Thinking Big: Radical Disruption Through Technology

Thinking Big: Radical Disruption Through

TechnologyTeresa CarlsonVice President, World Wide Public SectorAmazon Web Services

Why Think Big?

AWS in the Public Sector

800+government

agencies

3000+educationalinstitutions

10000+nonprofit

organizations

Ask Why Not?

Study

ResultTrial

Trial

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Test

Verify

Refine

Study

ResultTrial

Trial

Trial

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Test

VerifyRefine

Think Differently

Enabling democracy

20 million kids coding in a single week

Stay Focused on theMission

800+governmentagencies

Be Tenacious

What does it take to be disruptive?• Ask “Why Not?”• Think Differently• Stay focused on the Mission• Be tenacious