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08:30 - 09:00Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)

Registration

09:00 - 09:20Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)

Welcome Address

09:20 - 10:00Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)
Builder’s MainstageKeynote

Opening Keynote

Mike Chambers
Mike ChambersSenior AI Specialist DA, @ Amazon | Ex ML Hero | Generative AI, Cloud Computing
10:00 - 10:30Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)

Morning Tea

10:30 - 11:00The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

A Very Brief History of AI: How AWS Fueled the Evolution of Language Models

John Crook
John CrookCEO Rule30

To understand the future of AI, you have to understand its past. Join us for a whirlwind tour of AI, tracing the journey from early breakthroughs to the massive frontier models of today. While the headlines focus on the models themselves, the real story of…

10:30 - 11:00Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

Operating the Agent: SRE Best Practices for Autonomous AI in Production

Sagar Utekar
Sagar UtekarSRE@Omnissa | Kubestronaut | CNCF Ambassador | Docker Captain

Everyone at this conference is building agents. Almost nobody is operating them. There are no readiness probes, no error budgets, and no runbooks. When your agent starts looping at 3 AM and burning through tokens, there is absolutely nothing between it and a…

11:00 - 11:30The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

One Engineer, One Agent: Re-architecting a Big Data IoT Platform with Kiro

Dmytro Sirant
Dmytro SirantAWS Community Builder, AWS User Group Leader, Founder of Perun Engineering

A single DevOps engineer, an AI agent, and a big data / IoT platform that needed re-architecting from the ground up. This talk is a first-hand account of doing that work with Kiro on AWS - EKS, S3, ElastiCache and friends - and an honest look at what it…

11:00 - 11:30Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

From Plumbing to Production: Real-World Lessons with Bedrock AgentCore

Lovee Jain
Lovee JainSenior Software Engineer, AWS Community Builder, Google Developer Expert, WTM Ambassador, GDG Melbourne Organiser

Building a prototype agent feels like simple script logic, until you realise you’re actually orchestrating an autonomous, non-deterministic distributed system. In this 10-minute lightning talk, we look beyond the "happy path" of the new Amazon Bedrock…

11:30 - 12:00The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

C3: The AI Agent That Survived Audit Season (So You Don’t)

Christina Chen
Christina ChenSenior Cloud Consultant at Mantel
Cathy Weng
Cathy WengSenior Cloud Consultant at Mantel
Nicole Ramirez
Nicole RamirezLead Machine Learning Engineer at Mantel

Compliance work isn’t a once-a-year event—it’s something teams live with continuously. It often means chasing evidence across accounts, interpreting policies, and trying to keep up with constant change. In this session, we introduce C3, an AI agent built on…

11:30 - 12:00Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

Shift Left or Get Left Behind: Continuous Security Testing with AWS Continuum

Tim Wang
Tim WangCloud Solution Architect | AWS Ambassador | PwC Australia
Akshat Gupta
Akshat GuptaCloud and AI Engineer | PwC Australia

AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is accelerating faster than most teams can keep up. CVE disclosure rates have jumped dramatically, and attackers are finding bugs in codebases that went unnoticed for over a decade. Yet many organisations still treat…

12:00 - 13:00Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)

Lunch & Networking

13:00 - 13:30The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

AWS Lambda MicroVMs: What They're Good For, and What They Aren't

Muhammad Yuga Nugraha
Muhammad Yuga NugrahaAgoda, Senior Security Engineer - Cloud security for what matters most

In June 2026, AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new compute primitive that gives each user or session its own dedicated Firecracker VM. Firecracker isn't new, it has powered Lambda since 2018. What's new is Instead of a stateless function on an environment you…

13:00 - 13:15Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud CornerLightning Talks

Three AWS Myths That Are Costing You

Michael Walmsley
Michael WalmsleyAWS Solution Architect (Serverless Specialist) at Accenture

Bad advice has a long half-life. A forum post from 2017, a Stack Overflow answer that was correct once, a default setting nobody questioned — and suddenly your architecture is built around a problem that no longer exists. In this lightning talk we bust three…

13:00 - 14:30Builder Lounge (Boulevard 3)
Builder Lounge

Ship with Agents: A Hands-On Workshop Using CLI Agent Orchestration

Stan Fan
Stan FanISV Solution Architect
Haofei Feng
Haofei FengAWS, Senior Cloud Architect
Augusto Dias
Augusto DiasAWS, Delivery Consultant

Forget chatbots — in this workshop you'll use AI agents that plan, code, test, and ship autonomously from your terminal. Using cli-agent-orchestrator (CAO), an open-source multi-agent runtime, you'll build a real application by orchestrating a team of agents…

13:15 - 13:30Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud CornerLightning Talks

Beyond Chatbots: Building VIVA, a Real-Time Avatar Agent on AWS

Vanitha Kaliyaperumal
Vanitha KaliyaperumalVersent, Lead Engineer

Most AI agents still live in chat windows or as disembodied voices. At Versent, we wanted to explore what happens when an agent has a face, a voice and the ability to respond in real time. In this session, we’ll introduce VIVA - Versent’s Intelligent Visual…

