Valerie Singer, GM of Global Education at AWS, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the vast array of cloud computing education programs AWS offers to people of all skill levels and backgrounds. Valerie explains how she manages such a large undertaking, and also sheds light on what AWS is doing to ensure their programs are truly valuable both to learners and to the broader market. Corey and Valerie discuss how generative AI is applicable to education, and Valerie explains how AWS’s education programs fit into a K-12 curriculum as well as job seekers looking to up-skill.

About Valerie

As General Manager for AWS’s Global Education team, Valerie is responsible forleading strategy and initiatives for higher education, K-12, EdTechs, and outcome-based education worldwide. Her Skills to Jobs team enables governments, educationsystems, and collaborating organizations to deliver skills-based pathways to meetthe acute needs of employers around the globe, match skilled job seekers to goodpaying jobs, and advance the adoption of cloud-based technology.

In her ten-year tenure at AWS, Valerie has held numerous leadership positions,including driving strategic customer engagement within AWS’s Worldwide PublicSector and Industries. Valerie established and led the AWS’s public sector globalpartner team, AWS’s North American commercial partner team, was the leader forteams managing AWS’s largest worldwide partnerships, and incubated AWS’sAerospace & Satellite Business Group. Valerie established AWS’s national systemsintegrator program and promoted partner competency development and practiceexpansion to migrate enterprise-class, large-scale workloads to AWS.

Valerie currently serves on the board of AFCEA DC where, as the Vice President ofEducation, she oversees a yearly grant of $250,000 in annual STEM scholarships tohigh school students with acute financial need.

Prior to joining AWS, Valerie held senior positions at Quest Software, AdobeSystems, Oracle Corporation, BEA Systems, and Cisco Systems. She holds a B.S. inMicrobiology from the University of Maryland and a Master in Public Administrationfrom the George Washington University.

Links Referenced:

• AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/
• GetIT: https://aws.amazon.com/education/aws-getit/
• Spark: https://aws.amazon.com/education/aws-spark/
• Future Engineers: https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/
• code.org: https://code.org
• Academy: https://aws.amazon.com/training/awsacademy/
• Educate: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
• Skill Builder: https://skillbuilder.aws/
• Labs: https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-builder-labs/
• re/Start: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart/
• AWS training and certification programs: https://www.aws.training/