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 improvements.

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 improvements.

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 tuned for Part 2 tomorrow!

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, Enterprise Strategist, AWS

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 Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist, AWS Chris Hennesey, Finance Strategist, 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, Enterprise Strategist, AWS Chris Hennesey, Finance Strategist, AWS.

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 cloud transformation journeys. Presenters: Jonathan Allen, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Ishit Vachhrajani, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Clarke Rodgers, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS

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: Jonathan Allen, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Ishit Vachhrajani, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS Clarke Rodgers, Director, Enterprise Strategy, AWS

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 Munroe, WPB Global CIO of HSBC, for a candid discussion of strategies, tactics, and common pitfalls to avoid as you create your plan, build your narrative, and engage your stakeholders to drive progress through digital transformation. Learn more about AWS Executive Insights at aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/

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 of human talent across all functions. C-Suite and line-of-business leaders need to be intentional in reskilling their teams and attract people who can work at the intersection of smart humans and powerful machines. Join this candid conversation with Prakash Kota, CIO at Autodesk about organizational strategies and best practices to empower your people and business to succeed in the digital future. Learn more about AWS Executive Insights at aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/

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 sustainability programs, and continuously improve performance. Join Chris Wellise, AWS Sustainability Director, and Ruth Gratzke, President of Siemens Smart Infrastructure U.S. and CEO of Siemens Industry, Inc.to hear how AWS and Siemens are utilizing technology to integrate sustainability into their infrastructure and operations, as well as helping customers and partners deploy solutions to achieve their sustainability goals.

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 Chain at Reynolds Consumer Products, took bold moves, measured risk, and enabled agility as part of her strategic road map.

*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.

Despite massive investments, building and maintaining the capacity to innovate remains a frustrating pursuit for many. Many organizations rely on previously successful ideas, processes, and business models. However, those strategies may not consider necessary business changes due to digital technologies. The future of product development and business model reinvention requires a new focus—re-envisioning products and processes, working backwards from the customer, and questioning established thinking to overcome innovation stalemates. Join this session for a conversation with Barbara Salami, VP of Digital at Moderna, about how digital technologies are changing business models and best practices to accelerate growth through product innovation.

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.

What happens when your solution becomes essential overnight? Kathy Vieira, Chief Strategy, Portfolio, and Marketing Officer at Blackboard shares her insights on what it takes to prepare to scale at a rate of 9000% in a year and how data is redefining educational opportunities, making it more personal, engaging, and successful for all students.

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.

Volkswagen's Nihar Patel and Frank Goeller discuss redesigning the automaker's technology and processes, scaling them across its plant network, and driving cost efficiencies.

“By failing to address the growing gender gap in tech, we’re failing to prepare our girls for the jobs of the future.” Dr. Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code, joins Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to discuss closing the gender and equality gap in IT, including making technology clubs available to girls and rethinking the recruitment and hiring process.

5G is more than just mobile bandwidth for communication services providers (CSPs). By combining 5G with AWS edge cloud services, 5G improves application performance for end users in countless industries, offering up to 10 times the speed of 4G. 5G can power emerging use cases like live video event streaming, smart cars and cities, Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented reality. Learn from Srinivasa Kalpala, VP Technology Strategy, Verizon and Dave Brown, VP EC2 AWS, about how 5G cloud-native private networks are now even easier to deploy with AWS, enabling a complete Industrial 4.0 revolution.

More than ever, migration and modernization are like two sides to the same coin, leaving executives to make challenging decisions about which to tackle first. Learn how BP balanced the trade-offs between migrating and modernizing/transforming applications and thus the business, assessing time-to-value, and understanding tactics to break a legacy mindset.

Building a security culture starts in the C-suite. While this is championed by the CISO, every business and technical leader has a role in communicating and practicing good security behavior across their teams. Steve Schmidt, CISO for AWS Security, shares his best practices and approaches for driving the right behaviors related to proactive security posture, the impact security has on the bottom line, and a plan of action that every executive should have when partnering with their security teams.

