CRLIVE34: AWS re:Invent Day 2: Industry verticalisation with Ozgur Tohumcu & Rachel Skaff, AWS

Live from the Yardbird in Las Vegas, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes from AWS re:Invent 2025. Join us as we check in with AWS and take an industry temperature check.  Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip from the Strip.
 
On the second packed day of the conference Dave and Rob talk about vertical adoption of Cloud, and how it is being adopted to drive industry innovation, with:

• Ozgur Tohumcu, GM Automotive & Manufacturing about Innovation in the Automotive Industry
• Rachel Skaff, MD North America Partner & Channel Sales all Industries, about Transforming the Industries

plus Databricks drop by to talk about Data Swamps in Public Sector!

TLDR
01:11  Setting the scene for Day 2 by the team
08:48 Transforming the Industries with Rachel Skaff
38:24  Innovation in the Automotive Industry with Ozgur Tohumcu
1:03:56 Data Swamps with Databricks
1:17:40 Reflections on Day 2 by the team

Guests
Ozgur Tohumcu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozgur-tohumcu-321a87/
Rachel Skaff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelskaff/

Hosts
Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/
Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/

Production
Marcel van der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/
Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/

Sound
Ben Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/
Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/

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