Anitha Kapu

Bio:

Anitha Kapu is a technology and operations executive with extensive experience scaling complex infrastructure, manufacturing, and quality systems across cloud computing, AI, aerospace, autonomous systems, and advanced technology industries. Anitha Kapu has been recognized as a data center engineering leader with deep experience designing, scaling, and optimizing next‑generation infrastructure for AI and high‑performance computing. She has led mission‑critical initiatives at AWS, where she worked across global data center operations, capacity expansion, and reliability engineering, where she helped advance energy‑efficient, high‑density compute environments purpose‑built for AI workloads. Her work spans power and cooling optimization, sensor‑driven reliability, AI‑assisted operations, and end‑to‑end data center performance analytics. Anitha brings a system-level perspective on how power, land, talent, and supply‑chain constraints shape the future of digital infrastructure. She is passionate about building sustainable, intelligent, and resilient data centers that can meet the accelerating demands of the AI era. Anitha brings a unique perspective that bridges digital infrastructure and industrial execution. She has worked closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams to improve production readiness, reliability, supplier performance, and deployment velocity for mission-critical technologies. A recognized industry speaker and thought leader, Anitha regularly contributes to conferences and industry forums on AI-enabled operations, digital infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, predictive quality, and supply chain resilience. At the Data Center Excellence Summit, Anitha will share insights on scaling the infrastructure behind the AI economy, with a focus on quality, operational excellence, resilient supply chains, and execution strategies required to support next-generation AI data centers.