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How do you respond to difficult times when the situation is too complex to solve from the top down? John Neill, CEO of Unipart, joins Tanuja Randery, Managing Director, AWS EMEA, to discuss the process, culture, and digital solutions involved in building "the world's best company" even in the face of unprecedented difficulty.
If you’ve ever wondered how to measure your security compliance like an auditor would, this is the conversation for you. Hear from Samara Moore, Senior Manager of Security Assurance at AWS and Clarke Rodgers, Director of AWS Enterprise Strategy, as they discuss best practices around security compliance and regulations.
In this public sector themed episode, we discuss how (and why) government agencies should modernize their procurement processes.
How do you continuously innovate for customers in a heavily regulated industry like aviation, especially when you're coming out of some of the most difficult years the industry has experienced? And how do you stay resilient not just to survive, but thrive through challenging times? Eddie Wilson, CEO of Ryanair, joins Tanuja Randery, Managing Director, AWS EMEA, to discuss controlling your organization's destiny through constant simplification, efficiency strategies, and scaling operational impro...
Discover what it takes to build a security organization from the ground up and design a security culture supported by innovative hiring practices. You'll hear all this and more in this discussion between CJ Moses, Chief Information Security Officer at AWS, and Clarke Rodgers, director of AWS Enterprise Strategy.
In Part 2 of this re:Invent Las Vegas session, Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore highlights why transformation is different from any other project and challenges leaders to rethink their levers for change. Learn more about how finding the intersection between innovation and operational excellence can deliver value and results. Don't miss Part 1 of the session, published yesterday.
When leaders look to change their organization, they often begin with restructuring, defining new processes and guidelines, or granting exceptions to innovation units. However, transformation isn’t just about doing existing things better; it’s foremost about doing things differently. This session by Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas highlights why transformation is different from any other project and challenges leaders to rethink their levers for change. Stay...
Join Sarah Ryle of the AWS institute as she interviews Liam Maxwell, Director of Digital Government Transformation at AWS, and Alex Meek-Holmes, Senior Manager of Government Transformation at AWS about the intricacies of security in the public sector.
In this episode of Conversations With Leaders, we’re talking about the human side of digital transformation in government. Join Sarah Ryle from the AWS Institute as she speaks with Mike Beaven, Senior Manager of Government Transformation at AWS, about the impact that government service modernization can have on the everyday lives of citizens.
In this episode of Conversations With Leaders, we're focusing on security as a critical component of digital transformation. Join Clarke Rodgers, director of AWS enterprise strategy as he interviews amazon’s chief security officer, Steve Schmidt about what it takes to establish a security culture, scale securely, and continuously adapt to changing circumstances.
How do you drive organizational and even cultural change in boardrooms and entire businesses to make digital transformation a success? What does that look like in the fast-moving world of banking, where huge highly-regulated incumbents are battling nimble fintech start-ups who were born in the cloud? In this episode of AWS Conversations with Leaders, Mark Holt, CTO of 10x Banking shares his insight about how to make a success of transformation, and the big shifts in mindset needed to get there....
Does your leadership team suffer from the "fear of missing out" on the next technological advancement, leading to impulsive decisions or strategy shifts? How can you evaluate an innovative new offering to determine if it will create actual value for your organization? In this episode, AWS leaders tackle long and short-term planning, talent development, digital transformation, and more tools to help Executives avoid "FOMO". Presenters: Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist, AWS and Gregor Hohpe, Ente...
Can enterprises ever truly "future-proof" their organization? Predictions have become less and less reliable, and five year plans less realistic. How can leaders keep their organizations nimble and responsive to whatever comes, while also being intentional about growth and resource allocation? Join two AWS leaders as they discuss how to think about "future-readiness" as an alternative framework. Presenters: Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist, AWS and Gregor Hohpe, Enterprise Strategist, AWS...
Economic downturns, supply chain issues, global pandemics, disruptive geo-politics: there are innumerable crises your organization will face throughout its lifetime. These crises can be a forcing function for transformation, but how to you motivate your talent to get (and stay) onboard? Hear from three AWS leaders as they discuss how to build a culture of trust that will weather-proof your organization from future, unknowable storms. Presenters: Mark Schwartz, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS ...
Economic downturns, like many crises, can present a false dichotomy for leaders wanting to undergo a digital transformation: cut costs, or invest in becoming an agile organization that can weather future disruption? Hear from three seasoned AWS Executives who have successfully built and led technology teams as they share their strategies for navigating a cloud transformation journey in rough economic headwinds and beyond. Presenters: Mark Schwartz, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Jake Burns, ...
