Dr. Sarah Cooper is AWS’s GM of Outcome Driven Engineering. With 15 yrs experience building IoT devices and platforms, Sarah serves as vice chairwoman of the Internet of Things Community, a 20,000 member organization dedicated to education and information sharing amongst the IoT practitioner community. Formerly, M2Mi’s Chief Operating Officer, Sarah was named an IS 50 Most Empowering Women in Business, recognized Top 100 Wireless Technology Expert by Wireless World, a top 20 IoT Influencer by Inc. magazine and a National Academy of Engineers Frontiers of Engineering Awardee. Sarah founded and sold TE-Bio, an IoT device company, NaturalNano, an advanced nanomaterials company and conducted fundamental research at NASA and DoE. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Sydney and patents in advanced materials and devices.

For 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been among the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms. AWS offers over 100 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), security, hybrid, and enterprise applications, from 55 Availability Zones (AZs) across 18 geographic regions in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world – including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.