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Innovation Talks

Deep dives hosted by AWS thought leaders

Discover what’s next in the cloud with Innovation Talks at AWS re:Invent. Join our experts as they break down the latest technologies and strategies shaping the future of the cloud. Keep checking back as we add more talks to this page. 

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2025 Innovation Talks

Where cloud innovation meets expert insight

  • Analytics & data

    Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec
    Vice President, Technology (Storage, Streaming, Messaging, and Cloud Migration), AWS
     

    Future-proof your data strategy and discover how the latest AWS innovations give you an edge with a data and analytics foundation that adapts and evolves to your business and the rapid advancements of AI. Additionally, this talk will cover: Emerging trends such as Apache Iceberg adoption, the convergence of analytics and databases, and the evolution of streaming for real-time AI so you can plan for how your data strategy can adapt and evolve; key architectural patterns for AI-ready data infrastructure and new AWS data foundation innovations that make implementation easier; the very latest in data analytics, governance, vector search, and streaming; how enterprises are achieving interoperability between AWS services and open-source AI tools while maintaining security; how customers are accelerating time-to-value on AWS data foundation; and proven approaches that maximize price-performance across the AI lifecycle.

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  • Architecture

    Shaown Nandi
    Director of Technology, AWS

     

    Discover how agentic AI is reinventing cloud-native architecture, accelerating innovation cycles, and unlocking entirely new application patterns through secure, reasoning-driven agents. Hear how AWS customers are deploying production-ready agents today. And learn proven techniques to build agentic applications that autonomously adapt, optimize, and act. Additionally, this talk will cover: The business impact of agentic AI on cloud-native architecture and innovation cycles; the latest AWS capabilities enabling secure, scalable AI agents for enterprise applications; proven techniques for architecting autonomous, adaptive, and cost-efficient agentic applications; and real-world case studies about how leading customers are leveraging production-ready AI agents.

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  • Artificial intelligence

    Dilip Kumar
    Vice President, Amazon Q Business

     

    Discover how AI agents are revolutionizing workplace productivity. Learn how tools like Amazon Q Business and Amazon QuickSight are transforming traditional workflows. And gain practical insights for implementing AI assistants that deliver real value to your teams while maintaining enterprise security and trust. Additionally, this talk will cover: Real-world examples of AI agents transforming workplace productivity across industries; a deep dive into Amazon Q Business and the Amazon QuickSight capabilities and use cases; the critical role of enterprise data in powering relevant, context-aware AI assistants; balancing automation with human oversight (when and how to keep humans in the loop); configuring intuitive AI workspaces that complement existing workflows and boost adoption; key metrics for measuring the impact of AI assistants on productivity and user experience; and best practices for scaling AI-assistant implementations while maintaining security and trust.

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  • Artificial intelligence

    Deepak Singh
    Vice President, Developer Agents & Experiences

     

    Explore the future of software development and discover how AI-powered tools and autonomous agents are transforming the entire development lifecycle—boosting productivity and enabling developers to focus on solving meaningful problems while turning ideas into production-ready applications faster than ever before. Additionally, this talk will cover: The integration of generative AI across the development lifecycle and how AWS is empowering developers with AI-driven tools to accelerate productivity and fuel innovation; exploring the impact of AI on what developers can build, how they build it, and who can become a developer on AWS; AI-powered agent capabilities, demonstrating autonomous tasks beyond code recommendations; AWS's approach to building accessible, secure AI tools for developers, emphasizing open-source collaboration and community engagement; and real-world applications showcasing how AWS customers are leveraging generative AI to transform their businesses and development processes.

  • Artificial intelligence

    Erin Kraemer
    Senior Principal Technical Product Manager, AWS Agentic AI

     

    Move beyond automation to discover AI's transformative potential. Discover practical strategies for leveraging AI to create new revenue streams and enhance customer experiences. And learn how to democratize AI capabilities while maintaining security and trust. Additionally, this talk will cover: AI breakthroughs such as foundation models, autonomous AI systems, and advanced agent capabilities; making AI real, from experimentation to true utility; secure and responsible AI implementation strategies; AI accessibility and bridging the AI skills gap; and real-world customer stories and implementation examples..

  • Cloud operations

    Nandini Ramani
    Vice President, Search, Observability, & CloudOps, AWS

     

    Learn how you can drive business growth with AWS Cloud Operations. Discover how to build a competitive advantage, move faster, and deliver memorable experiences to customers more easily and securely, day after day. And see how AWS is innovating cloud operations using AI, ML, generative AI, and AI agents to deliver a more unified and seamless experience for cloud operators, developers, and administrators. Additionally, this talk will cover: How to accelerate operational intelligence, automate compliance, and enhance security; how to improve the resilience and performance of your workloads and applications on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments; how to speed up your digital transformation and strengthen governance in a dynamic regulatory landscape; and demos and customer stories on operational efficiency, accelerating troubleshooting and incident resolution, improving security and compliance auditing, and reducing operational costs.

