Migration & Modernization

Willem VanEssendelft

Author: Willem VanEssendelft

Willem VanEssendelft is a Sr. Solutions Architect on the AWS Public Sector Migrations team, where he helps government and public sector organizations modernize their workloads and adopt generative AI responsibly. With 25 years building technology across startups, enterprise architecture, and the public sector, paired with a background in anthropology, he sees AI as the latest cycle in humanity's long relationship with transformative tools. He spends his best hours with his family, making music, tending the smoker, and keeping the peace between three cats.

Classifying Your AI migration to Plan for Success

An AI migration means different things to different teams, and that ambiguity is expensive. Are you migrating with AI, to AI, or from AI? The answer shapes your staffing plan, governance model, and timeline, because each motion carries a different risk profile and demands a different set of skills. Gartner found that by the end […]