Technologie & Innovatie
Amazon.com continues to excite the world with new innovations, whether it be through new consumer services, through platforms to support sellers, authors and other producers, or through transforming the world of IT with its cloud. Many leading companies struggle to maintain robust innovation cycles after their first successes but not Amazon - so what's their secret?In this presentation dr. Werner Vogels will dive into the Amazon.com approach to managing innovation and how it is driven by strong values and culture. He'll discuss how these principles drive processes and organizational structures and how this contributes to Amazon's ability to execute at high speed. He will also go into how Amazon's platforms enable others to innovate in ways never thought possible.Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) 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 organisations. 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.
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