Paola Lorusso
Employers on the program
- 2020–2026Amazon Web Services8 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
- SQLBits
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Autonomous DBOps: Agentic AI for maintaining databases as AWS Maintaining performance for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS often requires manual effort, such as tuning queries, managing indexes, and handling alerts. | |
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Safer, simpler, faster upgrades with managed blue/green deployments as AWS Blue/green deployments for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS simplify the process of upgrading and performing maintenance on your databases. | |
| Apr 22, 2026 | SQLBits 2026 | SQLBits | speaker | Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Script Expertise into AI AgentsTransform your T-SQL diagnostic scripts into AI agents that work 24/7. Learn how to convert proven queries for blocking sessions, slow procedures, and…Show lessTransform your T-SQL diagnostic scripts into AI agents that work 24/7. Learn how to convert proven queries for blocking sessions, slow procedures, and performance issues into tools that LLMs can contextually execute through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Discover practical patterns for... | Video |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Autonomous DBOps: Agentic AI for maintaining databases [REPEAT] as AWS Maintaining performance for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS often requires manual effort, such as tuning queries, managing indexes, and handling alerts. | |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Safer, simpler, faster upgrades with managed blue/green deployments [REPEAT] as AWS Blue/green deployments for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS simplify the process of upgrading and performing maintenance on your databases. | |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Identify & manage orphaned Amazon Aurora & Amazon RDS snapshots at scale [REPEAT] as AWS If you maintain a fleet of database instances provisioned across AWS accounts in multiple Regions, gaining visibility into orphaned database snapshots can be a…Show lessIf you maintain a fleet of database instances provisioned across AWS accounts in multiple Regions, gaining visibility into orphaned database snapshots can be a daunting task. | |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Safer, simpler, faster upgrades with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments as AWS Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments simplify the process of upgrading and performing maintenance on your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | builders session | Perform database updates with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments [REPEAT] Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments simplify the process of upgrading and performing maintenance on your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for MySQL databases. | |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | How ADP & Twilio realize business vision with purpose-built databases as Amazon Web Services In this session, learn how ADP, the largest payroll company in the world, delivered their next-generation products and achieved goals to increase performance…Show lessIn this session, learn how ADP, the largest payroll company in the world, delivered their next-generation products and achieved goals to increase performance and reduce cost with superior scalability using AWS purpose-built databases. ADP will share their best practices for achieving digital transformation to match business ambitions. | SlidesVideo |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AWS re:Invent 2020 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Enterprise database transition: License-free cloud databases as AWS In this session, learn from bp’s Head of Quantitative and Analytical Solutions, Cetin Karakus, and his lead engineer on how bp transitioned a large-scale,…Show lessIn this session, learn from bp’s Head of Quantitative and Analytical Solutions, Cetin Karakus, and his lead engineer on how bp transitioned a large-scale, mission-critical data analytics platform from a commercial database platform to the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL open-source solution using the Database Freedom Program in an operationally fail-safe and isofunctional way. In this session, bp... | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Hill | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Ali Saidi | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Brad Bebee | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Brad Dispensa | 6 | — | 2026 |
| David Yanacek | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Dirk Fröhner | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Eric Johnson | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Erick Dame | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Heeki Park | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Himanshu Verma | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Ikenna Izugbokwe | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Imaya Kumar Jagannathan | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Jim Mlodgenski | 6 | — | 2026 |
| John Formento | 6 | — | 2026 |
| Jon Handler | 6 | — | 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.