Laura shepard
Employers on the program
- 2020–2025Amazon Web Services5 talks
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | How to optimize AWS storage for generative AI and ML workloads as AWS Scaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high-quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized…Show lessScaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high-quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized for performance scalability. Getting this wrong can lead to unexpected cost and performance issues. | |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Design high-performance storage to accelerate ML training and HPC as aws Join this technical discussion about AWS storage services and their importance for machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. | |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | How to optimize AWS storage for generative AI and ML workloads [REPEAT] as aws Scaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high-quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized…Show lessScaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high-quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized for performance scalability. Getting this wrong can lead to unexpected cost and performance issues. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Accelerate ML and HPC with high performance file storageAccelerating your most demanding workloads delivers benefits including faster machine learning (ML) training and the ability to complete more HPC jobs in a…Show lessAccelerating your most demanding workloads delivers benefits including faster machine learning (ML) training and the ability to complete more HPC jobs in a shorter timeframe. | Video |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | How to optimize AWS storage for generative AI and ML workloads [REPEAT]Scaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized…Show lessScaling deep learning programs into production often comes with its challenges, and you can’t have high quality data modeling if your storage isn’t optimized for performance scalability. Getting this wrong can lead to unexpected cost and performance issues. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Powering compute-heavy workloads with burst-to-cloud storageDo you have spiky or unpredictable workloads with high performance requirements? Are your on-premises compute resources inadequate when tasked to accelerate and…Show lessDo you have spiky or unpredictable workloads with high performance requirements? Are your on-premises compute resources inadequate when tasked to accelerate and scale applications at a moment’s notice? | |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Optimize analytics workloads with AWS file solutions as AWS Many organizations build their modern container-based applications using analytics solutions to analyze data and make critical business decisions. Container…Show lessMany organizations build their modern container-based applications using analytics solutions to analyze data and make critical business decisions. Container workloads often need persistent, highly available, and durable shared storage to help increase agility and reduce time to insight. | Slides |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AWS re:Invent 2020 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | SAS Grid on AWS: Optimize price, performance, and agility as Storage Specialist, Amazon FSx Many organizations use SAS Grid to analyze data and make critical business decisions. Companies are also moving their SAS applications from on-premises data…Show lessMany organizations use SAS Grid to analyze data and make critical business decisions. Companies are also moving their SAS applications from on-premises data centers to the AWS Cloud to increase their agility and reduce costs. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Hill | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Alex DeBrie | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Ali Saidi | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Andy Taylor | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Brad Bebee | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Brad Dispensa | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Carl Meadows | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Damon LaCaille | 5 | — | 2025 |
| David Yanacek | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Dirk Fröhner | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Eric Johnson | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Erick Dame | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Gerry Louw | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Heeki Park | 5 | — | 2025 |
| Himanshu Verma | 5 | — | 2025 |
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.