AWS Marketplace Seller Conference
Thank you for attending the third annual AWS Marketplace Seller Conference.
AWS Marketplace Seller Conference is an exclusive, invite-only, interactive learning conference for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Data Providers, and Channel Partners listed in AWS Marketplace. The day-long event featured a keynote, educational breakout sessions, real-time Q&A, and networking opportunities.
On-demand sessions
Missed a session or unable to attend? Check out two sessions offered on-demand from this year's event.
Accelerate your international expansion with AWS
Develop powerful messaging for AWS customer personas
AWS Marketplace Seller Conference Interviews
Chris Grusz
Dan Flood
Daniel Bernard
Matt Yanchyshyn
Mona Chadha
Nora Di Bene
Rebecca Spataro
Susanna Dyer
Featured AWS speakers
Chris Grusz
Chris Grusz is the Managing Director of Technology Partnerships for AWS. With more than 2,000 ISVs and over 12,000 software product listings in AWS Marketplace, Chris and his team work with all ISVs to adopt various partner programs and co-sell initiatives. In addition, his team also works with customers across Commercial and Public Sector on a global basis, helping them utilize AWS Marketplace to change how they build, market, sell, and manage application portfolios running on AWS. Prior to joining AWS, Chris held various leadership roles including Director of Sales, Managing Director and Business Unit Executive for IBM in Sales & Distribution as well as IBM Software Group. Chris holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Washington.
Matt Yanchyshyn
Matt Yanchyshyn is the General Manager for AWS Marketplace & Partner Engineering. He has worked in the digital media and technology industry for over 25 years, and joined AWS in 2012 when cloud computing was just a glimmer in most CIOs’ eyes. Matt has led multiple AWS service teams and technical sales organizations, including AWS Control Tower, AWS Service Catalog, AWS Well-Architected, and now all engineering for AWS’ partner organization. Before joining AWS, Matt spent a decade at the Associated Press, where he built field offices all over the world and led modernization efforts for the AP’s digital media distribution systems. Matt holds multiple AWS patents, is an Amazon Bar Raiser with >650 interviews, and has had the privilege of leading great teams who have launched dozens of new AWS programs, features, and products.
Mona Chadha
Mona Chadha is currently the Director, Infrastructure Partners for AWS Partner Organization. In this role, Mona leads business development for categories such as Security, Storage, Networking, Database, Data/Analytics, Machine Learning, IoT and helps these software providers build their business leveraging AWS Marketplace. She has been with AWS for 9.5 years. Prior to AWS, Mona led business development and product management teams in companies like Microsoft (Dynamics), Novell, Philips Healthcare, and Texas Instruments as well as building technology startups in e-commerce and emerging technologies. She holds a B.S.E in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from Johnson School, Cornell University. She resides in Manhattan on the Upper West Side and is a Boston native.
Featured Exec Q&A Panel
Annette Best Blum
Nora Di Bene
Susanna Dyer
Featured Innovator Panel
Daniel Bernard
Joseph Fu
Laurent MeChain
Ask the Experts
Andrei Okhotnikov
Chandrashekar Vishweshwara
Chidambaram Muthappan
Elorm Tetteh
George Maroulakos
James Kilpatrick
Jill Esposito
Joseph Shih
Kim Johnson
Kyle Wallinder
Leno Piperi
Leony Mijares
Michael Baldwin
Michael Herger
Mike Reed
Nate Stecz
Sai Vaidyam
Tim Honychurch
Tuan Vo
AWS Speakers
Alivia Hupp
Allison Johnson
Andy Walters
Brad Johnson
Carisa Schow
Christina Gower
Clayton Knechtges
Eddie Lee
Elijah Tramble
Harish Surendranath
Herve Marcy
Jen Valverde
Jing Zhu
Josh Greene
Joshua Wabulo
Kasey Hilgers
Kathryn Lindell
Mark Solomon
Matt Baker
Michelle Stonebank
Mike Reed
Ro Parry
Tanaya Ojha
Vinod Nair
Guest Speakers
Alan Miller
Brittney Ames
Dan Flood
Daniel Bernard
Elsa Wilson
Gautham Pandiyan
Greg Andsager
Jack French
James Beasley
Jenny Jarrad
John O’Donnell
Matt Beyer
Mike Byrd
Nic Perez
Rebecca Spataro
Scott Sumner
Stefan Kircher
Tom Capozza
Trish Cagliostro
Will Jones
Xander Uyleman
Agenda
Optional
Breakout sessions
Track 1
(Grow) your Business in AWS Marketplace
Room: Grand Ballroom A
Panel
Grow your channel business in AWS Marketplace
Join us for a panel discussion with ISVs and Channel Partners on best practices to successfully launch, grow, and scale your channel business on AWS Marketplace utilizing AWS Marketplace channel features and programs. This session will feature examples of successful partner use cases, customer stories and lessons learned.
Guest Speakers
Dan Flood
Jack French
James Beasley
Trish Cagliostro
AWS Speaker
Allison Johnson
Presentation
Accelerate your international expansion with AWS
Put your business on the fast-track for global expansion by teaming with AWS and AWS Marketplace. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for growing the global footprint of your ISV practice. Hear success stories from HashiCorp and TrendMicro, and learn how they’ve leveraged their AWS relationship and AWS Marketplace to drive international growth.
