Keynote featured speakers
Customer speakers
John Kodera
Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Executive Officer, Sony GroupJohn Kodera joined Sony in 1992. After working for Sony Electronics Inc., he served as President of Sony Network Entertainment International LLC, Corporate Officer and Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation, and President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. He led data-driven management through the introduction and expansion of Sony Interactive Entertainment's online service PlayStation Network. Since 2021, he has served as Chief Digital Officer at Sony Group Corporation, where he uses his knowledge of data-driven management to oversee digital transformation, technology, and AI across the company.
Shantanu Narayen
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, AdobeShantanu Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 as Vice President and General Manager of its engineering technology group. He became President and COO in 2005, CEO in 2007, and Chair of the Board in 2017. As Chair and CEO, Shantanu has transformed Adobe into an industry innovator by pioneering a cloud-based subscription model for its creative software—establishing the global standard for digital documents and leading the explosive digital experience category. He’s led the company’s AI agenda, which has delivered transformative innovations across creativity, productivity, and customer experience, and democratized Adobe products to more users. Under Shantanu’s leadership, Adobe has achieved record revenue and industry recognition for its inclusive, innovative, and award-winning culture. Shantanu is also Vice Chairman of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and sits on the board of Pfizer. He previously served as a Director at Dell and a past member of the US President’s Management Advisory Board.
May Habib
CEO and Cofounder, WRITERMay Habib is the CEO and cofounder of WRITER, an end-to-end AI agent platform that hundreds of companies like Accenture, Prudential, Uber, and Vanguard use to build and scale AI agents that are grounded in their company’s data and fueled by WRITER’s enterprise-grade LLMs. Under May’s leadership, WRITER has become one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, securing its position on the Forbes 50 AI and CNBC Disruptor 50 lists, as well as inclusion in the World Economic Forum's Unicorn Community. May graduated with high honors in Economics from Harvard University. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, a recipient of Inc.'s Female Founder Award, an AdWeek AI Trailblazer, and a Worth Groundbreaking Woman.
Customer speakers
William Brennan
Vice President of Technology Transformation, Blue OriginWilliam Brennan is the Vice President of Technology Transformation at Blue Origin, where he leads the LEAP (LLM Engineering and AI Platform) team. At Blue Origin, Brennan has spearheaded the development of enterprise AI platforms, including BlueGPT, agentic workflow systems, and knowledge-augmented AI services that transform how the company designs, manufactures, and operates space systems. His team’s mission is to democratize AI across Blue Origin’s workforce while ensuring the reliability, security, and mission-critical performance required for space exploration. This work enables every employee to harness agentic AI to accelerate humanity’s path to living and working in space. Brennan holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Applications from the University of Notre Dame.
Guillermo Rauch
CEO and Founder, VercelGuillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, where he leads the company’s mission to enable the world to ship the best products. Originally from Argentina, Guillermo became a self-taught developer at the age of ten, and has been a passionate contributor to the open-source community ever since. He is the designer and co-author of Next.js, the world's most popular React framework, and is also the creator of socket.io and Mongoose.js. Before founding Vercel, Guillermo co-founded LearnBoost and Cloudup, where he served as CTO until its acquisition by Automattic in 2013. You can find him on X engaging with the developer community.
AWS experts
Colleen Aubrey
Senior Vice President, AWS Applied AI SolutionsColleen Aubrey is Senior Vice President of Applied AI Solutions at AWS. Colleen leads the team responsible for building a new pillar to AWS’s business; applications that leverage Amazon's unique experience and expertise to help businesses improve outcomes using Amazon Connect, agentic solutions to enable the future of work, and autonomous retail. Her team’s ambition is to enable businesses of all sizes to innovate with Amazon AI teammates. Prior to AWS, Colleen led Amazon Advertising product teams, and for more than 15 years, helped build Amazon’s advertising products and services into an industry-leading ad tech offering. Colleen joined Amazon in 2005, leading the UK Marketplace Sales team based in London.
