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, NAMER Tech, Amazon Web Services

Topics Include:

Potential future market and impact of driving optimization
How optimization drove innovation
Using optimization to free up budget & time for growth programs
Optimization becomes part of the organizational culture
Lessons learned through optimization
Running internal competitions to drive innovation and modernization
AWS’ “Experience Based Accelerator” 3 day hackathon-style optimization program
Leveraging AWS to help optimize to invest in generative AI
Investment returns in Bedrock and Code Whisperer
Ensuring team alignment for optimization focus
Making roadmap trade-offs – features v optimization
Final thoughts, panel wrap up

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Ep026: Driving a Culture of Innovation through Optimization

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