Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma is vice president in Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization. The AGI team is advancing the company’s generative AI technologies – including Amazon’s most expansive multimodal Large Language Models. Vishal oversees the team that ensures customers’ Information experiences are insightful, accurate, and personalized. His team makes the world’s information accessible to customers on-the-go and in their home via Amazon devices and services including Echo products, Amazon Fire TV, and third-party offerings.

Sharma believes there are few things in the tech industry as promising as Personal AI in transforming everyday human life. He is focused on bringing multimodal exploration and conversation in ambient contexts to millions of customers in intuitive ways, connecting them with information and actions that reflect their interests and needs.

Prior to Amazon, Sharma was vice president of Products, Intelligence, and Experience in Core Developer at Google, and led a team focused on using AI to transform the creation and evolution of software. He also led YouTube Advertising and Google Assistant, including its first launch (Google Now) a decade ago that pioneered proactive and voice-driven assistance. Sharma has also served as corporate vice president of Knowledge and Conversation for Microsoft AI and Research, joining the company after its acquisition of Wand Labs where he was founder and CEO.

He received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi