Here’s what an AWS exec says Greater Washington needs to bridge its tech talent gaps

At the center of sharing information and creating new technologies is a partnership that Kim Majerus at Amazon Web Services views as essential for success: educational institutions and local government.

Majerus took on her role this month as vice president of the U.S. public sector education, state and local government at AWS, after her fourth year with Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing arm.

In that time, Majerus, who oversees all of AWS’ educational clients and partners, said she has seen immense change to ed-tech and the needs of higher education institutions, especially after 19 months of the coronavirus pandemic.

We sat down with her during a recent AWS conference in D.C. to talk about how the company strategizes those partnerships and its support for secondary and higher education locally, including Northern Virginia Community College, George Mason University and Howard University. Here are three ways she said Greater Washington should fill its tech talent gap.

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