AWS’s Igor Alekseev on closing the gap to AI adoption

Igor Alekseev, AWS Principal Partner Solutions Architect, discussed modernizing legacy systems without disruption, emphasizing the increasing opportunity cost of not incorporating AI and the decreasing cost of modernization. Alekseev highlighted the importance of a robust data foundation for AI, stressing data catalogs, governance and lineage. He mentioned AWS services like Amazon SageMaker and MongoDB’s capabilities in semantic search and text search. He concluded that numerous tools and programs are available to assist agencies with data migration and preparation for AI-ready applications.