Partnering with AI Companies: Insights from David Winter

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Bill Kenney speaks with David Winter about the evolving landscape of AI partnerships and key focus areas for system integrators.

AI partnerships are evolving quickly, but they are not yet mature. In this Belly2Belly episode, Bill Kenney speaks with David Winter of Orion Innovation about the current AI partnership landscape and what system integrators should focus on today. They cover: • Why AI partnerships currently flow through cloud ecosystems • The role of Microsoft AI Foundry and AWS Bedrock • How frontier AI partner programs may develop by 2026 • The hardware layer behind AI inference • How to prepare to b...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Kenney

Guest: David Winter

Topics covered

• AI partnerships
• cloud ecosystems
• system integrators
• Microsoft AI Foundry
• AWS Bedrock
• AI inference

Keywords

• AI
• partnerships
• technology
• business strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Microsoft AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock

Books & works: Belly2Belly

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