Roger Barga is General Manager, AWS Robotics and Autonomous Services at Amazon Web Services. Roger was previously General Manager and Director of Engineering for the Amazon Kinesis data streaming services. He is also an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, where he is a lecturer in the Data Science and Machine Learning programs. Roger holds a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon Institute of Technology. Barga holds over 30 patents, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters, and authored a book on predictive analytics.