Sandeep Sovani

Dr. Sovani has worked for over two decades at high-tech companies with focus on Simulation and High Performance Computing (HPC).
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), he is responsible for the company's go-to-market for the Engineering Simulation segment on a worldwide basis. In this role, he has helped dozens of customers around the world, from startups to mega enterprises, in their journey to the cloud, and has enabled numerous partner companies in growing their businesses on the cloud. Prior to AWS, Dr. Sovani served for nearly a decade as the Global Director for the Automotive Industry at Ansys Inc – the world's largest engineering simulation software company. Prior to Ansys he worked at Fluent – the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) company – and at Tata Motors. He has made numerous contributions to simulation technology for Electric Vehicle (EV), Autonomous Vehicle (AV), and Fluid Dynamics applications.
Dr. Sovani holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He has authored more than 40 papers, articles, reports and has delivered numerous invited lectures at academic and industry conferences. He was the founder and chair of the global conference – Automotive Simulation World Congress. He is the recipient of the Lloyd Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers.