Meet DevOps Engineer Thamyres Marques and Cloud Support Engineer Catherine Fernandez of DNX Solutions, a multi-AWS award winning Premier Consulting Partner that helps customers through their cloud adoption, evolution and operations. Raised on opposite sides of the world, each of them cultivated unique talents that make them excel as tech professionals. Both defied the expectations of their gender to become the trail blazers in their family and to find fulfilling jobs that they love.

Larissa is the Consulting Services Manager at PolarSeven, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting partner with a mission to help customers accelerate cloud adoption. Hers is a story of how curiosity and self-discovery has taken her across continents and into a career that she hadn't originally planned for but which she now loves. She shares her experience of the power of allyship in re-establishing herself as a migrant and how paying it forward can foster happiness.

Allison leads the Data and AI Practice at Cevo Australia which recently entered into a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). She shares how her family support network enabled her to dream bigger than she had even imagined for herself, seeding her passion as a seasoned data professional and creating opportunities for diverse career experiences. Hear advice on how to forge a fulfilling career in the emerging playground of data and AI!