Practical Sustainability for Business

Since June 2023, Tom Soderstrom serves as an Enterprise Strategist helping and coaching executive customers with their transformation and innovation strategies and actions. From 2020-2023, he created and built the worldwide Chief Technologist team for AWS Public Sector, responsible for identifying emerging technology trends, helping solve complex technical problems at scale, and advising public sector executive CTOs and AWS leaders. Soderstrom served as the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2006-2020, where he helped define, support, and implement innovative Space missions, emerging IT trends, and mentor the next generation of IT and Space explorers. Prior to JPL, he led teams working on large scale IT technologies, best practices, tools development, and change efforts in small startups, large commercial companies, international venues, and the US Government.

Ilan Gleiser has over two decades of experience in financial services and cutting-edge technologies such as AI, ML, IoT, High Performance Computing, Blockchain and Robotics. He specializes in areas including financial risk management, quantitative portfolio management and product management. In his current position as a Principal Specialist - Emerging Technologies at AWS, Ilan focuses on architecting scalable infrastructures utilizing technologies with a focus on Circular Economy, Climate Risk and Agent-Based Simulations use cases. Prior to joining AWS, Ilan held prestigious roles and exhibited remarkable prowess in delivering innovative financial solutions and managing risk. As a Chief Risk Officer for both a Bank and a Renewable Energy company, a Product Manager at two fintech companies, and as a Quant Portfolio Manager at Millennium Management, he has brought unprecedented growth and stability to the organizations he served.