Tech Leadership with a Target On Your Back: Racing Tech Titans to Vaccinate Millions
summary
A small company rebadges and hardens an existing vaccination platform, adds dashboards, mobile apps, self‑service appointments, SMS reminders and inventory reporting, then deploys it to super sites that run 7–10k shots per day and operate 12–16 weeks straight. A contract is finalized in December and first national shots follow within days; traffic spikes to ~50 million S3 requests in five minutes. The platform integrates cloudfront, clinical documentation and regulatory feeds and scales in production, proving reliable under intense media and political scrutiny.
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- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 9:36Pre-pandemic emergency management
- 19:47Mass vaccination challenges
- 26:48Super site logistics and scale
- 37:39Solution vs platform approach
- 43:35Q&A and closing remarks
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