Ready to move from strategy to action? 🚀 JB Brown, VP of Engineering at Smartsheet, shares one powerful truth: Lead change by doing it. His team used Amazon Bedrock and AWS Roo Code to slash CI pipeline times by 80%. The breakthrough? He gave engineers one week to experiment with generative coding tools, zero pressure to ship. Just learn. They haven't stopped innovating since.⚡ JB's framework: ➡️Start yourself. Show the value. ➡️Create space for others to follow. ➡️Move from attitude to aptitude to proficiency. Listen now:👉 https://go.aws/4lE3y9z Hosted by:🎙️Chris McNabney, Director of Solution Architecture, AWS #AWSExecutiveInsights #AWS #generativeAI #AmazonBedrock #DeveloperProductivity
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Perspectives from leaders at the intersection of business and technology.
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AWS Executive Insights is a digital thought leadership platform for business and technology leaders, sharing insights and ideas from AWS execs and customers. Content features conversations with senior executives about leadership in the age of AI, incorporating customer success stories and lessons learned. Topics include innovation, emerging tech, security, workforce, resilience and sustainability from the AWS viewpoint.
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In security, change is constant and curiosity is your greatest asset. 🔐 Amy Herzog, Chief Information Security Officer at AWS, challenges us to approach every problem with the mindset: "What if it didn't go the way we expect it to? What would happen if?" 🔍 That curiosity is what draws people to the security field and it's exactly what will carry security professionals forward over the next three to five years. The tools in your toolbox will look different. But the mindset? That never changes.🧭 Watch now 👉 https://go.aws/40VWfQZ Hosted by 🎙️ Clarke Rodgers, Sr. Principal, Office of the CISO #AWSExecutiveInsights #AWS #CyberSecurity #SecurityLeadership #CloudSecurity
Beyond Human Identity: AI Agents, Security Culture, and Defense
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Gen AI isn't a tool for the few, it's the future professional toolkit for everyone. 🌎 In this #AWSExecutiveInsights conversation, Roger Premo, Global Head of Strategy at IBM, shares how IBM made gen AI pervasive across the entire organization. From the conversational interfaces IBMers use daily to internal challenges that drive hands-on adoption. 🤖 The message is clear: organizations that don't figure out how to weave AI into daily workflows are leaving both business value and individual growth on the table. 📈 Thank you to IBM for their partnership and participation in this discussion. Watch now 👉 https://go.aws/3OOJ2qx Hosted by 🎙️ Richard Taylor #AWS #generativeAI #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfWork
Hybrid Cloud for Agentic AI: Lessons from IBM's AI Transformation
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Trust isn't given to agentic AI, it's earned. 🔐 In this #AWSExecutiveInsights conversation, Erin Kraemer, Sr. Principal Technical Product Manager for AWS Agentic AI, draws on 25 years at Amazon to explore how organizations move from AI experimentation to production, built on observability, guardrails, and bringing your people along the journey. 💡 Erin shares why the leaders who thrive will be the ones who experiment boldly and never lose sight of what good looks like. 🚀 Watch now 👉 https://go.aws/4cpQTVo Hosted by 🎙️ Tom Soderstrom #AWS #AgenticAI #generativeAI #Leadership #CloudComputing
Agentic AI in Practice: Earning Trust Before Autonomy
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What if AI's greatest potential isn't replacing human creativity but amplifying it? 🌟 In this #AWSExecutiveInsights conversation, James Waters, Chief Business Officer at Booking.com, shares how generative AI predicts patterns but can't originate a creative or innovative thought. That's uniquely human. 💡 The leaders who thrive are the ones brave enough to embrace what AI can do, freeing themselves to focus on what only humans can. 🚀 Listen now. 👉 https://go.aws/4l3nUJg Hosted by 🎙️ Tanuja Randery #AWS #generativeAI #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation
Innovation Without Friction: Lessons for the AI Era
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What if the secret to success isn't climbing alone but bringing others with you? 🤝 Dr. Ruba Borno, AWS VP of Global Specialists and Partners, shares why collaboration beats solo achievement every time. Learn her leadership lessons: ask the right questions rather than having all the answers, trust your instincts, and create environments where teams can safely innovate and fail. 💡 Listen now.👉 https://go.aws/4qIhn7P Hosted by:🎙️Richard Taylor #AWS #Leadership #Collaboration #Teamwork #WomenInTech
The Power of Purpose: AWS VP Ruba Borno on Leading with Why
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What does it take to migrate the heart of a nation's banking system to the cloud? 🏦 Simon Davies, GM of Core Banking at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, breaks down one of the most mission-critical cloud transformations in financial services, with nearly 40% of Australia's liquidity at stake.💡 Simon shares how CBA migrated the world's largest SAP core banking deployment to AWS, improving reliability by 30%, cutting infrastructure costs by 30%, and enabling real-time customer experiences. He reveals how transparency, cultural alignment, and a rallying cry of "believe" mobilized thousands to deliver change at national scale. 🚀 Listen now.👉 https://go.aws/4anz5ZA Hosted by: 🎙️ Ben Cabanas, Director of Technology and Customer Solutions #AWS #CloudMigration #FinancialServices #DigitalTransformation #Leadership
Mission-Critical Modernization: CBA’s Core Banking Migration
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Is your company building AI features—or building for an AI-native world? The difference matters. 🚨 Des Traynor, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, faced an existential moment when ChatGPT launched. Within days, he realized the company's entire business model was under threat from AI that could answer questions instantly, accurately, 24/7. Their response? Go all in. Completely reinvent. Accept no half measures. 🚀 🤖 The hard truth about AI transformation: ▶️ Bolting on AI features isn't enough – Adding an AI component to legacy products won't save you from disruption ▶️ The market shows no mercy – Companies that don't self-correct will be corrected by competitors ▶️ Speed matters more than perfection – Waiting for customers to ask means you're already too late AI transformation isn't optional. It's existential. Watch the full session from the Executive Summit on failing forward and AI transformation. 👉 https://go.aws/3ZycPGb Hosted by: 🎙️ Stephen Brozovich, Executive in Residence, AWS #AWS #AgenticAI #Innovation #reInvent2025
Des Traynor, Co-founder & CSO at Intercom speaks on failing forward
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What if #security isn't a barrier to #AI innovation but the key to unlocking it? 🔐 In this #AWSExecutiveInsights conversation, Jacob DePriest, VP of Security and CSO at 1Password, shares how security leaders can enable rapid #generativeAI adoption while maintaining world-class protection. 🛡️ From his journey at NSA to GitHub to 1Password, Jacob reveals why the only way to scale security outcomes is through engineering partnerships, not friction. Listen now. 👉 https://go.aws/3ObpJY3 Hosted by: 🎙️ Clarke Rodgers, Office of the CISO, #AWS
The Evolution of Digital Trust: From Passwords to AI
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📌 AI isn’t a new silo — it’s the next chapter of digital transformation. In his latest Executive in Residence blog, Mark Schwartz explores how organizations already on the digital transformation journey are uniquely positioned to harness AI effectively because agility, data maturity, and iterative learning aren’t just “nice to have” anymore, they’re foundational. Key insights include: • 🔄 Digital transformation builds the agility and culture that make AI adoption successful. • 📈 AI expands what’s possible — but doesn’t replace the need for strategic transformation. • 📊 Both depend on data strategy, feedback loops, and trust-based governance. 👉 Read the full perspective by Mark Schwartz : https://go.aws/4cm3UPx #AWS #AWSExecutiveInsights #DigitalTransformation #AI #Leadership