Speaker Bio
Vishal Sharma is vice president of Information in Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization. The AGI team is advancing the company’s generative AI technologies – including Amazon Nova, new state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance. Vishal oversees the team that ensures customers’ Information experiences are insightful, accurate, and personalized.
Sharma believes there are few things in the tech industry as promising as AI in transforming everyday human life. He is focused on bringing multimodal exploration and conversation in ambient contexts to millions of customers in intuitive ways, connecting them with information and actions that reflect their interests and needs.
Prior to Amazon, Sharma was vice president of Products, Intelligence, and Experience in Core Developer at Google, and led a team focused on using AI to transform the creation and evolution of software. He also led YouTube Advertising and Google Assistant, including its first launch (Google Now) a decade ago that pioneered proactive and voice-driven assistance. Sharma has also served as corporate vice president of Knowledge and Conversation for Microsoft AI and Research, joining the company after its acquisition of Wand Labs where he was founder and CEO.
He received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.