{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Screaming in the Cloud","title":"How AWS Educates Learners on Cloud Computing with Valerie Singer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2156,"description":"Valerie Singer, GM of Global Education at AWS, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss the vast array of cloud computing education programs AWS offers to people of all skill levels and backgrounds. Valerie explains how she manages such a large undertaking, and also sheds light on what AWS is doing to ensure their programs are truly valuable both to learners and to the broader market. Corey and Valerie discuss how generative AI is applicable to education, and Valerie explains how AWS’s education programs fit into a K-12 curriculum as well as job seekers looking to up-skill.\nAbout Valerie\nAs General Manager for AWS’s Global Education team, Valerie is responsible for\nleading strategy and initiatives for higher education, K-12, EdTechs, and outcome-\nbased education worldwide. Her Skills to Jobs team enables governments, education\nsystems, and collaborating organizations to deliver skills-based pathways to meet\nthe acute needs of employers around the globe, match skilled job seekers to good\npaying jobs, and advance the adoption of cloud-based technology.\n\nIn her ten-year tenure at AWS, Valerie has held numerous leadership positions,\nincluding driving strategic customer engagement within AWS’s Worldwide Public\nSector and Industries. Valerie established and led the AWS’s public sector global\npartner team, AWS’s North American commercial partner team, was the leader for\nteams managing AWS’s largest worldwide partnerships, and incubated AWS’s\nAerospace & Satellite Business Group. Valerie established AWS’s national systems\nintegrator program and promoted partner competency development and practice\nexpansion to migrate enterprise-class, large-scale workloads to AWS.\n\nValerie currently serves on the board of AFCEA DC where, as the Vice President of\nEducation, she oversees a yearly grant of $250,000 in annual STEM scholarships to\nhigh school students with acute financial need.\n\nPrior to joining AWS, Valerie held senior positions at Quest Software, Adobe\nSystems,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vgV98ushAFvdAFQSQazvt5GYVniCaXSWIjs5eI3r0gQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE0OTQvMTU4Mzg2/OTQ4My1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}