Empowering the Public Sector with Generative AI: From Strategy and Design to Real-World Applications

About Sanjeev PulapakaSherry DingSrinath Godavarthi

 Sanjeev Pulapaka is Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He leads the development of AI/ML and Generative AI solutions for the US Federal Civilian team. Sanjeev has extensive experience in leading architecting and implementing high-impact technology solutions that address diverse business needs in multiple sectors (including commercial federal and state and local governments).  He has published numerous blogs and white papers on AI/ML and is an active speaker and panelist at various industry conferences including AWS Public Sector Summit and AWS re:Invent. Sanjeev has an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Notre Dame. Srinath Godavarthi has over 20 years of experience serving public sector customers and he held leadership positions with global technology and consulting companies including Amazon and Accenture. In his previous roles Srinath led cloud strategy architecture and digital transformation efforts for a number of federal state and local agencies. Srinath specializes in AI/ML technologies and has published over a dozen white papers and blogs on various topics (including AI ML and Healthcare). He has been a speaker at various industry conferences including the AWS Public Sector Summit AWS re:Invent and the American Public Human Services Association. He holds a masters degree in computer science from Temple University and completed a Chief Technology Officer program from the University of California Berkeley. Sherry Ding is an artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologist and evangelist with 20 years of experience in AI/ML research and applications. She currently works at Amazon Web Services as an AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect serving public sector customers on their AI/ML related business challenges  and guiding them to build highly reliable and scalable AI/ML applications on the cloud. Sherry holds a PhD in computer science from Korea University. She has  authored more than 30 publications (including journal articles book chapters white papers conference proceedings and blogs) on different topics related to AI/ML. She is an active public speaker who has presented at various academia and industry conferences such as IEEE conferences AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits.