At a glance
On October 13th the AWS Community in Ireland is running a fully immersive virtual event, covering the hottest AWS topics of the day including Serverless, Machine Learning, AI, AWS Outposts and lots more.
Sponsored by Red Hat and Version 1, this year’s conference is a free 100% Virtual event.
Stop by and attend hands-on workshops, technical deep dives and roundtable discussions on the hottest topics of the day.
Don’t miss JEFF BARR’s CLOSING KEYNOTE @ 5pm (GMT
Attendance is FREE
however…. tickets are limited.
And no, this is NOT a Zoom Webinar 🙂
Register Now and join us on 13th October, 2020
Agenda
Here it is!
10.00 – 10.40 OPENING SESSION / WELCOME 10.50 – 11.30 The Journey to DevOps: It’s not just about the pipeline! 11.40 – 12.10 Build a faster, seamless hybrid cloud experience with Red Hat on AWS Simon Briggs, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat 12.20 – 12.50 Top 10 Technical Strategies to AVOID as a Startup! Brian Scanlan, Senior Systems Engineer, INTERCOM 13.00 – 13.30 Building and marketing an open source serverless product from scratch with zero budget! 13.40 – 14.10 AI as a Service – the fast track to AI with Serverless! 14.20 – 14.50 Knock it out of the park with Alexa. Building a commercial voice service. 15.00 -15.30 15.40 – 16:10 16:20-16:50 AWS Developer Tools Special 16:20-16:50 JEFF BARR, VP AWS (Closing Keynote) Innovation, Technology and the Power of Community
10.00 AM – Ronán Ó Caollaí, AWS User Group
10.10 AM – Mark Dunleavy, AWS
10.20 AM – Keith Lynch – Red Hat
10.30 AM – Karen Murphy – Version 1
Oisín de Conduin, Practice Lead, Digital & Cloud Solutions, Version 1
Matt Coulter, Architect, LIBERTY IT
Peter Elger, CEO fourTheorem
Alan Kiernan (Cation) & Sophie Hind (Voiceworks)
Stuart Green, Cloud Architect, Checkpoint
Fig O'Reilly, Regional Director, NASA
David Isbitski, Principle Developer Advocate, AWS
10.50 - 12.50 AWS FLASH LABS (WORKSHOP) 'AI As a Service' >>AI as a Service Requirements: - A development machine with Docker installed How to Scale a Startup on AWS A conversation about scaling your startup with AWS Anna Kuzma – AM AWS Startups (Chair) ---- 14.20 - 14.50 >>Sagemaker - Right Here Right Now! After a short intro on the service itself, we'll fire up a notebook instance providing us with a ready to go Jupyter environment. Then, we'll run several notebooks, showing you how to build, train, and deploy models using built-in algorithms and open source frameworks. Of course, we'll answer as many questions as possible. They also should be reasonably familiar with Python, Jupyter, as well as simple ML workflows. Basic knowledge on core AWS services (regions, EC2, S3, IAM) is also recommended
Peter Elger,
Eoin Shanaghy of
fourTheorem
Building a Serverless Cat Detection System
In this 2-Hour workshop we will build a serverless image recognition system on AWS. The system will use a number of AWS technologies including S3, Lambda, SQS and Amazons image recognition AI service Rekognition.
- An AWS account
- AWS API access keys: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Peter Elger & Eoin Shanaghy of FourTheorem.com
Brian Scanlan – Principal Systems Engineer Intercom
Alessandro Prest – CTO Visua
John Doran – CTO Phorest
Sean Judge – Senior BD AWS Startups Ireland
Roz Gibson – AM AWS Startups
(WORKSHOP)
AWS FLASH LABS
'Sagemaker - Right Here Right Now'
JULIEN SIMON, AWS Global AI & ML Evangelist
Machine Learning Workshop
In this workshop, you'll become familiar with Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed AWS service for machine learning.
Attendees need to have an AWS account.
Julien Simon, AWS Global AI & ML Evangelist
10.50 - 11.30 Building reliable Serverless applications 11.40 - 12.10 Error handling processing high throughput in complex scenarios using Kinesis / Lambda 12.20 - 12.50 Reach everywhere, Optimize with Direct Connect, Outpost and Platform Equinix 13.00 - 13.30 Red Hat - Demo - Managed RED HAT OpenShift on AWS 13.40 - 14.10 A Sentiment Analysis Sweet Machine and other amazing solutions using AWS IoT 14.20 - 14.50 What to build with Amazon Managed Blockchain 15.40 - 16.10 Multi account deployment pipelines 16.20 - 16.50 AWS Outposts, Simplify and Protect Your AWS Outposts Deployment
Gunnar Grosch, AWS Hero, Evangelist & Community Builder
Marcelo Flores Manrique, Senior Software Engineer, VERIZON
Christophe Laudou, Global Solutions Architect, EQUINIX
Simon Briggs, Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat
Laura Hyatt, Solutions Architect, AWS
Lana Kalashnyk, Global Partner Technology Lead Blockchain
Ronan Prenty, Solutions Architect, AWS
Rob Czarnecki, Product Manager Outpost, AWS
Moderated by AWS Heroes

