April 23, 2024 | Sancroft, St Paul's, London
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A New Era for Leadership: Explore, Imagine, Create, Succeed
The AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event is an exclusive, in-person event at the Sancroft, St Paul's in London on 23 April 2024. The event brings business leaders and technology innovators together to explore the theme ‘A New Era for Leadership’.
The rapid evolution of technologies such as generative AI, machine learning and high performance computing are accelerating transformation, and reshaping how we live, work and function as a society. Today’s successful leaders are explorers, determined to capitalize on this moment of opportunity, while having the humility to understand that the right path is never predetermined, and more change is inevitable. These rapid changes, combined with ongoing environmental, macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, call for new models of leadership.
Join this AWS ExecLeaders event - an opportunity to not only listen and discuss but also learn and gain practical guidance from modern-day explorers.
What you can expect on the day
This event is tailored exclusively for senior business and technology leaders and provides the opportunity to gain insights from industry experts and network with peers. You’ll hear directly from AWS Executives, strategists and customers, who will share their perspectives on how organizations are navigating this new era of leadership and preparing for what lies ahead. The day’s highlights include a keynote, focused on ‘A New Era for Leadership’ followed by leadership sessions which will deep dive into key topics such as bold leadership, innovation, talent and culture, generative AI, sustainability and latest tech trends.
Executive-led agenda
Hear first-hand from business and technology leaders, whose experience
can inspire you in your own transformation journey.
Networking Lounge
Connect and build relationships with your peers from similar or adjacent industries.
Actionable Insights
Join Leadership sessions to gain actionable insights from AWS Executives, industry experts and peers.
Speakers
Azeem Azhar
Startup Investor and Advisor, Author and Founder
Margaret Heffernan
Professor of Practice at Bath University, Author of Wilful Blindness & Columnist
Charlie Claxton
Senior Vice President, Thomson Reuters
Jessica Hall
Chief Product Officer, Just Eat Takeaway
Kate Jensen
Chief Revenue Officer, Anthropic
Craig Suckling
Chief Data Officer, UK Government
Angie Ma
Co-Founder, Faculty
Adrian Asher
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Checkout.com
Cassandra Vukorep
Chief Data Officer, Lloyds
Daniel Verten
Strategy Partner, Synthesia
Jules Marshall
Director of Product, BBC
Noel Dickson
Managing Director, Aqua Libra Co
Phill Robinson
Founder, Boardwave
Sabby Gill
Chief Executive Officer, Dext
Simon Higgins
Director of Innovation, Callisto / MGroup Services
Shahzad Younas
Founder and CEO, Muzz
Abhinav Saxena
Global Private Equity Principal Advisor, Amazon Web Services
Brittany Anderson
Innovation and Transformation Delivery, Amazon Web Services
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Chris Betz
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Amazon Web Services
David Bloch
Head of Data Strategy EMEA, Amazon Web Services
Erik VanZetta
Director of Data, EMEA, Amazon Web Services
Helena Yin Koeppl
Director - Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Howard Wright
Vice President, Global Head Start-Ups, Amazon Web Services
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Jeff Johnson
General Manager UKI, Amazon Web Services
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Jonathan Allen
Director - Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
Matthias Patzak
Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services
Mike Bainbridge
Innovation Programs Leader EMEA, Amazon Web Services
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Phil Le-Brun
Director - Enterprise Strategy, Amazon Web Services
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Rich Hua
Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership & Chief EQ Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
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Rick Sears
General Manager of Amazon Athena, EMR, and Lake Formation, Amazon Web Services
Siegfried Schallenmueller
EMEA Commercial Digital Innovation, Amazon Web Services
Agenda
08:00 AM – 09:15 AM
Breakfast and Registration
09:15 AM – 10:30 AM
AWS Summit | ExecLeaders Keynote
A New Era for Leadership: Explore, Imagine, Create, Succeed
Speakers:
Jeff Johnson, General Manager UKI, AWS
Phil Le-Brun, Director - Enterprise Strategy, AWS
Charlie Claxton, SVP, Thomson Reuters
Jessica Hall, Chief Product Officer, Just Eat Takeaway
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Coffee and Networking
11:00 AM – 11:50 AM
AWS Summit | ExecLeaders Keynote 2
Speakers:
Azeem Azhar, Startup Investor and Advisor, Author and Founder
Kate Jensen, Chief Revenue Officer, Anthropic
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM
Networking Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Leadership Sessions
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Lessons From The Front Line
As technologies like AI reshape society, business leaders must become explorers, embracing change while guiding organisations into the unknown. In this session, Helena Yin Koeppl and the keynote customers will have an fireside chat expanding on their keynote. Attendees will gain deeper insights into how today's most innovative leaders leverage emerging technologies to drive transformation, while overcoming uncertainty with vision, humility and determination. This revealing discussion will empower attendees to lead their organisations into a new era of leadership.
