AWS leader Olawale Oladehin breaks down the architectural patterns, flywheel dynamics, and human skills product teams need to win in the rapidly evolving agentic era.Topics Include:AI represents the biggest product opportunity since the invention of cloud computing.Software companies are updating AI systems faster than ever before.Engineering team roles are fundamentally changing in the agentic era.OpenAI hit a $30B run rate in under three years.The economics of building software have permanently and radically changed.AI-native startups are reaching $100M revenue with fewer than 50 people.Your company's best product may not yet be on the roadmap.The biggest AI white spaces are automation, healthcare, sales, and finance.Disruption isn't the right frame — recalibration is.Existing customers, distribution, and domain expertise are structural advantages.Five differentiators: data, workflow depth, domain expertise, feedback loops, and trust.Every quarter of delay lets competitors complete their flywheel ahead of you.Six flagship AI models released in just 25 days recently.Open-weight models are rapidly closing the gap with frontier models.Model modularity is now essential — today's frontier is tomorrow's commodity.Durable truths matter more than chasing every new technology shift.Speed, integration depth, and compounding trust are enduring customer priorities.Agentic workloads consume 50K tokens versus 1–2K for simple chatbots.Multi-agent orchestration mirrors the shift from monoliths to microservices.Observability, guardrails, and compliance must be pulled up, not pushed down.Vertical specialization will consistently outperform horizontal scale over time.The World Economic Forum ranks AI literacy as the fastest-rising workforce skill.As automation grows, human skills like empathy and creativity matter more.AI is compressing the PM workflow from weeks of research to two hours.Culture, change leadership, and continuous learning are now competitive advantages.Participants:Olawale Oladehin – Managing Director, NAMER Technology Segments, Amazon Web ServicesSee how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/

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