Capital One’s sessions and speakers at AWS re:Invent 2024

We’re excited to sponsor the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas again this year. Learn how Capital One leverages AWS to innovate at scale by visiting us at the expo or attending one of our learning sessions. 

At our booth, you’ll get a chance to learn more about: 

• Our data publishing and data lake platforms, showcasing how we publish and store well-governed data; and 
• Our agent servicing, showcasing how we used generative AI to streamline customer service.

Like in previous years, Capital One’s presence goes beyond the booth. Throughout the event, we’ll have Capital One tech leaders speaking about cloud-powered technology and much more! 

Learn more about Capital One’s speaking sessions below. You can find the full AWS re:Invent session catalog here.

Speakers: Prem Natarajan & NVIDIA
Monday, December 2, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST

Discover how Capital One is revolutionizing the customer experience with a responsible and unified approach to AI and generative AI. In this session, Capital One will share how they have harnessed the power of NVIDIA AI Enterprise and AWS services to drive business results in thoughtful, well-managed ways that put customers first. Attendees will gain practical insights into the design of robust guardrails for managing risk while delivering real business value and user benefits. Learn how AI-driven innovations in fraud detection, personalized banking, and customer service are shaping a new era of customer experience at Capital One.

Speakers: Marty Andolino & Kajal Wood
Monday, December 2, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST

The AI revolution is raising the stakes on how companies manage and use data in the cloud. Great AI requires great data, and organizations that have plentiful, well-managed data have a huge advantage in their ability to leverage AI. In this talk, Capital One will share how companies should think about producing high-quality data that is well governed and easy to find, understand and use—ultimately powering the ability to accelerate AI use cases that can help solve challenging customer problems and drive real business value.

Speaker: James Montgomery
Wednesday, December 4, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

As organizations look to build and scale their AI efforts in a cloud-enabled enterprise, it’s more important than ever to take an integrated approach that mobilizes cross-functional partners, enables the use of cutting-edge tools, and stays at the forefront of the latest science and applied research. In this session, Capital One will share insights from building programs for generative AI at scale, tools and platforms that enable data scientists and engineers to put models into production, and insights for leveraging state-of-the-art AI research advances to inform and evolve enterprise AI capabilities and applications.

Speakers: Jerzy Grzywinski & Brent Segner
Thursday, December 5, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST

In today’s cloud environments, efficient utilization of compute resources is critical for managing costs, especially when it comes to high-cost instances like GPUs and enhanced performance CPUs. In this session, explore how Capital One, in collaboration with AWS and chip manufacturers, has developed a comprehensive methodology to monitor, benchmark, and optimize GPU and CPU usage across its cloud infrastructure. This presentation is brought to you by Capital One, an AWS Partner.

Speakers: Parvez Naqvi & AWS
Monday, December 2, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST 

As technology evolves rapidly, business and IT leaders continue to ask: How do we operate at lower cost, improve efficiency, and enhance security and compliance posture while exceeding customer expectations? At AWS, we want to help every customer benefit from transforming their IT operations. Join this talk to learn how you can transform your IT operations to be more agile, resilient, efficient, and secure; make operations more intelligent to eliminate repetitive tasks; and get deeper insight for better decision-making. See a demo of the latest innovations, and explore impactful customer stories.

Speakers: Grant Gillary & AWS
Monday, December 2, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST 

Organizations need robust, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to deploy and serve foundation models (FMs). This session explores how to use Amazon SageMaker to deploy FMs to make predictions at the best price performance for any use case. Get a detailed overview of deployment strategies to support large-scale generative AI inferencing, and learn how to architect solutions that optimize performance and cost.

Speakers: Peter Tyson, Temesgen Meheret & AWS
Monday, December 2, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST 

In this session, learn how Amazon QuickSight helps you build dashboards and pixel-perfect reports using the same data sources in a single experience. See a demo on how to construct reports in QuickSight including using Amazon Q to generate reports using natural language. Gain insights into the key distinctions between pixel-perfect reports and dashboards, as well as the benefits of moving reporting to the cloud such as scalability, accessibility, and cost savings.

Speakers: Ishu Gupta & AWS
Monday, December 2, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST 

In this session, learn how to use AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CDK to deploy cloud applications in regulated environments while enforcing security controls. Find out how to catch issues early with cdk-nag, validate your pipelines with cfn-guard, and protect your accounts from unintended changes with CloudFormation hooks.

Speakers: Moe BaniHani & AWS
Tuesday, December 3, 1:30 - 2:30 PM PST 

Are you concerned about running mission-critical applications on AWS? Did you know that AWS hosts mission-critical applications for some of the largest and most-regulated businesses on earth? In this session, discover the patterns and principles of AWS resilience best practices. Then, hear Capital One showcase its next-generation design and deployment patterns that push the boundaries of resilient architectures and support its most critical business processes. Learn about the AWS services it uses, the tradeoffs it must consider, and the decision matrix that guides developers to the right pattern for the right use case.

Speakers: Brent Segner & AWS
Wednesday, December 4, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST 

Are you looking to harness the power of generative AI without breaking the bank? Join our session to master the art of monitoring and optimizing costs of AWS generative AI services, including Amazon Q Business, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and self-hosted EC2 instances. Whether you're a newcomer to generative AI or have already deployed cutting-edge solutions, this session equips you with essential insights to ensure your AI workloads are running efficiently.

Speakers: Ed Peters & AWS
Wednesday, December 4, 12:00 - 1:00 PM PST 

Join this session to learn about the latest compute innovations from AWS. Hear how you can take advantage of recently launched Amazon EC2 instances and capabilities. This session helps you better understand Amazon EC2 instances and how organizations like yours can use them to run any workload while meeting your cost, performance, and sustainability goals.

Speakers: Catherine McGarvey & AWS
Wednesday, December 4, 4:30 - 5:30 PM PST 

Ten years ago, AWS Lambda pioneered Serverless computing. Amazon Elastic Container Services with AWS Fargate further catalyzed the Serverless revolution.  With Serverless, builders were able to focus on delivering customer value versus spending time managing servers. Serverless continues to be an innovative approach to building applications. Join us to explore how Serverless has evolved to help you drive the highest performance, availability, and security at low costs. Learn how serverless powers applications across Amazon and AWS from leaders charged with defining the next generation of serverless.

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