Speaker Kit
Everything an organizer needs in one place: bios, a headshot, talk topics and past sessions. Talks can be tailored to your audience, from developers to executives.
- 5 AWS re:Invent sessions
- AWS Summits, PyCon US and Pluralsight Shift
- 2x Tampa Bay AWS User Group speaker
- 14 AWS workshops and courses authored
- Tampa, FL · travels across the US · virtual welcome
Talk Topics
How AI agents are changing migration math: what AWS Transform automates today, where humans still decide, and a live look at 60K lines of COBOL mapped into business functions overnight.
Most AI pilots never ship. The blockers are rarely the model: data access, evaluation, cost, security and ownership. A practical path from demo to a production system leadership will fund.
Spec-driven development, agent workflows and honest productivity numbers from the team that helped launch Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Q Developer.
The most expensive decision is no decision. An assessment-first approach, how AWS funding programs offset the cost, and the patterns that keep large migrations on schedule.
Cloud and AI programs stall on people, not technology. Why workforce readiness is the missing line item in the business case, and how to plan for it.
Formats: Keynote · Breakout session · Panel · Hands-on workshop · Fireside chat · Podcast or webinar · Virtual or in person
Bios
Short bio
David Ernst is Director of Cloud Migrations at Clearscale and a former AWS Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, where he helped launch Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Q Developer. He has delivered five AWS re:Invent sessions and helps enterprises de-risk AWS migrations and take AI from proof of concept to production.
Long bio
David Ernst is Director of Cloud Migrations at Clearscale, where he owns the P&L for the global AWS migration practice and helps enterprises move from "we should migrate" to running on AWS with a plan leadership trusts. Before Clearscale he spent nearly seven years at AWS, advising Fortune 10 customers and serving as one of three worldwide generative AI developer tools specialists, helping launch Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Q Developer. With 25 years in IT, from systems engineering and DevOps/SRE to AI and cloud migration leadership, he has delivered five sessions at AWS re:Invent, spoken at AWS Summits, PyCon US and Pluralsight Shift, and twice at the Tampa Bay AWS User Group, and authored 14 AWS workshops and Skill Builder courses. He co-leads the Tampa Bay AWS User Group (3,300+ members) and Tampa Tech Community, and is a full-distance Ironman finisher.
Headshot
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