AWS Executive in Residence Blog
Author: Helena Yin Koeppl
Helena is an Executive in Residence at AWS, where she advises C-suite leaders from AWS’s strategic customers. As an Enterprise Strategist, Helena draws on her extensive experience to help organizations craft integrated business and AI strategies that drive efficiency and growth Before joining AWS, for 26 years, she has led large-scale data and AI transformations at four Fortune 500 companies—Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Thomson Reuters. She served as global head of data, AI, or innovation organizations across retail, cpg, healthcare, financial services, and media sectors. Helena is passionate about building and scaling multidisciplinary teams and champions a human-centered approach to technology adoption, with a particular focus on AI.
Responsible AI: From Principles to Production
As organizations deploy generative AI technologies, they face challenges including lack of expertise, fragmented governance, unclear accountability, and immature tooling—issues that can be addressed through an integrated framework of governance mechanisms, repeatable processes, and embedded safeguards.
Break Through Barriers: Accelerate Innovation in Traditional Organizations
Driving successful innovation quickly is a major challenge for many organizations, even in the generative AI era. Only 21% of organizations achieve their innovation goals.1 The typical concept-to-launch journey still takes about 22 months, and 82% of engineers say they’re “constantly looking” for ways to speed it up.2 Slow go-to-market timelines mean missed opportunities and […]