13:30 - 14:00The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

Data Observability Without the Pain: 3 Practical Patterns from a Production IoT Platform

Matthew Gillard
Matthew GillardPrincipal, V2

Modern IoT platforms are inherently data platforms. Events flow through APIs, queues, AWS Lambda Serverless functions, storage systems, and device networks before becoming meaningful data. When something goes wrong, tracing a single event across these…

13:30 - 13:45Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)

Running and Managing AI Agents Securely at Scale with WSO2 Agent Manager and EKS

Unlock the full potential of autonomous AI by combining the governance capabilities of WSO2 Agent Manager with the scalable power of Amazon EKS. This guide breaks down the architectural blueprint for deploying, monitoring, and securing enterprise AI agents in…

13:45 - 14:00Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud CornerLightning Talks

Data is being generated everywhere, build a bridge and get over it.

James Corrigan
James CorriganQumulo - Principal Solutions Architect

Most of the world's data is unstructured, created at the edge, needed everywhere else. Copying it around doesn't scale, and latency is physics. This session covers how global-scale file systems solve that: one global namespace, caches you can predict, and…

14:00 - 14:15The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge ZoneLightning Talks

Document DynamoDB Access Patterns, and Workflows with DNML

Orlando Adeyemi
Orlando AdeyemiFounder at Dynomate

Event-driven architectures are now widely used to build scalable, decoupled, and responsive systems. In my work, I’ve seen this success create a quieter problem: hundreds of DynamoDB tables spread across teams and repositories, with critical access patterns…

14:00 - 14:30Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

“A Kubestronaut Riding a Dragon”: Scaling Generative AI on EKS

Yongkang He
Yongkang HeFounder @KSUG.AI @KubeSmart.AI | Creator @awstronaut @kubestrong

Generative AI is quickly becoming a production workload, but running models like Stable Diffusion XL on EKS introduces challenges around GPUs, scheduling, and performance. In this session, we present a real-world implementation of an AI image generation…

14:30 - 15:00Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)

Afternoon Tea

15:00 - 15:30Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

Securing Serverless Enterprises Against Agentic AI Threats

Daniel Clement
Daniel ClementSolution Architect | AWS Community Builder

As enterprises rapidly adopt serverless computing and integrate agentic artificial intelligence (AI) into their cloud-native systems, new dimensions of risk emerge. This session explores the complex interplay between AI technologies and serverless…

15:00 - 16:00Builder Lounge (Boulevard 3)

Ask me Anything sessions

15:30 - 16:00The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

Mastering Custom Node Pools in EKS Auto Mode

Arshad Zackeriya
Arshad ZackeriyaAWS Hero

EKS Auto Mode simplifies cluster management, but one size does not fit all. When your applications require specific hardware, strict security controls, or unique networking, the default configuration is often not enough. In this talk, we will break down the…

16:00 - 16:30The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

AI Agents Flooded Our PRs. Here's the Harness That Fixed It.

Geethika Guruge
Geethika GurugePrincipal Consultant, Mantel Group

We built an SDLC agent workforce, and the code came faster than we could review it. To solve that, we built a PR agent at the gate: acts on GitHub, comments on PRs, and can block a merge on real failure. The harness demanded real engineering covering…

16:00 - 16:30Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

The Day We Stopped Paying For Telemetry Noise

Yuba Raj Panta
Yuba Raj PantaSenior SRE/DevOps Engineer @ PageUp | Google Developer Expert | AWS Community Builder

Telemetry costs grow exponentially at enterprise scale — and the usual fix, aggressive sampling, risks dropping the errors you actually need to see. At PageUp, we needed a way to cut the noise without losing a single anomalous trace. This session covers how…

16:00 - 17:00Builder Lounge (Boulevard 3)

Trivia / Builder Cards / Networking

16:30 - 17:00The Edge Zone (Boulevard 1)
The Edge Zone

One Guardrail, Any Model: Securing an AI-Developed Student Platform with Amazon Bedrock

Jahnavi Gurrappadia
Jahnavi GurrappadiaSecurity becomes powerful when embedded from the very beginning

AI now writes a lot of our code and powers a lot of our features often in the same app, shipped faster than security review can keep up. EduReach is exactly that story: an AI-assisted, rapidly built platform that connects students and teachers, with an LLM…

16:30 - 17:00Cloud Corner (Boulevard 2)
Cloud Corner

Real-Time on AWS: What I Learned the Hard Way with Kinesis & Flink

Aashish Jolly
Aashish JollyPrincipal Solutions Architect @ Versent

Real-time data engineering looks simple in a reference diagram and gets hard the moment streaming data is late, out of order, or arriving faster than you can process it. In this session, I share lessons from building a real-time anomaly detection pipeline on…

17:00 - 17:30Builder’s Mainstage (Auditorium)
Builder’s MainstageKeynote

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