AWS for Software Companies Podcast

In a keynote address from re:Invent, McKinsey & Company's Lareina Yee shares fascinating data, trends and best practices on AI adoption, the future of skillsets, and leadership insights that are needed for AI transformation at scale.

Topics Include:

• Over 80% of companies have adopted AI in at least one business function currently.
• Despite heavy investment, 62% of companies remain in experimental or pilot phases with A...

AWS Principal Solutions Architect Wallace Printz explains how agents are reshaping SaaS business models, pricing strategies, and technical architectures.

Topics Include:

• Wallace Printz discusses agentic workloads transforming SaaS with largest AWS customers
• New interaction models include generative UI, voice agents, and proactive work
• Agents extending SaaS products to interact with external systems and businesses
• Virtual te...

Industry leaders from Boomi, Demandbase and Smarsh share hard-won lessons on balancing AI creativity with guardrails, why data quality trumps frameworks, and deploying AI at scale.

Topics Include:

• Three industry leaders share experiences building AI solutions at Boomi, Demandbase, and Smarsh.
• Smarsh manages trillion communications for financial services, detecting bad actors across multiple channels.
• Boomi built agent stud...

Phill Robinson of Boardwave joins Miguel Alava and Massimo Ghislandi of AWS to share research and actionable strategies for European software companies using cloud infrastructure, AI features, and marketplace leverage to drive unprecedented growth.

Topics Include:

• Boardwave and AWS reveal research on European software companies becoming global innovators.
• Cloud-first businesses exceed customer expectations at 60% versus 4...

Industry leaders from Kore AI, SS&C Blue Prism and AWS reveal what actually works in agentic AI deployment, from contact center automation to employee productivity, with proven strategies for regulated industries.

Topics Include:

• Kore AI and SS&C Blue Prism leaders discuss achievable agentic AI actions
• Three deployment areas show real ROI: customer service, employee automation, and process workflows
• Kore AI handles...

CEO Scott Stephenson explains how Deepgram's voice AI technology powers everything from pharmacies to drive-thru ordering and why, after so many years, Voice AI is now ready for prime time.

Topics Include:

• Scott Stephenson introduces Deepgram as an audio AI company building speech products
• Major brands like CVS and Anthropic use Deepgram to power voice agents
• CVS handles prescription status calls where 25-40% ask if prescr...

Uri Cohen reveals how Elastic transformed from managing 50,000 complex clusters to building a seamless serverless platform that eliminates operational overhead while scaling globally

Topics Include:

• Johan Broman of AWS hosts Uri Cohen who leads Elastic's platform products team
• Uri shares his nine-year journey at Elastic from small company to global scale
• Elasticsearch started 15 years ago, becoming popular for search, logs...

SS&C Blue Prism's VP reveals how they achieved $200M annual savings and $600M revenue growth by deploying 3,000 AI agents, processing 6 million documents monthly as their own first customer.

Topics Include:

• SS&C Blue Prism evolved from RPA leader to agentic automation provider over 25 years
• Serves 22,000 clients in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail
• Offers AI agents,...

Three enterprise AI leaders from Archer, Demandbase, and Highspot reveal how top companies are implementing AI responsibly while navigating data privacy, bias prevention, and regulatory compliance challenges.

Topics Include:

• AWS Security GM Brian Shadpour hosts three AI leaders discussing responsible enterprise deployment
• Demandbase's Umberto Milletti explains tenant-based models ensuring first-party customer data remains...

SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone reveals how they evolved from open-source to AI-powered integration platform, doubled AI adoption with one UX change, and delivers measurable enterprise ROI.

Topics Include:

• SnapLogic CTO shares their decade-long journey building AI-powered integration with AWS partnership.
• SnapLogic drives "human cost of integration to zero" for thousands of global companies.
• Started as open-source project, pi...

Vice President of Solution Engineering Chris Timmerman reveals how Boomi's integration platform evolved into a no-code AI agent builder on AWS, serving 22,000 enterprises while solving the 95% failure rate in AI production deployments.

Topics Include:

• Chris Timmerman shares his 9-year journey from Field CTO to VP Solution Engineering at Boomi
• Boomi connects cloud and on-premise systems, helping enterprises move data seaml...

Learn how Anyscale's Ray platform enables companies like Instacart to supercharge their model training while Amazon saves heavily by shifting to Ray's multimodal capabilities.

Topics Include:

• Ray originated at UC Berkeley when PhD students spent more time building clusters than ML models
• Anyscale now launches 1 million clusters monthly with contributions from OpenAI, Uber, Google, Coinbase
• Instacart achieved 10-100x increa...

Trellix's Director of Strategy Zak Krider reveals how they automated tedious security tasks like event parsing and threat detection using Amazon Bedrock's multi-model approach, achieving 100% accuracy while eliminating bottlenecks in their development lifecycle.

Topics Include:

• Trellix merged FireEye and McAfee Enterprise, combining two decades of cybersecurity AI expertise
• Processing thousands of daily security events re...

Honeycomb's VP of Marketing Shabih Syed reveals why traditional observability is dead and how AI-powered tools are transforming the way engineers debug production systems, with real examples.

Topics Include:

• Observability is how you understand and troubleshoot your production systems in real-time
• Shabih's 18-year journey: developer to product manager to marketing VP shares unique perspective
• AI coding assistants are fundam...

Discover how Siteimprove partnered with AWS to build an AI system processing 100 million accessibility checks monthly, making the web usable for 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide.

Topics Include:

• AWS and Siteimprove partnered to solve digital accessibility at massive scale using AI.
• Digital accessibility ensures 1.3 billion people with disabilities can use web content effectively.
• Deep semantic understanding ...

Archer's Global Head of Engineering reveals how they're using Amazon Bedrock to help enterprises avoid billions in regulatory fines by transforming complex compliance laws into actionable AI-powered workflows.

Topics Include:

• James Griffith, VP Engineering at Archer, leads development for risk and compliance solutions
• Archer helps enterprises navigate the complex world of regulatory compliance beyond outdated spreadsheets
• ...

Arctic Wolf's Dean Teffer reveals how they transformed security operations by processing one trillion daily alerts with AI, and shares hard-won lessons from operationalizing AI in production SOC environments

Topics Include:

• Arctic Wolf processes one trillion security alerts daily across 10,000 global customers
• Security operations remained stubbornly human-mediated due to constantly evolving threats and infrastructure com...

Learn how DataStax transformed customer feedback into a hybrid search solution that powers Fortune 500 companies through their partnership with AWS.

Topics Include:

• AWS and DataStax discuss how quality data powers AI workloads and applications.
• DataStax built on Apache Cassandra powers Starbucks, Netflix, and Uber at scale.
• Their TIL app collects outside-in customer feedback to drive product development decisions.
• Hybrid se...

Qlik's Field CTO for Generative AI Ryan Welsh reveals why 95% of enterprise AI projects fail and shares the three proven strategies the successful 5% use to deliver real business value from their AI investments.

Topics Include:

• Qlik's Field CTO reveals why 95% of AI projects fail despite massive investments
• MIT research shows shocking failure rates, but 5% are achieving real business value
• First major pitfall: Bad data fou...