A Conversation with Dr. Portia Crowe of Army Futures Command and Sandy Carter of AWS
Sit down with Sandy Carter and Dr. Portia Crowe as they discuss automation, cloud-to-edge challenges, and the future of the cloud in this fireside chat.
What you’ll find out:
- Dr. Crowe describes the exciting current times as the Army takes a more tech-forward and agile approach. (18:19)
- Sandy and Portia opine on how the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing tech adoption in the Army. (27:03)
- How can companies big and small find opportunities to work with N-CFT? (31:44)
Key quotes:
- “The positives from this crisis have been that there’s been an acceleration to digital transformation, which I think is going to be a powerful benefit to DoD, Army Future Command, to our state and local governments and educational institutions.” — Sandy Carter, Vice President, Amazon Web Services (26:56)
- “Virtual is a great equalizer… now that we have everything online and available it opens up a lot of doors.” — Sandy Carter, Vice President, Amazon Web Services (39:51)
- What’s near and dear to what we do truly for applications and data is how we find that compute and storage utilisation that really allows us to do our mission, make decisions faster, especially when you’re talking how to center the shooter, enabling that user to have the right data at the right time at the right place. — Dr. Portia Crowe, Army Futures Command (44:00)
- “[The challenge to increase women in tech] is you have to see it to be it; I think we need more role models, and I think there are more out there, we just need to make them more visible.” — Sandy Carter, Vice President, Amazon Web Services (49:35)
- “Take advantage of diversity. Diversity yields greater innovation; that’s a really powerful tool.”— Sandy Carter, Vice President, Amazon Web Services (49:35)
Who you’ll hear from:
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