AWS Executive Insights: DACH
As new technologies and emerging competitors disrupt established industries, leaders across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are sharing their experiences, best practices and transformative ideas, partnering with AWS cloud, to digitally transform their organizations to deliver competitive advantage and new forms of customer value.
We heard from 10,000 senior business and IT decision makers in enterprises across five countries, including 2,000 from Germany. Our goal was to understand how they managed to keep reinventing their businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic without a roadmap for what was going to happen next and to get insights into how they expect their organisations to build on that experience and keep growing in the post-pandemic environment.
Christa Koenen, the CIO of Deutsche Bahn Group and CEO of Deutsche Bahn Systel, sits down with AWS Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore to talk about Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Bahn Systel's rapid transformation to the AWS Cloud. Christa shares how her organization became more agile, how her team developed and re-skilled their workforce, and how the overall culture of the company has shifted.
With the global weight of AI powerhouses pressing down, Germany can’t afford to stay still. Florian Hartwig explores why it’s critical for German corporations to lay the foundation for a strong data strategy and be front and center of the digital revolution.

Security is at the top of nearly every German organization's agenda. Gerald Boyne explores how embedding security practices into the culture of your organization can help avoid the financial or operational drain - and turn it into an organizational enabler instead.

Digital transformation is crucial if companies are to evolve their products and services to meet the ever-increasing expectations of today’s customer. Yvonne Bettkober explores how successful Swiss firms are finding the right balance of speed and quality.
Andrea Lachnik, Agility Master, and Rene Schneider, Product Owner and Cloud Expert, sat down with AWS Digital Innovation Leader, Thomas Blood, to share their experience leading business and technology transformation at Deutsche Bahn Systel.
Shahram Ebadollahi, Head of Data Science and AI, Novartis
Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Continuing with our Machine Learning series, Jake sits down with Shahram Ebadollahi, the Head of Data Science and AI at Novartis. They talk about Novartis' migration to the AWS Cloud, how they are training their current employee base, and how he is leading the organization as their culture continues to evolve.

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