Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
Generative AI’s explosive growth in 2023 is just the beginning of a rapidly evolving future with this technology at the forefront. Companies are moving beyond experimentation and proof of concepts to production launch of impactful business applications. The economic contraction is prime for these innovations; organizations are seeking new ways to get more done with fewer resources, and secure relevancy in the market. In this session, hear Generative AI innovation stories, insights, and lessons learned thus far from industry leaders, including how they are partner with AWS to deliver business outcomes through Generative AI.
Please join us as we dive into specific customer innovation stories that will inspire and inform your innovation investments, opportunities, and challenges.
Hear from industry leaders, including INRIX, GoDaddy, SnapLogic, and Airtable. Learn about their innovation stories, insights, and lessons learned, including the why, how, and “so what” of innovating and partnering with AWS.
Bryan Mistele is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX, and a champion for GenAI. Bryan is a leader on technology and transportation issues. He has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project, as a member of the United States Department of Transportation’s ITS Advisory Committee, and as a board member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Bryan currently serves on the board of the Discovery Institute, a leading think-tank in the Pacific Northwest, and is co-founder of ACES Northwest – a group committed to the adoption of Autonomous, Connected, Electric and Shared vehicles. Prior to INRIX, Bryan was an executive at Microsoft.
Abhijit, as the Vice President of Platform Engineering, leads GoDaddy's efforts in Core Data, ML, GenAI, and Experimentation Platforms, as well as Data Engineering. Since joining GoDaddy two years ago, Abhijit has been at the forefront of the transformation and GenAI disruption, transitioning from on-premises Hadoop to building and operating a modern, cost-effective enterprise platform on AWS.
Abhijit is deeply passionate about GoDaddy's mission to empower entrepreneurs worldwide by constructing a more robust and inclusive Entrepreneurs wheel, utilizing data, ML and GenAI to gain better insights into our products and customers.
Before his tenure at GoDaddy, Abhijit spent 15 years at Microsoft and served as a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA for over five years.
Andrew spearheads Airtable’s long-term product bets and represents the voice of the customer in major product decisions. After co-founding the company, he helped scale Airtable’s original product and engineering teams. He previously led the redesign of Google's flagship Maps product, and before that was a product manager for Android.
Jeremiah Stone is the CTO at SnapLogic, where he leads product strategy and is responsible for guiding the development and future direction of the SnapLogic platform. Jeremiah is an experienced builder of advanced technology products that leverage the full power of AI to solve real business problems. Prior to joining SnapLogic, Jeremiah was the CTO at healthcare technology company Ontrak, and before that held senior leadership roles at GE and SAP.
Sireesha Muppala is a Sr. Solution Architecture leader of the Enterprise SA team focused on Industrial and Manufacturing customers at AWS. Sireesha is also co-founder of the Denver chapter of Women in Big Data. As a industry thought leader she authored several research papers, white papers, blog articles and Amazon SageMaker Best Practices book. Recently she was a Director of Engineering at PrimerAI, where she led teams to build end-to-end NLP Solutions.
