Thinking Environments

Mark Schwartz is an iconoclastic CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon Web Services, he uses his CIO experience to bring strategies to enterprises or enterprises to strategies, and bring both to the cloud. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provoked the federal government into adopting Agile and DevOps practices. He is pretty sure that when he was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange he was the first person ever to use business intelligence and supply chain analytics to place au pairs with the right host families. Mark speaks frequently on innovation, bureaucratic implications of DevOps, and using Agile processes in low-trust environments. With a BS in computer science from Yale, a master’s in philosophy from Yale, and an MBA from Wharton, Mark is either an expert on the business value of IT or else he just thinks about it a lot.

Talks by MarkAll 15 →

34 min

Adaptive Ethics for Digital Transformation (with Frankenstein vs the Gingerbread Man)

Las Vegas 2023

28 min

Ethics in Digital Transformation

Las Vegas 2022

30 min

IT, DevOps, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Europe 2021

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Jason Cox is a champion of DevOps practices, promoting new technologies and better ways of working. His goal is to help businsses and organizations deliver more value, inspiration and experiences to our diverse human family across the globe, better, faster, safer and happier. He currently leads SRE teams at Disney and resides in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.

Talks by JasonAll 12 →

25 min

Disney Global SRE - Funding the Magic for Embedded Teams

Las Vegas 2024

22 min

Disney Global SRE - Delivering Shared Service Magic

Las Vegas 2023

23 min

Disney Global SRE – Creating Digital Magic

Amsterdam 2023

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For over twenty years, Jonathan Snyder has developed and promoted a humanist approach to working with creative and business technologies. As a Senior Manager at Adobe for nearly fifteen years (2005–2019), he was responsible for globally distributed teams working across a wide range of technology services including: Release Management, Problem Management, Service Quality Improvement, as well as Lean/Agile/ DevOps training and transformation. Snyder began his technology career at the Media Center for Art History, Columbia University, developing academic technology in collaboration with the art history faculty. He is currently conducting research on large language models, working to identify the architectural constraints, epistemological frameworks, and empirical telemetry required to safely and efficiently govern autonomous AI execution in real-world environments. Snyder is a graduate of Reed College, where he obtained an interdisciplinary degree in history and philosophy.

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Global Head Transformation @ Google | Products & Innovation | echo-point.com

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