werner-vogels

Werner Vogels

CTO and VP at Amazon.com

Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing

Important dates

  • 01 Nov 2011 Applications Open
  • 31 Jan 2012 Applications Close
  • 13 Feb 2012 Teams Notified
  • 23 Mar 2012 Program Start
  • 15 Jun 2012 Demo Day
  • 16 Jun 2012 Start After Program
  • 03 Sep 2012 Rockstart Road Trip

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