Ep024: Generative AI Disruption, Impact and Opportunities for Software Companies

Description:

Today, a fascinating panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent November 2023, featuring software leaders from Anthropic, Freshworks, Genesys, Snaplogic and AWS discussing the disruption, impact and opportunities of generative AI for software companies.

Panelists:

• Matt Bell, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
• Siddhartha Agarwal, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy & Operations, Freshworks
• Glenn Nethercutt, Chief Technology Officer, Genesys
• Jeremiah Stone, Chief Technology Officer, Snaplogic
• Sherry Marcus Ph.D, Director of Applied Science, Generative AI, AWS
• Andy Perkins, Director ISV Sales, AWS

Topics Include:

• Observations of the current state of generative AI
• How will AI continue to disrupt industries?
• Agents and bots to help employers scale
• Impact of generative AI on retail and support
• Leveraging generative AI and automation to become lean and reduce waste
• Risk management for generative AI
• Ethical concerns – Security, data accuracy and privacy
• Managing/reducing “jailbreaks” – users attempting to break the models
• Developing leadership clarity and in-house expertise for large language models
• Increased power of Product Managers, evolution of engineering departments
• How SaaS companies work with generative AI
• Leveraging AWS Bedrock for acceleration
• Advice for Software Executives going into generative AI
• Partnering with AWS for POCs