Samira Panah Bakhtiar, General Manager, Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports, AWS

As general manager of media & entertainment, games and sports at AWS, Samira Panah Bakhtiar leads a high-performing team and champions diversity. With nearly two decades at AWS and Cisco, her expertise spans tech strategy, business development and sales, focusing on content production, media supply chain, broadcast distribution, streaming, game development and backend infrastructure, monetization innovation and artificial intelligence.