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Peter DeSantis
SVP, Utility Computing, AWSPeter owns world-wide engineering, operations, and product management for AWS Services and AWS Custom Silicon. He joined AWS in March 2006 as the General Manager of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), where he led the EC2 team through the 2006 initial launch of the service. He then went on to lead a number of AWS products focused on compute and networking. In 2016, Peter was named VP, AWS Global Infrastructure, and in 2018 he expanded his role to include AWS Customer Support. He later held the role of SVP of AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support. Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Dr. Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon.comAs one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, Werner is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations. Werner joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University, where he was a distributed systems researcher. He’s also held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Werner holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. On his blog, All Things Distributed, Werner shares thought leadership content on a range of topics, including his annual technology predictions.
Dr. Ruba Borno
VP, Global Specialists and Partners, AWSRuba leads the AWS Partner Organization (APO), a global team responsible for recruiting, enabling, buying, and selling with more than 100,000 companies in more than 150 countries within the AWS Partner Network (APN). She’s also responsible for AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange, helping customers move quickly and responsibly to the cloud by making it easy to find, subscribe, and govern third-party software, data, and professional services. Prior to joining AWS, Ruba held several leadership positions over the course of her six-year tenure with Cisco. She is a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders and also served on the Board of Directors at Experian. Ruba holds a PhD and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian
VP, Agentic AI, AWSDr. Swami Sivasubramanian is Vice President for Agentic AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS). At AWS, Swami has led the development and growth of leading AI services like Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Q. His team’s mission is to provide the scale, flexibility, and value that customers and partners require to innovate using agentic AI with confidence and build agents that are not just powerful and efficient, but also trustworthy and responsible. Swami also served from May 2022 through May 2025 as a member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, which was tasked with advising the President of the United States and the National AI Initiative Office on topics related to the National AI Initiative.