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.
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Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
Join us for Gen AI Day, a one-day event in San Francisco, showcasing how startups are building with Generative AI on AWS. We will broadcast the keynote from the virtual Gen AI Day, followed by a business track and technical demo session led by our SF-based customers, partners, and AWS experts.
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You will get the live in-person experience to hear from industry leaders and experts who have leveraged Generative AI on AWS to innovate and drive growth in their respective fields. You will learn about the latest trends and best practices, as well as tools and services such as Amazon Bedrock to help you build and deploy powerful AI Applications.
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This event offers a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights, get AWS Expert support, and build connections with Gen AI founders, business leaders, and builders.Â
GenAI has taken the world by storm, and we’re starting to see its potential for impact. Join us for an impactful keynote panel as we explore the transformative power of genAI across industries and how today’s learnings are rapidly paving the way for tomorrow’s advancements. Discover its potential to optimize processes, revolutionize healthcare, redefine content creation, and more. We’ll also address the critical topic of ethics, discussing privacy, bias, and misuse. Emphasizing responsible and transparent deployment, this session will foster innovation and envision a future where genAI continues to propel positive change and shapes our collective progress.
Moderator: Baratunde Thurston (Activist, Writer, Comedian)
Panelists:
Justin Finberg CEO and Founder, Cassidy AI
Su-In Lee, Professor, Baker Lab (University of WA)
Ozzy Johson, Director of Solutions Engineering, NVIDIA
Cody Coleman, CEO and Co-Founder, Coactiv
Noelle Russel, Global AI Solutions Lead, Accenture
Experience a new era of content creation with genAI and how it empowers creators to unleash their vision like never before. The innovators behind Zilliz, Stability AI, Storia, Gamma sit down to discuss genAI’s profound impact on the creative landscape, including natural language generation and prompt-based image creation. Through insights and demonstrations, witness the seamless integration of genAI tools into existing workflows, revolutionizing content conceptualization, development and consumption. Learn how to leverage genAI as an amplifier of imagination, not a substitute for creative, along with how to enhance your brand and engage your audience in innovative new ways.
With so many businesses using open-source frameworks to power a wave of incredible genAI applications, it’s time we explore the immense potential these frameworks hold for building language model powered applications. Pytorch, will share how best to harness the power of the revolutionary Pytorch tools/platforms on AWS. Discover seamless integration possibilities and how it can empower you to build and deploy cutting-edge genAI applications. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting your journey, this technical session provides valuable insights and practical tips to leverage open-source tools.
In this session, Hamid from Pytorch will take you through the purpose of the library and components, describe some of the use cases it satisfies, and tell you about what Pytorch has in store for its future, including Llama models. Additionally, Prashanth Ganapathy from AWS will show you how to build and deploy applications with AWS Bedrock and AWS SageMaker JumpStart.
Frank Liu is the Head of AI & ML at Zilliz, where he serves as a maintainer for the Towhee open-source project. Prior to Zilliz, Frank co-founded Orion Innovations, an ML-powered indoor positioning startup and worked as an ML engineer at Yahoo. His passion for ML extends beyond the workplace, in his free time he trains ML models and experiments with unique architectures. Frank holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Dave Anderson is a Director of Partnerships at Stability AI, specializing in guiding customers on how to generate value for their businesses with Stability’s open-source models.  Before his role at Stability AI he supported early-stage startup growth at AWS, focusing on cloud infrastructure and scalability strategies.
Mihail Eric is a co-CEO of Storia AI, an early-stage startup building an AI-powered creative assistant for video production. He has over a decade of experience researching and engineering AI systems at scale. Previously he built the first deep learning dialogue systems at the Stanford NLP group. He was also a founding member of Amazon Alexa’s first special projects team where he built the organization’s earliest large language models. Mihail is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Confetti AI, a machine learning education company that he led until its acquisition in 2022.
Jon Noronha is the founder and head of product at Gamma, where he's creating a new medium for presenting ideas. Gamma allows anyone to generate a presentation, document, or webpage in minutes using AI, just by writing a topic or pasting an outline. Before starting Gamma, Jon was the VP of Product at Optimizely, where he helped companies integrate rapid experimentation into their product development process.
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Hamid Shojanazeri is a Partner Engineer at Pytorch working on OSS high performance model optimization and distributed training. Hamid holds a P.h.D in Computer vision and worked as a researcher in multimedia labs in Australia, Malaysia and NLP lead in Opus.ai. He is mostly interested in optimizing the cost and democratizing AI for the broader community.
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