2025 AWS Summit London: Top 5 recommended sessions for business leaders

Are you a business leader heading to AWS Summit London on April 30, 2025? We’ve handpicked five breakout sessions that showcase how AWS solutions are driving remarkable business outcomes. While the Summit offers over 150 sessions, these five stand out for their focus on real-world transformation stories and strategic insights.

1. Platform as a Product: Diverse needs of an evolving business (BIZ201)

Founded in 2013, Deliveroo works with more than 140,000 restaurants, 10,000 grocery partners, and 150,000 riders, delivering meals in more than 800 cities across Europe and Asia. In this session, Deliveroo’s Senior Engineering Manager Olivier Kouame reveals how Deliveroo revolutionized its platform strategy. Using AWS has allowed Deliveroo to improve service quality, reducing food delivery times by 20 percent while also cutting costs. AWS scalable infrastructure now helps Deliveroo meet the fluctuating demands of delivering food in 12 markets worldwide, while machine learning (ML) and data analytics services provide the intelligence to manage delivery logistics and offer customers personalized restaurant recommendations.

Why we recommend this talk: In their blog post, “From Possibility to Practice: Reinventing the Enterprise from the Inside,” AWS Enterprise Strategists Phil Le-Brun and Tom Godden cite International Data Corporation (IDC) projections that worldwide spending on digital transformation is forecast to reach almost $4 trillion by 2027, but observe that most organizations struggle to realize business value and sustainable change. The gap between technology’s potential and organizational reality grows wider each day. Customers like Deliveroo provide valuable insights and advice into how to address this challenge.

2. Transforming to Cloud Native in the UK Public Sector (BIZ203)

This session will explore how a UK Public Sector organization partnered with AWS to transform its IT infrastructure. The National Health Service (NHS) Business Services Authority is part of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom, responsible for providing platforms and delivering services that support the priorities of the NHS. The NHS Business Services Authority’s transformation journey showcases how public sector organizations can leverage modern cloud capabilities while maintaining stringent security requirements.

Why we recommend this talk: From our experience with supporting AWS customers across thousands of cloud migrations, we have identified key strategies for mitigating the “migration bubble” – the initial surge of costs, complexities, and challenges that can temporarily disrupt transitions to the cloud. By adopting these strategies, customers can deliver successful business outcomes more quickly. Core to a successful cloud journey is early and effective engagement with security and compliance teams.

3. Soaring High, British Airways’ Enterprise Cloud Journey (BIZ206)

Part of the International Airlines Group, British Airways (BA) is the flagship carrier of the United Kingdom. BA’s transformative journey in managing cloud complexity at enterprise scale offers essential lessons for organizations running multi-account environments (using multiple separate accounts within AWS to manage workloads, resources, and users). In this session, you’ll hear from BA leaders how the company successfully manages over 1000 AWS production accounts.

Why we recommend this talk: As HAQM CTO Werner Vogels noted in his keynote at re:Invent 2024, complexity may be inevitable but there are steps companies can take to manage it effectively. BA’s experience provides practical insights into how AWS customers can maintain security at scale while driving operational excellence in a highly complex environment.

4. Building BBC’s Machine Learning Platform with Experience-Based Acceleration (BIZ208)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a leading public services broadcaster headquartered in London, UK. Learn how the BBC leveraged the AWS Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) methodology – a codified way to assist customers in resolving issues and roadblocks related to their cloud journey. The session explores approaches for building ML capabilities, and developing best practices and repeatable patterns for future adoption.

Why we recommend this talk: The majority of blockers and friction points in an organization’s cloud transformation are non-technical. The BBC session explores practical strategies for breaking down organizational silos and scaling ML capabilities across a large enterprise.

5. The AI Journey at The Economist: 182 Years of Legacy Meets Modern Tech (BIZ314)

This session demonstrates how long-established, enduring brands such as The Economist (an independent global media and information-services company based in London) can embrace artificial intelligence (AI) at scale, in production. In this session, learn how the media company securely built their data architecture and AI workflows, ensuring robust operations for reliable outcomes (for example, launching use-cases ranging from recommendation engines to predictive analytics and information retrieval).

Why we recommend this talk: As Tom Godden observes in his blog post, “Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI,” the exponential growth of enterprise data presents unprecedented opportunities for innovation, yet many organizations struggle to capitalize on it. The strategic framework for AI adoption that is presented in this talk offers valuable lessons for traditional businesses pursuing digital transformation.

Learn more

Find details of these talks, plus more than 150 other available London Summit sessions, in the session catalogue section of the AWS Summit London registration site or on the AWS Event mobile app. Don’t forget to download the Attendee Guide aimed at Business Executives and Line of Business attendees. We look forward to seeing you in London.