Sessions

KEY05

Room: Zaal 11 | 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.

Rudy Chetty

Principal Techfluencer, AWS

KEY01

It's turtles all the way down

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

Modularity might be the single most important concept in software design. But it goes way beyond software: modularity is a key concept in business, organizations, and even people. In this talk we will travel down many levels of modularity – from enterprises all the way to software methods. We will discuss interfaces, implementations, and the trade-offs of modularity. By the end of the talk, you will have a clear framework to consider modularity in all your systems.

Luc van Donkersgoed

Principal Engineer @ PostNL and AWS Serverless Hero

KEY02

Panel Discussion led by Angelina Best

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

More panellists and topics to be announced soon.

Speakers

Angelina Best , Bob van Luijt , Tom Jansen

Angelina Best

CEO Levi9 & Advisory Board Member NLdigital

Bob van Luijt

CEO & Co-Founder @ Weaviate

And 1 more speaker.

KEY04

Serverless, The Hard Parts

Room: Zaal 8 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

If other keynotes are about serverless, Yan will change his keynote to: “Event-Driven Architecture, The Hard Parts”

Yan Cui

Developer Advocate at Lumigo | AWS Serverless Hero

KEY03

The engineering mindset in the age of AI: Beyond vibe coding

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 09:00 | Duration: 90

What happens when AI makes code writing the easiest part of development? The rise of Generative AI has transformed software development, making rapid prototyping more accessible than ever. This keynote examines the evolving role of developers as AI reshapes traditional coding practices. The presentation cuts through both hype and fear to explore what truly matters in modern software development. Learn why moving from intuition-based ‘vibe coding’ to structured engineering approaches becomes more crucial with AI assistance.

Gunnar Grosch

Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services

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

ACD305

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

Room: Zaal 8 | 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

ACD204

Modern Logging on AWS: Real-World Strategies for Developer Efficiency (Talks and quizzes session)

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 11:00 | Duration: 30

Logging often gets ignored—until something breaks. But it can be a powerful tool for debugging, improving visibility, and keeping costs in check. In this session, we’ll explore how to build and manage logging systems on AWS using services like Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon OpenSearch, and Grafana. You’ll see practical examples, compare different approaches, and walk away with a clear understanding of how to create a logging design that’s fast, scalable, so you can catch issues earlier and solve them faster.

Nova Lailatul Rizkiyah

AWS Community Builder

ACD207

Simplifying Serverless Integration Testing: WireMock on AWS Lambda

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

In serverless architectures, integration testing becomes a key focus in the testing pyramid, as local environments cannot fully replicate the complexities of cloud deployments. External APIs, often unavailable or difficult to configure, pose a significant challenge during testing. Mocking external APIs locally with tools like WireMock is common, but to truly validate serverless applications, testing must occur in the deployed environment. This talk explores how to leverage WireMock on AWS Lambda to mock external APIs directly in the cloud.

Elena van Engelen

Lead Software Engineer

ACD402

Your AWS root credential set

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 11:00 | Duration: 30

Is it secret? Is it safe? Managing the one credential set to rule them all comes with a considerable amount of effort. Even worse, AWS provides APIs to effectively privilege escalate a normal AWS admin role/user to root. What paths can a hacker take to completely takeover your AWS account, or even organization, and what mechanisms can you implement to combat this?

Carlo van Overbeek

Security DevOps Engineer Cloud

ACD306

Data Ingestion & Transformation: Foundations for a Modern Data Platform

Room: Zaal 8 | 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

ACD302

Drowning in Security Alerts? Automating Security Posture Automation at Scale using Security Hub

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 11:30 | Duration: 30

Drowning in security alerts from CVE Scans & EKS audit logs? Time to wear your Security Hat. Automate your security alerts - From Finding to Remediation. Learn how to build a global central custom security posture for a large enterprise using AWS Security Hub, Security Lake, EventBridge, Lambda, GuardDuty, and Inspector. This Level 300 deep-dive shows how to normalize Security Hub findings, optimize data for efficient querying, and automate response and remediation.

