Zaal 14

Sessions

KEY02

Panel Discussion led by Angelina Best

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

More panellists and topics to be announced soon.

Angelina Best

CEO Levi9 & Advisory Board Member NLdigital

Bob van Luijt

CEO & Co-Founder @ Weaviate

ACD206

Challenges of using Private AppSync for 1100 Parcel Lockers accross The Netherlands

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 11:00 | Duration: 30

In 2024 and begin 2025 we’ve migrated the Embedded and Cloud application behind 1100 Parcel Locker Machines in The Netherlands at PostNL. Let me take you through the challenges and lessons we’ve learned replacing and migrating the cloud application where 1100+ (adding 500 more this year!) connect to. From why we had to do this, the mistakes we made, the lessons we’ve learned and improvements that are happening. Processing over 120.

Ricardo Cino

Senior Solution Software Engineer @ PostNL / AWS Community Builder

ACD310

Next-Level Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK and LocalStack

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 11:30 | Duration: 30

You know the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) lets you define infrastructure as code using programming languages like TypeScript and Python, but what if you could do much more than that? In this talk, we will see code: from CDK Constructs and Aspects to fine-grained assertions. Then, we will explore the powerful combination of CDK and LocalStack, showing how simulating AWS environments locally or in CI can help you level up your infrastructure.

Matheus das Merces

AWS Community Builder | Senior Cloud Engineer @ PostNL

ACD303

Building a scalable ticketing platform

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 13:00 | Duration: 60

Learn how we created a serverless, fault-tolerant, event-driven ticketing platform on AWS. We will cover the reasons behind the decision of building this platform from scratch ourselves, the architecture of the different components, the concepts of event logging and how we deal with security & privacy. The platform launched halfway 2024 and has already been battle tested by selling tickets for the biggest festival of The Netherlands, Zwarte Cross.

Robert Slootjes

Director of Platform Technology @ ID&T / Superstruct Digital Services

ACD215

Shrink EC2 spend - No Rewrite required: Run VMs on Kubernetes with KubeVirt

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

Stop paying for idle EC2. Consolidate under-utilized instances on a Kubernetes-native virtualization layer — no app rewrites. We’ll cover migration options and tuning for bin-packing, safe overcommit, and autoscaling. See how to run VMs alongside containers on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with OpenShift Virtualization. You’ll leave with real-life cost-savings examples, a sizing recipe, and a quick savings checklist.

Ahmed Elgendy

Senior Black Belt - Cloud Services at Red Hat

ACD304

From 0 to 1 Million Events - EDA for the real world

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

Event-Driven architectures are everywhere. Building them in a serverless, cloud-native way has never been easier. But many developers struggle with issues around type-safety, rule architecture, and scaling. In this talk, I’ll show you the best practices I’ve learned working with EventBridge and TypeScript in a startup handling over 1 million events a month. I first show you why we chose EventBridge, how to structure events, and why 5 targets per rule are not an issue.

Sandro Volpciella

Fullstack Developer (Focus: AWS, Serverless) - Author AWS Fundamentals

ACD308

Serverless vs Kubernetes: the final showdown

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 60

There is no silver bullet!’—while true, that won’t stop us from stepping into the ring to argue over these two opinionated and polarising approaches to cloud computing. In this lively, no-holds-barred debate, we’ll spar over complexity, scalability, costs, and real-world use cases. Whether you’re Team Serverless, Team Kubernetes, or still undecided, join us as we wrestle with the tradeoffs that come with each model. Together, we’ll unpack the biases and prejudices we all bring to architecture decisions, challenge common assumptions, and dive into critical topics like security, legacy application modernization, and how each approach fits into event-driven architectures.

Davide de Paolis

Engineering Manager @sevdesk

Damiano Giorgi

Principal Solutions Architect @beSharp spa | AWS Community Builder