Netflix is a company that believes in invention and reinvention. Vernā Myers, Netflix's VP of Inclusion Strategy shares some of the secrets behind Netflix's culture, addressing the importance of having the courage to break new ground, how the company approaches diversity, inclusion, and equity, and why curiosity is one of the most important traits to creating an inclusive culture.

Amazon strives to maintain a Day 1 culture and operating model that is curious, scrappy, and customer-obsessed, embracing new trends and making high-quality decisions at speed. By contrast, a Day 2 mentality focuses on business goals over earning customer trust, breeds complexity and hierarchy, and lets process become a substitute for the right results, leading to stasis and organizational decline. Learn how Amazon builds mechanisms that help ensure that it's always Day 1.

Sheri Rhodes, the CIO of Workday, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to discuss collaboration and leading change. Leading the internal deployment of Workday, transforming how teams operate, and collaborating with other leaders resulted in a variety of learnings. Listen in to hear how Sheri has navigated the change, led her teams, and what advice she recommends for other leaders.

How does a CEO change their mind about how to run their business? What are the challenges and thought processes? Rick Seaney, CEO of 3Victors and FareCompare LP, speaks with Simon about his own personal journey and the lessons he learned.

Su Shan Tan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS, discusses customer-centered innovation, changing the company's culture, and celebrating failure.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Bryan Landerman tackle the question: "Is there a one-size fits all cloud strategy?". Leaders wonder, can I use a per-defined or templatized cloud adoption strategy? Can something like this exist? Listen in to hear Jake, Ishit, and Bryan answer these questions and share their advice for leaders as they begin their AWS Cloud journey.

Ron Huxter, the VP and CIO of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) sits down to share the surprising benefits they observed following migration.

Louise Higgins, CFO of Technology at ANZ Bank, shares her perspective on the critical role of the CFO in leading major cultural change and earning trust with stakeholders.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani address a common leadership question, "Is there an order to transformation, migration, and modernization?". Leaders often ask which step is the right one to take first for their organization - migrate then transform and modernize, modernize then transform and migrate, or something else?

The ability to think, plan, and execute in a clinical fashion is the key to realizing transformation. More now than ever, organizations need to rapidly and accurately assess situations, experiment quickly, and scale up with relative ease to keep pace with market changes. Rob shares how the dynamic of racing prepared Formula 1 for the race schedule disruptions and their business response.

In these continually change times, it’s not surprising that AI and ML, widely recognized for its problem-solving and predictive prowess, have become an essential navigational tool for many organizations. Listen in as Swami shares how customers are embracing machine learning and AI in the wake of COVID-19 to scale customer communications, increase agility and efficiency, and help get people back to work safely.

Disruption can produce chaos, making it more challenging to prioritize and take action. However, despite the challenges that governments and businesses are facing, this crisis has been the catalyst for much-needed transformation. It’s provided organizations a value- and mission-driven approach to take the appropriate action to support their employees and customers. During this discussion, Teresa will share how AWS customers are engaging partners, educating their leaders, and empowering their workforce to manage successfully in this situation and beyond.

Amanda Jobbins, the Chief Marketing Officer at Infor, shares how shes planning to get the organization’s industry-specific cloud solutions in front of more customers.

