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Fireside chat: Reaching cloud velocity

What you'll learn

Despite the acceleration of cloud innovation, we’re still in the early days of cloud adoption. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud Report, more than 50% of enterprise workloads have yet to move to the cloud. What’s keeping organizations from successfully executing a cloud transformation? 

We sat down to answer this question and more with Drew Firment, SVP of Cloud Transformation at A Cloud Guru; David Tucker, Founder at MindMill and Pluralsight Author and Jonathan Allen, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS and author of Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader’s Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud. Together, they explore:

  • The importance of aligning IT and business strategies

  • Why your “why” matters and the importance of a clear mission

  • Symptoms of disconnection between developers and the business objectives

  • The role of culture in cloud transformation

  • How gaining momentum in a cloud transformation is more of a people problem than a technology problem

  • Why leaders must be empathetic and humble throughout cloud transformation

  • Organizational structures you can put in place for a successful cloud transformation

  • Metrics you should consider in cloud transformation

  • And more!

Watch the webinar to get the battle-tested insights you need to build momentum in your cloud transformation.

 

Event details

Calendar icon Sep 29, 2021
Clock icon 1 hr
Globe icon Americas

Jonathan Allen

Director of Enterprise Strategy @ AWS

Jonathan is a Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, where he works with enterprise executives around the globe to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers. He has worked with over 335 enterprises helping them successfully complete migrations and transition their organizations to help them realize the full benefits of AWS Cloud.

Drew Firment

SVP of Cloud Transformation @ A Cloud Guru

Drew Firment is SVP of Cloud Transformation at A Cloud Guru. He works closely with business and technology leaders to accelerate cloud adoption by migrating talent to the cloud. Drew was previously Director of Cloud Engineering at Capital One where he led enterprise cloud operations within their Cloud Center of Excellence and migrated the early adopters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into production. He founded Capital One's cloud engineering college that drove a large-scale talent transformation, and earned a patent for measuring cloud adoption and maturity. Drew is recognized by Amazon as an AWS Community Hero for his ongoing efforts to build inclusive and sustainable learning communities.

David Tucker

Founder at Mindmill & Pluralsight Author

David Tucker is a Webby Award winning CTO consultant that focuses on cloud native custom development and data strategy. David currently is the founder at MindMill Consulting, and he previously served as the EVP of Technology at Universal Mind. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others).