AWS - Smart Business Podcast

Rob Spekschoor (Dustin) and Arwin Scholten (EDSN), with Pelin Dumans (AWS), on running AI on top of infrastructure the rest of the economy depends on, and what responsible speed really means: when do you ship, and when do you brake on time?Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

Han Stoffels (8vance) and Sabine van Hoijweghen (Secutec), with Alexandra Tofan (AWS), on building AI that matches people to meaningful work and AI that keeps the digital economy safe,and how, despite all the risks AI brings, we can steer toward a world that is both secure and full of meaningful work for people. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

Jeroen Meulendijks (SpecifAi) and Friso Geerlings (iO Digital), with Amer Grgić (AWS), on why AI is forgiving where business intelligence never was, the real worth of a prototype anyone canbuild in five minutes, and who is responsible for saying an answer is good enough to ship. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

Michiel van der Deijl (Condoor), Maarten Bode (Zonneplan) and Jeroen Jacobs (Cloudar, on AWS co-host duty) on building a lot yourself while buying the rest from AWS, where that build-buyline moves next, and what it does to the guardrails around an AI talking to 220,000 customers. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

Luc Brandts (SIG) and Jelle Visser (BlueDolphin), with Vinicius Spader Paganin (AWS), on what happens to control when thousands of AI agents start writing the code, and whether governance begins bottom-up in the verified code or top-down in the architecture blueprint. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Amsterdam.

Philip Borge (Crunched) and Alexander Engl (AWS Startups) on how a tightly scoped tool for financial analysts grew into an AI workflow platform for banks, Big-Four transaction advisory and management consultancies, and what that journey teaches founders about earning trust before expanding. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Stockholm.

Björn Blomqvist (Axfood) and Kellen O'Connor (AWS) on how a thin-margin grocery retailer stacks classical machine learning, generative AI and agentic experiments, and when efficiency stops being enough and the next gain has to come from the in-store moment. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Stockholm.

Hans Skovgaard (Queue-it) and Jasmine Chua (AWS) on redesigning the gatekeeper for an agentic web, where shopping agents arrive at scale, intent matters more than identity, and trust certificates may become the new currency of access. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Stockholm.

Victor Botev (Iris.ai) and Kristina Cekanauskaite (AWS) on a decade of making the world's hardest scientific text understandable to machines, and which of today's design choices, from smaller domain-specific models to teams of agents working together, will still hold up two years from now. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Stockholm.

Erik Kjellström (Syncron) and Marc Cervera Castro (AWS) on how AI is moving OEMs from forecasting yesterday's demand to orchestrating tomorrow's uptime, pricing and warranty as one connected system. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Stockholm.