How Companies Are Really Using AI, with AWS VP Francessca Vasquez
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
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How are companies really using AI? And is it truly working? AWS Vice President Francessca Vasquez joins the GeekWire Podcast to talk about what companies are actually doing with AI today, and what's holding them back. We discuss real-world deployments, lessons from AWS customers across industries, and the challenges and opportunities in scaling generative and agentic AI.
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| 0:58.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:00.6 | It's Keekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 1:05.4 | For this week's episode, I went to the Amazon headquarters in Seattle to talk with Francesca Vasquez, a vice president at Amazon Web Services, who leads the company's work with enterprise customers |
| 1:12.3 | through the AWS Professional Services Group and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. |
| 1:18.6 | We talk about what she's seeing across industries as companies work with generative AI |
| 1:24.0 | and a new wave of AI agents. We discussed some of the news out of the AWS Summit, New York City, related to all of these |
| 1:31.9 | trends this week as well. |
| 1:34.2 | A quick aside, on the newsfront this week, we also saw a continued reshaping of the tech |
| 1:40.0 | workforce on two ends of the spectrum. |
| 1:43.3 | Meta hired a Seattle startup co-founder for its |
| 1:46.1 | superintelligence team, and AWS itself made a round of layoffs. We recorded this episode |
| 1:52.8 | prior to that news emerging. I will link to those stories from the show notes. Here's my |
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