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Inside Amazon’s AI-Powered eCommerce Growth

Posted Oct 24, 2022 | Views 2.1K
# TransformX 2022
# Fireside Chat
# AI in Retail & eCommerce
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Jeff Wilke
Chairman and co-founder @ Re:Build Manufacturing and Retired CEO @ Amazon's Worldwide Consumer

Jeff Wilke retired as Amazon’s CEO Worldwide Consumer in February 2021. During the preceding 21 years, he led Amazon’s retail and third-party stores, operations, marketing, Prime, and technology teams. Jeff led the deployment of techniques from lean manufacturing to create the infrastructure and technology that became Amazon Prime. His teams launched Prime Video, Prime Now, Prime Day, Amazon Fashion, and many other customer-facing innovations. Jeff helped create Amazon’s corporate culture and mechanisms, including Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Jeff is Chairman and co-founder of Re:Build Manufacturing, which aims to integrate new technologies with conventional manufacturing businesses to accelerate growth and performance. Over coming decades, the company expects to create new U.S. factories employing thousands of Americans. Jeff earned an MBA and S.M. from MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. He also holds a BSE in chemical engineering, summa cum laude, from Princeton. He currently serves on the board of Code.org.

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Alexandr Wang
CEO & Founder @ Scale AI

Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at MIT at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Under Alex's leadership, Scale has grown to a $7bn valuation serving hundreds of customers across industries from finance to e-commerce to U.S. government agencies.

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SUMMARY

Jeff Wilke is chairman and co-founder of Re-Build Manufacturing, a private company helping to bolster America’s industrial competitiveness. Before taking on this role, Wilke spent more than 21 years at Amazon, most recently as CEO of Worldwide Consumer, where he grew the business from $1 billion to a mind-boggling $386 billion a year. He spent his first seven years at Amazon building global operations. Wilke brings a wealth of knowledge across areas including supply chain, retail, and operations.

Wilke speaks with Scale CEO Alexandr Wang to discuss his journey at Amazon and covers how focusing on data and building models can help power eCommerce marketplaces. Learn how Wilke applied AI across the entire eCommerce stack and created an authoritative and comprehensive product catalog with more than 12 million listings. He will also share his predictions about the future of AI and sustainability.

Wilke is an active philanthropist and mentor of startup founders who identify as female and/or People of Color. He is Vice Chairman of Code.org and Chairman of the U.S. Government’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness.

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