circular-digital-light

Podcast

Increasing cloud diversity: Empowering female leadership in the cloud space

Part of the For Cloud Professionals podcast series

There's a growing need for top talent in the cloud space and not enough people to fill it. One possible solution? Get more women into the cloud talent pool, mentor them, promote them, and help them become the next generation of great cloud leaders and innovators.

Increasing cloud diversity: Empowering female leadership in the cloud space

The cloud space is expanding at a torrid pace, and the need for talent to support that growth is critical. However, there’s a gap in the talent pool at many companies: women are underrepresented, both in technical and management positions. This underrepresentation often results in hobbled growth and stymied innovation. In this episode of the podcast, David Linthicum and guest, RightSciences CEO Sarah Blankinship discuss how companies can hire, retain, and develop more female cloud leaders and how those leaders can help businesses grow and innovate for a more impactful future.

We specifically need champions, and we need companies and leaders to start providing metrics or start suggesting metrics that companies can polarize around so that we can then see if we're on progress.

A longtime technology leader and entrepreneur, Sarah Blankinship is the founder and CEO of RightSciences, a US biotech firm that engineers plant-based wellness products for consumers.

Back to top

Rethink your talent strategy to help accelerate cloud value

Driving value in the cloud, or any disruptive environment, requires new ideas and adaptation to constant change. Companies that build diverse workforces will be in a position to thrive amidst disruption.

Back to top

blue-yellow-fire

The future of cloud: Tough challenges but great possibilities

Cloud challenges such as data issues, economic concerns, and cloud complexity are imperative for companies to solve. Those that do will be well poised to define the future of cloud.

Back to top

digital circle

Put Cloud in context with the future of business and technology

Because cloud is never just about cloud, a podcast about cloud isn’t either. Our two hosts deliver two unique perspectives to bring you closer to achieving what matters most—your possible. 

For Cloud Professionals, hosted by David Linthicum, provides an enterprise-level, strategic look at key issues impacting clients’ businesses. David, ranked as the #1 cloud influencer in a recent Apollo Research report, has published 13 books on computing, written over 5,000 published articles and performed over 500 conference presentations, making his expertise on the power of cloud simply undeniable.

As a pioneer in cloud computing, Mike Kavis leads Architecting the Cloud, which offers insights from the POV of those who’ve had hands-on experience with cloud technology. Mike’s personal cloud journey includes leading the team that built the world's first high-speed transaction network in Amazon's public cloud—a project that ultimately won the 2010 AWS Global Startup Challenge.

With two experts in your ear, you’ll have the content you need to drive the next conversation around cloud. Check out both talk tracks within the Deloitte On Cloud podcast to get the compelling stories on your schedule to help you understand the topics that are reshaping today’s market.

Contact us at cloud@deloitte.com for information on this or any other podcasts.

Or visit the On Cloud library for the full collection of episodes.

Subscribe now on: iTunes | SoundCloud | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify

Back to top

Previous episode