Cutting-edge tools and technology without the right talent have little value. The engineer skillset must change as rapidly as the technology in order to remain relevant. Building a culture of innovation and creating an environment that provides growth for individuals and teams is crucial to successful transformation. Hear from three seasoned AWS executives who have successfully built and led technology teams as they share their experiences and strategies to help organizations navigate their clou...
While cloud adoption may bring speed and agility into the business growth equation, there are also numerous risks and challenges that must be addressed. Balancing momentum and disruption is an ongoing struggle for executives attempting to transform their companies. Hear from three seasoned AWS enterprise strategists who have successfully led organizations through change as they share their experiences and strategies to help organizations navigate their cloud transformation journeys. Presenters: ...
In this Spotlight, Shaun Braun, 3M’s senior vice president of digital transformation shares the framework used to drive decision-making across the entire enterprise in leading the 120-year-old company into the digital era.
Hear from Chad Woolf, VP of AWS Security, on how AWS is constantly reinventing its security and compliance teams and processes to meet the demands of such a fast-growing and ever-changing world.
While some may see security as a stumbling block to digital transformation, Merritt Baer sees it as a business enabler. As a Principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, Merritt knows security isn’t just about how an organization secures itself, but also how it delivers secure products and services for customers. She helps leaders see the value of security in their organizations and helps reinforce our own culture of security here at AWS.
As a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in security, identity, and compliance at AWS, Megan O’Neil is passionate about helping customers refine their cloud security strategy. She provides education and advice to help customers build their security foundation, set appropriate guardrails, implement security controls, and define their best operating model for cloud.
In this Spotlight, Jack Berkowitz, the Chief Data Officer at ADP discusses the importance of unlocking data silos to share and understand information while still protecting the client’s privacy. We will then shift gears to share the secrets of how ADP evaluates data to know if a company is genuinely seeking diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will conclude with a section devoted to why the pivot to the cloud added the pace and framework to accelerate their business.
Companies that lack the necessary support for change from leadership can sometimes fail in their digital transformations. Collaboration between the CIO and other business leaders is critical to the development of a successful business strategy powered by technology. Leaders need to look for opportunities to support and accelerate digital literacy across the organization and to work cross-functionally with business partners to define what digital means for their organizations. Hear from Gavin Mun...
Robyne Teslich, the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cloud Transformation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, sits down with us to talk about the complexities of migrating to the cloud and the added complexity of contracts with the public sector. Hear Robyne talk about why leaders should embrace cloud transformation and her approach to changes at a massive scale.
Digital transformation is challenging how business leaders need to think about the future of work, the design of organizational structures, and the new skills and competencies required to win in the digital future. If we design organizations today, how might new roles such as data scientists or AI/ML experts mesh with business operations? How might teams be formed and collaborate to unleash new skills to innovate product, service, and support offerings? Digital transformation alters the profile ...
Companies across all industries have set ambitious goals to reduce the environmental impact of their operations and work towards a net zero carbon future. Achieving these goals requires collaboration across an organization, from senior executives to leaders who execute sustainability initiatives relevant to their area of the business. To accelerate progress, leaders need to align business and technical teams and build the scalable solutions required to accurately measure and report on sustainabi...
Companies on the path to digital business transformation often lack an agile platform to enable this process or require a compelling event to force acceleration. Reynolds Consumer Products had the platform and the compelling event to accelerate their transformation within a year. The company fully migrated to AWS, implementing a brand-new instance of SAP on AWS, an entire data center exit, and modernization of their factory floor. Join this session to learn how Rita Fisher, CIO and EVP of Supply...
*Recorded in 2021* Bryson Koehler, the CTO of Equifax, sits down with AWS Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to talk about Equifax’s decision to go cloud-native. He discusses “baking security in” rather than “bolting it on at the end” of the process, building trust with customers and working with them to leverage the changes, and the incredible increase in the speed of innovation and launching of new products the cloud has enabled.
*Recorded in 2021* Julia Houston, the CMO of Equifax, shares what she learned in her journey, from managing the response to Equifax’s 2017 data breach, getting all stakeholders on board with the cloud investment, and earning customer trust through built-in data security.
*Recorded in 2021* Mark Begor was appointed CEO as the 2017 data breach crisis was unfolding and was tasked with spearheading a recovery. In this interview with AWS Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore, he discusses the company’s decision to move its operations to the cloud, which strengthened security while simultaneously lowering costs and accelerating product delivery.
