Shane is a passionate technologist that cut his teeth in web-hosting by keeping some of Australia's most popular websites online before running architecture functions for some of the world largest food manufacturers. He has a blend of both development and infrastructure backgrounds. Shane is an enthusiastic maker and his house is often referred to as 'SkyNet'. Shane has been at AWS for the last two years and has had the opportunity to work with businesses of all sizes and industries, and whilst being technologist, he is able to communicate technical solutions effectively all the way through to executive audiences. Shane is advocate of all facets of automation and is committed to helping customers leverage the AWS cloud to drive innovation and customer value. 

Kumar Nachiketa is a Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. He loves helping our partners and customers in making a better architectural or design decision with AWS storage. He also works with the AWS engineering team to advising their roadmaps. He has been speaking in various forums on data storage topics. Before AWS, he worked in organizations like IBM, Oracle, spent over 13 years in the storage industry. He’s recently been interested in identifying and working towards inefficiency in existing storage workflows and making it better by using a modern approach such as cloud storage, Serverless.

Blair is a passionate, enthusiastic, and successful IT professional with nearly 20 years of experience in ANZ, EMEA, and APAC. Managing employees and working with customers from different countries gives Blair an understanding of the diverse IT markets across the world. He’s had varied experiences over his IT career, starting in software development before progressing to project management, technical training, product evangelism, product management, sales training, business development, and management. Throughout his career, he’s maintained his interest in the core technology of the day.

Peter helps AWS customers maximize their business value realization on AWS with a focus on optimizing spend. He has worked with hundreds of customers, guiding them on their cost management and optimization journey, answering questions such as the following: What is the IT spend? What is its business purpose? Who is responsible? What is the forecast? How efficient is the spend ? Where is there optimization potential? What are the most relevant tools and collateral for this use case?

Gabe is a software developer and technical evangelist for AWS, where he stays current on cloud computing best practices and services, learning how customers innovate on AWS, building exciting demos, and sharing his knowledge and passion with the world. Gabe has more than 15 years of experience building robust, scalable, and well-tested systems across a variety of industries. From on-demand online tutoring to large-scale federated identity and user management to data processing for a constellation of nano-satellites, Gabe has been building on AWS since 2009. These days Gabe is most excited about serverless, mobile, DevOps, and AI/ML.