Amazon’s culture of innovation & customer centricity

In this session, we will hear from Thomas Blood, Digital Innovation Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Thomas joined AWS in 2016 and then became a Digital Innovation Leader in 2019, leading the AWS Digital Innovation Program in EMEA. During this session you will learn how to:

  • Ensure your organisation has the right culture for innovation
  • Utilise the four pillars of innovation
  • Put your customers at the heart of everything you do
  • Digitally transform your business in the right way
  • Embrace failure and constantly learn from your setbacks

Birmingham Tech Week is run in association with:

Speakers

Thomas Blood
Digital Innovation Leader
Amazon Web Services

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