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Michael
Giannangeli
Head of Product, Agentic AI, Amazon Nova
Amazon
Michael leads Agentic AI for Amazon's state-of-the-art Nova foundation models. Before that, he helped shape Alexa for 8 years, culminating in the launch of Alexa+. He made Alexa more conversational with wake word free interactions, more personalized with Visual ID, and more engaging with a redesigned user interface. He also led the Echo and Echo Dot product lines, achieving the best-selling product on Amazon.com. Before Amazon, Michael received his MBA from MIT, worked as an economic consultant, interned on Wall Street and Capitol Hill, and played NCAA basketball.
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15 April 2026 11:00 - 11:30
Agents in the wild: What It takes to build reliable Agentic AI
In this talk, Michael Giannangeli shares lessons from developing agentic capabilities for Amazon’s Nova foundation models. Drawing on real-world deployments and conversations with customers building complex agent workflows, he explores the challenges that emerge when moving from single-turn models to autonomous systems. Topics include how to evaluate agents beyond benchmarks, why reliability is the gating factor for adoption, the role of reinforcement learning “gyms” and simulated environments, and architectural patterns for balancing autonomy with control in high-stakes applications.