Cultivating a security-centric culture driven by technology

BRYCE BOLAND

Head of Security, ASEAN | AWS

Bryce leads the Security Solutions Architecture function in Southeast Asia and is responsible for helping customers build secure, reliable solutions with AWS. Bryce is passionate about and has spent the last 20 years helping organizations build sustainable security capabilities and reduce the harmful impacts of cyber crime. Prior to joining AWS, Bryce held security leadership roles in financial services and cyber security industry. Most recently he headed the security architecture, consulting and engineering functions at Standard Chartered Bank as they underwent a multi-year security and cloud transformation. Bryce also spent 10 years building security and technology risk capabilities at UBS Group, including four years as the Group Security CTO, responsible for incorporating security into the enterprise architecture.

EMMANUEL PILLAI

Head of Training & Certification, ASEAN | AWS

Emmanuel Pillai is the Head of AWS Training and Certification for ASEAN, where he is responsible for delivering and scaling cloud skilling programs to learners and organizations across the region. AWS Training and Certification equips individuals and organizations with in-demand cloud skills and best practices to leverage the AWS Cloud and innovate in the digital world.

Emmanuel is based in Singapore and joined Amazon in 2017. He focuses on assisting organizations build a resilient workforce by cloud technology training and upskilling of individuals. He has launched and leads numerous customer upskilling and reskilling initiatives in the ASEAN region including cloud skills enablement programs, national skills uplift schemes and developing the workforce of tomorrow activities.