Byron Cook
Vice President, Distinguished Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group, AWSProf. Dr. Byron Cook is a Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, specializing in mathematical logic and automated formal reasoning. Byron’s scientific contributions have resulted in customer features such as IAM Access Analyzer and VPC Reachability Analyzer, as well as formal correctness proofs about Amazon’s internal cryptography, identity, networking, storage and virtualization infrastructure. Byron joined Amazon in December 2014. is a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Academy of Engineers, as well as full professor of Computer Science at University College London.
Customer speakers
Sanjay Bhakta
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Condé NastSanjay Bhakta joined Condé Nast in January 2020 and oversees all areas of the company’s global product, enterprise technology, data strategy, and delivery inclusive of products, platforms, and services. Sanjay joined Condé Nast from Pearson, where he served as SVP of global platform and product engineering, with responsibility for the global platform for content, digital educational products, and services. Prior to joining Pearson, he spent three years at HBO, as vice president of media software engineering, where he was responsible for the entire media supply chain, starting with content acquisition and culminating in linear and nonlinear distribution channels both domestically and internationally. Sanjay is a graduate of the University of Mysore, India with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering. He also attended Columbia Business School and holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Strategy.
Dr. Muge Erdirik Dogan
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NIKE, Inc.Dr. Muge Erdirik Dogan is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NIKE, Inc., where she leads global engineering, AI, and digital innovation. Prior to Nike, she spent more than 15 years at Amazon in senior leadership roles across retail, technology, and logistics, including serving as President of Amazon Fashion during its rise to the #1 fashion retailer in the U.S. With more than two decades at the intersection of technology and consumer experience, Muge has scaled transformative platforms across e-commerce, fulfillment, and generative AI. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.
AWS expert
Matt Yanchyshyn
Vice President, Marketplace & Partner Services, AWSMatt Yanchyshyn is the VP for AWS Marketplace & Partner Services. He has worked in the digital media and technology industry for over 25 years, and joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2012 when cloud computing was just a glimmer in most CIOs’ eyes. Matt has led multiple AWS service teams and technical sales organizations, including AWS Control Tower, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Well-Architected, and now all engineering for AWS’ partner organization. Before joining AWS, Matt spent a decade at the Associated Press, where he built field offices all over the world and led modernization efforts for the AP’s digital media distribution systems. Matt holds multiple AWS patents, is an Amazon Bar Raiser with >650 interviews, and has had the privilege of leading great teams who have launched dozens of new AWS programs, features, and products.
Customer speaker
Jae Lee
CEO & Co-founder, TwelveLabsJae Lee is the CEO and Co-founder of TwelveLabs, a global leader in video understanding AI. TwelveLabs builds multimodal foundation models that can see, hear, and understand video like humans — powering next-generation search, analysis, and content generation. TwelveLabs’ technology is used by global media conglomerates, major sports leagues, and government agencies in South Korea and the United States. The company has raised over $120 million to date from top-tier investors, including NVIDIA, Samsung, NAVER, Databricks, Snowflake, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Radical Ventures, and Index Ventures. TwelveLabs is also supported by high-profile angel investors, including Fei-Fei Li (Stanford HAI), Alexandr Wang (Founder of Scale AI), and Giancarlo Lionetti (Chief Commercial Officer, OpenAI). TwelveLabs is one of just 12 foundation model providers selected for Amazon Bedrock, joining the ranks of Meta (Llama), Anthropic (Claude), and DeepSeek (R1) — an achievement few companies in the world can claim.
Jae studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and completed his military service as a data scientist at the Republic of Korea Cyber Operations Command, where he met his cofounders. With teams in both Korea and the US, he now leads a global organization advancing the frontier of video intelligence and reshaping how machines see and understand the world.
AWS expert
Clare Liguori
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWSFor over a decade at Amazon, Clare's objective has been delighting developers. She works on developer tooling and agentic AI, re-imagining how applications are built and how productive developers can be when their tools are powered by generative AI and AI agents. Her current focus is Kiro and Strands Agents SDK. Clare previously worked on AWS Proton, Amazon ECS, and the AWS Code Suite, as well as several open source projects. Before joining Amazon in 2014, Clare was a software engineer at Motorola Solutions working on products in the WiFi technology space. Clare holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.