DevOps Summit Amsterdam - Keynote 

Napoleon, DevOps, and Delivering Business Value

In an environment of uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change - in other words, what we see when we come to work every day - good business leadership looks very different. The way we assess risk, the way we make investment decisions, the way we structure our organizations, and even the way the senior leadership team of an enterprise collaborates - all must change to accommodate the realities of the digital world. An enterprise can turn risks into opportunities and unleash innovation … well, if they learn the right lessons from Napoleon and bobbleheads. In this talk, Mark will share some of the ideas of his new book War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age. He will demonstrate how to succeed in the digital world according to one of its great experts, Leo Tolstoy.

Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at AWS

Mark Schwartz is an Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services and the author of The Art of Business Value and A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility. Before joining AWS he was the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Service, CIO of Intrax, and CEO of Auctiva. He has an MBA from Wharton, a BS in Computer Science from Yale, and an MA in Philosophy from Yale.

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