Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
The AI landscape has fundamentally shifted. This isn't about building better chatbots—it's about creating AI systems that reason, remember, and adapt. Our panelists are building the infrastructure and applications that define the post-LLM era, while driving revenue and growing at 50-100%+ MoM/YoY. This is where theory meets production reality.
Attendees will leave with:
* Practical insights on the technical and business realities of frontier model development
* Understanding of current GPU infrastructure and cost optimization strategies, including "goodput" metrics
* Real-world examples of AI systems generating customer value and revenue
* Actionable lessons from founders at the cutting edge of AI innovation
As a leader in Generative AI and Machine Learning at AWS, Felipe Chies bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and business impact. Felipe drives go-to-market strategies, empowering customers to unlock the full potential of AWS's ecosystem.
With a deep understanding of customer needs and a proven track record in Product Management, Technology, and Sales, Felipe helps organizations navigate the AI landscape and achieve their business goals. His passion for innovation, coupled with technical expertise and strong leadership skills, enables him to inspire and guide executives as they embrace the AI era.
Former researcher at the Institute of Complex Systems of Paris. Researched emergent phenomena and large-scale system evolution. Recognized by the US National Academy of Sciences for work on emergent behavior in dynamic networks. On the cover of Le Point as one of the "100 geniuses whose innovation will change the world". Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, PhD in Complex Systems, and expert in Game Theory on graphs.
David (Dudu) Twizer is a co-founder and CEO of xpander.ai. Prior to founding xpander AI, he spent 7 years as a principal solutions architect and leader of the GTM Generative AI SA team at Amazon Web Services, where he worked with key lighthouse customers on designing and building early agentic use cases in the cloud.Â
Artificial Intelligence researcher and Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science graduate, Akshat leads the development of CAMB.AI's speech and language model stack. His work focuses on low-latency neural speech synthesis, multilingual voice modeling, and scalable AI systems for global content localization.
Previously part of AI/ML teams at Apple and Microsoft, he now builds the infrastructure powering real-time, brand-faithful dubbing across live and on-demand media.
