Dr. Werner Vogels
CTO
AMAZON.COM
About Me
Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer 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 organizations.
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.
On his blog, all things distributed, Werner shares insights and thought leadership content on a range of topics, such as cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, as well as his annual technology predictions.
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AI for Good
Dr. Werner Vogels will shed light on global applications of AI in addressing critical global challenges such as climate change, food security, and health. He will share his perspectives on the data and hardware underpinning today's AI technologies, the benefits of democratized access, the need for continued stewardship and responsibility, while encouraging increasing co-operation between government, industry, and enterprises. First find the data, then design the AI approach.