 From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech. Hey, welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown San Francisco at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference 2018. About 700 people, two-day conference, single track, really a lot of stories about people's journey, senior executive women, how they got to where they were and advice for kind of younger getting started execs, mid-tier execs. Mainly women, a busload of kids they just brought in, and a couple of men, so we're excited to have one of them. He just got off the stage. It's Charlie Bell, Senior Vice President from AWS. Charlie, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me here. So you just participated in a really interesting event. You were interviewed by your recently graduated daughter. Yes. Who's entering the tech field. Yes. So what did she ask you? What is, it's just interesting to get her perspective. Just graduated from Carnegie Mellon, I think you said. Yeah. And is getting ready to start her first job at LinkedIn. What is she thinking now? Excuse me, into it. As she's looking forward at the beginning of this journey. Yeah, I mean, she was asking me the kind of questions that anyone who's getting started or earlier in their career might ask. It was questions like, how did you decide when you were going to change jobs? You know, what advice would you give to somebody who wants to be a leader? How do you recognize leaders? It was pretty interesting. Caroline is really smart, curious, very similar probably to most of the kids graduating and many of the folks early in their career. And so I thought a lot of her questions probably irrelevant to almost anybody. Right. Well, I like that she's already, she's going to start her first job in a couple of weeks and she's already asking the leadership question. So clearly you got to be a proud dad for that. She's ready to start moving up, moving up the line. Yeah. And I'm curious, was she interested in STEM subjects before college or? Well, obviously she went to Carnegie Mellon. So you wouldn't go there if you didn't have an interest. Yeah, no, she was always interested in math. So she studied math as her best subject in high school. And she did a few science fair projects when she went to Carnegie Mellon as a math major. But she actually has so many, much of the subject here is about the crooked path. Right, right. And we've all had those. And as she got to college, she realized, well, math actually wasn't the thing she wanted to do. And then she thought, well, what I really, I really love the statistics part of it. And then she realized, well, wait a minute, there's this whole new thing machine learning where you could take this knowledge of statistics and apply it to programming and computers and everything else. And she got very excited about it. And I got to tell you, there's no happier moment in a parent's life than when your child says they're going to study machine learning. You know they will eat the rest of their life. That's very true. But it's also even more important where I thought you were going to say is when your kid finds something that they're really passionate about. Of course. Whether it's machine learning or whatever. I mean, that's, you know, I've got three at home myself. So it's so fun when they find the thing that draws them in. So I'm curious, have you been to any of these events before? No, I haven't been to any of these. Actually, Sandy Carter, one of our vice presidents suggested, you know, a talk here would be interesting. And Caroline interviewing would be super interesting. And I actually don't get out that much. You know, you haven't talked to me ever. I'm in the engineering side. I live inside the halls and we build stuff and don't usually get out and talk to people. Yeah, so let's just get your impression of the event in general, but also some of the sessions in terms of what was going on this morning. Oh, I thought it was awesome. You know, Amy's talk, you know, I resonated with a lot of that. I thought her advice on, you know, some of the tips, you know, for the folks in the room was spot on. You know, many of them are, we have this thing in Amazon we call leadership principles. Many of them are just totally aligned with the Amazon leadership principles the way we think. So yeah, these talks have been both interesting and inspiring. Yeah, so much talk about culture and it's funny you talked about the leadership principles and, you know, we're a huge Andy Jassy fan. We've had him on a lot. But I think one of my favorite times is he sat down on a fireside chat. So I'm at San Francisco a couple of years ago and really exposed to the audience, some of the philosophies that operate behind Amazon and how people make decisions. And I think you brought it up here that it's okay to change your mind if you're a leader when you get new data. And his whole thing about the PowerPoint and the six page narrative and, you know, the way you guys execute and clearly it's such a well oiled machine in terms of the way, especially at AWS. You guys just keep rolling and rolling and rolling out new features, features, features. A lot of great lessons I think in that Amazon culture but here that's all we keep hearing about is culture, culture, culture, culture, culture. So you're living it every day. Yeah, well it's a gift that keeps on giving. I mean, if the company has a good culture, it's how everybody that comes in, how everybody pulls at the same oars. And it's really the fabric of a long-term business. You know, Andy said it many times we all want a business that outlasts us. And the way you create that is through culture. Right, right. And just in the maniacal focus on customer which I think is such a unique AWS trade and Amazon trade. And I think that's what my favorite part about the new grocery store in Seattle is the fact that, you know, it was optimizing a process that nobody in the grocery store business probably ever really thought about very much was I don't like to stand in line. So to come at it really from a customer perspective as opposed to a product perspective or a competitive perspective, really I think is a big piece of the engine that is keep AWS just rolling along. Yep, working from the customer backwards. It's the only way to live. Yeah, with the press release before you make the new product and it just goes on and on and on. All right, so Charlie give you the last word before we let you go. What are you working on? What's exciting? What should people be keeping an eye out for as you're- Oh, wow. What's to play in the halls not coming out? What can we, what are some priorities for the balance of 2018? Well, we still, as much as we've done so far we still got a lot coming and machine learning and across the board, I mean, for me the exciting thing at AWS is our customer, we have such a broad set of customers right now with so many different needs that we hear so many new things and it just inspires us to do brand new businesses and brand new services. And so there's just a lot of areas, analytics, compute, storage, everything else. Like, you know, there's a lot coming. So re-invent should be every bit as exciting as it was last year. They just got to find more space for you. Vegas got to get a little bit bigger. And we'll be in DC next week for Summit Public Sector. Teresa Carlson and the crew also puts on a great event. Oh, Teresa is so much fun. All right, well, thanks for taking a few minutes of your day, really appreciate it and congrats to your daughter. Oh, thank you. All right, all right, thanks for watching. I'm Jeff Rick, we are at Girls and Tech Catalyst. Thanks for watching.