Masoom Tulsiani

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

ACD213

Streamlining an Event-Driven Architecture: A real world transformation

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

f we are not careful as an event driven architecture matures it can evolve into something resembling the well documented ‘big ball of mud’. This talk will look at how my team has been transforming a production EDA. It will show how a sparsely documented set of AWS SNS topics used to publish and consume cross-domain events have been transformed into an architecture exhibiting discoverability, governance and observability while continuing to run in production without any data loss.

Chris Dobson

AWS Community Builder & Senior Engineer @ Trustpilot

ACD312

Using IAM Roles Anywhere for free

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 11:30 | Duration: 30

IAM Roles Anywhere is a great way to get temporary security credentials on on-premises, or mulit-cloud or edge devices. However the complexity of managing your own PKI or the cost of using an AWS Private CA might have stopped you from seriously considering it. In this session we will look at how IAM Roles anywhere works and why that means we can use low-cost solutions like a yubikey for authentication. Just for fun we’ll even use a Belgian Identity Card to access our AWS Account.

Ben Bridts

AWS Hero || AWS Technologist @ Cloudar

ACD401

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

Room: Zaal 8 | 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

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

ACD205

Serverless applications with Aurora DSQL as a database of choice

Room: Zaal 11 | Time: 13:00 | Duration: 60

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. In this talk we’ll use a sample serverless application that uses Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Aurora DSQL to explore the architecture and features of this database. We’ll explore the scaling behaviour of DSQL, measure performance including cold starts, deep dive into its pricing and current limitations. We’ll also use Strands Agent with Amazon Aurora DSQL to talk to our application using natural language.

Vadym Kazulkin

Head of Development

ACD211

The human side of coding

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 13:00 | Duration: 60

Our tech stacks are exploding in complexity, even with AWS doing a great job at giving us building blocks at higher levels of abstraction. How do we tackle that complexity? Do we take the usual route and solve it by adding more tech or AI? Or is there another route? Yes there is! Even in the 80’s, people realized that the theory of a system can’t be transferred through code and documentation alone.

Nico Krijnen

Cloud Solution Architect

ACD403

Building an Agentic Chat solution using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (in preview) is the newest AWS service in the Bedrock family. How can you use AgentCore to build your own Chat application using Agents and MCP servers? In this session, I will showcase what I have built and share some lessons learned.

Joris Conijn

CTO for AWS @ Xebia and Community Builder

ACD309

Cloudflare + AWS: Advanced Integration Patterns & Production Pitfalls

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

Learn how to integrate Cloudflare with AWS workloads through practical examples. We’ll cover Cloudflare fundamentals, edge caching, and analytics dashboards. Explore Zero Trust components including Access, Gateway, and Tunnels for private ALB access. See Terraform automation for managing Cloudflare rules and policies, plus API protection with WAF and rate limiting. We’ll discuss R2 object storage integration and cost optimization strategies for AWS workloads.

Alex Jeensma

Founder & Chief Platform Engineer @ ElasticScale

ACD201

Roads: Building a serverless character profile creation pipeline

Room: Zaal 11 | Time: 14:00 | 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

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

ACD212

Utilize Amazon Q for automating and accelerating code translation processes

Room: Zaal 8 | Time: 14:00 | Duration: 30

I want to share how we transformed what could have been a months-long infrastructure migration nightmare into an automated success story. When faced with converting our entire CDK construct library, including complex modules like our SNS/RDS/Others implementation with sophisticated IAM policies , along with encryption standards and organizational compliance requirements to Terraform, we knew traditional manual translation would be both time-consuming and error prone. Our SNS construct alone contained intricate JSON condition blocks, KMS encryption configurations, and VPC endpoint restrictions that would typically require weeks of careful manual conversion and extensive testing.

Bishwas Jha

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

ACD301

Breaking the Security vs. Speed Trade-off with AWS Config

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

Getting AWS Platforms just right is hard. You want to set tight permission policies, but developers still need to be able to do their job. You want to have an environment that is both secure and reliable, ensuring compliance while also giving developers the freedom to experiment and innovate. AWS Config is often the missing puzzle piece to solve this paradox. In this talk, I will demonstrate you can create synergy between providing Infrastructure as Code templates to support your developers, granting the right amount of permissions to enable them to do their job, and finally utilizing AWS Config to ensure everything remains within security constraints.

