AWS for Software Companies Podcast

We feature a panel discussion featuring Michael Brown, VP of Technology at Auvik Networks, Rob Woolley, VP of Technology Operations at Benevity moderated by Jeff Klaus of AWS sharing best practices on global expansion. Topics include:The most successful AWS customers are on multiple continentsWhat are the goals for wanting to expand overseas?Going global through acquisitionCopying services to various regions with AWSAWS helping to establish beachheads in new marketsManaging challenges of data residencyBest practices for staffing in a new marketNorth American marketing often doesn’t work in other marketsWorking with resellers in a new marketSession wrap up

This week we’re sharing a panel discussion featuring Mohan Rao - Vice President, Cyber Security Platform at Arctic Wolf, Ramon Pinero - Vice President of Product and Services at BlackBerry AtHoc, Cuneyt Karul - Senior Director, Information Security and Product Privacy at Hootsuite and Wayne Duso, Vice President of Engineering and Product at AWS discussing security models and organizational best practices.Management of the security function in various organizationsSecurity risk register and process best practicesGoing from the “Department of ‘No’” to “Department of ‘Yes and..’”Helping teams become security championsTransformation of the AWS security organizationSecurity visibility of CxOs & ExecutivesBuilding security governance & compliance structureImpact of generative AI on security practice

Barry Morris of AWS discusses Modern Data Strategies with Riaz Raihan, President of Products & Engineering at Alida, on how they have designed their data strategy to manage through the extraordinary complexities of handling large volumes of data.Barry Morris introductionBuilding modern data strategiesData-driven product designRiaz Raihan, President of Products & Engineering at AlidaCollecting large volumes of dataManaging security of large volumes of data beyond standard complianceRebooting Alida – focusing on customer outcomesDriving growth, profit and enabling speedScaling Voice of Employee program for 225,000 employees in 2 daysExecutive alignment is crucial for successManagement, security, protection of data in fundamental

Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist and Head of AI Lab at data.world shares case studies and best practices for creating cultures of enablement around data quality and behaviours.Topics Include:Juan Sequeda introductionFoundation of knowledge & data graphs for AI2 million users in the OpenData catalogue, 40% of Fortune 500OneWeb Case Study – data from satellitesThe Culture of Enablement to empower your organization with dataOneWeb using AWS SagemakerPrologis Real Estate logistics data case studyTying staff rewards to data quality and behavioursDeveloping a culture of changeSession wrap up

AdPredictive’s Ali Levitan, EVP of Business Development & Growth, and Laura Crossley, VP of Experience, join us to discuss how AdPredictive’s partnership with AWS Clean Rooms is empowering marketing teams with data-driven tools. Topics Include:Introduction to Ali Levitan & Laura CrossleySolving the big problems for MarketersThe challenges marketers are facing in current environmentThe partnership of AWS Clean Rooms and AdPredictiveUse Cases and Success StoriesExpanding the power of data to non-technical marketing teamsOvercoming challenges throughout the integrationInnovating and staying focusedAdvice for other software leadersAdPredictive is passionate about supporting marketersAccessing the AdPredictive solutionInterview wrap upFree Trial of AdPredictive's tools are available here.

Tim LoGrasso of Kickdrum and Matt Thompson of AWS host a roundtable sharing best practices for software mergers and acquisitions.Topic include:Karthik Krishnamurthy introductionTim LoGrasso, Kickdrum introductionMaturity model for calculating risk in M&AM&A changes and challenges in 2023Matt Thompson, AWS introductionIs architecture a focus when considering M&A?Most M&A struggles due to product team misalignmentContainers, APIs in compute infrastructure easier to integrate than MonolithsM&As are often driven by Finance and Business Development, not so much Product TeamsTime metric to measure success and failure for M&AsBuilding a case for M&A vs buildPreethi Srinivasan (Druva, DataStax) on due diligence for M&A considerationsPre-integration Proof of Concepts increase the success rate90 day and 12 month plans with funding models to deliver the joint opportunityUnderstand the ‘white space’ to address with the combination of productsWhat can product teams do to accelerate value?Identify potential friction points and how to addressAccess to cheap compute power is importantGuidance on managing customer data during M&AThe customer data to reviewManaging people risk during an M&ASession wrap up

Deepak Thakral, VP of eCommerce at McAfee and Bob Page, SVP of Product at Tealium discuss Software Data Architectures and share best practices in a roundtable hosted by AWS’s Denise Zelt.Topics include:Deepak Thakral of McAfee introductionBob Page of Tealium introductionBob Page on helping customers with their end users and creating business valueSetting up priorities for data architecture and roadmapLessons learned from TealiumDeepak: How McAfee manages high performance & security with increasing dataShankar Venkataraman of Jivox on scaling and processing 10 times data volume in past 3 yearsSteven Tiell of DataStax on performing real time AI of time series dataBob Page on adoption of microservices and best practicesTradeoffs of transitioning from monolithic to micro servicesYuan Liu of Stripe on service oriented architecture vs microservicesAmit Pande of Dhruva providing SaaS based data protectionFinal thoughts and recommendations from Bob Page and Deepak Thakral

Grady Summers and Marty Bowers of Sailpoint share how their partnership with AWS resulted in their product running 1800x faster at 1/50th of the cost.Grady Summers & Marty Bowers introductionAutomating access and recertificationLeveraging Infrequent Access Tables in Dynamo DB for cost reduction and autoscalingGuidance and lessons learned

Sam Lakkundi, Vice President of Innovation and Head of Innovation Labs at BMC, share insight on the roadmap and massive benefits applying the power of data and the cloud to the Manufacturing industry.Topics include:About BMC SoftwareMoving their stack to AWSThe rapid change of the manufacturing industryPredicting and simulating downtime w a digital modelCreation of BMC HelixLeveraging AWS Sagemaker and TwinmakerSimulating manufacturing changes to identify opportunities to actionPresentation wrap up

Dr Lou Kratz, Principle Research Engineer of Bazaarvoice, shares how his organization generates value from data, cutting time to value by 6x and leveraging AWS to save big on cloud costs.Topics include:Making smart decisions automatically from data with machine learningBazaarvoice business modelUnderstanding value is the most important part of any machine learning projectLeveraging AI/ML for content moderationLeveraging AWS SagemakerBeing cost effective with serverless optionsCutting time to value by 6x with savings of 82%Investing in ML OpsFinal recommendations for data and ML Ops