Sandy Carter is a true expert in innovation!
– Huffington Post
ABOUT KEYNOTE SANDY CARTER
Sandy Carter is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains. Previously, Sandy was the Vice President for Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. In this role, she was responsible for driving next-generation partnering in cloud, machine learning, IoT and blockchain. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. She grew the partner ecosystem over 45% as the ecosystem contributed significantly to the success of the business.
On International Women’s Day March 8th 2022 Sandy launched Unstoppable Women of Web3, a diversity and education group focusing on training the next generation of talent with a mission to equalize the playing field early in the Web3 era. Unstoppable Women of Web3 will encourage women to learn, participate and drive diversity in the Web3 community, with a focus on how women can bring their superpowers to impact the space. Initial themes will be: how to get started, the technology of Web3 (including blockchain), creators including art, music, gaming, and more.
Sandy also built the first Enterprise Workload team as the Vice President of Enterprise Workloads at AWS focused on migration and modernization through containers and serverless. She took on an ambiguous and complicated space for AWS with great impact, intelligence and grace, drove strong Enterprise workload adoption. At AWS, Sandy started the first Women@EC2 group, led the AWS Partnership with Girls in Tech, started the Women of the C-Suite series and served on the Amazon and AWS Diversity boards for 4 years.
Sandy has been a founder and CEO of a startup, and her last role at IBM, she ran the Cloud and AI/ML Ecosystem on behalf of the IBM corporation. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She is also the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit.
Sandy is a Federal 100 Award Winner, member of Fortune Most Powerful Women, and Women Leaders in Data and AI, Stevie Award Winner for Women of the Year Technology, CRN Women of the Channel 2021 Power 100, 2021 Cloud Girls Rising Inaugural Visionary Award, Top 50 Woman Leader in SaaS of 2021, Top 50 Women in Tech Influencers to Follow 2021, Top 50 Influencers, Top 150 Global Cloud Thought Leaders and Next Generation Leaders of 2021, Top 40 Cloud Computing Influencers on Twitter, Top 50 Digital Influencers, Awards Magazine Top 50 Women of Influence, Top 15 IoT Premier League, Lifetime Achievement Winner, ‘Excellence in Cloud Achievement’, AI Innovator Nominee of the Year, Top 10 AI Influencers 2019, Verdicts ten of the most influential people in artificial intelligence on Twitter during Q4 2020, and the Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer.
Sandy has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Duke University.
Speech Topics
INNOVATION: UP, UP AND AWAY! SUPERPOWERS NEEDED FOR OUT OF THIS WORLD INNOVATIVE CULTURES
We live in a Shark Tank world: the competition is fierce, the talent is better than ever, and threats now emerge from all over the globe. Firing squads are everywhere; the world is now truly flat. CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but doing so is elusive and complex. In fact 81 percent say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace.
Consider the following: half of the S&P 500 companies will be replaced in the next ten years. In addition, companies used to be on the S&P 500 for 33 years. Now it is only 14 years. The new mantra is: innovate or die.
Executives are searching for the right answers: How exactly do large enterprises remain nimble, and innovate quickly? What role does diversity play in innovation? Can corporations and large enterprises employ lean startup techniques to nurture innovation? What extra powers are needed to innovate? Is it enough to have speed and vision? Or is something else needed to fly high?
In this session, participants will gain insight into best practices for hiring and innovation. Most importantly, they will see the value of wild ducks. In this session, executives will develop and hone their super powers: agility, speed, telepathy, x-ray vision, and the spidey sense needed to capture their future clients. These insights are based on Sandy Carter’s research of founders and 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company. Put simply: When companies learn how to innovate, their products become more desirable, their customers turn into advocates, and their best employees never want to leave. Takeaways include how to:
- Identify your levers in your industry
- Learn and assess your Super Powers
- Explore value of Innovation Outposts, Garages, and more
- Increase value among teams
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how environment impacts the top five super powers.
CREATING A TECHNOLOGY TOOLKIT:EPIC TECHNOLOGIES YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS TO SURVIVE
It is a given that technology is embedded into every aspect of business. Along with this technology is globalization, which drives a world of tomorrow – one that looks very different than today. However, technology is only valuable if it focuses on business outcomes.
In this session, participants will learn about five epic technologies that are guaranteed to deliver strong business outcomes. What is the best way to employ these new technologies? How can an innovative culture foster the best possible uses of these technologies? How can business leaders use them to disrupt the status quo? How do you create the measurable to form a business case, and what role do metrics play in all this?
Sandy Carter teaches audiences in understandable terms that can be digested by all audiences. How can executives embed new technologies into their companies using the internet of things, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, social business and gamification. She will present real world examples of companies employing these technologies now, providing a glimpse into the next generation. Based on her current views into the latest innovations, research, insights gleaned as an advisor to startups and accelerators, and 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company, audiences will learn:
- Business implications of the technologies
- Examples of how competitors in your industry are using these epic technologies today
- How startups are jump-starting innovative business models with these technologies
- Assess business needs
- Increase skills of your teams.
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how these technologies impact your business outcomes.
THE BIG BANG: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR BUSINESS
Everyone’s talking about digital. From the client who is shopping via a phone to the employee who is leveraging their iPad with software in the cloud to your sales team gaining leads through social media.
The amount of data to analyze within these transactions is staggering. Marketing teams are completely overwhelmed. However, if companies don’t personalize their customer care, someone else will. And while digital transformation will look different at each company, there are five common actions necessary for a big bang.
Digital transformation is not just about technology but a cultural mindset. While the technology is not easy, a recent Forrester study finds that company culture is often the stumbling block in digital transformation efforts.
Sandy explores the five digital and social actions needed from her experience as one of the Forbes Digital Influencers in 2016 and from her 20+ years of experience in a Fortune 25 company. In this presentation, participants will gain insight on how to master best practices in digital to transform both the client and employee experience, and add value in first projects. Participants will learn from examples and frameworks so that they can begin to leverage social networks in their current environments.
Audiences will learn how to:
- Identify the core changes in the landscape
- Address company culture
- Navigate new skills needed
- Explore new business models and ecosystems (subscription, freemium, and more)
This is a powerful, funny, high-energy presentation, filled with interaction. Each participant and team discovers how environment impacts the top five digital actions to create a big bang.
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