Room 5

Sessions

KEY05

Culture Chameleons: Day 1 for Life

Room: Room 5 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

Have you ever wondered what the development culture is at Amazon Web Services? Well good news! Join this keynote to learn more about the wonderous world of tech at AWS. Learn about the tools, processes, currency of stickers and other insider info on a company that prides itself on customer obsession. You’ll even learn about how we keep the pace of innovation going in this fast-paced world of being ever connected.

R.C.

Mystery Keynote Speaker

ACD305

Guarding the Generative Path: Architecting Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Room: Room 5 | Time: 11:00 | Duration: 30

Generative AI can accelerate innovation, but only when every response respects safety, privacy and trust. In this session, we step inside Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and see how purpose-built safeguards turn risky prompts, hallucinations and policy violations into confident, production-ready answers. Let’s explore how versioned “guardrails-as-code” enables a single CloudFormation push to raise the safety bar without touching app logic, with real-time metrics and audit logs streaming straight into CloudWatch to spotlight every blocked prompt the moment it happens.

Guilherme Dalla Rosa

CTO @ MerCloud

ACD306

Data Ingestion & Transformation: Foundations for a Modern Data Platform

Room: Room 5 | Time: 11:30 | Duration: 30

In this session, we will explore the key building blocks of a modern data platform, focusing on scalable data ingestion and efficient transformation processes. Focus is on AWS Glue ETL, crawlers and data catalogs. We’ll walk through experiece, tools, mistakes and best practices that enable data flow from source systems to analytics-ready outputs. Whether you’re new to data platforms or modernizing existing ones, this session will provide actionable insights to help you build robust, maintainable, and future-proof data infrastructure.

Katerina Tashoska

Modernization lead

ACD401

Building a Scalable Data Platform with AWS S3 Tables, Iceberg and Snowflake

Room: Room 5 | Time: 13:00 | Duration: 60

Discover how to architect a robust, scalable data platform by integrating AWS Glue, S3 tables, and Snowflake. This talk explores the synergy of these tools to streamline data processing, storage, and analytics while ensuring security and optimizing performance. Learn best practices for secure data handling, implementing access controls, and conducting performance tests to ensure efficiency at scale. Ideal for engineers aiming to build high-performance, secure data solutions in the AWS ecosystem.

Jacob Verhoeks

Community Builder & Cloudarchitect @ Schuberg Philis

ACD307

HTTP and MCP: Serverless LLM's access to API infrastructure. A modern solution.

Room: Room 5 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

With Anthropic’s release of MCP last year, many initially viewed it as just another LLM product. However, the March protocol update introduced HTTP connection methods, opening up exciting new possibilities for secure enterprise architecture. This enhancement enables MCP to support enterprise security standards—including Machine-to-Machine OAuth, OIDC, isolated architecture, and separation of duties—that the initial design couldn’t accommodate. Discover how you can build your own MCP server, integrate your existing APIs with MCP in a secure and cost-effective design, 100% serverless.

Brad Webb

Senior Engineer | Junior Vibe Coder

ACD210

Building Cloud-Native AI Agents with Strands: The Open Source SDK from AWS

Room: Room 5 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

AI agents are becoming essential for automating complex workflows and enhancing user experiences but building them in a way that’s secure, composable, and production-ready can be challenging. Strands Agents, a new open source SDK from AWS, offers a modular framework for developing AI agents that are stateless, auditable, and cloud-native by design. This session will introduce you to the core concepts behind Strands, including its plugin-based architecture for tools, memory, workflows, and more.

Aaron Walker

Technology Director @ base2Services, AWS Community Builder, AWS Ambassador and AWS User Group Leader

ACD201

Roads: Building a serverless character profile creation pipeline

Room: Room 5 | Time: 16:30 | Duration: 30

Large language models are good at answering questions, but did you know they are also great at asking them? In this session we’ll look at how to build a scalable, serverless architecture for creating custom character profiles for a role-playing game. We’ll discuss how Bedrock powers the core mechanics, the CDK-based serverless infrastructure the app is built on, and how in-game image assets are generated using Amazon Nova Canvas and Step Functions.

Jochem Kleine

Cloud Consultant @ Xebia