Please join us as we host our executive Database Services team, who are visiting from Seattle, for a fireside chat on how global AWS customers are running their data strategies on AWS. They will be covering how large enterprises and startups across all industries overcome challenges in their data strategy in terms of structure, analytics, visualization, and more. We will open with a panel discussion and then open to the wider audience with a Q&A session.

Profile of the speakers:

1) Kevin Jernigan is AWS Principal Product Manager for Amazon PostgreSQL services.

Kevin Jernigan is a Principal Product Manager in the Amazon RDS team, responsible for product management for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. He started his career at Oracle in 1987, as a product manager responsible for Oracle Database benchmarks, utilities, and Oracle Parallel Server, now called Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC). In 1994, he co-founded Emergent Technologies, a technology consulting company that specialized in high-end DW and OLTP database implementations. After selling Emergent in 1999, he co-founded Xpiron in 2000, which provided online booking management services to health & fitness clubs. Kevin returned to Oracle in 2009, as a product manager responsible for more than twenty Oracle Database features related to performance and storage management, including Advanced Compression, Database In-Memory, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). He joined AWS in January 2016.

2) Darin Briskman is a data scientist and engineer with Amazon Web Services, serving as the Chief Technical Evangelist for Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning services.

Darin works to help people worldwide get the greatest benefit from a range of data architectures, including relational, non-relational, in-memory, graph, big data, and ML services. He joined Amazon in 2016 after 30 years of experience in Enterprise Technologies, including work at NASA, IBM and Silicon Valley startups.

3) Jeff Koller is the Business Development Manager for Amazon ElastiCache.

His responsibilities include developing and executing the GTM strategy and serving as the primary point of contact for customer communication. He joined Amazon in 2014 as part of the AWS sales team with a focus on startups and mid-market organizations in Boston and greater New England. Prior to Amazon, Jeff graduated from Georgetown University with a major in Japanese Language & Culture and spent several years living and working in Tokyo, Japan.

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