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Speakers

Wali Akbari

Employers on the program

  1. 2019–2026Amazon Web Services10 talks
Events6
Conferences1
Talks11
Years active2019–2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventchalk talkAWS Backup clean room recovery: Comprehensive resilience framework
as Amazon Web Services

Having an isolated vault is only half the battle. When a cyber event hits, you need confidence your backups are clean and recoverable.

Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventchalk talkMigrating petabytes of data: Real-world strategies with AWS DataSync
as Amazon Web Services
Learn how to plan, build, and implement the migration of 10 petabytes of on-premises data with AWS DataSync. Through interactive discussion and whiteboarding,…Show less

Learn how to plan, build, and implement the migration of 10 petabytes of on-premises data with AWS DataSync. Through interactive discussion and whiteboarding, explore effective approaches for data categorization and creating transfer job manifests that map directly to cost-optimized S3 storage classes.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:Inventchalk talkAWS Backup unlocked: strategies for at-scale data protection
as Amazon Web Services
Many organizations have barely scratched the surface of what's possible with AWS Backup at enterprise scale. This chalk talk delves into advanced strategies for…Show less

Many organizations have barely scratched the surface of what's possible with AWS Backup at enterprise scale. This chalk talk delves into advanced strategies for building comprehensive data protection that spans your entire AWS estate.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:Inventchalk talkBuild data resilient application architectures using AWS Storage
as Amazon Web Services
Data powers your workloads, where downtime and data loss aren't just operational concerns anymore - they're existential business threats, where organizations…Show less

Data powers your workloads, where downtime and data loss aren't just operational concerns anymore - they're existential business threats, where organizations are looking to build resilient data architectures to mitigate operational and cyber risks.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:InventworkshopBuild your own GenAI app on Amazon EKS with Amazon FSx and accelerated compute
as Amazon Web Services
Dive into the world of GenAI in this workshop where you will build a GenAI chatbot that you can use for Q&A and documentation summarization. You will deploy an…Show less

Dive into the world of GenAI in this workshop where you will build a GenAI chatbot that you can use for Q&A and documentation summarization. You will deploy an AWS GenAI stack using AWS Inferentia for accelerated compute, Amazon FSx for Lustre for model caching, and Amazon EKS for orchestration.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventchalk talkData resiliency with AWS Storage
as Amazon Web Services
Data resiliency is the ability of an organization to continue business operations in case of unexpected disruptions that directly impact data availability. This…Show less

Data resiliency is the ability of an organization to continue business operations in case of unexpected disruptions that directly impact data availability. This chalk talk dives deep into the benefits, capabilities, and top design patterns using AWS Storage to deliver resiliency.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventchalk talkProtect your cloud resources and hybrid environments using AWS Backup
as Amazon Web Services
This chalk talk dives deep into AWS Backup benefits, features, use cases, and setup. Explore how to integrate AWS Backup with other services like AWS…Show less

This chalk talk dives deep into AWS Backup benefits, features, use cases, and setup. Explore how to integrate AWS Backup with other services like AWS Organizations, Amazon SNS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS KMS.

Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:Inventchalk talkChoosing the right storage service for your workload
Different workloads may work better with different kinds of storage. In this chalk talk, learn key considerations for determining whether you should use Amazon…Show less

Different workloads may work better with different kinds of storage. In this chalk talk, learn key considerations for determining whether you should use Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS (file storage), or Amazon FSx (file storage) for your applications.

Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:Inventchalk talkChoosing the right AWS storage service for the job
as AWS
Different workloads may work better with different kinds of storage. In this chalk talk, learn about key considerations for determining whether you should use…Show less

Different workloads may work better with different kinds of storage. In this chalk talk, learn about key considerations for determining whether you should use Amazon S3 (object storage), Amazon EBS (block storage), Amazon EFS (file storage), or Amazon FSx (file storage) for your applications.

Slides
Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:InventworkshopDeploy fully managed FSx for Windows File Server instances in minutes
as Amazon Web Services
Windows file servers are a common occurrence in customer environments. Each Windows file server requires time and effort to provision/de-provision, continual…Show less

Windows file servers are a common occurrence in customer environments. Each Windows file server requires time and effort to provision/de-provision, continual maintenance, and operational overhead.

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Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:InventworkshopGet hands-on & learn best practices for AWS data migrations
as Amazon Web Services
The prospect of moving data workloads to the cloud can be daunting, so can making sense of the array of tools, protocols, and mechanisms available to move data…Show less

The prospect of moving data workloads to the cloud can be daunting, so can making sense of the array of tools, protocols, and mechanisms available to move data into AWS. In this session, we look at online and offline data transfer methods for large amounts of data and vast quantities of small files, including AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer for SFTP, AWS Storage Gateway, and the AWS Snow family.

Slides

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ali Saidi6—2026
Amit Kumar6—2026
Andrew Crudge6—2026
Andrew Krug6—2026
Andy Reedy6—2026
Andy Warfield6—2026
Arthur Petitpierre6—2026
David Piet6—2026
David Yanacek6—2026
Dirk Fröhner6—2026
Eric Brandwine6—2026
Eric Johnson6—2026
Fabrizio Manfredi6—2026
Gavin McCullagh6—2026
Giuseppe Angelo Porcelli6—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.