Session: Building and leading a Diverse and Inclusive Technical organization
This session is targeted at current or aspiring leaders of technical organizations - those who want to build, re-invent and lead. You will learn practical hints and tips for building strategy , skills , customer obsession and hiring and recruitment of customer-facing technical organizations — we’ll share our lessons learned at AWS on empowering a culture of Builders who want to invent on behalf of customers. Diversity and inclusion. Skills. Hiring. Customer focus. You’ll also learn how to lean into some of your potential strengths as a woman and use them to your and yours team’s benefit.
Bio
Hawn Nguyen-Loughren is Senior Manager, Solution Architecture in the Southeast at AWS. Hawn is a passionate technologist and developer at heart, a servant leader and she empower an amazing team of Solution Architects (aka JEDI Knights). She is passionate about mentoring, hiring and developing a diverse team of technologists.
Sree Ratnasinghe is a customer-obsessed and results-driven cloud executive with two decades' experience leading global technology organizations focused on enterprise adoption of emerging technology and solution architectures. She thrives at the intersection of Customers, Cloud Solutions Architecture, and Organizational leadership, and leads with her unique brand of speed and empathy.
Sree has embarked on her new adventure at Amazon Web Services as Director of Solutions Architecture for the Southeast region. She is a strong believer in the force multiplier effect, and enjoys a mentorship role collaborating with colleagues on their career and personal advancement. She’s passionate about organizational culture, transformation and skills growth, plus obsessed with growing and coaching the next generation of leaders. A fierce community advocate, Sree is a Board Member of WomenNC empowering gender equality, diversity and inclusion and women leaders.