In this highly informative episode, we share strategies and best practices for driving growth for SaaS companies featuring Kulwinder Kalsi , head of UK and Ireland Enterprise Software and SaaS Architecture and Johan Broman , Head of Solutions Architecture for Independent Software Vendors for Europe, Middle East & Africa. Topics Include: Discover the main expectations end customers have of SaaS companies, including frictionless tenant onboarding, instrumentation/monitoring, pricing transparen...
Jun 11, 2024•29 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Business applications are catalyzing profound transformations across industries, streamlining operations, enhancing productivity, and fostering innovation. Leveraging advanced technologies such as generative AI, these applications are reshaping traditional business models, driving agility, and fueling competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Panelists: Neboysa Omcikus - Head of Strategy, https://www.linkedin.com/company/gleanwork/ Glean Steve Antonakakis - Divisional COO, Enterprise Prod...
Jun 05, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicholas Marwell , Member of Technical Staff of Anthropic , shares predictions for Generative AI models as well as guidance on safely training and scaling them for the near future. Topics Include: Where are Generative AI Models heading About Anthropic Claude Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet & Claude 3 Haiku Scaling laws impact on models Training models for text, images and multimedia AI Safety, high stakes and stewarding through potential dangers Constitutional AI and interpretability research Benefits...
May 28, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Daniele Di Mattia , Partner at McKinsey and Company and Miguel Alava , General Manager of AWS for software companies in EMEA, discuss strategic software industry insights and trends in Europe, Middle East, Africa and beyond that will shape the future of investment, product development as well as opportunities for regional and global expansion. Topics include: Macro environment challenges and focus on cost optimization for software companies Generative AI's massive impact and expanding total addr...
Apr 30, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Frank Della Rosa , Research Vice President of SaaS, Business Platforms, and Industry Cloud at IDC , shares the recent trends of the software industry and how some successful software companies are adapting their strategies to best take advantage and create value. Topics Include: The worldwide forecast for SaaS and cloud software Major growth stats for SaaS and Cloud software North America growth deep dive Top businesses investing in generative AI Co-creation with individuals, teams and machines ...
Apr 23, 2024•45 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Billige , CEO of global consultancy firm Simon Kucher and Miguel Alava , General Manager of AWS for software companies in EMEA, discuss strategic software industry insights and trends that will shape the future of data, generative AI and cost optimization. Topics Include: Shift from Growth-at-All-Costs to Profitable Growth Models Monetizing the Value of Generative AI Offerings Treating Data as a Monetizable Asset for Software Companies Strategies for Expanding into the U.S. Software Market ...
Apr 16, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ep035: Today's podcast features panel discussion from the "AWS for Software Companies Generative AI and Data Executive Forum" featuring leaders from Anyscale , Qlik and Rapid7 sharing insights on data models, policies and optimization for Generative AI applications. Panelists: Zhe Zang , Head of Open Source Engineering, Anyscale Brendan Grady , EVP & GM, Analytics Business Unit, Qlik Laura Ellis , VP - Data Engineering and Platform Analytics, Rapid7 Sherry Marcus Ph.D ., Director, Applied Sc...
Apr 09, 2024•45 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast A panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Generative AI and Data Executive Forum featuring leaders from DatologyAI , Gretal.ai and Zscaler sharing insights on data analytics, AI/ML and cost optimization. Panelists: Ari Morcos - CEO and Co-founder at DatologyAI John Meyers - CTO and Co-Founder at Gretel.ai Sanjay Kalra - Product Management at Zscaler Andy Perkins – General Manager, Data, Analytics, GenAI at Amazon Web Services Topics Include: Top 3 keys to success integrating insight...
Mar 26, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Phil Le-Brun of AWS speaks to Brad Porter , CEO of Orion Health about the exciting future healthcare, communities that have adopted a “Digital First” strategy and improving the healthcare experience through data and technology. Topics Include: The ambitious mission and vision for Orion Healthcare Improving the clinician and patient experience through data The role of data in healthcare Opportunities for digitization and innovation in healthcare AI and data for improving healthcare predictability...
Mar 19, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast we’ll hear from Stephen Manley , CTO of Druva , about the problem of data sprawl, and how AWS customers like Druva have prepared, orchestrated, and unified petabytes of data to analyze and perform at scale. Topics Include: Generative AI has flipped a lot of legacy AI in last few months Overview of Druva / a SaaS backup company How do we use generative AI to help customers get more value? What problems did we not expect with generative AI? Curating data to feed into LLMs Integrati...
Mar 12, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, in collaboration with Business Insider India , Raviteja Dodda , Founder and CEO of MoEngage shares the story of how MoEngage is shaping customer engagement and provides guidance for other software leaders wishing to make the same journey. Topics Include: Jeff Klaus and Raviteja Dotta Introductions How has the Customer Engagement Space evolved in recent years? How has SaaS help automate AI-driven personalization? Maximizing existing customers Steps and best practices for growing to multipl...
Mar 05, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, a session from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, Jeremy Schnieder , Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company , shares some mega trends of the software industry. Topics Include: Software is growing significantly. Total value of Enterprise software industry has doubled in the last 5 years IT spending rising, SaaS now over 50% of software revenue Opportunities & major growth drivers with GenAI Shifts balance of internal development and commercial software due t...
