Dan Slater

Amazon’s approach to innovation has remained consistent since the company first launched—start with the customer and work backwards. In this session, be introduced to Amazon’s peculiar culture and how we innovate through four distinct yet interdependent elements: Culture, Mechanisms, Architecture, and Organization.

Join this interactive chalk talk to dive into the mechanisms and mental models that help Amazon and AWS make high-quality and high-velocity decisions. Aimed at executives and team leads, this chalk talk shares best practices with a hands-on approach.

Amazon has a peculiar culture and approach to innovation that is intrinsically linked to how it uses technology. In this session, learn how Amazon innovates, organized around four interdependent elements: culture, mechanisms, architecture, and organization.

Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are small, nimble, and empowered with the right resources to build in a way that best supports their customers. In this session, learn how Amazon organizes teams for technological development at scale, maintaining autonomy to drive innovation and deliver customer delight.