Nobody handed me a Cloud Evangelist title and said 'go.' I stumbled into it — and in doing so, I learned something uncomfortable: the biggest barrier to AI and cloud adoption in most organizations isn't the technology. It's the people we forget to bring along.

This session is part personal story, part practical playbook. We'll talk about what it actually looks like to build a culture of AI curiosity across an entire organization — not just the senior engineers, but the analysts, the project managers, the QA team, the people who've been told 'that's not your job.' We'll look at what worked, what created resistance, and how diversity and inclusion aren't separate conversations from cloud adoption — they're central to it.

If you've ever watched a brilliant technology initiative fail because half the team felt left behind, this talk is for you. And if you've ever felt like the technology wave is passing you by — this talk is also for you.