Guest speaker
Greg Andsager
Susanna Dyer
AWS Speakers
Jing Zhu
Herve Marcy
Michelle Stonebank
Panel
Launching your public sector business
The U.S. public sector is one of AWS Marketplace fastest growing customer segments for third-party software purchases. Come and learn best practices from leading WWPS consulting partners on co-sell strategies, access to procurement contracts and building effective GTM campaigns in accelerating your public sector sales opportunities using AWS Marketplace.
Guest Speakers
Alan Miller
Gautham Pandiyan
John O’Donnell
Nic Perez
Will Jones
AWS Speakers
Eddie Lee
Mark Solomon
Panel
How are ISVs and Global/System Integrators using AWS Marketplace to develop new sales channels and revenue streams
The AWS Marketplace provides many opportunities for partners to build new routes to market. With more customers leveraging professional services as well as SaaS software and data from ISVs and channel partners, our mission is to make AWSMP our customer's preferred route to market. This session will teach partners how to accelerate sales growth across all of your business models: resell, professional and managed services and SaaS solutions.
Guest Speakers
Daniel Bernard
Elsa Wilson
Stefan Kircher
Tom Capozza
AWS Speakers
Clayton Knechtges
Track 2
(Market) Go-to-Market & Demand Gen
Room: Grand Ballroom B&C
Panel
Evolve your AWS Marketplace go-to-market strategy
Customer buying preferences are shifting to digital procurement channels. Join our panel of marketing experts as they share new research on how buyers are leveraging AWS Marketplace to find, try, and buy the tools they need to accelerate innovation. You'll take away insights that will help inform the next evolution of your AWS Marketplace go-to-market strategy.
Guest Speaker
Jenny Jarrad
Matt Beyer
AWS Speakers
Andy Walters
Carisa Schow
Matt Baker
Presentation
Develop powerful messaging for AWS customer personas
Selling in AWS Marketplace gives you an opportunity to expand your reach to new AWS users, customer procurement teams, and the AWS Field. Successful AWS Marketplace sellers have demonstrated that creating strong core "better-together with AWS" messaging, tailored across content, delivery methods, and for specific personas, helps to drive more effective marketing campaigns. Join this session to learn about the core AWS Marketplace buyer personas, and how you can adjust your messaging to appeal to each.
AWS Speakers
Brad Johnson
Ro Parry
Presentation
Grow revenue by acquiring new self-service customers in AWS Marketplace
As AWS Marketplace sellers seek to scale customer acquisition, a product-led growth (PLG) strategy that provides users with a self-service try-and-buy experience, is often at the top of the list. Join this session with MongoDB and AWS Marketplace to learn how to drive PLG growth with the right product listing, GTM plan, and better-together approach with AWS.
Guest Speakers
Xander Uyleman
AWS Speakers
Vinod Nair
Presentation
Structure your AWS Marketplace GTM operations for scale
As sellers scale up their AWS Marketplace business, adjustments and optimization of marketing and operations is often required in order to keep up. In this session, you'll learn how high-performing AWS Marketplace seller teams work with AWS to deliver effective marketing campaigns at scale, and track lead conversion from origin to closed deals.
Guest Speakers
Brittney Ames
AWS Speakers
Brad Johnson
Track 3
(Scale) your business with Marketplace Operations
Room: Grand Ballroom D
Presentation
Improve operational efficiency with data and automation
As you’re scaling your cloud business, operationalizing data from insights dashboards can help you streamline your sales and financial operations processes. In this session, learn how you can increase operational efficiencies of selling in AWS Marketplace by taking advantage of available dashboards, data mapping, and automation tools.
Guest Speaker
Scott Sumner
AWS Speakers
Christina Gower
Kathryn Lindell
Presentation and Panel
Operational Excellence: Marketplace Growth
In this session we will share practical lessons, insights and tools to leverage AWS Marketplace to grow your business. We will help you understand how and when to engage with different AWS teams to optimized your interactions. Hear from BD and Private Offer experts to understand characteristics of a successful seller and lessons learned from a Scaled ISV.
Guest Speakers
Rebecca Spataro
AWS Speakers
Elijah Tramble
Kasey Hilgers
Panel
Q&A Panel: Solve operational challenges for a next-level private offers strategy
Take your private offers strategy to the next level with insights and proven practices to streamline your operations. In this panel discussion, you’ll hear from AWS Marketplace operations experts as they share solutions for frequently asked questions from sellers and buyers, including how to best leverage AWS Marketplace notifications.
AWS Speakers
Alivia Hupp
Christina Gower
Jen Valverde
Kasey Hilgers
Kathryn Lindell
Presentation
Launching your SaaS products with the new self-service listing experience
Get your SaaS products to market faster with the new and improved seller experience for listing SaaS products in AWS Marketplace. See a demonstration of the new experience, and learn how to use new tools to increase speed and agility by quickly creating, testing, and publishing your SaaS products to the catalog.
AWS Speakers
Joshua Wabulo
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.