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Chief Technology Officer, Amazon
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The Renaissance Builder | DLD26 (Werner Vogels)

📅 Jan 15, 2026 DLD Conference 29 MIN 218 VIEWS 73 SEGMENTS · 4 SPEAKERS
In his lively DLD Munich 2026 talk, Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels describes why we’re entering a new era of “Renaissance builders” – innovators and developers who blend curiosity, breadth, and depth to design for scale. He argues that today’s tech landscape demands more than specialist expertise; engineers must be T‑shaped, meaning they have deep knowledge in one area but are also comfortable with others, like AI, cloud infrastructure, UI, and the business side of reliability. Using vivid analogies – from the Renaissance printing press to Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction...
Werner Vogels 0:00 ↗
So, if it needs to be wild, let's start off with some fun.
End of the developer. I've heard that before.
Heat. Heat.
Hi there, Lorraine.
Lorraine 1:26 ↗
What you doing?
Werner Vogels 1:27 ↗
Oh, you know, organizing yesterday's program cards, which got dropped, figuring out why the machine keeps stopping on card 4042, logging this really awkward bug at the Bow Gall compiler, and talking to you.
Lorraine 1:42 ↗
Anything new at head office?
Werner Vogels 1:47 ↗
I've been reading about this uh coal.
Lorraine 1:53 ↗
Yes, it's the new high-level language.
Werner Vogels 1:55 ↗
It's amazing. Now, anyone can write code.
Lorraine 1:59 ↗
I don't know about anyone. Writing software is pretty tricky.
Werner Vogels 2:04 ↗
Soft what?

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Vogels, W. (2026, January 15). The Renaissance Builder | DLD26 (Werner Vogels) [Interview transcript]. DLD Conference. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/824560/

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Werner Vogels. "The Renaissance Builder | DLD26 (Werner Vogels)." DLD Conference, 15 Jan. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/824560/.

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@misc{vogels2026_824560,
  author       = {Werner Vogels},
  title        = {The Renaissance Builder | DLD26 (Werner Vogels)},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, DLD Conference. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {jan},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/824560/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}