About the webinar:
Join us for a discussion designed for Canadian small business retail innovators.
The pandemic has propelled the need for digital commerce and customer experiences. Retailers must innovate or risk obsolescence. Born from retail and built for retailers, AWS empowers retail businesses to reinvent the store and customer experiences, while driving operational efficiencies and IT agility. With AWS cloud solutions, retailers can innovate faster, keep costs down, and scale effortlessly as their business grows.
Join us for a roundtable with Canadian retailers Mabel's Labels, PartsEngine, and Revive Superfoods as they share their experiences innovating and redefining retail with AWS cloud technologies.
Who should attend:
SMB innovation leaders across all lines of business, including innovation, digital, product, finance, marketing, sales, HR, operations, and technology.
Speakers:
Scott Langdoc
Global Lead - Grocery, Chain Drug & Convenience Retail
Amazon Web Services |
Scott Langdoc leads worldwide strategy and thought leadership for the grocery chain, drug, and convenience/fuel retailing segments at AWS. In this role, he helps fast-moving consumer goods retailers leverage technology to navigate changing customer expectations and market dynamics. Prior to joining AWS, he spent over 30 years in technology, market research, consulting, and leadership positions in the retail industry. |
Mike deBruin
Director, IT & Operations
Mabel's Labels |
Mike is the Director, IT and Operations at Mabel’s Labels and oversees all aspects of technology and order fulfilment. He joined Mabel’s Labels in late 2015 and brought with him 15 years of enterprise software development and delivery in industries such as traffic management, transportation, logistics, and HR. In his time at Mabel’s Labels, Mike has applied his unique blend of technical acumen and leadership to create a reliable, scalable technology stack for Mabel’s Labels that will enable significant future growth for the brand. |
Abdelsalam Aldwikat
Chief Technology Officer
Revive Superfoods |
Abdelsalam Aldwikat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Revive Superfoods. He has always been a strategic thinker who is self-motivated, driven, and a true tech enthusiast. Abdelsalam was raised in Amman, Jordan and completed his Bachelor of Information Technology at Balqa Applied University. He then completed a Master of Information Network and Computer Security at the New York Institute of Technology. In his nine years at Redline Communications, he rose from System Analyst to Senior Vice President. |
Jackson Lau
Co-Founder & Tech Lead
PartsEngine.ca |
In his own words: Let life = [PartsEngine, family, adventures, failures]. |
Watch Now:
Join us for an on-demand webinar designed for Canadian SMB innovators and change-makers.
AWS Head of World Wide Digital Innovation, Richard Halkett, will share Amazon’s innovation methodology, blueprint, and the principles we have used to create different lines of businesses, including Amazon Kindle and Alexa.
You will learn:
- How technology fuels Amazon’s pace of innovation
- How to use these principles in your organization to innovate faster, and at scale
- Best practices you can use in your organization to solve problems, delight customers, and bring big ideas to life
SMB Innovation leaders across all lines of business including innovation, digital, product, finance, marketing, sales, HR, operations, and technology.
Eric Gales
Country Manager
Amazon Web Services Canada |
Eric Gales is Country Manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Canada. With 30 years of technology industry experience, he sets the strategic direction for the core elements of the AWS Commercial Sector business. Eric has responsibility for driving customer obsession in all core AWS Canada operations including business development, sales, partner alliances, marketing, solutions architecture, support, and training. Prior to joining AWS in October 2015, Eric built a strong profile within Canada in senior roles as VP and General Manager at VMware Canada, and as President of Microsoft Canada. Before coming to Canada, Eric was a General Manager at Compaq UK.
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Annie Weinberger
Head of Product Marketing
Amazon Web Services Applications |
Annie heads up product marketing for AWS Applications, including Business Applications, End User Computing, Amazon Connect, Amazon Honeycode, Amazon Chime, Amazon Pinpoint, and more. She is passionate about driving innovative launches and customer obsessed storytelling. Prior to AWS, Annie was the general manager for HP’s emerging technology software division. She has over 20 years of experience driving innovation and growth with oversight of go-to market strategies, messaging, and product vision for software start-ups, established large brands, and growth organizations. |
Andy Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Gore Mutual Insurance |
Andy Taylor is the Chief Executive Officer at Gore Mutual Insurance, Canada’s oldest mutual property and casualty insurance company. He currently leads the company’s ‘Next Horizon’ strategy, which supports the company’s ambitious transformation to become a digitally led, purpose-driven, national scale insurer. Having worked with the Board of Directors and the executive team to develop the strategy over the past two years, in his role as CEO he will oversee the complete transformation of the company’s operating model and technology platforms to create best-in-class solutions for brokers and customers. |
Jas Dhindsa
Chief Technology Officer & Data Officer
Gore Mutual Insurance |
Jas Dhindsa is the Chief Technology and Data Officer at Gore Mutual Insurance. In this role, Jas is accountable for leading, reimagining and the transformation of Enterprise OMNI Channel Technology, Security, Data/Analytics, Cloud Transformation and Digitization Strategy (underpinned by Guidewire Cloud), to help accelerate Gore Mutual’s strategic Next Horizon Journey, to become a Digitally Led and Purpose Driven, Top 10 National Insurer in Canada. Jas is passionate about delivering best-in-class OMNI technology platforms enabled by digitization/automation, building world class teams, advanced data intelligence enabled by AI and cloud computing, to enable positive outcomes for our business, brokers, customers and colleagues. |