AWS for Software Companies Podcast

We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders, founders and co-founders from Cohesity, HashiCorp, Postman and SentinelOne sharing how they grew their software business, software trends they are seeing and growth plans for 2024Panelists:Mohit Aron, Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer, CohesityArmon Dadgar, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, HashiCorp Ankit Sobti, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, PostmanEly Kahn, Vice President of Product for Cloud Security and AI/ML, SentinelOneCarol Potts, Director ISV Sales, North America, Amazon Web ServicesTopics Include:Software trends being seen in the market todayIntroductions from each panellistSeeing a market opportunity and the founders’ journeyThe evolving vision of software companiesInvolvement & impact of AWSReactions to present day market conditionsChanges for various sized customersStrategies for delivering value and staying nimbleWhere are software companies pushing for growth?Impact and approach to generative AISoftware and growth strategies for 2024Session wrap up

We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders from Appen, Coinbase, Rapid7 and AWS sharing strategies and best practices to optimize their businesses to free up budgets and enable further software innovations. Panelists:Bobby Smith, Vice President of IT and Engineering, AppenSumanth Sukumar, Vice President Engineering, CoinbaseElaine Hardwick, Director of Engineering, Rapid7Sree Ratnasinghe, Director, NAMER Tech, Amazon Web ServicesTopics Include:Potential future market and impact of driving optimizationHow optimization drove innovationUsing optimization to free up budget & time for growth programsOptimization becomes part of the organizational cultureLessons learned through optimizationRunning internal competitions to drive innovation and modernizationAWS’ “Experience Based Accelerator” 3 day hackathon-style optimization programLeveraging AWS to help optimize to invest in generative AIInvestment returns in Bedrock and Code WhispererEnsuring team alignment for optimization focusMaking roadmap trade-offs – features v optimizationFinal thoughts, panel wrap up

We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders from Canva, Databricks, Okta, PagerDuty and AWS discussing modern data strategies for software companies.Panelists:Fawaz Ahmed, Senior Director of Engineering, CanvaDavid Meyer, SVP of Product Management, DatabricksBhawna Singh, CTO, OktaTim Armandpour, CTO, PagerDutyBarry Morris, GM, In-Memory and Emerging DB, AWSTopics Include:Sharing approach to data strategiesCanva providing and leveraging user analytics.Databricks data strategy and architectureProcessing data with minimal latencyGovernance and challenges with generative AIBeyond the chatbots - fundamental shifts in data strategy with generative AIManaging data for generative AI verification and trustTraining and fine-tuning data modelsPrioritizing data integration and evolutionHow will generative AI evolve data over the coming yearsCan providing insights be monetized?Technology requirements for driving data-based decision makingPredictions for data and generative AI

Description:Today, a fascinating panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent November 2023, featuring software leaders from Anthropic, Freshworks, Genesys, Snaplogic and AWS discussing the disruption, impact and opportunities of generative AI for software companies. Panelists:Matt Bell, Member of Technical Staff, AnthropicSiddhartha Agarwal, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Operations, FreshworksGlenn Nethercutt, Chief Technology Officer, GenesysJeremiah Stone, Chief Technology Officer, SnaplogicSherry Marcus Ph.D, Director of Applied Science, Generative AI, AWSAndy Perkins, Director ISV Sales, AWSTopics Include:Observations of the current state of generative AIHow will AI continue to disrupt industries?Agents and bots to help employers scaleImpact of generative AI on retail and supportLeveraging generative AI and automation to become lean and reduce wasteRisk management for generative AIEthical concerns – Security, data accuracy and privacyManaging/reducing “jailbreaks” – users attempting to break the modelsDeveloping leadership clarity and in-house expertise for large language modelsIncreased power of Product Managers, evolution of engineering departmentsHow SaaS companies work with generative AILeveraging AWS Bedrock for accelerationAdvice for Software Executives going into generative AIPartnering with AWS for POCs

We present a panel discussion with software leaders from Contrast Security and Tenable sharing guidance and best practices for security in DevOps practices. Panelists are:Mike Clausen - Director of Product Management, Contrast SecurityPhillip Hayes - Director Information Security, TenableTemi Adebambo - Head of Security Solutions Architecture, AWSTopics Include:The significance of introducing security into the DevOps processes for Modern ArchitecturesBalancing need for speed & agility with need for securityCommon challenges in security in DevOpsWhat does “Shift Left” mean to the panelists?Considerations & guidance for “shifting left”Best Practices for security testing & vulnerability managementSuggested metrics for organizational leaders 

Enjoy our panel discussion with executive leaders from ChaosSearch, Sentra and ZeroFox and discuss some best practices for secure data management and compliance in the cloud.Speakers:Thomas Hazel, CTO & Chief Scientist, ChaosSearchYoav Regev, CEO and Co-founder, SentraMike Price, Chief Technology Officer, ZeroFoxMark Terenzoni, Service Leader, AWS, Amazon Inspector and Amazon DetectiveTopics Include:Customers concerned about size of dataHow AWS manages large amounts of dataChallenges of compliance with data storagePeople challenges with data securityGetting security info from customers isn’t always easyComplexity of security options still challenging to many customers

Today we have a panel of software industry leaders from Braze, N-able and Rapid 7 discussing how to use security as a strategic advantage Speakers:Mark Shasha, Head of Security, BrazeUlrich Dangel, Director of Engineering, Rapid7Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management, N-ableClayton Smith, Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web ServicesTopics Include:Thesis: Security is good for businessIs security a differentiator and lead to sales?Is your customer base being more educated on security issues?How have you built a culture of security?How do you hire for a security cultureAre security teams involved in sales discussions?Is security risk communication easier with the cloud?

We feature a roundtable discussion with several software industry leaders on how their organizations leveraged Kubernetes for their AI and ML workloads as well as lessons learned from the experience.Featuring:Amreth Chandrasehar - Director of MLOps, SRE and Observability, InformaticaÚlfar Erlingsson - Chief Architect, LaceworkMurli Thirumale - General Manager of the Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure StorageBarry Cooks - VP Kubernetes, AWSTopics include:Huge amounts of AI/ML workloads at AWSWhat is the path from data to value for customers?What were challenges with leveraging Kubernetes?What were the top wins, biggest regrets & lessons learned from leveraging Kubernetes?

Today we feature a roundtable discussion on organizational adoption, benefits and best practices for deploying serverless containers featuring Skylar Graika, Product & Engineering Leader of Smartsheet and Jeet Kaul, Senior Vice President of Jumio, moderated by Banjot Chanana of AWS.Topics include:Serverless session introsWhere does “Serverless” start and stop?How did Serverless get adopted within the organization?Reaction of developers and Operations teams to ServerlessAny unintended benefits from adopting Serverless?Cost structures of shifting to serverlessHow to approach 3rd parties with serverlessObtaining executive sponsorship for business caseSession wrap-up

We share a roundtable discussion on Generative AI featuring Chris Cholette, Agile VP Engineering and SRE for Navan, Swapnil Paranjpe, Senior data Practitioner at Persistent, Gregor Stewart, VP of Artificial intelligence at SentinelOne and all hosted by Matt Thompson of AWS.Topics include:Intro to Matt Thompson4 Pillars of Generative AI for AWSIntroductions of panelHow much is your day is GenAI?How much retraining for techniques for data science or engineer teams?Why are you incorporating GenAI?How do we test for quality of output?When to use an ML model or a foundation model?Session wrap-up