Data analytics
Empowering Business Growth through Data Analytics
In the age of data-driven decision-making, the ability to navigate and make sense of data has become a strategic imperative. The potential for informed decision-making, innovation, and sustainable growth is vast, but they require a keen understanding of how to harness the power of data analytics effectively.
Growth and Scale
Scale at the speed of the cloud
Scalability is a core component of a company’s growth strategy, helping organisations seamlessly adapt to the fluctuating demands of an ever-changing world. Discover how cloud computing boosts business scalability and clears the path for uninterrupted growth.
Generative AI and ML
Powering Innovation with Generative AI
Modern leadership teams are being tasked with using the latest technology to drive innovation and deliver business value. Generative AI, a cutting-edge subset of artificial intelligence and machine learning, is helping leaders do just that. Learn about the potential of generative AI, discover insights into machine learning models, and explore how businesses are fostering innovation through advanced capabilities from AWS.
AWS ExecLeaders: UK and Ireland
Delivering cloud strategy perspectives and real-world experiences, AWS ExecLeaders is the community where you can get insights from your peers, share your own leadership stories, and discover how to power your digital transformation and innovation journey.
Featured Content
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Why AI? How leaders can think more strategically about AI adoption
AI is disrupting industries, yet many organizations struggle with unstructured, reactive adoption. Explore how leaders can drive proactive AI adoption through identifying high-value use cases, governance, reskilling, and experimentation to sustain competitive advantage.
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Unleash the transformative power of Generative AI. Responsibly.
Generative AI is revolutionising industries, but realizing its full, transformative potential requires responsible leadership. Read more about the trajectory of generative AI and its applications.
The Executive’s Guide to Generative AI
As the hype around generative AI continues to grow, it's time to separate fact from fiction. This executive's guide demystifies generative AI and explore its real-world applications for businesses of all sizes. From streamlining processes to accelerating innovation, this technology has the potential to transform how we work.
People will be the key to generative AI success
As generative AI rapidly evolves, business leaders face a pivotal moment in shaping its transformative impact. This article delves into the critical role executives play in driving successful genAI adoption within their organisations.
The Executive’s Guide to the Digital Workplace
Digital transformation is the key to achieving business objectives, improving efficiency and generating greater performance. But how do you bring that change to bear across your organisation?
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To remove bottlenecks, and innovate at scale, requires rethinking how data is distributed. In the same way that organisations uncovered benefits by decoupling from monolith IT to micro-services, the modern data community is an organisational and cultural shift from monolithic data organisations to decoupled responsibility.
—Craig Suckling, Worldwide Data Strategy Lead, AWS
Resources
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned expert, there’s always more to learn when it comes to the cloud. Look at our resources for perspectives on cloud transformation and innovation. Plus, find out how new technology can help your business become more customer-focused and sustainable.
Getting to the heart of digital transformation
In this resource, we explain the different levels of digital transformation, as well as how the cloud benefits businesses like yours.
The right questions of your digital transformation
Feidhlim describes how money transfer platform Wise has been working with AWS to reduce its operational costs, scale internationally, and speed up cycle times to ship hundreds of releases a week.
Truro: Smarter sensors for safer cities
SSE Energy Solutions and Cornwall Council are on a mission to make smart cities more sustainable - which means happier and healthier residents.
Resources for C-suite leaders focused on growth and scale
Prior to joining AWS, Jonathan was CTO and Senior Director in Capital One Banks UK division, part of the bank's Global Technology Leadership team that was accountable for the technical build out and system migrations of the bank's cloud strategy.
Throughout her 25-year career with The Coca-Cola Company, and now at AWS, Miriam has led multiple digital transformation initiatives designed to better understand and engage the consumer, create competitive advantage, and improve internal efficiency.
Before AWS, Ishit spent the majority of his career in media and entertainment. While CTO at A+E Networks, Ishit led a major initiative to migrate the technology function to the AWS cloud, helping to break down silos and reorganize for better agility.
As an Enterprise Finance Strategist, Chris works with enterprise executives around the globe to share financial management experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers.
Before joining AWS, Phil was Corporate VP, Global Technology Development at McDonald’s Corporation, where he was instrumental in their cloud journey, achieving the CEO’s goal of saving $500 million in costs while accelerating digital transformation.
Before joining AWS, Jake was VP of Cloud Services at Live Nation Entertainment, where he led the company’s cloud transformation strategy, including an accelerated all-in migration to AWS which reduced IT costs by 48% in the first year and a half.
Matthias joined AWS in May 2020 as a Principal Advisor with the German solution architecture organization and transitioned to the Enterprise Strategist team in January 2023. In both roles, he has helped customers to build digital organizations.
Before joining AWS, Clarke was the CISO for a multinational insurance/reinsurance provider, where he oversaw a strategic division’s all-in migration to AWS driven by security and privacy requirements, including a goal to achieve SOC 2 accreditation.
Mark is the author of The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy, War and Peace and IT, The Art of Business Value and A Seat at the Table. Before joining AWS, he was CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Service (part of the Department of Homeland Security), CIO of Intrax, and CEO of Auctiva.
Tom has led several large-scale digital transformation efforts, including one for a large genomics diagnostic company, and relies on his experience as both a CIO and CTO to consult with other executives on how they can drive higher value from their own migrations.
Xia has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise IT technology and management in the USA and China. Before joining AWS, Xia was CEO of Wyvern Infotech, CTO of SAP Greater China, and CTO for Retail Banking and Credit Card Center, Bank of China.
Before joining AWS, Tom served as the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2006-2020. As an early cloud pioneer, Tom introduced and taught cloud computing at JPL, NASA and the US Federal Government.
Prior to AWS, Helena served as SVP and Head of Thomson Reuters Labs worldwide, where she led a global team of AI research scientists, AI/ML engineers, and designers to deliver AI, ML, and generative AI-enabled innovations for Thomson Reuters's products in the Legal, Financial, News, and Media domains.
Stephen brings 24 years of Amazon technology and HR experience – from large scale migrations through major technological transformations. His main area of expertise is organizational culture and the people processes that enable innovation at scale.
Before joining AWS, Arvind was a digital Leader/CIO at leading companies like Kellogg's, Prudential Assurance, and Procter & Gamble. Arvind led business transformations that revolutionized areas such as data-driven decision-making, customer engagement & loyalty, marketing & digital channels, manufacturing & supply chain, retail sales & distribution, insurance underwriting & claims, shared services, quality & compliance, cybersecurity, and core enterprise systems.