Women leaders give glimpse into future of AWS innovation – News

In a rapidly evolving technology landscape, companies must continually differentiate themselves to stay ahead. Whether through unique capabilities, strategic partnerships or the ability to adapt to industry disruptions, businesses are constantly refining their strengths to drive success.

For many, collaborating with Amazon Web Services Inc. has played a crucial role in amplifying their competitive edge. Women tech leaders are playing a key role in this transformation, driving strategic initiatives, fostering innovation and strengthening partnerships that push businesses forward.

“We have an amazing opportunity right now to help customers migrate to cloud,” said Mandy Dhaliwal (pictured), chief marketing officer at Nutanix Inc. “The [AWS] partnership affords our joint customers the ability to get to cloud quickly and cost effectively, helping them not only migrate, but then build the foundations for modernization to be able to run not only virtualized applications, but also container-based applications in a way that’s efficient and cost-effective.”

Dhaliwal, Lisa Varela-Schutes, public sector practice leader and sales manager at Ingram Micro Cloud, and Nishita Henry, principal and global chief commercial officer for Deloitte’s Amazon relationship at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., recently shed light on what the future of Amazon collaborations could look like. (* Disclosure below.)

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AWS is shifting more into the public sector, according to Varela-Schutes. Ingram Micro offers programs and services in finance, education, business development and more. As part of the companies’ partnership, Ingram Micro engages with AWS’ sales reps to drive success in the marketplace.

Ingram Micro Cloud’s Lisa Varela-Schutes talks about Amazon’s shift into the public sector.

“One of the key things that we’ve developed in the last couple years … is our subject matter experts in the public sector space,” Varela-Schutes explained. “For public sector, you need solutions to solve for problems. So, we have subject matter experts like healthcare, justice and public safety, education [and] federal.”

Another developing space is, naturally, generative AI. Both Henry and Varela-Schutes see gen AI as a way to speed up processes in the public sector and professional services. They also suggest that AWS has increasingly adapted to the industry at large.

“I’m very excited about AWS’ recent pivot to being industry aligned,” Henry said. “Deloitte’s been an organization that’s been organized by industry for the last almost 200 years. We are very excited to match our organizations and bring that depth and technology and industry expertise together to create solutions and assets to solve our clients’ toughest problems and to create a change in momentum in the marketplace.”

Here is the highlight video, part of News’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of AWS Champions of Change:

(* Disclosure: Amazon Web Services Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE.)

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