AWS for Software Companies Podcast

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Ep027: Building and Sustaining a Successful Software Company Jan 23, 2024

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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 2024

Panelists:

Mohit Aron, Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer, Cohesity
Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, HashiCorp
Ankit Sobti, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Postman
Ely Kahn, Vice President of Product for Cloud Security and AI/ML, SentinelOne
Carol Potts, Director ISV Sales, North America, Amazon Web Services

Topics Include:

Software trends being seen in the market today
Introductions from each panellist
Seeing a market opportunity and the founders’ journey
The evolving vision of software companies
Involvement & impact of AWS
Reactions to present day market conditions
Changes for various sized customers
Strategies for delivering value and staying nimble
Where are software companies pushing for growth?
Impact and approach to generative AI
Software and growth strategies for 2024
Session wrap up

Ep026: Driving a Culture of Innovation through Optimization Jan 16, 2024

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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, Appen
Sumanth Sukumar, Vice President Engineering, Coinbase
Elaine Hardwick, Director of Engineering, Rapid7
Sree Ratnasinghe, Director, NAMER Tech, Amazon Web Services

Topics Include:

Potential future market and impact of driving optimization
How optimization drove innovation
Using optimization to free up budget & time for growth programs
Optimization becomes part of the organizational culture
Lessons learned through optimization
Running internal competitions to drive innovation and modernization
AWS’ “Experience Based Accelerator” 3 day hackathon-style optimization program
Leveraging AWS to help optimize to invest in generative AI
Investment returns in Bedrock and Code Whisperer
Ensuring team alignment for optimization focus
Making roadmap trade-offs – features v optimization
Final thoughts, panel wrap up

Ep025: Modern Data Strategies for Software Companies Jan 09, 2024

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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, Canva
David Meyer, SVP of Product Management, Databricks
Bhawna Singh, CTO, Okta
Tim Armandpour, CTO, PagerDuty
Barry Morris, GM, In-Memory and Emerging DB, AWS

Topics Include:

Sharing approach to data strategies
Canva providing and leveraging user analytics.
Databricks data strategy and architecture
Processing data with minimal latency
Governance and challenges with generative AI
Beyond the chatbots - fundamental shifts in data strategy with generative AI
Managing data for generative AI verification and trust
Training and fine-tuning data models
Prioritizing data integration and evolution
How will generative AI evolve data over the coming years
Can providing insights be monetized?
Technology requirements for driving data-based decision making
Predictions for data and generative AI

Ep024: Generative AI Disruption, Impact and Opportunities for Software Companies Dec 13, 2023

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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, Anthropic
Siddhartha Agarwal, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Operations, Freshworks
Glenn Nethercutt, Chief Technology Officer, Genesys
Jeremiah Stone, Chief Technology Officer, Snaplogic
Sherry Marcus Ph.D, Director of Applied Science, Generative AI, AWS
Andy Perkins, Director ISV Sales, AWS

Topics Include:

Observations of the current state of generative AI
How will AI continue to disrupt industries?
Agents and bots to help employers scale
Impact of generative AI on retail and support
Leveraging generative AI and automation to become lean and reduce waste
Risk management for generative AI
Ethical concerns – Security, data accuracy and privacy
Managing/reducing “jailbreaks” – users attempting to break the models
Developing leadership clarity and in-house expertise for large language models
Increased power of Product Managers, evolution of engineering departments
How SaaS companies work with generative AI
Leveraging AWS Bedrock for acceleration
Advice for Software Executives going into generative AI
Partnering with AWS for POCs

Ep023: Metrics & Best Practices for Security in DevOps Organizations Dec 08, 2023

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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 Security
Phillip Hayes - Director Information Security, Tenable
Temi Adebambo - Head of Security Solutions Architecture, AWS

Topics Include:

The significance of introducing security into the DevOps processes for Modern Architectures
Balancing need for speed & agility with need for security
Common challenges in security in DevOps
What does “Shift Left” mean to the panelists?
Considerations & guidance for “shifting left”
Best Practices for security testing & vulnerability management
Suggested metrics for organizational leaders

Ep022: Best Practices for Secure Data Management in the Cloud Nov 28, 2023

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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, ChaosSearch
Yoav Regev, CEO and Co-founder, Sentra
Mike Price, Chief Technology Officer, ZeroFox
Mark Terenzoni, Service Leader, AWS, Amazon Inspector and Amazon Detective

Topics Include:

Customers concerned about size of data
How AWS manages large amounts of data
Challenges of compliance with data storage
People challenges with data security
Getting security info from customers isn’t always easy
Complexity of security options still challenging to many customers

Ep021: How Strong Security can be Your Strategic Advantage Nov 14, 2023

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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, Braze
Ulrich Dangel, Director of Engineering, Rapid7
Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management, N-able
Clayton Smith, Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Topics Include:

Thesis: Security is good for business
Is 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 culture
Are security teams involved in sales discussions?
Is security risk communication easier with the cloud?

Ep020: Leveraging Kubernetes for AI/ML Workloads Oct 31, 2023

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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, Informatica
Úlfar Erlingsson - Chief Architect, Lacework
Murli Thirumale - General Manager of the Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage
Barry Cooks - VP Kubernetes, AWS

Topics include:

Huge amounts of AI/ML workloads at AWS
What 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?

Ep019: Reimagine Your Applications with Serverless Containers Oct 17, 2023

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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 intros
Where does “Serverless” start and stop?
How did Serverless get adopted within the organization?
Reaction of developers and Operations teams to Serverless
Any unintended benefits from adopting Serverless?
Cost structures of shifting to serverless
How to approach 3rd parties with serverless
Obtaining executive sponsorship for business case
Session wrap-up

Ep018: Unleashing the Power of GenAI for Software Companies Oct 03, 2023

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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 Thompson
4 Pillars of Generative AI for AWS
Introductions of panel
How 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

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