Meet the Man Who Runs the Internet

Scarsdale's new School Superintendent, Dr. Thomas Hagerman, will lead a "community conversation" on technology and our schools on Tuesday, September 16 at 8pm at the High School in Rooms 170-72.

The program is sponsored by the Scarsdale Schools Education Foundation and the event is free and open to the public. Online registration is available on the home page of the Foundation's website here.

Dr. Hagerman will be interviewing Andy Jassy, SHS '86 and now Head of Amazon Web Services. Jassy will discuss the future of technology in our schools and in the nation, his own formative years in Scarsdale and how best to prepare our students for college and careers.

The Wall Street Journal has called Jassy "the man who really runs the Internet". The division he leads at Amazon sells computing resources as a service over the Web, through a network of Internet-connected servers. AWS currently manages some of the world's biggest websites, including Netflix, NASA, Pinterest, Reddit and the CIA. Jassy's division is among the fastest-growing components of Amazon, a part of the business many analysts suggest has the potential to grow even beyond the company's already enormous retail business.

In the past ten years, AWS's advances in "cloud computing" have played an instrumental role in facilitating the startup culture of Silicon Valley. At the same time, AWS has ushered in a new era of innovation in finance, energy and health services, among other industries, by providing many of the largest companies in the world with affordable supercomputer services in the cloud. Jassy returns to Scarsdale, 18 years after his high school graduation, to look backward on his academic preparation and forward with observations on the future in his fast-paced corner of the corporate world.

Parents, teachers, students and the entire community are welcome. Reserve your seat online here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/jassy.