A Conversation with AWS’ Sandy Carter, One of the Busiest Women in Tech
Sandy Carter is VP of Partners and Programs at Amazon Web Services. In her spare time, she also serves as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, an advisory board member for the IoT Community, a strategic advisor for SmartVizX and Betagig, and Chairman of the Board for Girls in Tech, Inc. Prior to wearing this many hats at once, Sandy served as a General Manager and CMO at IBM, Chief Sales Officer & Evangelist at Lotus Software, and CEO at Silicon Blitz. Join Corey and Sandy as they discuss the journey that led Sandy from running AWS’ Windows operations to becoming VP of Public Sector Partners and Programs, how AWS’ customer-centricity drives the company forward, the day Michael Jordan and Stacey King combined to score 70 points, the secret sauce that leads to AWS products being adopted rapidly, how satisfying it is to help large companies migrate from legacy infrastructure to the “new world” of the cloud, why Sandy loves mentoring women in tech, the importance of diversity and inclusion and what it really means, and more.