AWS Cloud and AI Day Auckland

Explore how AWS is powering resilient infrastructure, intelligent customer experience, and AI-driven analytics — from surviving regional failures to automating data pipelines and delivering empathetic service at scale. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how AWS helps organisations architect for fault isolation and static stability, deploy AI agents that reason through customer conversations in real time, transform data engineering into plain-English workflows, and turn natural-language questions into finished reports, dashboards, and applications.

Explore how agentic AI is moving from experiment to enterprise — autonomous agents that shop, ship code, secure applications, and run operations without waiting for a human in the loop. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how AWS enables agents to transact across six industry protocols, scale safely on governed enterprise platforms, crush tech debt autonomously, and operate as always-on teammates across DevOps, security, and FinOps — all built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Kiro, and AWS Frontier Agents.

Build autonomous AI agents that play 5v5 football — making real-time decisions every two seconds, adapting to opponents, and executing strategy without human input. Design, deploy, and compete in this hands-on activation. The skills you learn — agent architecture, decision loops, and autonomous deployment — are the exact same skills required to build production agentic workloads for your own use cases.

Design and deploy your own AI agent, then watch it come to life in a retro 8-bit world - navigating challenges, completing quests, and climbing the leaderboard, all in real time. Built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands SDK, it's a hands-on look at how humans set the strategy and AI agents execute autonomously at scale.

Grab the handles, lock eyes with your opponent, and pull for everything you've got in this adrenaline-fueled head-to-head cross-country ski showdown. Real-time leaderboards display power, pull rate, and pace — with live AI-generated voice commentary calling out every surge, every fade, and exactly who's breaking first. This Concept2 SkiErg experience showcases how AWS powers split-second analytics that turn friendly competition into bragging rights.

Drop in, code, and leave your mark on a game that grows with every builder's contribution. In this hands-on collaborative coding experience, participants pick a feature from a curated list and use Kiro's AI-powered spec-driven development to implement it in ~30 minutes, no prior game development experience required. Each contribution goes live on a shared display as the game evolves throughout the day, showcasing the power of AI-assisted development in real time. Walk away with firsthand experience using Kiro to go from idea to working code, fast.

AWS is home to over 350,000 startups globally. With nearly 20 years of experience supporting hundreds of thousands of startups, we help ANZ founders prove that their world-changing ideas are possible — at any stage of growth or level of funding. Check out the Startup Zone to hear about the latest innovations from successful founders who have scaled their startups with AWS.

In a world where technology moves faster every day, cloud and AI skills have never been more valuable. Whether you're just starting out or levelling up your expertise, the right skills open doors. Come talk to us about your training and certification ambitions. We'll show you the AWS offerings that can upskill your workforce and help your team build in-demand cloud and AI capabilities.

Connect with our partner teams at the AWS Partner Zone to learn how AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Marketplace can help you reach millions of AWS customers, access co-sell resources, and scale your solutions on the world's leading cloud platform.

This event is built around one idea: regionally relevant solutions, AWS expertise, and AI for the next era. You'll walk away with actionable insights, new connections, and a clear path to accelerate your cloud and AI journey — all at no cost.

The event will be held at New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC), Auckland on 22nd September 2026.

The NZICC venue entrance points are: 101 Hobson Street, 83 Wellesley Street West and 50 Nelson Street.

No. Registration is complimentary and includes access to sessions, Expo, meals, and receptions.

We do not have a dedicated hotel block for this event.

No, AWS does not reimburse or validate parking or other accommodation and travel associated costs.

There is no dress code for attendees. Attendee attire varies from business casual, suits, hoodies, and jeans. Please wear what you are comfortable in.

Yes. All attendees must be at least 18 years of age on the day they pick up their conference badge.     

Please be prepared to present a valid government-issued ID at check-in.

AWS expects all participants (attendees, staff, speakers, sponsors, etc.) to comply with the Code of Conduct and behave in such a way as to create a safe, supportive environment while at the conference and any conference-related events. Review the full Code of Conduct here.

No. We do not offer continuing or professional education credits, or a certificate of attendance.

You will receive a QR code wihin the week of the event to expedite your check-in. Note that your registration may be placed on a waitlist. You will be notified if and when you are released from the waitlist.

The event agenda will be updated on this site and posted in the AWS Events App, which launches the week of the event.

No. Space in the keynote hall is limited and registering for this event does not guarantee keynote access. The keynote will be livestreamed in breakout rooms to accommodate overflow seating.

No, there is no reserved seating. Please arrive early to sessions you are interested in seeing.

All sessions will offer live captioning and the keynote will offer sign language. Accessible restrooms will be available, as well as accessible seating during meals.

Yes, please email us at awscloudandaidayauckland@amazon.com to share dietary needs no later than 14 business days before the event.

Please reach out to us at awscloudandaidayauckland@amazon.com.