Peter DeSantis

Peter DeSantis is Senior Vice President, leading Amazon's foundational AI models, custom silicon, and quantum computing—positioning him at the forefront of technologies shaping the future of computing. He oversees development of Amazon's most expansive AI models (Nova), custom silicon initiatives (Graviton, Trainium, and Nitro), and quantum computing efforts (Ocelot).

Throughout his career at Amazon, Peter has driven innovation at significant scale. In 2006, he led the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its General Manager, fundamentally changing how companies build and run their infrastructure. He subsequently led the reinvention of foundational cloud services, including Elastic Block Storage, Elastic File System, Elastic Load Balancing, Networking, and Monitoring. In 2015, he spearheaded the acquisition of Annapurna Labs, Amazon's custom silicon team, enabling industry-leading price-performance and breakthrough capabilities like the Nitro System. From 2016 to 2021, Peter led AWS Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, overseeing data centers across 38 geographic regions and 120 Availability Zones worldwide. Most recently, as SVP of AWS Utility Computing, he oversaw worldwide engineering, operations, and product management for core AWS services and custom chip design.

Peter earned a Bachelor of Arts with a dual major in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Roberta McDonald

Roberta McDonald is a Sustainable Agriculture Leader with over a decade of experience enhancing sustainability in agriculture. As Director of Program at Agreena in Copenhagen, she leads the science, standards and data quality teams in the development of certified carbon farming solutions. Her background includes roles at Devenish and Aurivo Dairy Co-op in Ireland, focusing on innovative solutions and farmer-led initiatives. With a Nuffield scholarship, PhD in Agricultural Sciences and a strong connection to her dairy farm upbringing, Roberta is dedicated to empowering farmers and advancing sustainable food systems.

Barry Stadler

Barry Stadler is the President of Business Development for Cartessa Aesthetics. He has been in the field of aesthetics since 2004 and has held numerous positions from sales, management, training as well as executive roles for Cartessa, Allergan and Cutera over the past 22 years. Barry routinely moderates expert panel discussions for emerging trends in aesthetics at conferences across the country. Barry’s unique perspective of the industry incorporates both clinical as well as business best practices - especially combination therapies that improve overall results while increasing per-hour revenue streams for the practice.