Raghvender Arni (Arni) leads the Customer Acceleration Team (CAT) within AWS Industries. The CAT team is a global cross functional team of customer facing architects, software engineers, data scientists, AI/ML experts & designers that drives innovation via advanced prototyping, drives cloud adoption via specialized technical expertise and drives talent development by working closely with early career and university talent. CAT works with AWS’ top 300 customers across multiple industry verticals and has been leading innovation in AI/ML including Generative AI, IOT, Robotics, Spatial and advanced data & computing technologies. Arni is also the single threaded leader for Generative AI across AWS Industries, driving industry use cases, application architecture & patterns and working with service team in driving the Generative AI roadmap

Prior to AWS, Arni led a global team of technologists at Pivotal (acquired by VMWare) driving digital transformation for some of the largest Global 2000 companies. He began his career at Bell Labs Research after graduate studies in Computer Engineering and has been a founder, engineering leader, product and GTM leader.