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.

AIM203 | Migrating to Amazon Bedrock and accelerating gen AI app development

AIM303 | Customize FMs with advanced techniques using Amazon SageMaker

AIM214 | Boost productivity and empower revenue teams with generative AI

Dilip leads the Amazon Q Business organization, including Amazon Q Business, Amazon Q Apps, Amazon QuickSight, and AWS App Studio. Dilip joined Amazon in July 2003 and has held a variety of roles in Amazon’s consumer business. He is credited for helping bring cutting-edge AI and machine learning to Amazon’s core retail systems. He has led teams responsible for global retail pricing and promotions strategy, retail supply chain management, worldwide customer demand forecasting, and affiliate marketing strategy, as well as serving for two years as Jeff Bezos’s Technical Advisor. During his 10 years as VP of Physical Retail and Technology, he oversaw teams responsible for innovations to the checkout-free services and biometric identity and payment services—including Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Dash Carts, and Amazon One—that power many of Amazon’s own stores as well as hundreds of third-party brands. In 2022, Dilip joined the AWS team, broadening his portfolio to include the retail technology and applications teams, including Amazon Connect, End User Computing, Supply Chain, and Messaging services. He took over the Amazon Q Business team in May 2024. Dilip was recognized as one of Adweek’s Top 50 executives for 2022. Dilip holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and earned his MBA at The Wharton School.

AIM237 | What’s new with Amazon Q Business

AIM228 | How Principal Financial improved productivity with Amazon Q Business

AIM344-R1 | Understanding the deep security controls within Amazon Q Business

Sirish joined Amazon in 2016 and held various engineering and product responsibilities across Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS before taking on his current role as Director of Amazon Redshift. Prior to joining Amazon, Sirish was an executive at Dropbox, where he held various roles focusing on their B2B offering—Dropbox for Business—supporting the company’s scaling efforts throughout a sustained period of hypergrowth. Before Dropbox, Sirish was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked across a range of strategy, operations, and technology issues with companies around the world. Sirish received his PhD and MS in computer science from UC Berkeley and BTech in computer science and engineering from IIT Madras.

Rick Sears leads strategic direction and overall performance as the General Manager for Data Processing and Governance Services at AWS. With more than 23 years of experience in the software industry and more than 15 of those years at AWS, he has driven engineering and product delivery in messaging, workflow, storage, networking, and analytics services. Prior to leading data processing services, he served as Technical Advisor to the SVP of Utility Computing for AWS and led engineering for networking and API scaling, permissions, and performance for object storage at AWS as Amazon S3 Director of Engineering. Rick holds a degree in computer science from the University of Georgia.

ANT302 | Data foundation in the age of generative AI

ANT303 | Explore what’s new in data governance with AWS Analytics

ANT349 | Innovations in AWS analytics: Data warehousing and SQL analytics

Shaown joined AWS five years ago and currently leads technology for AWS Global Sales. He and his worldwide team partner with a range of customers, from startups to large enterprises, to build innovative solutions that transform their businesses and industries. 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.

Ben joined AWS in 2017 and is currently APJ Director, AWS Global Sales Technology. He leads solutions architects and customer solutions managers who enable digital transformation, new customer experiences, and business innovation outcomes for customers across Asia-Pacific and Japan. Before joining AWS, Ben spent 15 years at General Electric as a CTO and VP of Software Engineering, where he was an early adopter of AWS and led General Electric’s transformation journey to the cloud.

ARC301 | Rapidly build a generative AI-based full-stack application on AWS

ARC302 | Observability-driven development

Nandini leads the monitoring and observability cloud services 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 Twitter and 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.

COP322 | Don't get stuck: How connected telemetry keeps you moving forward

COP402 | Dive deep on AWS cloud governance

COP404 | Best practices for generative AI observability

David 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 and resizable compute and networking capacity in the cloud. Over the past 15 years, he’s held several roles within Amazon EC2, shaping the service into what it is today. Prior to joining Amazon, David worked as a software developer within a financial industry startup.

