AWS for Games Reception at re:Invent 2023

In this welcome address, Jason Bennett, Director of US West Area, AWS, will extend a warm welcome to registrants joining from across the nation. He will provide an overview of the day's proceedings, offer a quick rundown of the schedule, and highlight key sessions to look forward to.

Speaker:

• Jason Bennett, Director US West Area, AWS

Build resilience to survive a downturn and thrive in the next cycle. In this session, learn how enterprises seeing success have become more agile and more resilient. Dig into their secrets to success and see how leaders can invest to thrive.

Speakers:

• Ishit Vachhrajani, Former CTO of A+E Networks, Global Head of Enterprise Strategy, AWS
• Troy Achong, SVP, Technology Strategy & Operations, Paramount
• Murali Vridhachalam, VP of Cloud Data and Analytics, Gilead Sciences
• Jonathan Usuka, Chief Strategy & Informatics Officer, Realm

Hear from AWS as we sit down to discuss the newest announcements and innovations at AWS and the top questions executives are asking about Generative AI. Hear how you can you can reinvent your applications, drive unprecedented levels of productivity, and transform your business with Generative AI.

Speakers:

• Satish Lakshmanan, Global AI/ML Director, AWS
• Diego Saenz, AI Chief Commercial Officer, Deloitte

A Leader's Guide to Generative AI: Using History to Shape the Future

Generative AI has recently taken the world by storm. The scalability of the cloud, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies have positioned AI for wide-scale adoption. However, history has taught us that realizing the value of transformational technologies isn't a linear process. It requires leadership, a cultural shift, operating model changes, and investments in new skills. In this panel, Tom Godden, AWS Enterprise Strategist, will be joined by industry leaders to discuss how their respective industries are adapting to Generative AI and what it means for their businesses.

Speakers:

• Tom Godden, Former CIO of Foundation Medicine, AWS Enterprise Strategist, AWS
• Mark Douglas, President & CEO, MNTN
• Travis Muhlestein, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, GoDaddy
• Dana Settle, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Greycroft

Generative AI for Life Sciences

The impact of AI/ML in life sciences is undeniable. There have been countless advancements in ML which have led to breakthroughs in drug discovery and clinical development. For instance, Generative AI powered by Foundation models (FMs) today claim to predict properties of molecules like their structure, bonding affinity, and toxicity with high accuracy. It can also generate summaries and accurate responses to domain specific questions making researches more efficient. While this has generated a lot of hope for the future, it’s important to keep in mind that adoption of these technologies in real world pipelines is still a challenge for a majority of life sciences organizations. In this session, we will separate the hype of using Generative AI in life sciences and focus on its promise. We will look at how organizations running on AWS are successfully applying these technologies in their own initiatives and highlight AWS services that help them do this at scale.

Speakers:

• Ujjwal Ratan, Leader, Data Science and ML, AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWS
• Bob Hayden, Architecture Director, Research and Development Informatics, Amgen
• Jacob Berlin, Ph.D., CEO, Terray Therapeutics

Culture Fuels Growth: The Human Side of Innovation

Culture is a force multiplier for the outcomes that matter most - and when properly harnessed, it becomes a powerful differentiator. Culture aligns your workforce and points it at the outcomes that matter most to you, including financial performance and innovation, ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction. Over the last 20+ years, Amazon’s peculiar approach to innovation has been intrinsically linked to not just how we use technology and structure our teams, but also the consistent application of core mechanisms across business operations that have produced a resilient culture of innovation. Mechanisms such as Leadership Principles, tenets, one-way doors, and two-way doors inform speed and prioritization that help build successful teams. While we see continued progress fueled by technological developments such as generative AI thrusting forward to achieve human-level performance, nothing fully replaces unique human value. Balancing great IQ and technical skills with EQ to foster creativity and empower talent are fundamental to employees’ mindset and engagement. This balance helps to ensure long term business and technical agility. Join us for an interactive session about building a resilient culture of innovation, one that enable leaders to perform at their highest levels, lead with greater empathy, inclusion, and achieve sustained innovation and success.

Speakers:

• Alla Simoneau, Worldwide Growth Segment Leader, AWS Innovation and Transformation Programs, AWS
• Rich Hua, Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership, AWS & Founder of EQ@Amazon, AWS

Creating an End-to-End Data Strategy for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Organizations in the heavily-regulated healthcare and life sciences industries – from biopharmas to healthtechs to providers and payors – need to accelerate time to diagnosis and insights and increase the pace of innovation with an end-to-end data strategy. In this session, learn how AWS provides a centralized hub for innovation and collaboration on a global level, connecting you with the data you need, and partners you can trust, all while keeping health and life sciences data secure and private.

Speakers:

• Valerie Delva, Worldwide Head, Data/AI/ML Strategy & Solutions, AWS
• Sean Baumann, CTO, Thermo Fisher
• Anish Kejariwal, Head of Data Analytics, Lyell Immunopharma

Close out this day event with a Networking Reception, beginning at 3:45 PT. Mingle with industry peers, AWS leaders and speakers, and conclude your experience with a hosted bar and a light dinner.