Roland Scharrer, the Group CTIO at AXA, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to talk about leadership, innovation, and the benefits of agility.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani close the loop on governance. Listen in as they debate the need for a Cloud Center of Excellence and when to bring that team in during migration.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Bryan Landerman continue diving into the concept of governance, and how it relates to leading a cloud migration. There are recommended concepts to think about when leading your organization through migration, but the strategies will vary based on your choices.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani discuss governance and one way vs two way door decisions. During a large transformation, leaders will be faced with many decisions, some are reversible and some are not. Listen in as they discuss how to prepare an organization to make these decisions and determine if governance is a one-way or two-way door decision.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Phil Le-Brun discuss Phil's blog: Experiment More, Fail Less. "Fail fast and fail often" is a quote often used by Phil, but one not everyone agrees on. Listen in as they share their thoughts on the subject and the importance of creating an environment for experimentation.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani cover why being data driven is so important, what exactly does it mean, and how you can become a data driven organization. Listen in to hear more.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani continue their conversation about leading a migration and the option of outsourcing a project with the AWS Cloud. Listen is as they talk about the importance of being intentional about decisions and having a strategy that supports the direction you are trying to go. When you are intentional, and have a thoughtful strategy, you can better make decisions for the right reasons.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani address a common question they get from customers: "Should I outsource my migration to the AWS Cloud via consultants or try to use my own team?". Listen in as they talk about the pros and cons of each approach, their personal experience, and best practices of AWS customers.

Mario Thomas from AWS sits down with Joseph Daly, Director of Cloud Optimization Services, Nationwide, to discuss Nationwide’s journey of innovative cloud financial management to ensure efficiency and accountability.

Joe Foster, the Cloud Computing Program Manager for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, joins us to share how he lead his organization through a rapid cloud adoption. Listen in as Joe explains how he supports varying customers, and organizational needs, at NASA.

Ian Wilson, the VP of HR for AWS, joins the podcast to share his insights on AWS' response to COVID-19. Listen in as he and AWS Enterprise Strategist, Jake Burns, talk about how AWS responded, how they are currently leading the organization, what is top of mind as things change, and advice on how he is planning for the future.

Brett Orr, the General Manager of Bigmate, talks with Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns about leadership during rapid change. Hear him talk about how he gets the best out of people, how he encourages growth, and his views on overall organizational leadership.

Jo-ann Olsovsky, the EVP and CIO of Salesforce, talks about how they value agility, their COVID-19 response, and her CIO leadership experience. In conversation with Enterprise Strategist, Miriam McLemore.

Thomas Blood, a Digital Innovation Leader at AWS, and Jonathan Allen, a Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, are back to talk more about their new book, Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud. Listen in as they share some stories about writing the book, being resilient and reliable with the AWS Cloud, and more.

Thomas Blood, a Digital Innovation Leader at AWS, and Jonathan Allen, a Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, sit down with fellow Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns to talk about their book, Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud. Listen in as they dive into the book and why they wrote it.

Christa Koenen, the CIO Deutsche Bahn Group & CEO Deutsche Bahn Systel, sits down with AWS Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to talk about Deutsche Bhan and Deutsche Bahn Systel's rapid transformation to the AWS Cloud. Listen in as Christa shares how her organization became more agile, how her team developed and re-skilled their work force, and how the overall culture of the company has shifted.

Gregor Hohpe, an Enterprise Strategist for AWS, sits down with fellow Enterprise Strategists, Jake Burns, to talk about his book, Cloud Strategy: A Decision-based Approach to Successful Cloud Migration. Listen in as he talks about the book, why he wrote it, and whats next.

How do you lead an organization through rapid change while keeping your customers at the forefront? Listen in as the former Head of AI/ML for Zappos, Ameen Kazerouni, shares how he tackled that question, his thoughts on the core elements for approaching machine learning, investing and up-skilling employees, and more.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Ishit Vachhrajani, Bryan Landerman, and Jake Burns answer a common customer question: How to manage costs when migrating to the AWS Cloud? Listen in to hear them share their experiences wtih making budgeting changes, recommendations for managing overall finances, and their opinions on how to generally spend money to receive the most benefits.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Bryan Landerman, Ishit Vachhrajani, and Jake Burns discuss Amazon's leadership principle "Have Backbone, Disagree, and Commit". A leadership principle that is complex, but when company culture supports this concept, is very beneficial to the organization. Listen in to hear why.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani talk about the importance of not always striving for perfection. Leaders play a key role in creating a positive environment for their employees to fail, learn from failure, and grow.

