AWS for Software Companies Podcast

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Ep017: Accelerating Growth Through Global Expansion with Michael Brown of Auvik Networks & Rob Woolley of Benevity Sep 19, 2023

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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 continents
What are the goals for wanting to expand overseas?
Going global through acquisition
Copying services to various regions with AWS
AWS helping to establish beachheads in new markets
Managing challenges of data residency
Best practices for staffing in a new market
North American marketing often doesn’t work in other markets
Working with resellers in a new market
Session wrap up

Ep016: Software Security Models and Organizational Best Practices feat Arctic Wolf, Blackberry Athoc and Hootsuite Sep 05, 2023

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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 organizations
Security risk register and process best practices
Going from the “Department of ‘No’” to “Department of ‘Yes and..’”
Helping teams become security champions
Transformation of the AWS security organization
Security visibility of CxOs & Executives
Building security governance & compliance structure
Impact of generative AI on security practice

Ep015: Building Modern Data Strategies with Riaz Raihan of Alida & Barry Morris of AWS Aug 22, 2023

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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 introduction
Building modern data strategies
Data-driven product design
Riaz Raihan, President of Products & Engineering at Alida
Collecting large volumes of data
Managing security of large volumes of data beyond standard compliance
Rebooting Alida – focusing on customer outcomes
Driving growth, profit and enabling speed
Scaling Voice of Employee program for 225,000 employees in 2 days
Executive alignment is crucial for success
Management, security, protection of data in fundamental

Ep014: Creating a Culture of Data Enablement with Juan Sequeda of data.world Aug 08, 2023

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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 introduction
Foundation of knowledge & data graphs for AI
2 million users in the OpenData catalogue, 40% of Fortune 500
OneWeb Case Study – data from satellites
The Culture of Enablement to empower your organization with data
OneWeb using AWS Sagemaker
Prologis Real Estate logistics data case study
Tying staff rewards to data quality and behaviours
Developing a culture of change
Session wrap up

Ep013: Empowering Data-Driven Marketing Teams with AdPredictive Jul 25, 2023

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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 Crossley
Solving the big problems for Marketers
The challenges marketers are facing in current environment
The partnership of AWS Clean Rooms and AdPredictive
Use Cases and Success Stories
Expanding the power of data to non-technical marketing teams
Overcoming challenges throughout the integration
Innovating and staying focused
Advice for other software leaders
AdPredictive is passionate about supporting marketers
Accessing the AdPredictive solution
Interview wrap up

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Ep012: Mergers & Acquisitions Best Practices Roundtable with Tim LoGrasso of Kickdrum Jul 11, 2023

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Tim LoGrasso of Kickdrum and Matt Thompson of AWS host a roundtable sharing best practices for software mergers and acquisitions.

Topic include:

Karthik Krishnamurthy introduction
Tim LoGrasso, Kickdrum introduction
Maturity model for calculating risk in M&A
M&A changes and challenges in 2023
Matt Thompson, AWS introduction
Is architecture a focus when considering M&A?
Most M&A struggles due to product team misalignment
Containers, APIs in compute infrastructure easier to integrate than Monoliths
M&As are often driven by Finance and Business Development, not so much Product Teams
Time metric to measure success and failure for M&As
Building a case for M&A vs build
Preethi Srinivasan (Druva, DataStax) on due diligence for M&A considerations
Pre-integration Proof of Concepts increase the success rate
90 day and 12 month plans with funding models to deliver the joint opportunity
Understand the ‘white space’ to address with the combination of products
What can product teams do to accelerate value?
Identify potential friction points and how to address
Access to cheap compute power is important
Guidance on managing customer data during M&A
The customer data to review
Managing people risk during an M&A
Session wrap up

Ep011: Software Data Architectures with McAfee and Tealium Jun 27, 2023

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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 introduction
Bob Page of Tealium introduction
Bob Page on helping customers with their end users and creating business value
Setting up priorities for data architecture and roadmap
Lessons learned from Tealium
Deepak: How McAfee manages high performance & security with increasing data
Shankar Venkataraman of Jivox on scaling and processing 10 times data volume in past 3 years
Steven Tiell of DataStax on performing real time AI of time series data
Bob Page on adoption of microservices and best practices
Tradeoffs of transitioning from monolithic to micro services
Yuan Liu of Stripe on service oriented architecture vs microservices
Amit Pande of Dhruva providing SaaS based data protection
Final thoughts and recommendations from Bob Page and Deepak Thakral

Ep010: Digital Transformation leveraging Purpose-Built Databases with Sailpoint Jun 13, 2023

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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 introduction
Automating access and recertification
Leveraging Infrequent Access Tables in Dynamo DB for cost reduction and autoscaling
Guidance and lessons learned

Ep009: Transform Manufacturing with Data Driven Innovations with Sam Lakkundi of BMC May 30, 2023

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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 Software
Moving their stack to AWS
The rapid change of the manufacturing industry
Predicting and simulating downtime w a digital model
Creation of BMC Helix
Leveraging AWS Sagemaker and Twinmaker
Simulating manufacturing changes to identify opportunities to action
Presentation wrap up

Ep008: Generating Value from Data with Dr Lou Kratz of Bazaarvoice May 16, 2023

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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 learning
Bazaarvoice business model
Understanding value is the most important part of any machine learning project
Leveraging AI/ML for content moderation
Leveraging AWS Sagemaker
Being cost effective with serverless options
Cutting time to value by 6x with savings of 82%
Investing in ML Ops
Final recommendations for data and ML Ops

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