Patrick Sard

With more than 20 years experience in IT, in his current and past roles, Patrick has been responsible for establishing and maintaining strategic vision, driving and influencing innovation, and delivering integrated and persuasive architectural thought leadership. With end-to-end project lifecycle experience, encompassing sales, inception, design, implementation, and post-sales support, he combines acute capabilities and insights into technology and business. This enables him to analyze and address client needs from various perspectives. In close collaboration with technical leaders, he drives the creation and execution of strategies promoting growth and innovation. In his latest adventure, as an AWS Solutions Architect, Patrick has been focusing on capturing and conveying best practices, offering prescriptive guidance on application and systems design across Amazon platforms and technologies. His role involves direct interaction with customers and partners, creating technical content, conducting events, evangelism, training, and providing operational event support. Additionally, Patrick contributes to the evolution of Amazon platforms and technologies by providing direct input and feedback from the field to the engineering teams developing these offerings. In the last few years, Patrick has also been helping various enterprises to design and deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions on AWS. And, no surprise, his most recent current focus is on solutions leveraging Generative AI technology.