This week AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani talk about the concept "hitting the target and missing the mark". At Amazon, we use one-way vs. two-way door decisions, examining the impact of mixing targets and goals with the measurements that we use to improve and course correct.

AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani discuss why the CIO and their leadership team must have a deep understanding of business priorities in order to form a vision of what technology can do and the value it can drive.

Scott Reese, the SVP of Manufacturing, Cloud & Production Product at Autodesk sits down with Miriam McLemore, an Enterprise Strategist for AWS, to discuss Autodesk's transition to the AWS Cloud. Scott shares his insights on motivating employees, key areas of focus for their teams, and how the AWS Cloud is positioning Autodesk for the future.

Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore sits down with James Rinaldi, the CITA of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to discuss her new eBook "The Customer Centric CIO". Listen in to hear James' thoughts on the book, the concept of being customer centric, and how he has lead organizations with this concept in mind.

Mark Schwartz, a Director of Enterprise Strategy for AWS, is the author of a new book, War and Peace in IT. Listen in as he sits down with fellow AWS Enterprise Strategist, Jake Burns, to answer questions submitted by customers about the book.

Listen in as AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake Burns, Bryan Landerman, and Ishit Vachhrajani discuss how overcoming inertia and breaking the status quo is helping leaders to become more agile in the face of COVID-19.

Closing out our Training and Certification series, Maureen Lonergan, the Director of Training and Certification at AWS, sits down with Enterprise Strategist Jake Burns to talk about AWS' approach. Listen in as they discuss why leaders should pay attention to talent development, how AWS can help customers meet their goals, best practices, and more.

Continuing our Training and Certification series, Ollie Simpson, the Leader for Cloud Transformation and Learning at BP, talks to us about how BP is responding to their need for skills and talent throughout their cloud adoption.

Kicking off our training and certification series, Prakash Kota, the CIO of Autodesk, sits down with Jake Burns to discuss how Autodesk is training and motivating their employees as they migrate to the AWS Cloud.

Miriam McLemore, an Enterprise Strategist for AWS, sits down with Michelle McKenna, the CIO of the NFL, to talk about some of the NFL's newest projects. Listen in as they discuss how Machine Learning and AWS Cloud technology is supporting initiatives like Next Gen Stats, the virtual draft, and their newest project, The Digital Athlete.

Closing out our modernization conversation, Jake, Bryan, and Ishit take time to answer the common questions they're asked by other executive leaders, providing three different perspectives on today's most pressing modernization topics.

Continuing our modernization conversation, Jake, Bryan, and Ishit take some time to talk about where their modernization strategies differ. The Strategists discuss architecture patterns, dealing with databases, and strategies for course correction.

Kicking off a series on IT modernization, Jake, Bryan, and Ishit describe their personal experience leading modernization projects, and discuss its benefits and potential challenges.

Continuing with our Machine Learning series, Jake sits down with Shahram Ebadollahi, the Head of Data Science and AI at Novartis. They talk about Novartis' migration to the AWS Cloud, how they are training their current employee base, and how he is leading the organization as their culture continues to evolve.

Continuing the conversation on modernization, the Strategists discover commonalities in their approaches to change management, highlighting the importance of understanding how your stakeholders define value, maintaining momentum, and melting "the frozen middle".

Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Machine Learning at AWS, describes five best practices for getting started with machine learning, based on his observations of AWS customers.

AWS Enterprise Strategists Jake, Ishit, and Bryan discuss the definition of customer-centricity, who the CIO's customers really are, and what they've learned about customer obsession at Amazon.

Andre Garcia, SVP of IT Operations and Quality Engineering at TracFone, sits down with Jake Burns to talk about TracFone's migration to the AWS Cloud. Garcia shares how they've overcome challenges and forged a new path for TracFone.

This week, Bryan, Ishit, and Jake are sharing trends they are seeing from customer conversations, and common issues that are top of mind for leaders today.