Pandurang Nayak is India Head of Startups Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services, India

Swami is Head Analytics – Data & AI for India and South Asia at Amazon Web Services, India

Nilesh Vaghela
CEO – Electromech, Cloudkida
AWS Community Hero

I’ll delve into the concept of the Amazon Security Lake, a comprehensive data lake solution designed to enhance security insights and threat detection capabilities. We’ll explore the key components, benefits, and best practices for leveraging the Security Lake to strengthen your organization’s security posture in the cloud.
Main focus will be on Enhancing Security Insights, Aggregating and correlating security data from multiple sources and Gaining visibility into security events and incidents.

Nilesh Vaghela is a seasoned professional with a passion for cloud computing and community engagement. As an AWS Community Hero, he has demonstrated exceptional leadership and expertise in the AWS ecosystem, making significant contributions to the community and promoting knowledge sharing among peers.

With over 25+ years of experience in the IT industry and 11 years of experience in the AWS Cloud Computing, Nilesh has cultivated a deep understanding of cloud technologies and their practical applications in various domains. He is known for his innovative approaches to solving complex technical challenges and his ability to translate technical concepts into accessible knowledge for diverse audiences.

Prathamesh Nimkar
Senior Data Cloud Architect – Snowflake

Ashish Tiwari
Senior Developer Advocate – Elastic

In this talk, We are going to split our data into chunks, indexing those documents and respective embeddings in Elasticsearch. We will learn how to perform semantic search to retrieve relevant data / context and build question-answer capability with Amazon Bedrock.

With a background in the email and software industry, Ashish initiated his career as a software engineer. He has a profound enthusiasm for technology and currently holds the role of a Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic, where he’s dedicated to empowering the community with innovative Elastic stack solutions.

As a former co-founder of a startup, he gained diverse experience in tech, marketing, and community engagement. His passion lies in experimenting with technology, coding, and his latest venture involves exploring Generative AI.

Sourabh Bagrecha
Senior Developer Advocate – MongoDB

Discover the power of Amazon Bedrock and MongoDB Atlas Vector Search for cutting-edge search capabilities. Learn to unlock insights from diverse data inputs like text, images, and recipes. Elevate your search experience and navigate complex datasets effortlessly. Join me on the journey from data to discovery.

Sourabh is an open source enthusiast with love towards building scalable and performant applications using the power of NoSQL and Serverless.

Sourabh Chordiya
Solutions Architect – Wipro
AWS Ambassador

Generative AI’s usage for SAP on AWS Deployments and how to use the best of data repositories of SAP with the best of Generative AI applications in AWS to build innovative use-cases

Sourabh is a SAP Solutions Architect and AWS Ambassador working with clients across the globe to perform cloud migrations and implementations on AWS and other cloud platforms and create innovative use-cases to derive business values

Ashutosh Dixit
Sr Director, CIO Advisory, Consulting – LTIMindtree
AWS Ambassador

This session talks about Cloud Operating Model with details on different teams, their placement, responsibilities, other intricacies. Session also talks about how the adoption of wrong cloud operating model can lead to various challenges.

Ashutosh Dixit is a passionate advocate of cloud computing, having been involved in its adoption from the very beginning. As Senior Director at LTIMindtree, he leads their Cloud Consulting division, providing CIO advisory services to a global customer base.

Ashutosh is a highly skilled solutions architect with extensive knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, and has acted as a trusted advisor to many partners in various capacities to ensure a seamless transition into their digital transformation. He is also well-versed in FinOps, Cloud Security, and Cloud Operating Models.

Kushagra Kumar
Lead Software Engineer – Level SuperMind

How we connected different data sources with AWS Q and made it our product manager, which resulted in increasing different KPIs including Daily Active Users, and Increasing our Net Promoter Score to 55+

Kushagra is working as a Lead Software Engineer at Level SuperMind, he has been in the tech industry for last 5 years, started his journey as a PHP developer intern, and now leading the tech of Best App of India-2023

Sudesh Mohane
Manager of Software Engineering – Morningstar

How Morningstar used Amazon OpenSearch Service to meet the search response in milliseconds and faster Indexing for a migration of on-premises infrastructure along with Solr based search engine to Amazon based services.

Sudesh Mohane is a Technology Manager at Morningstar, where he leads the central Search Services division, focusing on leveraging AWS to drive innovation and efficiency. With over 15 years of experience in the technology sector, Sudesh has become a recognized expert in cloud computing practices and various AWS Services such as OpenSearch, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, contributing to On-premises Migration to AWS project along with innovations and technology modernization.

Throughout his career, Sudesh has successfully led numerous projects from inception to completion, demonstrating his ability to innovate and execute with a team-centric approach. Under his leadership, the team developed a groundbreaking cloud-based solution that improved data processing times by 50%, significantly enhancing customer satisfaction.

Nasiullha Chaudhari
Senior DevOps Engineer & Youtuber @ CloudChamp
AWS Community Builder

Learn How to integrate and use GitOps to deploy your microservices application on Amazon EKS!!!

Hello! I’m Nasiullha Chaudhari, an AWS Community Builder, a Freelance DevOps Engineer with 500+ completed projects, and the face behind “CloudChamp” on YouTube. I’m passionate about cloud-native tech, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD, and lot more.

Shashank Chinchli Champion Technical Trainer at AWS India	Ravindra Ved Security Solutions Architect at AWS India

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing your cloud infrastructure is paramount. With 3.4 million security professionals needed and an average of 4.5K security events per day, the pressure on security analysts is immense, leading to stress and anxiety for 67% of professionals.