Conference content is curated by leading AWS advocates who have been recognised and awarded by the global
AWS Community Hero program.
Speakers
Meet well-known leaders, experts and pioneers from the world of AWS. Get their takes on the latest AWS innovations. Ask questions, learn…. and be inspired!

Jeff Barr
VP, AWS
Jeff is VP and
Chief Evangelist of AWS.

Fionnghuala O'Reilly
Regional Director, NASA
Fionnghuala is a NASA Datanaut
and Director of the agency’s Space Apps programme.

Keith Lynch
Country Manager Red Hat
Keith heads up Red Hat in Ireland. Keith believes that Open Source principles applied to culture can be as much a catalyst for change in people and process as they are when applied to technology.

Alan Kiernan
CTO, Co-founder Cation Consulting
AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Developer, Certified Scrum Master, AWS SME, AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder
Delivering Across: Cloud Systems & Solutions Engineering, Performance Engineering, Operations, Voice & Conversational AI.

Dave Isbitski
Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
Formerly Chief Evangelist for Alexa & Echo at Amazon, Dave recently made the move to AWS, a new role to which he brings passion for Developer Advocacy, DevOps, Dev Tools, and Cloud.

Oisín de Condúin
Practice Lead - Digital & Cloud Solutions, Version 1
Oisín is a well known figure in the AWS ecosystem in Ireland and the UK and leads Version 1’s Digital and Cloud Solutions practice.

Laura Hyatt
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Laura is a Solutions Architect at AWS with a focus on IoT. and can often be found making weird and wonderful IoT demos.
Laura previously worked as a senior consultant in Cloud Engineering with Deloitte.

Julien Simon
Global AI & Machine Learning Evangelist, AWS

Gunnar Grosch
AWS Serverless Hero
With a focus on building reliable and robust serverless applications, Gunnar has been one of the driving forces in creating techniques and tools for using chaos engineering in serverless. He regularly and passionately speaks at events on these and other serverless topics around the world.

Lana Kalashnyk
Global Partner Technology Lead Blockchain at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Lana works with the world’s leading blockchain and dlt technology and consulting partners to provide production ready solutions for AWS customers worldwide.

Czarnecki, Rob
Principal Product Manager, AWS Outposts
Rob is a technology leader and builder who draws on over 15 years experience working in leading technologies. As Principal Product Manager for AWS Outposts Rob oversees one of the most exciting additions to the AWS suite of enterprise services.

Eoin Shanaghy
CTO at FourTheorem
Eoin is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and CTO of Fourtheorem, a new breed of software consultancy focused on cloud architecture, devops, and artificial intelligence. A recent co-author of ‘AI as a Service’ Eoin designs solutions that enables customers to be leaders in the fourth wave of industrialization.
Would you like to speak, or host a workshop? Answer the Call for Papers here.
Why Attend?




Event Overview

The AWS Community Dublin is the most engaged IT Community in the country with over 7,000 members and regular community events. This event is open to 1,000 members during the course of the day and so make sure you register to book your seat.
AWS Talks & Roundtables
Deep Dives, Insightful Talks & Conversations
by AWS industry leaders, pioneers, influencers and innovators.
AWS Workshops
A number of 2-Hour practical workshops covering Serverless Application Development & Machine Learning in the Enterprise.
You’ll need a laptop and a commitment to building something awesome!
Interactive
Want to grow a Startup using AWS? Have questions about AWS & the Enterprise? Wondering how to build a career as an AWS engineer? Our Mentors have all the answers – and so will you!