Ben Cabanas

Ben Cabanas is the APJ Technology Director at AWS, leading Solutions Architects and Customer Solutions Managers to enable digital transformation, new customer experiences, and business innovation outcomes for customers. He joined Amazon in 2017 and led the AWS Solutions Architecture team in Asia-Pacific and Japan until August 2023. Prior to joining Amazon, Ben spent 15 years at General Electric as a CTO and VP of Software Engineering, where he was responsible for leading GE’s software engineering teams to develop and deploy solutions that maximised productivity for all GE businesses. Ben has led Big Data, Analytics, and machine learning initiatives throughout his career, including GE’s industrial IoT and analytics platform (Predix) and AWS’ APAC Machine Learning Solutions Labs. He is an advisor on ML/AI solutions and emerging trends, and Ben and his team support thousands of businesses on their adoption of Generative AI.