Steffan Norberhuis

Founder Rocketleap

ACD214

Building plug-n-play serverless million scale reusable OTP service on AWS

Room: Zaal 11 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

Now-a-days due to security considerations passwords alone aren’t enough. One Time Password(OTP) has become norm in logins, critical transactions or new user verification in most consumer apps especially banking, travel and healthcare etc. Third-party OTP services offer a quick solution but they often come with high costs, vendor-lock in rate limits, lack of control and customizations. In this talk, I’ll share the blueprint and our journey for how we built our own centralized OTP service on AWS, slashing our authentication costs while gaining full control over our user journey.

Chandradeo Arya

AWS Authorized Instructor and senior solutions architect

ACD307

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

Room: Zaal 8 | 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

ACD308

Serverless vs Kubernetes: the final showdown

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 15:00 | 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

ACD311

Why Modular Monolith is a great starting architecture for a Serverless application?

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 15:00 | Duration: 60

In this talk we delve into modularity in serverless environments and compare monolithic, microservices, and serverless modular monolith architectures. Then we will further discuss the serverless modular monolith as an effective starting point due to its flexible deployment, scalability, and cost efficiency, paving the way for potential evolution into microservices if needed. Through practical examples and recent experiments, the talk emphasises PostNL’s successful adoption of this approach to enhance developer experience and manage complexity in logistics technology solutions.

Selcuk Sasoglu

Principal Software Engineer, PostNL

ACD210

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

Room: Zaal 8 | 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

ACD202

Design high-performance APIs on AWS: strategies and best practices

Room: Zaal 14 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

In this session, we will explore advanced API design patterns on AWS, focusing on strategies such as API Gateway patterns, routing methods, and serverless architectures with AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. You will learn how to build efficient, scalable, and secure APIs using AWS services, with practical examples applied to application modernization and performance optimization.

Robert Garcia Ventura

AWS Community Builder | Data Architect at Keepler Data Tech

ACD209

Navigating AWS Service Quotas and Limits: Lessons Learned from Booking.com's Challenges

Room: Zaal 10 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

In this talk, we’ll explore an issue Booking.com encountered due to AWS limits and quotas. This unexpected problem affected multiple pipelines, leading to significant delays. We’ll discuss how we discovered the issue, why it surprised us despite our awareness of API limits, and the solutions we considered. Spoiler alert: what role does Terraform play in all of this?

Vladimir Romashov

Software Engineer @ Booking.com

ACD208

Real-time Pattern Detection and Event Processing: Bridging Apache Flink with Serverless on AWS

Room: Zaal 9 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

In today’s data-driven world, organizations need to process and react to streaming data in real-time while maintaining cost-effectiveness and scalability. This talk demonstrates how to leverage Apache Flink’s powerful stream processing capabilities alongside AWS serverless technologies to build a robust, scalable, and cost-efficient event processing pipeline. In this talk, I will delve into what CEP (Complex Event Processing) is and how a CEP layer such as Apache Flink works internally at a high level.

Mohammed Izzy

Principal Developer

ACD203

Step On It! Rapid Event-Based AWS Cost Control With Step Functions

Room: Zaal 11 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 30

Ever had a cloud bill you weren’t expecting? Managing cloud costs effectively isn’t just about cutting expenses; it’s about building smart, adaptable systems that respond to events in real time. In this session, we’ll explore how event-based architectures and serverless AWS services can transform how you monitor, manage and optimise cloud spend. You’ll learn to evaluate cloud-native tools, automate anomaly detection workflows, and design, deploy, and maintain real-time cost-control solutions through live demos.

Damien Jones

💻 Consultant 🦈 amazonwebshark 🎤 Speaker 🌹 AWS User Group Leader (Lancashire) 🏗️ AWS Community Builder (Data)