HYB201 | AWS wherever you need it: From the cloud to the edge

CMP320 | AWS Graviton: The best price performance for your AWS workloads

CMP101 | What's new with Amazon EC2

G2 leads the teams responsible for AWS database services, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS DMS, AWS Glue Data Catalog, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Neptune, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Timestream. G2 brings two decades of experience in databases, big data analytics, and machine learning, having built various parts of the SQL Server database, Azure Analytics, and Azure ML at Microsoft. Prior to joining Amazon, G2 built and ran the analytics and machine learning platform at Facebook/Meta.

With more than 30 years of industry experience, Jeff is a thought leader in data modernization, transforming how organizations manage data in the cloud. Prior to his current role he was VP for Data at Amazon.com, CISO for Amazon.com, and VP/GM of Database/Platforms at Teradata. Jeff also serves as chairperson on the Council of Advisors for University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

DAT424 | Get started with the latest Amazon Aurora innovations

DAT317 | Deep dive into Amazon Neptune and its innovations

DAT306 | Convert, migrate, and replicate your databases with AWS DMS

Mai-Lan leads the essential data services that AWS customers rely on to create modern, cloud-based applications using analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Mai-Lan was named one of the Top 15 people in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence, and she appeared on the AI 100 and Cloudverse 100 lists, which recognize the top 100 leaders innovating in the cloud and in AI, respectively. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Mai-Lan is a pioneer in helping customers take advantage of cloud-based technologies to transform their businesses. At Amazon, she is also an advisor to the board of Asians@Amazon, a sponsor for women in technology at AWS, the owner of a monthly leadership training series, and is passionate about AWS initiatives that maximize human potential.

STG209-INT | AWS storage services: The foundation for data-driven innovation

ANT405 | Data engineering for ML and AI with AWS analytics

STG201 | Build a data foundation to fuel generative AI

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 25 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.

DOP205-R | Learning new skills with Amazon Q Developer

DOP210 | Accelerate multi-step SDLC tasks with Amazon Q Developer Agents

DOP209 | Accelerate application maintenance and upgrades with generative AI

Scott is responsible for leading the development and execution of AWS strategic global initiatives in the financial services industry. He began his career as an equity trader and has worked in the industry for the past 26 years at firms such as Nasdaq, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide. Scott works closely with industry leaders, global regulators, and policy makers 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 US FDIC’s Subcommittee for Supervision Modernization.

FSI202 | Beyond productivity: Using generative AI to grow in financial services

FSI318 | Fidelity Investments: Building for mission-critical resilience

FSI316 | NatWest: Personalizing customer experience with Amazon Connect & AI/ML

Pasquale leads Amazon Connect, which has become one of the fastest growing services in AWS history and is used by Amazon customer service associates around the world to power millions of customer conversations. He has 20 years of experience in delivering world-class B2B and B2C products. Prior to Amazon Connect, Pasquale worked on machine learning, augmented reality, maps, and mobile. His specialties include operating SaaS at scale, delivering great customer experiences, exploring UX, and technology innovation.

BIZ213 | How Amazon.com powers customer-obsessed service with Amazon Connect

BIZ211 | How Air Canada is innovating customer service across lines of business

BIZ218 | How Frontdoor, Inc. boosts agent productivity with Amazon Connect

Dan leads the AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Business Unit (HCLS IBU), which supports AWS customers in life sciences, medical devices, payors, data services, and healthcare ISVs and OEMs. The HCLS IBU helps customers leverage AWS cloud and machine learning services, as well as solutions from AWS Partners, to discover and develop new therapies, diagnostics, and devices and to deliver healthcare more efficiently with improved patient outcomes. Prior to joining AWS in 2019, Dan founded and led two digital health startups focused on telehealth and machine learning for chronic disease prevention and management.