Speakers
- Helena Yin Koeppl, Director of Enterprise Strategy, AWS
- Cassandra Vukorep, Chief Data Officer, Lloyds
- Charlie Claxton, SVP, Thomson Reuters
- Chris Betz, CISO, AWS
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A Leader's Guide To Generative AI
Generative AI is increasingly a point of focus globally. Scalability of the cloud, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies have positioned AI for wide-scale adoption. History, however, has taught us that realizing the value of transformational technologies isn’t always a linear process. It requires leadership, cultural shift, operating model changes, and investments in new skills. In this session, I will share lessons learned from past major technological shifts, how leaders can apply them to generative AI, and the differentiated approach that AWS is taking to democratise generative AI.
Speakers:
- Phil Le-Brun, AWS Global Strategist and former Corporate VP of McDonald's Corp
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How To Not Sabotage Your Transformation
The importance of transformation remains a key concern for C-level executives in many organizations as they recognize their current operating model is hindering progress. Drawing from numerous engagements with executives from leading global organisations and insights from Amazon's experiences and research, the Enterprise Strategy team at AWS has identified patterns of success and failure in organisational transformation. In this session, consider mental models based on real-world experiences designed to help organizations assess their competitiveness, understand the organisational and staffing implications for achieving their goals, and get insight into how forward-thinking companies effectively manage their workforce to deliver exceptional results.
Speakers
- Jonathan Allen, Director - Enterprise Strategy, AWS
- Jonathan Allen, Director - Enterprise Strategy, AWS
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How to Sustain Value Creation for the Long Term
When executives consistently make decisions and investments with long-term objectives in mind, companies generate more shareholder value and create more jobs versus companies that focus on the short term. But what differentiates long-term oriented companies from others. How have they avoided the pitfalls of a short-term perspective? In this session, hear from thought leaders on how the assessment and application of new technologies, such as generative AI or the move to SaaS, can be leveraged to influence an organization's valuation.
Speakers:
- Abhinav Saxena, Global Private Equity Principal Advisor, AWS
- Phill Robinson, Founder at Boardwave
- Adrian Asher, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Checkout.com
- Sabby Gill, CEO at Dext
1:45 PM – 1:55 PM
Short Break
1:55 PM – 2:40 PM
Leadership Sessions
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for an AI-powered future
As leaders create and navigate a future fuelled by AI, they need more than just IQ and “hard” skills to succeed. They need to integrate their cognitive intelligence with their emotional intelligence to build adaptable, resilient, and innovative organisations. These leaders have deep empathy for their customers and foster a culture of creativity and psychological safety among their employees. They are data-driven but also authentically human. This session will help executives understand the EPIC attributes that empower future-ready leaders—empathy, purpose, inspiration, and connection—so they can drive successful outcomes for their business, their customers, and their people in the new human+AI era.
Speakers
- Rich Hua, Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership & Chief EQ Evangelist
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“Shift from Prototype to Powerhouse” - How to Scale Data and Gen AI Transformation across your Organisation
As organisations continue to accelerate the adoption of gen AI many are challenged with moving from first use case to deploying solutions at scale. Numerous barriers exist from formulating the business case for transformation, shifting culture, unlocking legacy data stores, solving for talent gaps, and re-inventing outdated governance processes, and inadequate security, devops, and ethics mechanisms. This topic shares the lessons learned and journeys to date from leading organisations harnessing AWS to transform their businesses with data and gen AI. It addresses how to shift from mobilizing to scaling business value, and how to forge a holistic data and gen AI strategy considerate of mindset, people, process and technology transformation.
Speakers
- David Bloch, Principal Data Strategist, AWS
- Simon Higgins, Director of Innovation, Callisto / MGroup Services
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Untangling the Organisational Hairball
When it comes to building a resilient organization, cloud and agility go hand-in-hand. Team structure is key, and can make or break your ability to fully recognise the benefits. Leaders have an opportunity to untangle the complexity with small, multi-skilled, business outcome-focused teams, with the agility needed to maximize value from the cloud. This session will address key challenges related to new ways of working, potential blockers, and how to overcome them with effective implementation methods, like Amazon’s two-pizza teams.
Speakers
- Jonathan Allen, AWS Global Strategist and former CTO of Capital One Bank
- Jonathan Allen, AWS Global Strategist and former CTO of Capital One Bank
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Disruptive Leadership: Lessons learned from the UKI's fastest growing startups
Whether it’s reconfiguring the status quo, staying agile amidst tremendous growth, or developing never-before-seen technology, startup founders and executives know a thing or two about disruption. Hear from this panel of startup CxOs as they talk about how they’ve turned challenge into opportunity, navigated economic downturns, and built high-performing teams who are continuously innovating on behalf of their customers.
