CloudReady: Turn Cloud Investment into Real Business Results

Discover how to close cloud skills gaps, strengthen team capabilities, and translate your cloud investment into measurable business outcomes with a structured approach to workforce readiness.

Presented by Faye Ellis and Drew Firment

May 28, 2026

3 p.m. Greenwich Median Time

APAC

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Equip your teams to deliver on cloud and AI initiatives

Organizations are spending heavily in cloud, yet many struggle to realize the full value of that investment. Gaps in skills, confidence, and execution can slow progress and limit impact.

In this session, explore how CloudReady—our new structured upskilling program—enables organizations to move from investment to results. Learn how a structured, role-based approach to skill development prepares teams to execute with clarity, improve efficiency, and support cloud initiatives at scale.

Drew Firment and Faye Ellis will share how to align workforce development with business priorities across cloud and AI. See how strengthening core capabilities leads to better performance, reduced waste, and stronger outcomes from your cloud strategy. You’ll leave with a clear path to build a cloud-ready workforce.

Key takeaways to add to your playbook:

Turn cloud investment into measurable ROI through targeted skill development
Build cloud capability across roles with a structured, scalable framework
Align team readiness with cloud and AI priorities to drive execution

Can’t attend live? Register anyway and we’ll send you the on demand recording as soon as it’s available.

Meet the speakers

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Drew Firment

VP Global Partnerships, Pluralsight

Drew Firment is Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at Pluralsight where he works closely with business and technology leaders to accelerate cloud adoption by migrating talent to the cloud.

He was previously Director of Cloud Engineering at Capital One leading enterprise cloud operations within their Cloud Center of Excellence focused on migrating the early adopters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into production.

Drew founded Capital One's cloud engineering college that drove a large-scale talent transformation, and earned a patent for measuring cloud adoption and maturity. He is recognized by Amazon as an AWS Community Hero for his ongoing efforts to build inclusive and sustainable learning communities.

Faye Ellis

Pluralsight Fellow, AWS Engineering and AI

Faye Ellis is Principal Training Architect, specialising in AWS, responsible for the AWSCertified Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate and Security Specialty courses. Her other courses include Hands-On Troubleshooting With AWS, Hands-On Chaos Engineering, and EKS Basics. She also researches, writes and presents AWS This Week, a YouTube show designed to summarise the latest AWS updates.

Faye has worked in the IT industry for around 20 years, working in SysOps, DevOps and Architecture roles with mission critical systems across a wide range of industries including financial services, telecommunications, government and healthcare. Faye is super passionate about cloud technology and understands firsthand how important it is to keep your skills up to date so that you can get to work on the coolest projects out there.