October 12-13, 2027
Dallas
Kaniz Mahdi
Director Technology AWS Industries
AWS
Trustworthy AI & Data
Kaniz is a visionary thinker and a pragmatic technologist, renowned for her ability to excel in uncharted territories with intuitive ease. In her unwavering pursuit of innovation, Kaniz has consistently evolved the state of the art toward the seemingly unthinkable, amassing 45+ patent grants & numerous papers/publications, while serving in technology leadership roles at world renowned organizations including Deutsche Telekom, VMware, Ericsson, Huawei, Ciena and Nortel.
Kaniz is currently serving as Director of Technology at AWS Industries, with a mandate to transform comms with Cloud & AI for the long haul, while serving imminent needs of technology strategy, architecture & co-innovation, for its telco customers, worldwide.
Kaniz is currently serving as Director of Technology at AWS Industries, with a mandate to transform comms with Cloud & AI for the long haul, while serving imminent needs of technology strategy, architecture & co-innovation, for its telco customers, worldwide.
Featured in these sessions
Trustworthy AI & Data
07 October 2026
12:00-13:00
Innovate Stage
Securing the agentic telco: Cyber resilience in an AI-run world
Protect AI-driven operations from new cyber risks and systemic vulnerabilities.
Trustworthy AI & Data
07 October 2026
15:45-17:00
Impact Stage
Responsible AI in action: Operationalizing trust at scale
Embedding governance and trust into every AI-driven decision.
