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Meet the Expert: Lee Atchison on the Cloud Mistakes You Didn't Know You Were About to Make

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

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Did you think moving to the cloud would be easy? You’re not alone. Countless CTOs admit now that they had no idea how hard it would be and that they would make many mistakes along the way. What these leaders missed is that cloud excellence is as much cultural as it is technical.

Join us for this edition of Meet the Expert with Lee Atchison to learn how to create a culture of cloud excellence. Lee will show you how to instill the cultural changes necessary to transform your organization into a true cloud organization, with lessons drawn from the hard-fought wisdom of CTOs around the world.

O'Reilly Meet the Expert explores emerging business and technology topics and ideas through a series of one-hour interactive events. You’ll engage in a live conversation with experts, sharing your questions and ideas while hearing their unique perspectives, insights, fears, and predictions.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

By the end of this live show, you’ll better understand:

  • What a cloud center of excellence is and how to effectively utilize it
  • The role cultural transformation has on success in the cloud
  • How to instill a “cloud culture” to ensure your organization can effectively transform how it builds applications in a cloud native manner

This live event is for you because...

  • You want to learn about the fundamental shifts that are transforming the business landscape and customer needs.
  • You’re a CTO who wants to learn best practices for moving to the cloud—and the challenges you may face along the way.
  • You’re a cloud engineer who has struggled with cloud migration or whose cloud migrations haven’t been as transformational as you expected.

Prerequisites

  • Come with your questions for Lee Atchison
  • Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

  • Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
  • Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)

Your Guest

Lee Atchison

Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing and the author of the best-selling book Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly), currently in its second edition. Lee has 38 years of industry experience, including eight years at New Relic and seven years at Amazon and AWS, where he led the creation of the company’s first software download store, created AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and managed the migration of Amazon’s retail platform to a new service-based architecture. Lee has consulted with leading organizations on how to modernize their application architectures and transform their organizations at scale. As an industry expert, he is widely quoted in publications such as InfoWorld, Diginomica, IT Brief, ProgrammableWeb, CIO Review, and DZone. He has also been a featured speaker at events from London to Sydney, Tokyo to Paris, and all over North America.

Skill covered

Cloud Computing