Follow Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, to the vibrant streets of Bengaluru, and meet Sujay Suresh and Innu Nevatia, founders of the Zwende, who wanted to pair the creativity, customization, and accessibility of modern shoppers with the craft of skilled designers and makers. Learn how these innovators are using technology to preserve old-world artisanship and adapt it to 21st-century life in India.
Follow Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, to the Philippines-where tropical splendor and biodiversity don't come without challenges, like active volcanos, and frequent earthquakes. Werner meets Bo Percival and Nick Brown from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in Guagua, and learns how open-source technology is revolutionizing disaster management in a constantly changing landscape .
Follow Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, to Tokyo where taking care of older generations has long been a part of Japanese culture. Now, as life expectancy rises and younger generations grow smaller, some creative minds are moving Japan towards new traditions of elderly care. Werner meets Tatsuya Takahashi of Z-Works, Inc., Yoichi Ochiai of Pixie Dust Technologies, and Seigo Hara of MICIN, Inc.
Follow Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, to Poland - where COVID-19 is keeping students out of the classroom and dialed in to online learning. Inspired by the idea of bringing a student study group online, see how the minds behind Brainly are reinventing the digital learning landscape. Werner meets MichaĆ Borkowski, CEO & Co-Founder and Bill Salak, CTO of Brainly.
From discovering life-saving medical treatments in the skins of Atlantic cod to reinventing batteries with nanotechnology, Iceland has proved to be one of the most technologically ingenuitive countries on earth. Discover Iceland's surprisingly successful "waste nothing" approach to innovation with Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels as he visits startups Kerecis, Nanom, and ON Power.
Travel to the Island of Hawai'i with Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels as he visits Terraformation, a global native forest restoration startup working to combat climate change with the planting of one trillion trees- a task made possible with the help of solar-powered desalination, seed banking, and cloud-based technologies.
Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels travels to Burlington, Vermont, where the startup BETA Technologies is redefining the future of commercial, medical, and cargo aviation with its electric vertical aircrafts.
Travel to Copenhagen with Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels as he visits Veo, a company working to make sports technology accessible to all; made possible with machine learning, a love of soccer, and a mission to democratize sports for everyone.
How do you make a digital human? Hint: it starts with the cloud and digital DNA. Travel with Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels as he visits Soul Machines, an AI company who uses the cloud to deliver meaningful connections between human and machine.
Can autonomous trucking help with supply chain issues and give drivers an opportunity to work closer to home? Travel with Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels as he visits TuSimple, a technology company who uses the cloud to help autonomous trucking work toward safer, smarter roads.