AWS for Software Companies Podcast: Recent Episodes
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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 organizations
- Security risk register and process best practices
- Going from the “Department of ‘No’” to “Department of ‘Yes and..’”
- Helping teams become security champions
- Transformation of the AWS security organization
- Security visibility of CxOs & Executives
- Building security governance & compliance structure
- Impact 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 introduction
- Building modern data strategies
- Data-driven product design
- Riaz Raihan, President of Products & Engineering at Alida
- Collecting large volumes of data
- Managing security of large volumes of data beyond standard compliance
- Rebooting Alida – focusing on customer outcomes
- Driving growth, profit and enabling speed
- Scaling Voice of Employee program for 225,000 employees in 2 days
- Executive alignment is crucial for success
- Management, 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 introduction
- Foundation of knowledge & data graphs for AI
- 2 million users in the OpenData catalogue, 40% of Fortune 500
- OneWeb Case Study – data from satellites
- The Culture of Enablement to empower your organization with data
- OneWeb using AWS Sagemaker
- Prologis Real Estate logistics data case study
- Tying staff rewards to data quality and behaviours
- Developing a culture of change
- Session 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 Crossley
- Solving the big problems for Marketers
- The challenges marketers are facing in current environment
- The partnership of AWS Clean Rooms and AdPredictive
- Use Cases and Success Stories
- Expanding the power of data to non-technical marketing teams
- Overcoming challenges throughout the integration
- Innovating and staying focused
- Advice for other software leaders
- AdPredictive is passionate about supporting marketers
- Accessing the AdPredictive solution
- Interview wrap up
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Tim LoGrasso of Kickdrum and Matt Thompson of AWS host a roundtable sharing best practices for software mergers and acquisitions.
Topic include:
- Karthik Krishnamurthy introduction
- Tim LoGrasso, Kickdrum introduction
- Maturity model for calculating risk in M&A
- M&A changes and challenges in 2023
- Matt Thompson, AWS introduction
- Is architecture a focus when considering M&A?
- Most M&A struggles due to product team misalignment
- Containers, APIs in compute infrastructure easier to integrate than Monoliths
- M&As are often driven by Finance and Business Development, not so much Product Teams
- Time metric to measure success and failure for M&As
- Building a case for M&A vs build
- Preethi Srinivasan (Druva, DataStax) on due diligence for M&A considerations
- Pre-integration Proof of Concepts increase the success rate
- 90 day and 12 month plans with funding models to deliver the joint opportunity
- Understand the ‘white space’ to address with the combination of products
- What can product teams do to accelerate value?
- Identify potential friction points and how to address
- Access to cheap compute power is important
- Guidance on managing customer data during M&A
- The customer data to review
- Managing people risk during an M&A
- Session wrap up
Deepak Thakral, VP of eCommerce at McAfee and Bob Page, SVP of Product at Tealium discuss Software Data Architectures and share best practices in a roundtable hosted by AWS’s Denise Zelt.
Topics include:
- Deepak Thakral of McAfee introduction
- Bob Page of Tealium introduction
- Bob Page on helping customers with their end users and creating business value
- Setting up priorities for data architecture and roadmap
- Lessons learned from Tealium
- Deepak: How McAfee manages high performance & security with increasing data
- Shankar Venkataraman of Jivox on scaling and processing 10 times data volume in past 3 years
- Steven Tiell of DataStax on performing real time AI of time series data
- Bob Page on adoption of microservices and best practices
- Tradeoffs of transitioning from monolithic to micro services
- Yuan Liu of Stripe on service oriented architecture vs microservices
- Amit Pande of Dhruva providing SaaS based data protection
- Final thoughts and recommendations from Bob Page and Deepak Thakral
Grady Summers and Marty Bowers of Sailpoint share how their partnership with AWS resulted in their product running 1800x faster at 1/50th of the cost.
- Grady Summers & Marty Bowers introduction
- Automating access and recertification
- Leveraging Infrequent Access Tables in Dynamo DB for cost reduction and autoscaling
- Guidance and lessons learned