AWS for Software Companies Podcast

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

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