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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. There hasn’t been any other visible progress, and most of the people I used to work with on sustainability have now left Amazon.

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I Ran This Whole Conference and I Didn’t Even Get a T-shirt

J. Paul Reed

For speakers who decided they didn’t want their honorarium, we provided a variety of non-profit organizations (including Black Girls Code , Code 2040 , Girls Who Code , Mother Coders , and Maven Youth Camp ) to donate it to. Stay tuned for information on what’s next for REdeploy! Speakers should be remunerated.