AWS Swiss Cloud Day

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 (90 minutes)

Join Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com, and Yvonne Bettkober, General Manager AWS Austria & Switzerland, as they open the day by sharing with you the current status of cloud adoption in Switzerland and their insights on the evolution and key trends we are seeing from our customers. 

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision. As one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations. Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Yvonne Bettkober is an international executive with extensive of experience in the conception and operationalization of technology-driven transformation processes. She has led teams and businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For more than 15 years, Yvonne Bettkober has been working with new technologies and their innovation and transformation potential for companies of all sizes. Prior to joining AWS, she spent over a decade at Microsoft in various roles and regions leading teams in more than 20 countries.

Yvonne Bettkober, who grew up in Cameroon and France, moved to Germany in 1992 to study at the Technical University of Berlin. She holds a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering and an MBA from Warwick Business School. She has been living in Switzerland with her husband and three sons since 2006.