Speakers:
- Angie Ma, Co-Founder, Faculty
- Howard Wright, Vice President, Global Head Start-Ups, AWS
- Shahzad Younas, Founder and CEO, Muzz
- Daniel Verten, Partner and Strategy Leader, Synthesia
2:40 PM – 3:10 PM
Networking Break
3:10 PM – 3:55 PM
Leadership Sessions
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Data-driven enterprise: From Vision to Values
Organisations today understand the importance of making data-driven decisions and fostering a culture where data is central to driving innovation and making processes more efficient. But simply collecting data isn't enough. We'll explore the key cultural factors and the necessary technical and organisational setup, such as a data mesh, to make the most of data. As generative AI becomes more common, the distributed approach of a data mesh may be the best way to expand its use in organisations.
Speakers
- Matthias Patzak, Director - Enterprise Strategy, AWS
- Matthias Patzak, Director - Enterprise Strategy, AWS
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Data Strategy in the Era of GenAI
If your data isn’t ready for GenAI, your organisation isn’t ready for GenAI. While the economic potential of GenAI is clear, your data and its underlying foundations are the determining factors to what’s possible with Generative AI. Join us in this panel discussion as we explore some of the key topics on getting your data strategy, processes and data organisation ready for the GenAI era. We will have AWS Analytics and AI Leaders, Data Executives from our customers and Anthropic share insights on adapting your data strategy for the Generative AI era.
Speakers
- Jules Marshall, Director of Product, BBC
- Craig Suckling, Chief Data Officer, UK Government
- Kate Jensen, Head of Revenue, Anthropic
- Erik VanZetta, Data and AI GTM Lead, EMEA, Amazon Web Services
- Rick Sears, GM Open Data Services, Amazon Web Services
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Successful Innovation in the Digital Age: Strategies for Enterprise Excellence
In an era defined by rapid technological evolution, unlocking innovation within enterprise organisations remains an important challenge. This presentation tackles why big companies often struggle with innovation and provides practical solutions based on experience from over 3,500 company engagements. Backed by compelling customer references and stories, this presentation equips senior business leaders with actionable insights to foster an innovative culture. Supercharge transformation and set your company on the path to long-term success.
Speakers
- Mike Bainbridge, Innovation Programs Leader EMEA, AWS
- Noel Dickson, Managing Director for Aqua Libra (a Britvic company)
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Intersection of Culture, Customer Experience and Generative AI in Innovative Businesses
Amazon builds on its mission to be the most customer-centric company in the world through a combination of culture, mechanisms, tenets, and technology. In this session, discover how Amazon accelerated the journey to customer centricity at organizations across various industries, including travel, retail, and manufacturing. Learn how Amazon empowers organizations to capture the voice of the customer in real time and use generative AI and the AWS extended customer experience (CX) solution portfolio to maximize the value of data.
Speakers:
- Siegfried Schallenmueller, EMEA Commercial Digital Innovation, Amazon Web Services
- Brittany Anderson, Innovation and Transformation Delivery, Amazon Web Services
3:55 PM – 4:05 PM
Short Break
4:05 PM – 4:45 PM
Closing Keynote
Speakers:
- Margaret Heffernan, Professor of Practice at Bath University, Author of Wilful Blindness & Columnist
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Networking Drinks
Enterprise Strategy Corner
The AWS Enterprise Strategists are former CIOs, CTOs and VPs from large enterprises who have personally driven a cloud journey to AWS. The team works alongside customer executive teams to share experiences and strategies to increase speed and agility, drive innovation and create new operating models using the cloud to enable a greater focus on their customers.
To request a 1:1 meeting with this team, please get in touch.
FAQs
Q: Who should attend the AWS Summit | ExecLeaders?
AWS Summit | ExecLeaders is for business and technology leaders. The event is designed to inspire, inform and educate on digital transformation and technology-driven innovation.
Q: Where is the AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event taking place?
AWS Summit | ExecLeaders will be held at Sancroft, St Paul's in London. Click here for more information and to plan your journey to the event.
Q: What is the cost to attend the event?
This event is free to attend.
Q: What is the format for the AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event?
AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event will feature presentations, global and local AWS and customer stories, and leadership sessions tailored for an executive audience. There will be time during the agenda which will allow for you to connect and network with your peers.
Q: How do I attend the AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event?
Upon completing the online registration form, your registration will be waitlisted. Once you are accepted to attend the event you will receive an email confirming your registration. Please check your junk mail folder if you do not receive this within 24 hours of registering. Closer to the event, we will confirm all the key details at least one week before, as well as one day before the event is scheduled to take place.
Q: How do I confirm my dietary requirements?
We aim to cater for a variety of dietary requirements, however if you have a specific restriction please email the details to ask-marketing-uki@amazon.co.uk at least two weeks prior to the event taking place.
Q: What accessibility accommodations are available?
The event venue, Sancroft, St Paul's, has been designed to be a fully accessible and inclusive event space. If you require additional assistance with any specific mobility, vision, hearing or other kinds of assistance please email us at least two weeks prior to the event.
Q: Are people under the age of 18 years old allowed to attend the AWS Summit | ExecLeaders event?
Attendees must be 18 years of age or over on the first day of to attend the event.
Q: How can I contact the conference organizers?
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