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  • Compute innovation

    Willem Visser
    Vice President, Amazon EC2 Core Platform

     

    Discover how customer obsession at AWS drives cloud innovation. Explore the breakthrough moments that revolutionized computing, from EC2 instances to containers and serverless technologies. And learn how AWS continues to shape the future of cloud infrastructure for enterprises worldwide. Additionally, this talk will cover: Global infrastructure; secure, high-performance, cost-effective compute; building and running applications securely on AWS; and designing custom silicon innovation to benefit customers.

  • Databases

    G2 Krishnamoorthy
    Vice President of AWS Database Services

     

    Discover how AWS Databases is transforming data management to be effortless. Explore how databases integrate with AI agents to reduce operational complexity while enabling a new generation of AI-native applications that will advance your business capabilities. And learn how AWS is making databases effortless to migrate, manage, and get value from your data. This talk will also cover the foundation of AWS Databases in the age of agentic AI as well as the possibilities of agentic AI apps.

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  • Migration & modernization

    Dr. Asa Kalavade
    Vice President, Migrations & Modernization, AWS

     

    Transform legacy systems from AI barriers to AI enablers. Discover how AWS combines decades of migration expertise with agentic AI to fundamentally transform enterprise modernization. Learn how domain-specific AI agents and partner solutions are making modernization simpler, faster, and more collaborative. This talk explores how these AI agents continuously learn and automate complex migration tasks, leveraging a new composable framework integrating first- and third-party agents. Through real customer stories and partner experiences, you'll see how AWS's collaborative approach creates new modernization possibilities. You'll leave with practical steps to modernize your infrastructure and accelerate your organization's AI initiatives.

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  • Networking & content delivery

    Prasad Kalyanaraman
    Vice President, AWS Infrastructure Service, Infrastructure Leadership

     

    Explore how AWS networking innovations are shaping the future of cloud infrastructure. From our global backbone to AI/ML-optimized data centers, discover breakthrough technologies in content delivery, security, VPC networking, and global connectivity. And see how these advancements are enabling customers to build next-generation cloud applications. Additionally, this talk will cover: Why a world-class cloud network is critical for growth; increasing the reach of the AWS global network (new regions, more fiber, etc.); how AWS ensures its global network infrastructure is scalable, available, high-performance, and secure; datacenter networking for HPC/AI/ML; innovation with the Nitro System and EFA powering UltraCluster evolutions; new possibilities with the latest networking service launches and network-optimized instances; what differentiates AWS Networking infrastructure; and unique customer challenges and use cases that showcase how AWS innovates to address them.

  • Security & identity

    Amy Herzog
    Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, AWS

     

    AI is helping builders create more, while threat actors expand their efforts. Learn how you should adjust your security practice to meet these challenges through real-world examples, and understand the strategies to implement automated protections at scale. Additionally, this talk will cover: Catching vulnerabilities during development through intelligent automation; scaling security by embedding expertise in development workflows; transforming operations with AI-powered risk assessment and defense; building adaptive security programs that maintain strong governance; and reducing developer friction while strengthening protection.

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  • Storage

    Andy Warfield
    Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, AWS

     

    Step beyond traditional data limitations and build tomorrow's enterprise data foundation on AWS Storage. Discover breakthrough innovations like S3 Tables for analytics optimization, S3 Vectors for AI workloads, and seamless NAS migration pathways that eliminate storage boundaries and unlock unlimited scalability. And learn how to build without limits, scale without compromise, and innovate beyond boundaries. Additionally, this talk will cover: Storage for generative AI and agentic AI (S3 Vectors, S3 Express One Zone, and FSx for Lustre delivering enterprise-grade AI workload acceleration); breaking down data silos with a foundational data lake; next-generation backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions; block storage Innovation with advanced capabilities delivering mission-critical performance and scalability at low costs; file storage for NAS migrations and cloud-native workloads; and the latest storage innovations that maximize data value and operational efficiency.

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Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

Vice President, Technology (Storage, Streaming, Messaging, and Cloud Migration), AWS

Mai-Lan leads the essential data services that AWS customers rely on to create modern cloud-based applications using analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Mai-Lan was named one of the Top 15 people in Enterprise Artificial Intelligence, and she appeared on the AI 100 and Cloudverse 100 lists which recognize the top 100 leaders innovating in the cloud and in AI, respectively. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Mai-Lan is a pioneer in helping customers take advantage of cloud-based technologies to transform their businesses. At Amazon, she is also an advisor to the board of Asians@Amazon, a sponsor for women in technology in AWS, the owner of a monthly leadership training series, and is passionate about AWS initiatives that maximize human potential.

