Speakers

Rosemon Meissner is a Startup Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she leads Deeptech and Defence Tech initiatives across AI, Quantum, and High-Performance Computing sectors in the UK. Since transitioning to the UK Startups team in October 2025, Rosemon has demonstrated exceptional business acumen, securing a defence technology startup contract worth $53K monthly—showcasing her ability to drive significant revenue in emerging technology sectors.

Prior to her current role, Rosemon spent seven years transforming cloud adoption across the automotive and financial services industries. Her most notable achievement was the transformation of BMW Financial Services' cloud strategy, growing the account from $72K to $6.7M in annual revenue—a 93x increase. She navigated complex regulatory requirements with German financial regulator BaFin, enabling the migration of BMW FS's Cloud Native Application Platform comprising 250 applications, delivering €65.3M in cost savings.

Rosemon's innovation leadership extends to generative AI adoption. She spearheaded a groundbreaking proof-of-concept using Amazon Bedrock (Claude 2&3) to modernize BMW's legacy mainframe REXX scripts, achieving 80% code generation accuracy and 90% documentation accuracy. This work was referenced by AWS Vice President Dr. Ruba Borno during her fireside chat at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20, 2026, highlighting its strategic importance to AWS's 2025 GenAI and mainframe modernization priorities.

In South Africa, Rosemon built BMW's cloud acceleration center from the ground up through her "Cloud Indaba" initiative, training over 2,500 employees and resulting in AWS becoming BMW ZA's preferred cloud provider. She also led BMW's Vision and Sound Analytics (VSA) transformation, managing 1.3 PB of analytics data to drive AI innovation on AWS—generating $960K in revenue and resulting in a public case study featured on the AWS LinkedIn page, demonstrating how automotive manufacturers can leverage cloud infrastructure for advanced AI and machine learning workloads at scale.

Now focused on the startup ecosystem, Rosemon works with VC-backed companies across AI, quantum computing, and defence technology, helping them scale their infrastructure on AWS. Her ability to translate complex technical solutions into business value has made her a trusted advisor to founders and C-suite executives alike.

 Work Outside Main Role

Beyond her account management responsibilities, Rosemon is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology. As an active member of the Amazon Black Employee Network (BEN), she organized and spearheaded the Financial Literacy series, which remains BEN's most popular series to date with numerous replays, ensuring the community understands how to leverage wealth and build financial independence. 

Rosemon champions women in technology through her leadership of the Women in Automotive campaign, creating inspirational video content to attract new talent to the sector. She actively participates in the GETIT program, encouraging young girls to pursue careers in STEM fields.

As a Day 1 Champion since 2024, Rosemon was hand-selected by senior leadership to present to AWS teams and the broader Amazon organization on maintaining Amazon's innovative Day 1 culture. Trusted to represent and reinforce the company's core cultural principles, she has delivered 30+ sessions to leaders and teams across the organization, achieving an 80% Net Promoter Score and a 4.88/5 Champion Effectiveness rating.

Her community leadership extends to co-leading strategic events including AWS re:Invent sessions and supporting high-profile initiatives such as the BMW & AWS IAA keynote. Through her work with startups, she now helps underrepresented founders access the resources needed to scale their innovative technologies.