Adobe Webinar: DOJ Compliance, Solved Together: Adobe, AWS, Toptal & ISSquared on Backlog Reduction
As the DOJ accessibility mandate raises expectations for digital content across higher education, California Community Colleges are under pressure to show real progress, both on existing PDF backlogs and accessible content going forward.
This session brings together AWS, Adobe, and Toptal to share how institutions are responding today. We’ll walk through the joint AWS and Adobe solution, developed by ASU’s Cloud Innovation Center, and how it’s helping colleges reduce PDF backlogs and build scalable, go-forward workflows. Toptal will also share a wrapper which complements the solution, adding grouping, reporting, and additional configurable options.
Built for accessibility working groups, IT admins, and academic leaders, this session focuses on practical steps and realistic paths forward.
Speakers
Julie Persin
Senior Adobe AI Product Specialist, Adobe
With over two decades in education, Julie has evolved from classroom educator and consultant to Senior AI Product Specialist, partnering with institutions to navigate the rapidly shifting landscape of artificial intelligence. Drawing on deep experience in teaching and learning, she builds trusted relationships with education leaders to understand their unique challenges and align AI-driven solutions to their strategic goals.
Colleen Schwab
Global Innovation Strategist, Amazon Web Services
Colleen is a Global Innovation Strategist at Amazon Web Services. In this role, she leads the Arizona State University Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center, powered by AWS, and works with educational institutions, government, and nonprofits to solve mission-related challenges with technology. She leverages her more than two decades of working in the public sector to inspire the art of the possible by using Amazon’s approach to innovation, Working Backwards. Prior to this, she served as the Chief Performance Officer with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, helping to drive the regional economic development strategy. She is a servant leader dedicated to advancing opportunity and innovation for all.
Arun Arunachalam
Senior Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
Thousands of government agencies, education institutions, and nonprofit organizations use AWS to pave the way for disruptive innovation and to make the world a better place. Through his extensive experience working for several Fortune 500 companies, Arun helped many of these public sector organizations and entrepreneurs leverage the cloud to build revolutionary technology that improved students’ and citizens’ lives. Arun is an expert at transforming a high-level business vision into a tangible lean prototype by leveraging Amazon’s working backwards workshop methodology and solutions workshops. He is also very passionate about teaching and mentoring students to become experts at Cloud Computing.
Alex Bachman
Client Partner, Higher Education, Toptal
High-performing and experienced enterprise sales leader with over 17 years of experience in the industry. Alex connects institutions with the world’s top expertise to provide the best solutions possible for their mission-critical initiatives – whether it is managed delivery, management consulting, or individual talent needs.