Sam Spaulding

Biography

Sam the Director of Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Services at AbbVie, where he leads the engineering, delivery, and operations of enterprise cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With more than 30 years of IT experience and over 15 years of leadership experience, he has led cloud transformation initiatives, modernized cloud hosting and service delivery platforms, and advanced AI enablement capabilities that help accelerate innovation and business outcomes. Sam is passionate about cloud strategy, platform engineering, automation, and developing high-performing teams.

Sessions

1. Engineering, Compliance, and Accountable Innovation Presented by AbbVie

   Wed, Nov 4, 12:50 PM – 1:20 PM CT

   Track Equity, Bias and Clinical Trust

   Technology transformation is often viewed as a balancing act between speed and control. In reality, the most successful organizations achieve both through strong partnerships between engineering and governance teams. Join AbbVie leaders Sam Spaulding and Karyn Quick as they share how cloud modernization, platform engineering, compliance, risk management, and operational excellence can work together to enable innovation at scale. Attendees will learn practical strategies for breaking down organizational silos, building trusted technology platforms, and creating governance models that support, rather than hinder, transformation.