Speaker
Asa Kalavade
Vice President, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
As a technology and product leader at AWS, Asa Kalavade focuses on turning emerging technologies into scalable solutions for enterprise customers. She currently leads Forward Deployed Engineering and previously led AWS Transform, developing agentic AI capabilities designed to accelerate the modernization of legacy software and infrastructure. Over more than a decade at AWS, Kalavade has launched multiple products, built and scaled global teams of more than 900 across engineering, product, UX and data science, and led businesses through significant growth. A serial entrepreneur and inventor with more than 40 patents, she brings experience spanning AI, cloud modernization, product strategy, go-to-market transformation, M&A and enterprise technology.