Every stakeholder would love to reduce the turmoil, the amount of mean time to find a security incident, and improve the outcome. I will introduce you to Generative AI, explaining how to integrate it with the Security Lake, initiate threat analysis with a generative AI-powered agent, and use it to assist in the investigation of potential security events. Additionally, we’ll explore its role in determining indicators of compromise, automatically generating visualizations, and filling the gap in cloud expertise within the cybersecurity domain of your environment.

Before I conclude, I will emphasize that Generative AI is not an alternative to human expertise. Instead, security professionals who embrace it can outperform.

Shashank is a technical speaker passionate about cloud computing, cybersecurity, and AI. Currently working as a Champion Technical Trainer at AWS India.

Ravindra is a Security Solutions Architect currently working at AWS India

Shivay Lamba
Developer Evangelist – CouchBaseDB

Jones Zachariah Noel N
Senior Developer Advocate at Freshworks
AWS Serverless Hero

In this session, we will deep dive into the different strategies with Serverless APIs and how each of the strategy would be beneficial for the use-case your are building on AWS, with also ensuring the security of the Serverless API both in the SaaS and application model

Jones is a Developer Advocate experiencing DevRel ecospace at Freshworks. Previous being part of the start-up Mobil80 Solutions based in Bengaluru, India enjoyed and learnt a lot with the multiple caps that I got to wear transitioning from a full-stack developer to Cloud Architect for Serverless!

An AWS Serverless Hero and AWS Community Builder alumni who loves to interact with community which has helped me learn and share my knowledge. I write about AWS Serverless and also talk about new features and announcements from AWS.

Speaker at various AWS forums globally – AWS UGs, AWS re:Skill, AWS Community Day, AWS Dev Day, AWS Summit, AWS GameDay, APJ Community Summit boosting about Serverless.

Bhuvaneswari Subramani
Chief Cloud Evangelist at Intuitive.Cloud
AWS DevTools Hero

In today’s dynamic tech environment, developers seek efficient solutions to innovate and deliver exceptional results. Amazon Q, an AI-powered platform, offers a transformative approach to end users and developers alike. This presentation explores how Amazon Q can boost developer efficiency and streamline the creation of GenAI applications. We will delve into its key features, real-world use cases, and best practices for integrating Amazon Q into your development workflow. Join us to gain practical knowledge and strategies for incorporating Amazon Q into their development workflows.

Bhuvaneswari Subramani a technology leader with close to 24 years of IT experience specialises in Cloud Modernization, DevOps, Cloud Alliance, Cloud Financial Management and fervently drives Global Outreach programs.

As a self-made woman in tech, she is always excited to promote diversity and enable the tech industry to be more inclusive, and was honoured by AWS as one of the five recipients across the globe of the AWS re:Invent 2018 Community Leader Diversity Scholarship, AWS Hero from India since 2019, she was featured in AWS Developer Story in 2021, and recipient of the prestigious Now Go Build Award 2022 from Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels.

She has been a passionate blogger since 2009 and an active speaker on Technology and Leadership in AWS Communities, international conferences, TEDx and universities.

Shubham Agnihotri
Senior Manager – Generative AI at IDFC First Bank

With a comprehensive 5-year background in AI and ML, my expertise encompasses GenAI, LLMs, Diffusion, NLP, Vision, Videos, Audios, and Graph Neural Networks. Alongside my current role, I previously served as a Technical Writer at Analytics Vidhya and Quantum Computing India.

Additionally, I actively organized events for TFUG Bangalore, hosting over 14 events with a membership exceeding 1000 individuals. In my capacity as an Industry Guide and Mentor, I’ve guided over 100 students.

I am also the proud founder of Cynergy, the official coding club at M. S. Ramaiah University, with a membership exceeding 1000 coders. I also run a YouTube channel by the name The Beginning of Infinity where I teach everyone about AI & Quantum via tutorials and Podcasts.

Suresh Seetharaman
Country Head at Yugabyte India

Mahima Saran
Sr. Technical Account Manager – AWS India

The rise in popularity of Generative AI (GenAI) reflects a broader shift toward intelligent automation in the business landscape, which enables enterprises to innovate at an unprecedented scale. In this session, we will demonstrate various infrastructure options and integrations that can help you deploy LLM models using Amazon ECS and associated storage and networking options.

For the past 18 years, she has been dedicated to crafting solutions to solve a multitude of engineering and domain problems in the field of IT. Her current areas of interest in IT career are Innovation and Research in the Emerging IT technologies. I have keen interest to drive innovation , be able to experiment, learn & improve at a fast pace

Gaurav Purandare
Manager, Cloud Operations – Contentstack India

All organisations have open challenge to stay on top of their AWS costs as they continue to grow and continue to consume multiple AWS services, within short time, they may realise that their AWS spend has increased substantially. I will share the best practices and some real-world examples how we were able to get AWS costs under control.

With deep-seated expertise in AWS technologies, Gaurav brings to the table a profound understanding of the dynamic landscape of cloud services. His proficiency lies in designing and building fault-tolerant, highly available infrastructures, always with a keen eye on cost-efficiency. Demonstrating a strong commitment to operational excellence, he has extensive experience configuring monitoring systems for web application uptime and response times, utilizing open-source tools such as Icinga.

Known among peers for their ability to perform “magic” with bash scripts, he embodies the spirit of innovation and the relentless pursuit of efficiency. Always at the forefront of technology, he is driven by a passion for learning and exploring cutting-edge technologies, ready to share knowledge and discoveries to empower others in navigating the complexities of the digital age.

Ridhima Kapoor
Developer Marketing Manager – AWS India