Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a cloud database leader and published author who builds apps, mentors engineers, and helps teams turn data into impact. She’s also an AWS Community Builder, Topmate mentor, and supercar instructor - blending precision, performance, and real-world experience.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

From Idea to App Store: Shipping a Real App with GenAI-Assisted Development

SpellTales began as a kitchen-table experiment to help my 9-year-old with reading and spelling. A GenAI-written story about kittens, YouTube and poo did the trick. This talk shares how that moment became a GenAI-powered iOS app shipped to 172 countries.

SQL Server on Amazon RDS: What’s Changed, What Matters, and When It’s the Right Choice

SQL Server on AWS has changed, but most architectures haven’t. This talk covers what’s new with RDS, modern licensing, and RDS Custom, plus when RDS, RDS Custom, or EC2 is the right choice, with real-world trade-offs and cost traps to avoid.