Ep. 634: Innovating with generative AI starts with your data strategy

Jillian Forde is a Sr. Solutions Architect who works with startups to help them grow their businesses using the AWS cloud. Jillian did not have a tech background prior to joining AWS. As a host of The Official AWS podcast she strives to help people new to the tech industry and cloud computing learn technical concepts essential to a thriving career. Follow her on Twitter.

Gopinath Sankaran, Vice President Strategic Cloud Ecosystems at Informatica, has a single-minded focus on helping customers and cloud ecosystem partners realize value with Informatica’s industry leading Intelligent Data Management Cloud. Passionate about partnerships with cloud ecosystems and inspiring teams to drive customer delight by solving critical business problems, Gopi has been instrumental in Informatica’s GTM strategy with cloud ecosystem partners like AWS. Prior to informatica, Gopi as Head of Global Alliances at MySQL Inc played a key role in partner strategy and industrializing GTM offerings that took the company to a $1B acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Quite accustomed to entrepreneurship, Gopi was also the co-founder of open-source technology solutions company that innovated and addressed customer pain-points in life sciences arena.