Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Join us at the fifth annual AWS Central Area Women’s Summit on August 24th, 2022. It is a one-day event designed to bring together AWS Central Area employees, customers, and partners as a community in support of women. The sessions are designed to expand their network, build new skills, and further their careers.
Sessions include Closing the Gender Finance Gap, Emotional Intelligence – How to find Balance, and a Customer Panel – Leading the Charge as Women in the Tech World.
Sessions will be followed by a Happy Hour where Poker Power will be in attendance to teach those interested how to play poker or facilitate games for those who already know how to play. Poker Power teaches women how to take calculated risks in business, finance, and in life.
The AWS Women’s Summit is an educational event, as well as a networking event, for women and supporters of women to learn from the presenters and each other, and share their experiences. The event is open to AWS customers, partners, and employees who are women, identify as female, or are supporters of women.
Please email CentralAreaWomensSummit@amazon.com
Leaders at First Women's Bank and Poker Power discuss the challenges women face in finance and actions we can take to close the gap.
Panelists: Erin Lydon (Managing Director, Poker Power) and Melissa Widen (Founder and Chief Administrative Officer, First Women's Bank)
Moderator: Keesha Organ (Business Value Advisor, AWS)
Understanding your emotional intelligence skills to achieve harmony, career growth, and professional success. Hear from Amazon leaders on how they have managed their career experiences using emotional intelligence insights.
Panelists: Robin Bassett (US Greenfield Professional Services Leader), Elizabeth Moon (Director, Customer Engineering & CSM), Sree Ratnasinghe (Director, North America Customer Solutions), and Ernest Jones (Director, Central AWS Sales)
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Moderator: Eronda Harvey (Central Area Business Operations Lead and AWS Emotional Intelligence Ambassador)
This Panel brings together a community of inspiring and innovative visionaries whose ambitious actions are changing the US Central Area with unprecedented scale. Across industries and generations, the panel spotlights how leading women are navigating monumental change to re-architect industries, spark significant movements, and unlock opportunities for others.
Panelists: Susanna Dyer (Director of Global Alliances for AWS, TrendMicro), Jenny Just (Co-CEO, PEAK6), Deneen DeFiore (VP & CISO, United Airlines), Sabina Ewing (Global CIO and VP, Business & Technology Services, Abbott Labs), Archana Vemulapalli (Director NAMER, Solution Architecture, AWS)
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Moderator: Aisha Khurshid (Head US-Central DNB, Solution Architecture, AWS)
Carnivale, 702 West Fulton Market Street, Chicago, IL 60661
Join us for happy hour and an optional Poker Power workshop. Poker Power teaches women how to play Texas Hold’em, to compete and succeed in business, finance, law, and more—all in a fun, supportive, safe-to-fail environment.
Sponsored by TrendMicro
Poker Power is a company led by women for women with the mission of teaching one million women how to play the game of poker—and how the skills and strategies learned translate to career acceleration and success.
Poker Power will be at the Happy Hour, to teach those interested how to play poker or facilitate games for those who already know how to play.
167 Green Street is closer to the Chicago's commuter rail stations than 2/3 of the office space in the Central Business District.
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1 STOP to Clark and Lake station connection to all CTA lines
2 MINUTE WALK to Pink and Green lines at Morgan Station
6 MINUTE WALK to Blue line at Grand Station
10-11 MINUTE WALK to Ogilvie Transportation Center and Union Station
Parking is not available at the venue, but we recommend using the SpotHero App to find paid parking nearby.
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