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.
Innovation talks
All innovation talks for AWS re:Invent 2024 are now complete. See below for all videos currently available on-demand, and be on the look out for more videos added in the coming days.
Deep dives hosted by AWS thought leaders
AI/ML
Dr. Baskar Sridharan
Vice President, AI/ML Services & Infrastructure, AWSAs generative AI (gen AI) transitions to production systems in 2024, early adopters are reaping rewards like accelerated productivity and customer experiences. Organizations must build customized gen AI models and applications aligning with their use cases and culture. Robust data strategies incorporating ingestion, storage, processing, and governance are critical, requiring architectural best practices for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Businesses are also involving business users in the build and development process through low-code no-code tools, unlocking gen AI's power. By embracing these best practices, companies can realize gen AI's full, scalable potential, driving tangible business value.
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.
Analytics
Sirish Chandrasekaran
Vice President, Amazon Redshift, AWSRick Sears
Director, Data Processing & Experiences, AWSThe boundaries between data analytics and AI are blurring as data workers’ behaviors evolve and previously distinct data roles and use cases converge. Getting to near real-time, trustworthy insights has become paramount, so data workers are seeking seamless collaboration and interoperability across tools and data sources. In this talk, join Sirish Chandrasekaran, Vice President for Amazon Redshift at AWS, and Rick Sears, Director for Data Processing & Governance at AWS, to envision a future with AWS where your data workers can effortlessly move between analyzing historical patterns, predicting future scenarios, and automating decision flows at scale, breaking through disparate tools and siloed workflows.
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
G2 Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Database Services, AWSJeff Carter
Vice President, Databases & Migration Services, AWSJoin G2 Krishnamoorthy, VP of AWS Databases, and Jeff Carter, VP at AWS, as they share our data vision and innovation agenda to help customers modernize their applications to enable generative AI–enabled experiences for innovative user experiences. Learn how AWS databases are making it easier to integrate and manage your data, build highly available and resilient applications for your most mission-critical workloads, and seamlessly take advantage of generative AI advancements. Hear from Eric Peters of NFL Media, Dr. Céline Laurent-Winter of BMW, and Sanjay Nair of United Airlines about the solutions they built using AWS databases as their foundation.
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
Scott Mullins
Managing Director, Financial Services, AWSLearn how financial services companies are working with AWS to harness new technologies to move their businesses—and the broader industry—in bold new directions. Hear directly from industry leaders who are using AWS infrastructure and services to convert big ideas into action. These leaders are differentiating their brands by completely rethinking established industry offerings, building products that anticipate customer needs, and evolving business models to access untapped markets. Discover how cutting-edge tools and capabilities are helping financial institutions personalize the customer experience at scale, improve business decision-making, and make it easier for consumers to realize their financial goals.
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
Dan SheeranGeneral Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWS
Healthcare and life sciences are harnessing the power of generative AI to unlock new possibilities for drug discovery, clinical trials, and patient care. In this talk, explore how leading healthcare and life sciences organizations are successfully integrating generative AI throughout their organizations to deliver real business value. Explore how these organizations are building enterprise-wide data strategies and data systems to break down internal data silos and fuel their data and generative AI initiatives. Gain insights and best practices for successfully operationalizing and scaling generative AI from pilot projects to production deployments across the health continuum.
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
Dr. Asa Kalavade
Vice President, Migrations & Modernization, AWSMany organizations struggle with getting value out of existing applications and the data locked in them. This talk explores how AWS is simplifying the most complex migration and modernization tasks to accelerate transformation of legacy systems and unlock cloud innovation. Learn about breakthrough AWS services that will change the way you discover, plan, and execute migration and modernization opportunities across teams to upgrade, replatform, and refactor applications to modern architectures. Discover ways to efficiently move and improve your mission-critical applications and data in the cloud to reduce operational costs and licensing fees, accelerate innovation, and mitigate the risks in delayed maintenance of legacy codebases.
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.