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Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, an occasion that's particularly important in the tech world, where women still comprise a minority of workers and executives. While we celebrate the indispensable contributions women make here every day, we also recognize that Loka has a leadership role to play in making the entire tech industry more equitable and inclusive. The theme of this year’s IWD is #accelerateaction, a call that resonates deeply with our drive to innovate. It begins by elevating the voices of women throughout Loka and making change based on your struggles as well as your triumphs. Recently several Lokals shared their views in a survey about their experience as women working in tech, including our CIO, ML engineers, compliance leads and more. Instead of summarizing their responses, we offer their full views here as inspiration and motivation to do better, achieve more and accelerate action.💪 Emily Kruger Elena Markovska Daniela Medarska Tasevska Maria Jose Zapata Maria Loureiro Suelen Cristina #IWD2025 #womenintech #womenshistorymonth

When Cameo asked Loka for help implementing AI-assisted search on their celebrity messaging platform, we recognized an excellent partnership in the making. So did Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is why they created this potent little Customer Story video. Cameo CTO Dom Scandinaro describes how Loka's GenAI experts leveraged AWS Bedrock to build conversational, chatbot-based search functionality to help Cameo users choose the right celebrity to deliver the perfect personalized video. Check it out below! What can Loka’s GenAI experts do for your business? #GenAI #AWS #Cameo #Loka

📣 Calling Boston Life Science Startups! 🧬🔬 Join us for an exclusive in-person event: Accelerating Life Science Breakthroughs: Insights from AWS Partners and Customers 🗓️ Date: March 18, 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET 📍 Location: Boston, MA 🎤 Speakers: Mike McElaney | Partner, PTP, 🚀Jack O'Brien | Founder, Tennex, Sushmitha Regulapati | VP of HCLS, Loka Discover how AWS is empowering life science organizations to innovate faster and more efficiently. This event will feature: • Real success stories from innovative life science startups • Round table discussions on data analytics, GenAI, and more • Hear from AWS experts and AWS Partners • Networking Reception with industry peers Don't miss this chance to learn how you can accelerate your life science innovations with AWS! Register here 👉 : https://lnkd.in/e9wjPBcg #AWS #LifeSciences #Biotech #Healthcare #Innovation #Boston #StartUps #CloudComputing

"You can't do AI without data. And no one knows data ecosystems better than I do." Coming from anyone other than Sol Rashidi, MBA that statement might sound like a boast. But given Sol's place as the corporate world's first-ever Chief AI Officer and her history of data wrangling at Sony Music Entertainment, Merck and The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., it's a simple statement of fact. These days Sol is Head of Technology for Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS) not to mention the best-selling author of Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments. On the latest episode of the What Fascinates You? podcast, she goes deep with Loka CEO Bobby Mukherjee on navigating the current AI landscape, balancing the possible with the practical and the art of going rogue. Listen at the link below 👇 https://lnkd.in/dehcX2JU #BigData #GenAI #AWS

When DeepSeek landed in the US 25 days ago, it sent ripples across the tech landscape and opened new opportunities for businesses to plug into GenAI. Ben Schreiner AWS’s Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy, put it this way: “Making this innovation open source allows the entire industry to take a step forward.” Loka is staying on top of the DeepSeek/open-source wave and leaning into AWS as the unbeatable platform for LLM flexibility and security. This morning experts from both companies hosted a webinar that delved into DeepSeek's implications how they fit into AWS's broad marketplace of GenAI services. We reviewed use cases and advantages of deploying on Amazon Bedrock and ran through a full deployment demo. Our intent was to show curious founders and leaders exactly how Loka can guide them through the fog of LLM choice and implementation efficiently and effectively. AWS ensures that when (not if) the next advanced, DeepSeek-ish LLM drops, you can immediately integrate it into your company's infrastructure easily and safely, with no fear of data sharing. If you didn't catch the webinar live, find it on replay at the link below. Thanks to our AWS partners for another killer collaboration! Milan McGraw, Deep Learning Engineering David Mefford Harsh Patel ARTHUR LAPORTA and Ben Schreiner plus Loka's brilliant in-house team Bojan Jakimovski, MSc Crhistian Cardona Pedro Carneiro Henrique Ribeiro Delgado da Silva Daniel Goldberg 👋 Juliana Silva Cortés Ivana Jovanovska and Tanja Zlatanovska. 👉 Check out the DeepSeek on AWS: Replay https://lnkd.in/d6aTS96B #DeepSeek #GenAI #AWS #opensource #Bedrock

