Don Simpson
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Amazon Web Services5 talks
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Build a knowledge graph-based agent guardrail with Amazon Neptune as AWS AI agents assert relationships such as compatible products, cleared counterparties, or approved suppliers, derived from LLM reasoning rather than verified data.…Show lessAI agents assert relationships such as compatible products, cleared counterparties, or approved suppliers, derived from LLM reasoning rather than verified data. When these assertions are wrong, downstream business decisions fail. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Build explainable AI agent observability with DynamoDB and Neptune as AWS Unintended agent actions and incorrect outputs are difficult to investigate without a structured provenance layer. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Context engineering for agents: memory, SQL, knowledge graphs & skills as AWS An agent's context window is a finite attention budget, and database-backed agents must keep that context current, selective, and traceable. | |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Architecting multicloud solutions from data mesh to generative AI as AWS As organizations operate across multiple cloud providers, they often struggle to unlock the full potential of generative and agentic AI capabilities with data…Show lessAs organizations operate across multiple cloud providers, they often struggle to unlock the full potential of generative and agentic AI capabilities with data spread across cloud providers. | Video |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Using AI to bridge the multicloud skills gap in IT operations as AWS Organizations with multicloud environments often face a skills gap when running production-grade IT operations in multiple clouds. In this interactive chalk…Show lessOrganizations with multicloud environments often face a skills gap when running production-grade IT operations in multiple clouds. In this interactive chalk talk, we'll share practical approaches to addressing this skills gap using agentic AI to augment and assist your IT operations team. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| David H Gardner Jr | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| Varma Gottumukkala | 2 | 2 | 2026 |
| Kevin Willis | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Melissa Kwok | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Taylor Riggan | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Aakash Deshpande | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Chen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Sempf | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aarthi Raju | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aarthi Srinivasan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abbas Mooraj | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abdilmajide Ali | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abdu Mahmoudi | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abeetha Bala | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Abhijeet Jangam | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.