Ep025: Modern Data Strategies for Software Companies

We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders from Canva, Databricks, Okta, PagerDuty and AWS discussing modern data strategies for software companies.

Panelists:

• Fawaz Ahmed, Senior Director of Engineering, Canva
• David Meyer, SVP of Product Management, Databricks
• Bhawna Singh, CTO, Okta
• Tim Armandpour, CTO, PagerDuty
• Barry Morris, GM, In-Memory and Emerging DB, AWS

Topics Include:

• Sharing approach to data strategies
• Canva providing and leveraging user analytics.
• Databricks data strategy and architecture
• Processing data with minimal latency
• Governance and challenges with generative AI
• Beyond the chatbots - fundamental shifts in data strategy with generative AI
• Managing data for generative AI verification and trust
• Training and fine-tuning data models
• Prioritizing data integration and evolution
• How will generative AI evolve data over the coming years
• Can providing insights be monetized?
• Technology requirements for driving data-based decision making
• Predictions for data and generative AI