ML

FSI314 | Capital One: Achieving resiliency to run mission-critical applications

David Brown
Vice President of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

David Brown joined AWS in 2007 as a software developer based in Cape Town, South Africa, working on the early development of Amazon EC2—a web service that provides secure, resizable compute and networking capacity in the cloud. Over the last 15 years, he’s held several roles within the Amazon EC2 organization, shaping the service into what it is today. Prior to joining AWS, David worked as a software developer within a financial industry startup.

NET306 | Advanced VPC designs and new capabilities

NET203 | How to build better applications using AWS networking services

NET201 | Safeguarding infrastructure from DDoS attacks with AWS edge services

Dave Levy
Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS)

Dave Levy leads the government, education, healthcare, aerospace and satellite, and nonprofit sectors at AWS. He and his teams focus on helping organizations use data in more sophisticated ways. They are also committed to helping customers realize the potential of technology to transform their organizations and fulfill their missions. Previously, Dave served for six years as the Vice President of U.S. Government, Nonprofit, and Global Healthcare at AWS. Before joining AWS, Dave worked for Apple Inc. for 12 years and led the teams that helped the U.S. government adopt innovative mobile technologies.

WPS306 | Responsible machine learning in the era of generative AI

WPS206 | A new era: The path to generative AI in public sector

WPS207 | Bridging research and computing to tackle the world's grand challenges

Steve Schmidt
Chief Security Officer (CSO), Amazon

Steve Schmidt leads the information security, physical security, security engineering, and regulatory program teams for Amazon. Prior to his current role, he held the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at AWS from 2010 to 2022. Before his 2008 arrival at Amazon, Steve had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he served as a senior executive. His responsibilities at the FBI included a term as acting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and as a section chief, overseeing the organization’s teams responsible for forensic investigations of computer and network intrusions.

SEC210 | How security teams can strengthen security using generative AI

SEC302 | Zero Trust architecture for service-to-service workloads

SEC214 | Threat modeling your generative AI workload to evaluate security risk

Andy Warfield
Vice President and Distinguished Engineer

Andy focusses primarily on data storage and analytics in his role at AWS. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of the authors of the Xen hypervisor. Xen is an open source hypervisor that was used as the initial virtualization layer in AWS (along with other early cloud companies’ solutions). Andy was a founder at Xensource, a startup that was subsequently acquired by Citrix Systems. Following XenSource, Andy was a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded a Canada Research Chair and a Sloan Research Fellowship. As a professor, Andy did systems research. Andy’s second startup, Coho Data, was a scale-out enterprise storage array that integrated NVMe SSDs with programmable networks.

AIM250-INT | Putting your data to work with generative AI

STG314 | Dive deep on Amazon S3

STG313 | Building and optimizing a data lake on Amazon S3

Shaown Nandi
Director of Technology, Industries

Shaown leads solutions architecture, customer solutions, optimization, and prototyping for the AWS industries business, which supports all of the company’s largest cutting-edge tech customers. Prior to joining AWS, Shaown served as Chief Information Officer at Dow Jones and Head of Shared Services at News Corp, one of the first enterprise organizations to adopt cloud technology. As CIO, he spearheaded a shared service company called NewsTech to unify IT services across News Corp Business Units worldwide and drove over $100M in cost savings. Shaown has also worked as a global technology executive at IBM, where he managed product development teams in the cloud space. He has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

AIM217 | Democratize ML with no code/low code using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

AIM218 | Build your first generative AI application with Amazon Bedrock

AIM220 | Responsible AI in the generative era: Science and practice