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Marina Kim
Tech LeadVidatecEvent Date: 10/06/2026Learning Area
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AgentCore vs Reality: Lessons from Building AI Agents on AWS
In this talk I will explore the reality of what happens when you try to build an AI agent on AWS using Amazon Bedrock and tool calling, inspired by still new and emerging AgentCore patterns. Through a live demo and practical examples, I’ll walk through what worked, what didn’t work, and the unexpected challenges that appear when moving from theory to implementation, including hallucinations, incorrect tool usage, and trade-offs around cost and latency.
The goal is to give a realistic, engineering-first perspective on building agentic systems today, and help developers understand where these patterns are useful and where they still fall short.
By the end of this talk, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to approach building AI agents on AWS, what pitfalls to expect, and how to make informed decisions when applying agentic patterns in real-world systems.
What you’ll learn
- Identify the specific failure modes – hallucinations, incorrect tool selection, cost spikes – that appear when Bedrock agents move from demo to production.
- Apply practical patterns for tool calling that reduce error rates and improve reliability under real traffic.
- Evaluate cost and latency trade-offs when designing agentic systems so you can make informed architecture decisions.
- Debug unexpected agent behaviour using the observability tooling available in Amazon Bedrock today.
About the Speaker
Marina is a Tech Lead at Vidatec working with web, mobile, MS Teams and AI solutions across multiple industries. She has significant experience working with AWS services, managing deployments and maintenance across multiple production workloads. Marina is a founder of Catbytes – online community for women in tech and a co-organiser of AWS UG UK and AWS AI In Practice community events.
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Damien Jones
AWS ConsultantSteamhausEvent Date: 10/06/2026Learning Area
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Best in Show: Building a Crufts-Ready AWS Business Platform in 5 Weeks
A new dog training business is launched. You have 5 weeks to develop a new production-ready platform before Crufts: the world’s biggest dog show. Could you deliver?
In this talk, I’ll share the real-world journey of building WolfieAndFriends on AWS. We’ll review my architectural choices, “build vs buy” decisions and the trade-offs made during those hectic early days. You’ll learn how to use AWS serverless, IaC and AI services to enable rapid delivery, shorten development times and transform a greenfield project into a professional, scalable platform that pays the bills.
Whether you’re a startup founder or an enterprise dev, you’ll walk away with a blueprint for rapid delivery without sacrificing long-term stability. Expect Amplify, CDK, Q Developer, Kiro and more!
Learning Takeaways
- How to make fast, defensible architectural decisions under genuine time pressure.
- How to use AWS CDK, Amplify Gen 2, Q Developer, and Kiro as an integrated rapid-delivery stack.
- Practical “build vs buy” trade-offs: what to own, what to delegate, and how to decide.
- How serverless IaC enables safe iteration from greenfield to production.
- A reusable blueprint for going from zero to a scalable, paying platform in weeks — not months.
About the Speaker
Damien Jones is an AWS consultant, data specialist, and cloud enthusiast with a strong record of designing, building, and optimising cloud-native solutions. He has extensive knowledge of data engineering, DevOps and cloud architectures, fueled by a passion for using emerging technologies to solve complex problems and support data-driven decision making. Damien is also active in the cloud community, serving as a content creator, user group leader and public speaker.
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Elena Lape
FounderHolopinEvent Date: 06/05/2026Learning Area
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AWS: An Experience
Those of us who care a lot about developer experience would certainly agree: AWS is, undeniably, an experience.
This session explores the quirks, overlaps, and “wait, why?” moments that make AWS both impressive and deeply relatable. Expect an affectionate look at the strange reality of using a platform that can do everything except explain itself briefly.
About the Speaker
Elena is founder and Head of Engineering at Holopin, where she leads a platform used by 150,000+ software engineers worldwide. Before Holopin, she worked across several Silicon Valley scaleups building Kubernetes integrations, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure, and has been building on AWS since 2016.
Elena is deeply focused on developer experience. She spent part of her early career at GitHub, remains active in hackathon communities, and today serves on the W3C Advisory Board.
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Rupam Jha
Senior DevOps EngineerEvent Date: 06/05/2026Learning Area
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Learn how to turn AWS security and compliance policies into automated, scalable, and auditable practices
Many organisations struggle to enforce security and compliance consistently across AWS environments while scaling their workloads.
In this session, I’ll walk through practical strategies to secure AWS accounts, implement automated compliance controls, and simplify audits. Using real-world examples and best practices, attendees will leave with actionable techniques to protect data, streamline operations, and maintain regulatory readiness in the cloud.
About the Speaker
Rupam is a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer who enjoys building AWS platforms that are scalable, secure, and easy for teams to use. Her focus is on creating cloud-native environments with tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, and Vault, helping engineering teams ship faster and more confidently through automation, standardisation, and strong platform foundations.
A big part of what she does is reducing complexity for developers by building self-service infrastructure, improving delivery pipelines, and making platforms more reliable, observable, and cost-effective. She cares about security by design and operational excellence, and she believes infrastructure should feel like a product – something dependable, well-designed, and built to help teams move quickly without adding unnecessary risk.
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Areg Hovakimyan
Senior DevOps EngineerEvent Date: 06/05/2026Learning Area
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EKS in Production: What Actually Changed After Adoption
Areg is a Senior DevOps Engineer and will talk about Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS offers many capabilities to simplify Kubernetes operations, but in practice, not all of them deliver the same value.
In this 15 minute talk, Areg will provide a quick overview of key EKS capabilities, highlight 2-3 that truly make a difference in production, and explore common areas where teams tend to over complicate their platforms.
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