Once Upon Agentic AI: Hands-on Workshop - AWS Meetup 10/2026

This time it's not talks - it's a hands-on workshop! 💻
Bring your laptop and build your own AI agents on AWS - from your very first agent to a whole team of agents that talk to each other.
The workshop takes place at the AWS Office Warsaw and is led by Michał Krzyżanowski, AWS Community Builder.

📋 AGENDA
🚪 17:30 - Doors open
👋 18:00 - Intro - Rafal Mitula & Luke Dorosz
🛠️ 18:10 - Hands-on workshop with Michał Krzyżanowski (~3h)
🍕 ~21:15 - Wrap-up & networking

🐉 THE WORKSHOP: "Once Upon Agentic AI: A Developer's Epic Journey"
Roll for initiative... in Python! A D&D-themed quest through the Strands Agents framework. Chapter by chapter, you'll build a Game Master made of cooperating AI agents.
What you'll build:

🧙 Your first agent with Strands
⚔️ Tools - vended tools from the SDK and your own custom tools with @tool
🌐 MCP - serve a tool over Model Context Protocol and connect an agent to it
🏰 A2A - agents talking to each other\, backed by a RAG knowledge base
🎲 Web UI - play with your Game Master in the browser
🛡️ Strands harness - rebuild it all in a few lines

🎒 WHAT TO BRING

💻 Your own laptop (charged!)
🐍 Basic Python knowledge and a terminal
🛠️ Setup instructions (Python, uv, repository) will be sent a few days before the workshop

⭐ SPECIAL GUEST
Michał Krzyżanowski - Michał Krzyżanowski Consulting\, AWS Community Builder

📝 REGISTRATION
Participation is free, registration on meetup.com is required (you are here).
⚠️ This is a hands-on workshop with limited seats - please RSVP only if you're sure you can make it. If your plans change\, update your RSVP to free up space for others!
⏳ Seats: max 40
⏳ RSVP deadline: 25.10.2026, 18:00
🟢 When: 26.10.2026, 18:00 (doors open 17:30)
🟢 Where: AWS Office Warsaw, Towarowa 28, 9th floor

🤝 PARTNERS OF THE EVENT
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

AWS User Group Warsaw by Luke Dorosz & Rafal Mitula