Jim Kennedy is Vice President of Engineering at VividCloud, where he leads engineering teams responsible for designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS.
At VividCloud, Jim focuses on building scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient platforms that help customers modernize operations, improve security and compliance, and increase business agility.
He brings more than 30 years of experience across software development, solution architecture, and engineering leadership, with a strong background in Agile delivery and hands-on technical execution.
This live engineering demo showcases a reusable Physical AI reference architecture connecting NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS 2, and AWS cloud and edge services. Attendees will see a simulated robot navigate a maze on a GPU enabled EC2 instance, with real time telemetry streamed via AWS IoT Greengrass and visualized in a browser based kiosk. A conversational AI interface translates natural language commands into robot motion using Amazon Bedrock. Simulation data is persisted to S3 for replay, analytics, and ML workflows, demonstrating how teams can scale from simulation to cloud connected autonomy.