AWS Executive Insights

What’s next for your organization once you’re operating in the cloud? How do you maximize the benefits of the cloud and what does that mean for your IT department? Like many organizations, Capital One made the decision to maximize agility and innovation through digital transformation, but scaling from their initial pilot into organization wide change posed an operational challenge. Join Mark Mathewson, CIO for Retail Bank from Capital One for a view into their journey from launching an initial pilot to expanding the modernization strategy organization-wide. In this session, we’ll cover governance, people and process changes, and offer concrete next steps to operationalize your transformation by enabling your Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) teams to be prepared for this change.

Events in 2020-2021 have challenged C-Suite and business leaders in every sector to think urgently about their industries' future shape and, more specifically, how their companies need to reinvent to survive and thrive in the future. The leadership challenge involves thinking systematically about future opportunities and threats so executives can successfully guide their companies through continued disruption. Join this candid conversation with David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Greenway Health to learn about Greenway Health's innovation and reinvention journey, to inspire long-term thinking within your own organization to innovate faster and at scale.

Brandon Pulsipher, the VP of Cloud Operations at Adobe, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Jake Burns to talk about their organization’s transformation. Listen in to hear how about Adobe's cloud transformation, how they have leveraged failure, and why partnerships are important to success.

“We had to make a longer-term bet on technology and how we operate that technology, which triggered the transformation.” Frank Tarsillo, the SVP and Chief Architect at IHS Markit, shares how transforming their technology has impacted their business.

"Risk isn’t about being reckless. It’s about innovation, exploration, experimentation and thinking of different ways to learn and develop.” Amy Bunszel, the Executive Vice President of Architecture, Engineering and Construction Design Solutions at Autodesk talks to us about Digital Twins, their culture of experimentation and how Autodesk solves complex problems.

Banking has undergone a massive digital transformation and the global pandemic has set the stage for this to accelerate. Cloud adoption is crucial to serving Standard Chartered’s customers across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, improving efficiencies and embracing new business opportunities in the digital economy. Hear how the bank has built a cloud-first strategy and how this has empowered the bank to become globally resilient while delivering market first propositions like Mox, its new virtual bank in Hong Kong and nexus, its banking as a service offering.

Slack, known for its multi-channel communication product, experienced astounding growth in the past year. Miriam McLemore sat down with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to discuss how a shared purpose can drive teams to accomplish extraordinary things and how creating a culture that rewards quick and decisive action will pay off in the end.

Many organizations have recognized the importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in driving their most innovative business strategies. However, experimentation has not yet scaled in many enterprises. Hear from leaders who have experience in establishing enterprise-wide strategies for accelerating AI/ML innovation and structuring organizations to execute on that strategy. They cover the challenges they've encountered, how they've structured teams, and the communication strategies they've used.

Does organizational change inevitably mean rethinking company culture? What should you do if other leaders push back against transformation efforts? And how do you encourage your teams to be fearless with new technology? In this episode of Conversations with Leaders, John Hurley, CTO of Ryanair, and Lucy Nugent, CEO of Tallaght University Hospital share their personal experiences in a lively discussion around transformational change.

"If you're not focused on inclusion and diversity in your products, you're really just limiting yourself from who might want to engage with your product or your experience, because they're out there." Lyndsay Pearson, the VP of Franchise Creative for The Sims at EA sits down with Enterprise Strategist Jake Burns, to talk about The Sims, inclusion, diversity, and whats next.