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What’s Hot at AWS Pop-up Lofts in December

December is an exciting time of the year, and that’s especially true at the AWS Pop-up Lofts! Highlighted events include our Holiday Celebrations and Pitch events, an AWS Mobile Hub Walkthrough, and Gaming Days. It’s not too early to get started with your New Year’s resolution to build your mobile game, meet a potential co-founder, or learn more about AWS!

SF Loft featured events December 2015

San Francisco Loft Featured Events

API-First Development with Node.js and Swagger — Presented by Apigee
Swagger is a simple and powerful representation of your RESTful API that is backed by thousand of developers. Node.js is one of the most commonly used frameworks to develop APIs. What happens when you combine these two powerhouses? Beautiful services with RESTful APIs that follow the DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) principle. Join Apigee’s open-source development team to learn to build and deploy RESTful APIs using Node.js and Swagger.
Tuesday, December 8, 1:00pm [San Francisco]

AWS Gaming Days
Join us for two full days of gaming content! Come learn how to build and monetize your mobile game. We’ll also have Twitch and Linden Labs present some of the cool stuff they’re doing on AWS. Each day will be filled with educational content and conclude with drinks and appetizers in a networking mixer.
Friday, December 11, 10:00am [San Francisco]
Tuesday, December 15, 10:00am [San Francisco]

AWS Loft Holiday Celebration & Pitch Event
The celebration will begin with a startup pitch event. Each party-goer will be part of our audience panel, and will vote on the category each startup pitch best represents. Once the pitches are complete the holiday party kicks into high gear: we’ll turn up the music and keep the drinks flowing!
Thursday, December 17, 6:30pm [San Francisco]

New York Loft Featured Events

New York Game Makers Meetup Come join us for a dedicated space to make games, learn about game development and show off your own work to the local community. We’ll have a dedicated room for developers looking to work on their games and Jesse Freeman, Amazon Game Developer Evangelist, will be on site from 10am — 3pm to also help you with any questions you have about making games and publishing to the Amazon Appstore.
Wednesday, December 9, 10:00am [New York]
Wednesday, December 23, 10:00am [New York]

AWS Mobile Hub Walkthrough
Learn how to rapidly deliver mobile apps with AWS Mobile Hub. We will demonstrate how AWS Mobile Hub abstracts the undifferentiated heavy lifting by providing a single, integrated experience for discovering, provisioning and configuring AWS cloud resources you need to build, test, and monitor usage of your mobile apps. In addition to showcasing the power of AWS Mobile Hub, this session will dive deep into each AWS Mobile service, including Amazon Cognito, Amazon SNS, and Amazon Mobile Analytics.
Thursday, December 10, 2:00pm [New York]

Holiday Celebration & Pitch Event with AWS and Intel
The celebration will begin with a startup pitch event. Each party-goer will be part of our audience panel, and will vote on the category each startup pitch best represents. Once the pitches are complete the holiday party kicks into high gear: we’ll turn up the music and keep the drinks flowing!
Wednesday, December 16, 6:30pm [New York]

For the full schedule of events and more information, visit our AWS Pop-up Lofts website here.

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