AWS Startup Dev Day Auckland is a Level 300 event for technical startup founders, CTOs, and engineers to dive deep on architectural best practices, approaches to navigating technology decisions as a scaling startup, and learning the latest developments in AI/ML including generative AI. Join our AWS Experts for hands-on technical sessions to dive deep into some of the hottest and most advanced topics in cloud computing. 

Please arrive from 09:00am for registration. You must bring a laptop to participate in the afternoon hands-on workshop.

Level 300 Sessions dive deeper into the selected topic. Presenters assume that the audience has some familiarity with the topic, but may or may not have direct experience implementing a similar solution.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30 - 10:30 Keynote - Nathan Holmberg, CTO at Thematic

10:30 - 10:45 Break

Track 1: Startup Scaling

10:45 - 11:15 Startup-Ready Serverless: Optimizing AWS Lambda for Hypergrowth

11:15 - 11:45 Breaking the Ice with Amazon S3 Tables

11:45 - 12:15 Customer presentation

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch & Networking

13:00 - 15:00 [Workshop] Building a Cost Effective Open Source Modern Data Platform (DBT, S3 and Athena)

Track 2: Generative AI

10:45 - 11:15 Bolts to Bits: Rapid Prototyping from Physical Devices to New Experiences

11:15 - 11:45 Demystifying AI agents: Patterns for Building Effective Agents

11:45 - 12:15 Teaching AI to Surf with Browser Automation

12:15 - 13:00 Lunch & Networking

13:00 - 13:30 Move Fast with Open-source LLMs

13:30 - 14:00 Amazon Nova in Action: Real World Vision Understanding Use Cases and Best Practices

14:00 - 15:00 Lightning Talks

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:00 Customer Panel - Lessons Learned from Productionising GenAI features

16:00 - 17:00 Drinks and Networking