Mike Bryant is a Principal Tech BD on the AWS Global Higher Education team where he is responsible for developing strategy and initiatives for higher education across EMEA, APJ, LATAM, and the UK. In his five years at AWS, he has focused on education and workforce development, partnering with government and education institutions to prepare students around the world to pursue in-demand cloud roles. Prior to joining AWS in 2018, he led corporate science and technology educational programs at Warner Bros. Discovery, working with clients including Siemens, 3M, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and the United States Navy to develop hiring pipelines. Prior to that, he spent over six years building an educator community of practice, culminating in one of the largest primary/secondary teacher community of practices in the world.