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AI's Cost Problem: Moving AI from Prototype to Production at Scale

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Author:

Peter DeSantis

SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum Computing
Amazon

Peter DeSantis is Senior Vice President, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).

 

Throughout his career at Amazon, Peter has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its General Manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, Peter led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 Availability Zones worldwide. Most recently, as SVP of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.

 

Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

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Peter DeSantis

SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum Computing
Amazon

Peter DeSantis is Senior Vice President, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).

 

Throughout his career at Amazon, Peter has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its General Manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, Peter led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 Availability Zones worldwide. Most recently, as SVP of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.

 

Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Author:

Sarah Guo

Founder
Conviction
Sarah Guo is the founder at Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm founded in 2022. Prior, she was a General Partner at Greylock. Along with her partners, they have been early investors in the most important companies of tomorrow, including Baseten, Clay, Cognition, Figma, Harvey, HeyGen, Listen Labs, Mistral, Rippling, Sierra and Thinking Machines. Sarah is from Wisconsin, has four degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three kids. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast "No Priors" with Elad Gil.
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Sarah Guo

Founder
Conviction
Sarah Guo is the founder at Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm founded in 2022. Prior, she was a General Partner at Greylock. Along with her partners, they have been early investors in the most important companies of tomorrow, including Baseten, Clay, Cognition, Figma, Harvey, HeyGen, Listen Labs, Mistral, Rippling, Sierra and Thinking Machines. Sarah is from Wisconsin, has four degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three kids. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast "No Priors" with Elad Gil.
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9:00 AM
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Keynote
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