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Keynotes
Join Adam Selipsky, AWS experts, and industry leaders from the world of cloud computing for must-see announcements, the latest product launches, and inspiring customer stories.
Adam Selipsky
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Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services
Adam Selipsky is the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Having previously led AWS Marketing, Sales, and Support for 11 years, from 2005–2016, Selipsky helped launch and grow AWS from a startup into a multi-billion dollar business. Prior to rejoining AWS in 2021, Selipsky was most recently President and CEO of Tableau Software. He led Tableau through its acquisition by Salesforce, in what was the third-largest software industry acquisition at the time. Selipsky has also held various leadership roles at RealNetworks, and before that, was a Principal at strategy consulting firm Mercer Management Consulting. He has an AB in government from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Swami Sivasubramanian
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Vice President, Amazon Machine Learning
Swami Sivasubramanian is Vice President at AWS in charge of all Amazon AI and machine learning services. His team’s mission is “to put machine learning capabilities in the hands of every developer and data scientist.” Swami and the AWS AI and ML organization work on all aspects of machine learning, from ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Apache MXNet, and PyTorch) and infrastructure, to Amazon SageMaker (an end-to-end service for building, training, and deploying ML models in the cloud and at the edge), and finally AI services (Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, Amazon Personalize, Amazon Forecast, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Lex, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Kendra, etc.) that make it easier for app developers to incorporate ML into their apps with no ML experience required.
Previously, Swami managed AWS’s NoSQL and big data services. He managed the engineering, product management, and operations for AWS database services that are the foundational building blocks for AWS: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache (in-memory engines), Amazon QuickSight, and a few other big data services in the works. Swami has been awarded more than 250 patents, authored 40 referred scientific papers and journals, and participates in several academic circles and conferences.
Peter DeSantis
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Senior Vice President, AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support
Peter DeSantis is the Senior Vice President of AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support. In this role, he leads the AWS teams responsible for designing the data centers, servers, and network that underpin our AWS services and for deploying and operating this infrastructure worldwide as well as for the customer-facing organizations providing support for our AWS products.
Peter joined Amazon in 1998. Prior to joining AWS, Peter worked in various other groups within Amazon, including leading the distributed systems engineering group. In March 2006, Peter joined AWS as the General Manager of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Peter led the Amazon EC2 team through the 2006 initial launch of the service and went on to lead a number of AWS products focused on compute and networking until he accepted the role of Vice President, AWS Global Infrastructure in October 2016. In January of 2018, Peter expanded his role to include AWS Customer Support. In February 2020, Peter accepted the title of Senior Vice President.
Peter earned a bachelor of arts with a dual major in economics and computer science from Dartmouth College.
Ruba Borno
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Vice President, Worldwide Channels & Alliances, AWS
Ruba Borno is the Vice President of Worldwide Channels & Alliances for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Central to the success of AWS and its customers, Ruba leads the AWS Partner Organization (APO), a global team responsible for recruiting, enabling, buying, and selling activities, working within the AWS Partner Network and through the AWS Marketplace with over 100,000 companies in more than 150 countries. The APO is customer-obsessed, providing innovative programs and services to its diverse partner community of global systems integrators, regional and national systems integrators, solutions providers, distributors, data providers, service providers, consulting partners, and independent software vendors to build and scale their businesses.
Werner Vogels
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Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision. As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations. Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University, where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.