Next Generation Developer Day

    GenAI Loft | London

    Day:

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    Time:

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    Type:

    IN PERSON

    Speakers:

    Boaz Ziniman | Head of Developer Relations, EMEA at AWS, Matt Lewis | AWS Hero, Laura Verghote | Senior Scale Solutions Architect at AWS, Ricardo Sueiras | Developer Advocate at AWS, Danilo Poccia | Developer Advocate at AWS, Matt Carey | AWS Community Builder, Olivier Leplus | Developer Advocate at AWS, Massimo Re Ferre | Director, Product Management at AWS, Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath | Developer Advocate at AWS, Veliswa Boya | Developer Advocate at AWS, Denis Traub | Developer Advocate at AWS, Mike Basios | CTO & Co-founder at TurinTech AI, Elie Elmalem | Solutions Architect, Public Sector at AWS

    Language:

    English

    Level(s):

    100 - Foundational, 200 - Intermediate, 300 - Advanced

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    This event will look at how generative AI is shaping the future of development, taking a look at how developers are using next generation developer tools such as Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Bedrock Studio, and other tools. It will take you on a journey of what development will look like in the future, with hands on technical talks, code, and demos.

    You will get to hear from and meet developers who are using these tools on a daily basis, learn about how you can use these tools, and provide a place where you can network and ask questions.

    Agenda

    7:30 AM UTC

    Doors open

    8:00 AM UTC

    Opening Keynote

    Boaz Ziniman

    A look at the role of developer and development, and how coding assistants like Amazon Q Developer are going to make developers more productive and reduce friction on experimentation and innovation.

    8:35 AM UTC

    Improving developer productivity with Amazon Q

    Matt Lewis

    AWS Hero Matt Lewis provides a hands on guide on how using Amazon Q Developer can help developers reach new productivity heights, across all the activities they do.

    9:10 AM UTC

    Getting started with generative AI

    Laura Verghote and Elie Elmalem

    The session will help developers get started generative AI, taking a look at the features of Amazon Bedrock and navigating topics such as foundational models, evaluation, knowledge bases, agents, fine tuning, and more. Expect plenty of code and demos that bring this topic to life.

    9:55 AM UTC

    Morning break

    10:10 AM UTC

    Getting started with Amazon Bedrock Studio

    Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

    Amazon Bedrock Studio is a web-based generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) development environment that accelerates the development of generative AI applications by providing a rapid prototyping environment with key Amazon Bedrock features, including Knowledge Bases, Agents, and Guardrails. This session will walk you through the key features and show you how you can get started

    10:10 AM UTC

    [Workshop] Chalk Talk: Build without limits - what I learned using next gen coding assistants

    Ricardo Sueiras

    In this chalk talk I will be sharing what I have learned over the past twelve months of using next generation tools like Amazon Q Developer. I will cover where I have found them irreplaceable, things to watch out for, and share some tips to make you more successful when using it.

    10:45 AM UTC

    Lets build an app from scratch in 30 minutes using Amazon Q Developer

    Veliswa Boya

    Starting with an clean project, lets build a quick application in 30 mins from scratch, showing you how you can use some of the capabilities of Amazon Q Developer.

    11:05 AM UTC

    [Workshop] Chalk Talk: Let's Build an Agent

    Danilo Poccia

    This interactive session which will walk you through how to get started building AgentsSpeaker will be live coding an example, but interacting with the audience to help them shape what is produced

    11:30 AM UTC

    GenAI Showcase

    Mike Basios

    A look at startups working on creating next generation developer tools for developers, as well as case studies from the real adoption of generative AI. We will explore new developer tools that use generative AI to improve developer productivity, and learn how developers are using these tools and finding success.

    12:00 PM UTC

    Lunch

    1:00 PM UTC

    Fireside chat with Massimo Re Ferre

    Veliswa Boya, Massimo Re Ferre

    Sr Principal Product Manager Massimo Re Ferre will dive deeper into what the future of development looks like, and there will be opportunities to ask questions in this fun, interactive session.

    1:00 PM UTC

    [Workshop] Amazon Q Developer

    Ricardo Sueiras

    In this hands on workshop we will walk through installation and configuration of the Amazon Q Developer agent, and then walk you through some hands on labs that show you how to use it.

    1:50 PM UTC

    Open source frameworks to know about when building generative AI applications

    Danilo Poccia

    Learn about open source frameworks that help you build generative AI applications. In this talk we will explore several open source frameworks that help simplify the developer experience and help you build your generative AI applications more quickly

    2:35 PM UTC

    Demo time

    Olivier Leplus and Matt Carey

    We will finish the day with a look at a couple of demos that have been put together to showcase the power of generative AI, and inspire developers on the art of the possible