National Grid Distinguished Speaker Series

Dr. Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President
Amazon

27 October 2010 (Wednesday)
1500 hours @ Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
School of Accountancy/School of Law Level 2, SMU

Title

Successful Strategies in the Cloud: Perspectives from Amazon Web Services

Abstract

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes across 190 countries with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud since 2006. With AWS, companies can provision compute power, storage, and other services – gaining easy access to a comprehensive suite of robust IT infrastructure services as business demands them. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, is working to help businesses from start-ups to enterprises develop both short and long term strategies for taking advantage of the cloud. In this lecture, Dr. Vogels will discuss how start-ups, enterprises, and academics are making the move to the Cloud and why they are doing so more rapidly than ever.

Biodata

Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

Program

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.