Thursday 11th June 2026 | London, UK | Live Launch Event
Welcome
AWS ISV Leaders Community AI Adoption
A Meet the Boss ISV Leaders Community in partnership with AWS
From Proof of Concept to Production: Making AI Work in Your Product
At the mid-point of 2026, most ISVs have already begun their AI journey. Yet despite significant activity, many remain stuck between experimentation and production. While early use cases demonstrate promise, turning them into reliable, scalable and customer-ready features introduces new challenges around evaluation, latency, cost and trust.
Bridging that gap – moving from pilot to production, and laying the foundations for scalable, AI-native products – remains a key focus for many. So what does success on that journey look like? What are best-in-class firms doing well, and what can you learn from them? And how do you put the right architecture, infrastructure and governance strategies in place to enable long-term progress?
Join AWS and a community of your peers to find out, and explore how to gain the clarity, consistency and control needed to successfully move from proof of concept to production when it comes to AI.
Welcome to the AWS ISV Leaders Community: AI Adoption
Discussion Topics
What does it take to move AI from prototype to production, and what architecture, infrastructure and governance strategies do you need to consider in order to enable long-term success?
What does agentic AI design and deployment look like in an ISV context – both from an operational and a product perspective?
How are you thinking about AI economics, pricing and differentiation strategies, and how might this impact your approach to scaling across different markets?
Hosts
Miguel Álava
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Miguel Álava is the General Manager of Software Companies at AWS for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Álava has more than 25 years of experience in information technology. For over 10 years, he has led AWS teams in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Before becoming General Manager of Software Companies, Miguel served as the General Manager of AWS in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) for more than 7 years. In his new role as leader of the AWS Software Company division in EMEA, his mission is to contribute to the innovation of these types of companies by demonstrating that they can offer better service to their customers and drive their businesses through cloud technology.
General Manager of Software Companies for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Amazon Web Services
Nimmy Mathews
Head of UK and Ireland for Software and Technology, Amazon Web Services
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Nimmy Mathews is an executive leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With a strong background in commercial management, she specializes in leading sales and go-to-market strategies. Her role focuses on empowering technology-driven businesses, scaling global operations, and championing diversity.
Tomas Sykora
Principal GenAI GTM Specialist WWSO, Amazon Web Services
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Tomas is a Principal GenAI GTM Specialist at AWS, former startup co-founder, and technology and product leader with 20 years of professional experience in the software vendor segment. He helps strategic software vendors harness Agentic and Autonomous AI to rethink how software is built, delivered, and monetized. Much of his time goes to pattern matching across the signals of what's coming next — working out what it means for the vendors he works with. His work ranges from designing the architecture of large-scale agentic platforms to preparing vendors for the new business models this shift unlocks.
Abhinav Saxena
Global, PE Principal Advisor, Amazon Web Services
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Abhinav Saxena leads AWS Private Equity business in the UK, partnering with software-focused private equity investors to drive value across their portfolio companies through AI and cloud-led transformation. He helps PE firms increase portfolio value by accelerating their AI adoption and digital transformation. His prior experience includes leading technology due diligence, carve-out, integration, and value creation projects across PE and software transactions with EY, as well as leading global rollouts of analytics solutions for Fortune 500 clients with Accenture.
Johan Broman
Head of Solution Architecture Software Companies EMEA, Amazon Web Services
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Johan leads the Solutions Architecture team for AWS for Software Companies in EMEA. This is a group of experienced and passionate technologists who help Enterprise Software and SaaS companies build, scalable, secure and resilient offerings on AWS.
Launch Dinner I 11th June I London
The Dorchester Hotel, London
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