Tune in for a special episode live from AWS re:Invent, as host Rick Currier talks with Honora Handley (AWS) and Mike Finnerty (Foundry) about trust, flexibility, and strategic planning in partner programs. They explore AWS’s customer-first approach, Foundry’s data-driven content, and how generative AI boosts personalization—driving an 84% response increase. Learn how listening, adapting, and leveraging new tech can transform marketing strategies.


Honora Handley is the Global Head of GSI, SI & Consulting Partner Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

About AWS:  

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 108 Availability Zones within 34 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions in Mexico, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.


Mike Finnerty is the President of Foundry

About Foundry, an IDG Inc. Company:  

Foundry helps companies bring their visions to reality through a combination of media, marketing technologies and proprietary data on a global scale. Our intent data and martech platforms are powered by data from an owned and operated ecosystem of global editorial brands, awards, and events, all engineered and integrated to drive marketing campaigns for technology companies. Foundry is dedicated to generating and innovating with data, driving demand for technology marketers with 38 offices in markets around the globe. Foundry is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group, Inc. (IDG), the world’s leading tech media, data, research, and marketing services company. To learn more about Foundry, visit www.foundryco.com