Avalara's Chief Architect Tim Diekmann reveals how AI and agentic technology are transforming tax compliance and accuracy across 40,000 jurisdictions leveraging AWS.

Topics Include:

• Avalara provides tax compliance software across North America, Europe, and beyond.
• They operate between commerce and government, covering 40,000+ jurisdictions.
• Services span registration, sales tax calculation, and certificate management.
• Avalara was the only company keeping pace with rapid tariff changes.
• AI is used to parse unstructured documents like tax notices and publications.
• Intelligent mapping automates ERP integration across vastly different system configurations.
• GenAI lets customers query billions of transactions using plain conversational language.
• Avalara and AWS are now engaged in a promising co-selling motion.
• Time-to-go-live and transaction accuracy are the key success metrics tracked.
• Amazon Q was rolled out company-wide, achieving 95% developer adoption.
• AI literacy is now prioritized across legal, HR, and engineering teams alike.
• Agentic AI will embed Avalara directly inside customer ERP systems going forward.

Participants:

• Tim Diekmann – SVP of Engineering, Chief Architect, Avalara

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