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Morgan Willis (she/her)

Principal Cloud Technologist, Amazon Web Services

Morgan Willis is a cloud and software engineering specialist with over 15 years of experience in tech, and more than 8 years focused on helping developers adopt cloud technologies through technical education.

Their background spans application architecture, backend development, and cost and performance optimization, with recent work centered on integrating generative AI and AI agent systems into applications.

Morgan creates technical content that bridges real-world engineering practices and developer learning, including courses on Coursera, tutorials, and live streams. Their focus is on showing how cloud and AI technologies can be applied securely, efficiently, and sustainably at scale.

Sessions

AIFest

The Obstacles to Deploying AI Agents to Production

In this session, Morgan Willis will walk through what it takes to build AI agents you can trust in production. She'll walk through a layered approach that combines input validation, output filtering, LLM-as-judge steering, and action approval—the layers you need to turn a vibe-coded experiment into actual infrastructure. See More.