Feb 27, 2024•22 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Gabriele Lasauskaite , Head of Growth & Community Programs at AWS, speaks with Luke Anear , CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture as he shares the story of SafetyCulture, becoming a critical app for businesses, supporting 75,000 customer globally and the plans for 100x growth in the coming years. Topics Include: How did SafetyCulture begin? What problem were you trying to solve? Who are the customers of SafetyCulture? Australian Open using SafetyCulture for their events Airlines relying on Safety...
Feb 20, 2024•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast James Hunt , Vice President of Product Management of eGain shares the story of how eGain Analytics is helping Amazon Connect customers to measure, manage and optimize their contact centers. Topics Include: Overview of eGain eGain Solution hubs: Knowledge, Conversation & Analytics Why enterprises choose eGain Analytics Contact Center Analytics: Buy vs. Build Navigating a migration from On-Premise to Amazon Connect – Best Practices & Pitfalls. A real customer migration experience Building ...
Feb 13, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders, founders and co-founders from Cohesity , HashiCorp , Postman and SentinelOne sharing how they grew their software business, software trends they are seeing and growth plans for 2024 Panelists: Mohit Aron , Founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer, Cohesity Armon Dadgar , Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, HashiCorp Ankit Sobti , Co-Founder and Chief Technology ...
Jan 23, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast We feature a panel discussion from the AWS for Software Companies Executive Forum at re:Invent, featuring software leaders from Appen , Coinbase , Rapid7 and AWS sharing strategies and best practices to optimize their businesses to free up budgets and enable further software innovations. Panelists: Bobby Smith , Vice President of IT and Engineering, Appen Sumanth Sukumar , Vice President Engineering, Coinbase Elaine Hardwick , Director of Engineering, Rapid7 Sree Ratnasinghe , Director, NA...
Jan 16, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 stra...
Jan 09, 2024•43 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Offic...
Dec 13, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast We present a panel discussion with software leaders from Contrast Security and Tenable sharing guidance and best practices for security in DevOps practices. Panelists are: Mike Clausen - Director of Product Management, Contrast Security Phillip Hayes - Director Information Security, Tenable Temi Adebambo - Head of Security Solutions Architecture, AWS Topics Include: The significance of introducing security into the DevOps processes for Modern Architectures Balancing need for speed & agility ...
Dec 08, 2023•35 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Enjoy our panel discussion with executive leaders from ChaosSearch , Sentra and ZeroFox and discuss some best practices for secure data management and compliance in the cloud. Speakers: Thomas Hazel , CTO & Chief Scientist, ChaosSearch Yoav Regev , CEO and Co-founder, Sentra Mike Price , Chief Technology Officer, ZeroFox Mark Terenzoni , Service Leader, AWS , Amazon Inspector and Amazon Detective Topics Include: Customers concerned about size of data How AWS manages large amounts of data Cha...
Nov 28, 2023•19 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Today we have a panel of software industry leaders from Braze, N-able and Rapid 7 discussing how to use security as a strategic advantage Speakers: Mark Shasha , Head of Security, Braze Ulrich Dangel , Director of Engineering, Rapid7 Stefan Voss , VP of Product Management, N-able Clayton Smith , Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Topics Include: Thesis: Security is good for business Is security a differentiator and lead to sales? Is your customer base being more educated on security ...
Nov 14, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast We feature a roundtable discussion with several software industry leaders on how their organizations leveraged Kubernetes for their AI and ML workloads as well as lessons learned from the experience. Featuring: Amreth Chandrasehar - Director of MLOps, SRE and Observability, Informatica Úlfar Erlingsson - Chief Architect, Lacework Murli Thirumale - General Manager of the Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage Barry Cooks - VP Kubernetes, AWS Topics include: Huge amounts of AI/ML workloads at AW...
Oct 31, 2023•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Register for AWS reInvent: NOV. 27 – DEC. 1, 2023 | LAS VEGAS, NV Today we feature a roundtable discussion on organizational adoption, benefits and best practices for deploying serverless containers featuring Skylar Graika , Product & Engineering Leader of Smartsheet and Jeet Kaul , Senior Vice President of Jumio , moderated by Banjot Chanana of AWS . Topics include: Serverless session intros Where does “Serverless” start and stop? How did Serverless get adopted within the organization? Reac...
Oct 17, 2023•23 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast We share a roundtable discussion on Generative AI featuring Chris Cholette , Agile VP Engineering and SRE for Navan , Swapnil Paranjpe , Senior data Practitioner at Persistent , Gregor Stewart , VP of Artificial intelligence at SentinelOne and all hosted by Matt Thompson of AWS. Topics include: Intro to Matt Thompson 4 Pillars of Generative AI for AWS Introductions of panel How much is your day is GenAI? How much retraining for techniques for data science or engineer teams? Why are you incorpora...
Oct 03, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Register for AWS reInvent: NOV. 27 – DEC. 1, 2023 | LAS VEGAS, NV We feature a panel discussion featuring Michael Brown, VP of Technology at Auvik Networks , Rob Woolley, VP of Technology Operations at Benevity moderated by Jeff Klaus of AWS sharing best practices on global expansion. Topics include: The most successful AWS customers are on multiple continents What are the goals for wanting to expand overseas? Going global through acquisition Copying services to various regions with AWS AWS help...
Sep 19, 2023•17 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Sign up for AWS reInvent: NOV. 27 – DEC. 1, 2023 | LAS VEGAS, NV 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 secur...
Sep 05, 2023•21 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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 complian...
Aug 22, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 logistic...
Aug 08, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jul 25, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 integra...
Jul 11, 2023•34 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 