HLS215 | How Merck improves drug design with biological foundation models

HLS303-R | Accelerate cancer biomaker discovery with Amazon Bedrock Agents

HLS305 | Optimize clinical documentation with generative AI: NextGen case study

At AWS, Samira champions diversity and leads a high-performing, multigenerational team of builders. For close to two decades, her work at AWS and Cisco, where she served as Director of Media Operations, led to strategic alignment and business transformations with some of the world’s largest entertainment companies. She has a proven track record in tech strategy, business development, and sales, focusing on introducing innovation and enhancing operational efficiency in the areas of content production, media supply chain, broadcast distribution, OTT, interactive experiences, and content monetization. Samira’s philanthropic work has always been a strong personal driver, and as a result she launched Bridge2Act in 2015, a venture focused on transforming the giving landscape through the use of technology. Passionate about advancing the status of women in technology, she is also a presence in media, tech, and the New York City-based entrepreneurial community, as well as throughout major nonprofits and social impact organizations.

ARC311 | Scaling Prime Video for peak NFL streaming on AWS

MAE309 | Scaling technology for millions of cricket fans on AWS

MAE305 | AI-enhanced media archives: Classify, discover, and monetize

Asa leads migration and modernization products for AWS. Prior to this role, Asa led a multiyear transformation of AWS go-to-market tools and systems, which included generative AI capabilities on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q such as on-demand customer research, conversational agents, and semi-autonomous prospecting and pipeline management based on agentic architectures. Before that, she led a portfolio of hybrid storage and data transfer services, helping customers migrate on-premises storage, data, and EDI workflows to AWS. Prior to joining AWS in 2016, Asa founded and ran two venture-backed startups, and she remains active mentoring startups in the Boston community. Asa received her PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and holds over 40 patents.

MAM205 | Completing a large-scale migration and modernization

MAM230 | Elevating the traveler experience: Marriott’s digital transformation

DOP401-R | Modernizing Java applications with Amazon Q Developer

David 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 and resizable compute and networking capacity in the cloud. Over the past 15 years, he’s held several roles within Amazon EC2, shaping the service into what it is today. Prior to joining Amazon, David worked as a software developer within a financial industry startup.

NET301 | Advanced VPC design and what’s new in VPC

NET317 | AWS application networking: Build simple, secure, and reliable apps

NET202 | Design well-architected networks on AWS

Chris joined AWS in 2023 and leads the development and implementation of security policies with the aim of managing risk and aligning the company’s security posture with business objectives. He’s held security leadership roles at Apple, Capital One, Microsoft, and the National Security Agency. Chris is an alumnus of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

SEC217 | Building a resilient and effective culture of security

SEC218 | Emotionally intelligent security leadership to drive business impact

SEC229 | Digital sovereignty: Overcome complexity and enable future-readiness

Andy leads a global team of engineers who build some of the largest data services at AWS, such as Amazon S3, which is used by millions of customers to run real-time analytics on their data and power their businesses. He has led storage integrations for AI/ML workloads, delivered new high-performance storage services, and reshaped the hardware and infrastructure layers of AWS storage systems. In 2023, Andy and his team also launched Amazon S3 Express One Zone, the world’s fastest cloud object store for request-intensive operations like data analytics and generative AI. Andy has over one hundred patents and research publications and his work has over 20,000 citations. He was the recipient of the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award which recognizes the most influential Operating Systems papers. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded a Canada Research Chair and a Sloan Research Fellowship.

STG201 | Build a data foundation to fuel generative AI

STG208 | Data on AWS: The key to success for 3 AI innovators

STG211 | What's new with Amazon FSx and Amazon EFS

Dave leads government, education, healthcare, aerospace and satellite, and nonprofit businesses globally. Previously, Dave served for six years as the Vice President of US Government, Nonprofit, and Global Healthcare businesses at AWS. Before joining AWS, Dave worked for Apple Inc. for 12 years and led the teams that helped the government adopt innovative mobile technologies. In addition to his executive career, Dave co-founded and served as COO at Sulla, where he built a successful datacenter services company focused on higher education clients and state and local governments. Dave serves on the M Health Fairview Health System board in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Innovation and Research Board for Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC.