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00:30Can you give us a little overview of the policies and initiatives that Amazon Web Services are taking in your
00:36regions to help innovation?
00:38Yeah, no, thank you so much. I'm very excited to be at VivaTech, by the way, and we're serving hundreds
00:41and thousands of customers across startups and enterprises, our digital native clients as well, software vendors.
00:49We've been very committed to this journey to the cloud because we know the impact that that can create.
00:54We did some research recently with Public First that shows that by adopting AI, ML, and cloud technologies, Europe could
01:02actually unlock 2.8 trillion euros of value.
01:04And what we've been doing is investing in digital infrastructure and skills.
01:08On the digital infrastructure side, if I take, for example, France, we've been investing 6 billion euros between 2017 and
01:162031, and that's investment in our availability zones here in France, the region itself, as well as investment in other
01:23technologies, vertical solutions like our supply chain solution or our cleanroom solution or our Amazon Connect solution.
01:30And then the other area that we're very focused on is skills, because without skills, it's very hard for people
01:36to unblock technology.
01:37So we've trained in France, as an example, 100,000 people on cloud skills, and we've committed to almost training
01:4429 million people for free by 2025.
01:47So very committed to bringing people into the digital economy.
01:50Yeah, let's talk about the EU skills gap.
01:53How big is it and what impact does it have on this transformation?
01:58Every time I speak to a CEO, there are three topics on their mind.
02:02The first is, how do I transform digitally?
02:05The second is, how do I embed sustainability?
02:07Big topic, as you know.
02:09But the biggest consistent one is digital skills, right?
02:13And we saw a survey that was done by Vantage Partners, new Vantage Partners.
02:1792% of the C-suite they surveyed said organization was the barrier, right?
02:23And we had our own AWS digital skills study.
02:2685% of workers feel they need digital skills post-pandemic, even more, right?
02:32The European Union has this digital decade ambition.
02:36They want 20 million ICT specials.
02:39At the pace we're going, we're not going to get to the proficiency they want,
02:44which is 75% to 80% of all companies using AI ML.
02:48Today, it's 25%.
02:50So we have a long way to go.
02:52The gap is big, particularly also given we are both women on the female talent side.
02:58Only one in three STEM graduates is a female.
03:02And only 17% of ICT specialists today is a female.
03:06So we're investing very heavily to try and increase the inclusion and diversity associated as well with technology.
03:13It's a big gap.
03:14We've got to solve it.
03:15The gap is big, and we are slightly behind.
03:17What are companies like Amazon Web Services doing exactly about it?
03:21You mentioned certain initiatives, right?
03:23Yeah.
03:23And so I mentioned a little earlier to you, you know, we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars
03:27to train 29 million people for free around the world by 2025.
03:32By the way, we've already done 13 million.
03:35In Europe alone, I think it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 800,000 people train.
03:39In EMEA, my area, it's 1.8 million people train.
03:43And there's three or four programs, if I can call them out.
03:45The first is how do you inspire the next generation of talent?
03:48And so we've got this great program called Get IT, where we are helping girls in the ages of 12
03:53to 15
03:54and to really help them get excited about STEM by building apps.
03:58And I just judged a competition in London.
04:02Amazing what they come up with.
04:03The second is for the underserved, unemployed.
04:06So we've got a program called Restart.
04:09And Restart is actually a classroom training 12-week program.
04:12And when you finish that, you can get your first job in a cloud or digital world.
04:17And then we work very closely with universities, academies.
04:21We have online training.
04:22We even have a game called Cloud Quest.
04:24Anybody can go and take that, by the way.
04:27And then with our customers, we are building academies for them
04:31so they can rescale their workers.
04:33Because when you go from a traditional environment to a cloud environment,
04:37it's a whole new way of working.
04:39That's Amazon.
04:40But let's talk about policies.
04:42What do you think, for instance, Europe should be doing in that matter?
04:44I think that what we need to do is embed curriculum in every single university
04:52that has a digital, AI, ML, cloud aspect to it, right?
04:58It just should be what you study.
05:01And it doesn't mean that's the only thing you study,
05:03because you need both the EQ and the IQ, as we say, right?
05:07So I think embedding curriculum right from the early days is really important.
05:12We need to also make sure that we are creating the space for more women into tech.
05:19And that means supporting them with policies around them,
05:22from childcare to other things,
05:24to be able for them to take the time to actually learn
05:27and be back in the workforce as well.
05:29And I think at the end of it all, this is a public-private partnership.
05:34It's really governments, it's public companies, it's private companies like us
05:38coming together and creating groups that allow basically training,
05:44but not only training, we've got to also hire these people.
05:47And that's what I like about Restart,
05:49because we connect our graduates to jobs.
05:53So those are, I think, the things we need to do,
05:55but it's very critical that we act now,
05:58because the digital skills gap is very, very big.
06:00Tanuja Randhuri from Amazon Web Services, thank you very much.
06:03Thank you very much for having me.
06:05And I obviously invite young girls and boys out there,
06:07if you're watching us, get into tech, get into innovation.
06:11There are jobs waiting for you here.
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