Now Go Build CTO Fellowship
Empowering tech leaders in social impact organizations to build for humanity's most pressing challenges
CTO Fellows: Health and education cohorts
Join Dr. Werner Vogels and the Now Go Build CTO Fellows to discover how these tech leaders are supporting underserved populations worldwide—turning constraints into innovative solutions in health and education, from AI-enhanced systems to vital infrastructure.
Not everyone wants to be the next unicorn. These builders are proving that it's possible to do good and run a profitable business.
Dr. Werner Vogels
VP and CTO, Amazon.comOverview
The Now Go Build CTO Fellowship, led by Amazon VP and CTO Dr. Werner Vogels, empowers tech leaders in social impact sectors with AWS expertise, training, and mentorship. This support helps accelerate their missions in critical areas such as health and education access, disaster response, and climate change mitigation.
These social impact organizations often operate with minimial resources while managing life-saving operations during crises like disease outbreaks or humanitarian emergencies.
By the numbers
Meet the Fellows
Meet the members of our four Now Go Build CTO Fellows cohorts: health, education, and environment (climate resilience and disaster management)
Season 2: Health, education
Join Dr. Werner Vogels and two new cohorts of Now Go Build CTO Fellows as they tackle health, education, and community resilience, proving the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem.
Building trust, strengthening communities
Meet three technologists using AI to protect survivors of violence, tackle food insecurity, and bring mobile healthcare to remote Nigeria—then watch them debate whether AI can truly be trusted in life-or-death settings.
EdTech, ownership, and public good
Three Fellows are teaching marginalized children, training professionals at scale, and building shared digital tools for thousands of organizations. But when technology is built for the public good, who actually owns it?
Mission-driven builders
From law and international relations to social impact, three Fellows hit a ceiling and taught themselves to code. Now they're building tech for refugee integration, literacy, and reproductive health, showing there's no compression algorithm for experience.
Local context, global solutions
In Cameroon, Nigeria, and Mali, three Fellows are creating cloud platforms in local languages, breaking gender barriers in STEM, and proving that Africa's hardest problems need African-built solutions.
Healthcare beyond hospitals
One Fellow is digitizing primary care across 17 Indian states. Another delivers maternal health guidance via SMS to three million mothers across Africa. Both are demonstrating the best health tech meets people exactly where they are.
Season 1: Climate resilience, disaster management
Go behind the scenes to hear from Now Go Build CTO Fellows and Dr. Werner Vogels, as they explore technology’s role in solving complex global challenges. Season 1 covers crisis mapping, AI and open data, food security, and empowering communities.
Meet the Fellows
Join Dr. Werner Vogels as he introduces the inaugural Now Go Build CTO Fellows, their diverse backgrounds, and their shared mission to leverage technology for social good.
Crisis mapping
Venture to the frontlines of disaster response with Petya from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Ola from Help.NGO, as they demonstrate how cutting-edge mapping technologies transform humanitarian efforts.
AI and open data
Behind every humanitarian crisis are people making split-second decisions with incomplete information. Discover how AI and data analytics are giving these heroes the tools to see around corners—predicting disasters, optimizing aid distribution, and transforming gut instincts into data-driven strategies that save lives.
Food security
The disconnect between food surplus and food need is a solvable problem. Watch Alicia, Ameesh, and Ola work to solve it with data analytics and mobile technologies that anticipate shortages, optimize distribution, and turn waste into food security for vulnerable communities.
Empowering communities
The best solutions come from the communities that need them most. Discover how remote sensing, civic tech, and data analytics address environmental and agricultural challenges across Africa, Asia, and Latin America when developed with direct community involvement.
How CTO Fellows are selected
The Now Go Build CTO Fellowship identifies technology leaders who are driving measurable social impact in their communities.
Fellows are selected through a nomination process that evaluates demonstrated leadership, innovative use of technology to address critical challenges, and a commitment to serving underrepresented populations.
AWS social impact
At Amazon, we believe success and scale bring broad responsibility. Our vision at AWS is that billions of lives improve because of skilling opportunities and social impact solutions built on AI and cloud technology.
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