Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Innovation Day Opening and Keynote (90mins)
From habitable space destinations, to enabling travel post COVID and drones leading the frontline battle against malaria, join speakers from Blue Origin, Woven Planet Holdings Inc, Marut Drones, Bundesliga, Redwire Space, Boom Supersonic, Affinidi and Amazon to learn how technology is helping ‘Rethink Possible’.
Hosts:
Olivier Klein, Head of Emerging Technology – APJ, AWS
Dr Michelle Dickinson, Nanotechnologist, Materials Engineer, Author and Founder of Nanogirl Labs
Speakers:
Ariane Cornell, Director, Astronaut and Orbital Sales, Blue Origin
Dr James Kuffner, Representative Director and CEO, Woven Planet Holdings, Inc.
Prem Kumar Vislawath, Founder and CEO, Marut Drones
Christian Seifert, CEO, Deutsche Fussball Liga GmbH (Bundesliga)
Andrew Rush, President and COO, Redwire Space
Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO, Boom Supersonic
Glenn Gore, CEO, Affinidi
Sally Fouts, Director, The Climate Pledge, Amazon
Tom Soderstrom, Chief Technologist, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS
Workforce Enablement for the Future (30mins)
Reimagine operating models that address skill gaps, cultural resistance and support modern development practices, to pursue and create new forms of business value.
Speaker: Phil Le-Brun, Enterprise Strategist, AWS
Amazon Culture of Innovation (30mins)
Get a closer look at the mechanisms Amazon uses to facilitate innovative thinking, support structures to empower teams to build, and learnings on the importance of creating a culture of innovation.
Speaker: Richard Taylor, Digital Innovation Lead – APJ, AWS