Shaown Nandi

Director of Technology, AWS

Shaown joined AWS 5 years ago, and currently leads technology for AWS Global Sales. He and his worldwide team partner with a range of customers, from start-ups to large enterprises, to build innovative solutions that transform their businesses and industries. Shaown is passionate about helping customers accelerate their adoption of cutting-edge technologies to drive business outcomes. Prior to joining AWS, Shaown served as Chief Information Officer at Dow Jones and Head of Shared Services at News Corp, one of the first enterprise organizations to adopt cloud technology. As CIO, he spearheaded a shared service company called NewsTech to unify IT services across News Corp Business Units worldwide and drove over $100M in cost savings. Shaown has also worked as a global technology executive at IBM, where he managed product development teams in the cloud space. He has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Dilip Kumar

Vice President, Amazon Q Business

Dilip leads the Amazon Q Business organization, including Q Business, Q Apps, QuickSight, and App Studio. He joined Amazon in July 2003 and has led teams responsible for global retail pricing and promotions strategy, retail supply chain management, worldwide customer demand forecasting, and affiliate marketing strategy. He also served for two years as Jeff Bezos’s Technical Advisor. During his 10 years as VP of Physical Retail and Technology, he oversaw teams responsible for innovations to checkout-free services and biometric identity and payment services, including Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Dash Carts, and Amazon One, that power many of Amazon’s own stores as well as hundreds of third-party brands. In August 2022 he joined AWS, broadening his portfolio to include the retail technology and applications teams, including Amazon Connect, End User Computing, Supply Chain, and Messaging services. He took over the Q for Business teams in May 2024. Dilip was recognized as one of AdWeek’s Top 50 executives for 2022. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and earned his MBA at The Wharton School.

Nandini Ramani

Vice President, Search, Observability, & CloudOps, AWS

Nandini leads the monitoring and observability cloud services for AWS. For more than two decades, Nandini has been working to break down tech industry barriers and pioneer the design and development of visionary products and go-to-market strategies for industry-transforming startups and global organizations such as Twitter and Oracle. An innovator with 17 patents, she has been recognized as one of the most powerful female engineers by Business Insider, named one of the PharmaVoice 100 and is listed in the Hall of Femme honoring female luminaries..

G2 Krishnamoorthy

Vice President of AWS Database Services

G2 leads the teams responsible for AWS database services including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS DMS, AWS Glue Data Catalog, AWS Glue Lake Formation, Amazon Neptune, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Timestream. G2 has two decades of experience in databases, big data analytics, and machine learning, having built various parts of the SQL Server database, Azure Analytics, and Azure ML at Microsoft. Prior to joining Amazon, G2 built and ran the Analytics and machine learning platform at Facebook/Meta.

Dr. Asa Kalavade

Vice President, Migrations & Modernization, AWS

Asa leads migration and modernization products for AWS. Prior to this role, Asa led a multiyear transformation of AWS go-to-market tools and systems, which included generative AI capabilities on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q such as on-demand customer research, conversational agents, and semi-autonomous prospecting and pipeline management based on agentic architectures. Before that, she led a portfolio of hybrid storage and data transfer services, helping customers migrate on-premises storage, data, and EDI workflows to AWS. Prior to joining AWS in 2016, Asa founded and ran two venture-backed startups, and she remains active mentoring startups in the Boston community. Asa received her PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley and holds over 40 patents.

Amy Herzog

Vice President and CISO, AWS

Amy joined Amazon in February 2023 as CISO of Ads, Devices and Services, and Amazon’s Media and Entertainment businesses. She brings her extensive experience in software, product leadership, and data to the CISO role, working backwards from customer needs to ensure her businesses ship securely and quickly. Amy’s passion for innovation and data-driven decision making started at the very beginning of her career, where she spent 15 years at the MITRE Corporation innovating solutions to a variety of security problems for different customers. Prior to joining Amazon, Amy spent 10 years co-founding multiple startups and solving enterprise transformation challenges at Pivotal Software, VMware, and Travelers Insurance.

Andy Warfield

Vice President & Distinguished Engineer, AWS

Andy leads a global team of engineers who build some of the largest data services at AWS such as Amazon S3, which is used by millions of customers to run real-time analytics on their data and power their businesses. Over the past six years Andy has led storage integrations for AI/ML workloads, delivered new, high-performance storage services, and reshaped the hardware and infrastructure layers of AWS storage systems. In 2023, Andy and his team also launched Amazon S3 Express One Zone, the world’s fastest cloud object store for request-intensive operations like data analytics and generative AI. Andy has over one hundred patents and research publications and his work has over 20,000 citations. Andy was the recipient of the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, which recognizes the most influential Operating Systems papers. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of the authors of the Xen hypervisor, an open-source hypervisor that was used as the initial virtualization layer in AWS and other cloud companies.

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