Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
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Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
Join us at the Amazon London HQ as we explore the full productivity and financial benefits of a cloud migration, and share tips to avoid common migration risks such as delays, security issues, and budget overrun.
Hear from AWS customers who have successfully migrated to the cloud, as well as subject matter experts through a series of breakout sessions tailored to your role. Network and align with peers at similarly-sized British businesses who are also embracing digital transformation.
Hear first-hand best practices from AWS customers who have completed their cloud migrations.Â
Richard Coombes - Head of Engineering, Equals
Henry Hill - Customer Success Management Lead, Ubertas
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Colin Tinto - Group CTO, CitNow Group
Aled Sage - Vice President of Engineering & AWS Ambassador, Cloudsoft
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Tackling Cloud Financials Head-On
This session will tackle the most common questions and concerns surrounding cloud cost management, and provide a cloud financial management checklist to guide your short, medium and long-term cloud journey.
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Nilanjan Basu - Senior Business Development Manager - Cloud Economics, AWS
Ben Fox - Business Development Manager - Migration Acceleration Program, AWS
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Preventing Delays and Technical Mistakes
This session will bring to light the most common challenges, risks and pitfalls technical teams face. We will share best practices, key tools and mechanisms you can leverage to de-risk and accelerate your migration, and ensure you build a scalable, secure, resilient cloud environment.
Stephen Smith - Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Re-Organise to Foster Innovation
How can you adopt a culture and architecture that drives innovation from within your business? Learn how Amazon built a unique, customer-centric culture of innovation and the mechanisms and tools we use to drive new business launches. Discover the latest trends and best practices in modern application development and how you can enable iteration and agile development.
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Rob Hodges - Business Development Manager - Digital Innovation, AWS
John Oshodi - Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
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Build a Modern Data Strategy
Learn to build a modern data strategy, enabling your teams to make decisions quickly and accurately. Discover how to easily consolidate your data into a single source of truth and leverage AI/ML to discover new insights about your customers and how best to serve them.
Andrew Delamare - Solutions Architect Manager, AWS
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