Media, speaking & publications
Keynotes and interviews, plus case studies and articles highlighting work led by Sanjay and his teams at Condé Nast.
Keynotes, interviews & podcasts
Video and audio appearances.

Sanjay Bhakta details Condé Nast's complete digital reinvention by migrating 800+ properties to AWS infrastructure with partners like Databricks and Snowplow, transforming from data-rich/insights-poor to cloud-native, personalized content delivery.

Discussion on Condé Nast’s digital-first strategy, global technology consolidation, offshore capability development, and AI ethics in media.

Interview on leveraging AWS capabilities, AI strategy, and the shift from on-premise to cloud.

How a 115-year-old media company unified its tech stack, scaled globally, and reimagined customer experience through AI.
Case studies & engineering publications
External write-ups of platform, data, and AI work led by Sanjay and his teams.

How Global Product, Technology & Data enabled the Met Gala live stream and digital experience across Vogue and partner brands—pre-event through post-event engagement.

How Condé Nast improved content recommendation and relevance using MongoDB Atlas—work from the product and data engineering organization.

Using Amazon Nova Pro on Bedrock for Vogue app community features (e.g. Dogue)—faster moderation at scale with minimal manual review.

Migration of 800+ properties, unified data on Databricks and AWS, and AI on Bedrock—including Sanjay Bhakta on transforming a 115-year-old media company. Also links to the AWS re:Invent customer keynote.

Technical deep dive (co-written with Condé Nast) on automating contract ingestion, template matching, and rights workflows using Bedrock, SageMaker, and Step Functions.
Industry reports & resources
Briefing papers and global studies—available as PDF downloads.

Briefing paper from HBR Analytic Services on AI and the future of content discovery. Sanjay Bhakta is quoted in this report.
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A global study of C-suite executives, chief architects, and data scientists. Sanjay Bhakta is quoted in this report.
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A global study of 1,100 C-suite executives and technologists, with interviews from 28 CIOs. Sanjay Bhakta is quoted in this report.
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