Now that the dust is finally settling from all the buzz and noise around DeepSeek’s release, we at Loka decided it was time to clear the air. Curious about what makes DeepSeek-R1 so game-changing? My awesome colleagues, Bojan Jakimovski, MSc and Crhistian Cardona, have put together a blog post that breaks down the innovation behind this new model in an easy-to-digest way. From smart design tweaks to cost-effective performance improvements, they’ve managed to cut through the jargon and serve up some real insights. Check out their take here: https://lnkd.in/d7dZ5Upw Great job, guys! 🚀 #DeepSeekR1 #GenerativeAI #GenAI

From precision medicine to connected medical devices, Loka and the AWS HCLS Enterprise team are advancing genomics, AI-driven R&D and Healthcare solutions to bring life-saving advances to patients and providers at world-changing scale. Last week we came together in Boston for an all-day interface, gathering more than 40 AWS reps to share current use cases and drill down on more ways we can help customers make the most of AWS's powerful tools. We capped the event by co-hosting a delicious, convivial dinner with ServiceNow. Big thanks to AWS leaders Chris Chu John Cunningham Sandhya Ragupathy and Saurabh Mathur and our friends Mileidy Giraldo, Ph.D. JJ Bishop Sujaya Srinivasan Robert Greif Anna Conte John Baldwin Lisa Schmidt and Gavin Phillips. Events like these open the door to incredible innovations in HCLS. We're excited to build great things together! 🚀 #HCLS #GenAI Amazon Web Services (AWS)

🎙️ Today we're proud to announce a pair of promotions that deepen the capabilities of our stellar Sales team even further: Sushmitha Regulapati is our new Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences and Pedro Carneiro is Vice President of Commercial Sales! Anyone who works with us knows that our Sales team is well beyond the industry standard; they come from serious technical and industry pursuits. Take Sushmitha–she's spent 15 years in HCLS, including time at the Cleveland Clinic, and Pedro is a visiting professor of Data & ML at Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics. Both are leading lights at Loka with years of connecting customers to solutions on AWS under the belts, and both are ready to engage with leaders and executives to help them make the most of cutting-edge technologies to accelerate their offerings. Please join us in welcoming our newest VPs! 👏👏👏 #congratulations #promotions #AWS #GenAI #HCLS

🔥 New models drop. Everyone asks, “Should we switch?” The real question: How do we build AI that stays adaptable—no matter what’s next? DeepSeek-R1 is now on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI (big move by AWS). Another solid option, but the playbook hasn’t changed: The best AI strategy isn’t about chasing one model, it’s about choosing the right one for your use case, and keeping your options open. In collaboration with David Mefford and AWS, Loka is hosting a webinar on Feb 20 to break it all down—how to think about model choice, deploy DeepSeek-R1 (or any open-source model) on Bedrock, and build an AI strategy that moves as fast as the space does. Join us https://lnkd.in/gnPjRZWJ 🚀 #GenerativeAI #AWSBedrock #DeepSeek #OpenSource Amazon Web Services (AWS)

⚡️A good strategy session doesn’t just answer questions—it forces you to ask better ones. At Loka’s Sales Kickoff last week, we put in multiple 12-hour days refining our approach, challenging assumptions, and making sure 2025 is our sharpest year yet. It’s one thing to plan. It’s another to be in the same room, working through it together, seeing what holds up and what needs to evolve. Having AWS leaders in the mix made it even stronger—both the partners we’ve built with for years and the new voices shaping what’s next. Their perspective was invaluable. And with our 3-year AWS SCA locked in, we’re in the best position yet to help business leaders move faster and make bigger dents in the universe. Our CEO and leader Bobby Mukherjee laid it out in his classic three-step clarity, we wrapped up with some well-earned time on the lagoon, and now—we get to work. Big thanks to everyone who made the trip and made it special: Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s Dena Sikes, Kajsa Puckett, Kaush Oza, and Colin England (virtually), plus Loka’s own CIO Emily Kruger, new VP of Sales Pedro Carneiro and Sushmitha Regulapati, Alicia Hernandez Lopez, Joe Whitehouse, Shavan Patel, Maria Camila Andrade, Max Boyd, Martina Nedevska and our host Daniel Goldberg 👋 Onward 🚀 #AWS #Innovation #GenAI #Leadership #SKO