"AWS Community Builder Edition"

This meetup is a special AWS Community Builder Edition - all speakers are active AWS Community Builders! You will also get a short introduction to the program, and tips on how to apply.

Huge thanks to tonight's sponsor Capra for both venue, food and refreshments!

Location is Torggata 2 (6th floor), entrance "Torggata 2-4-6"

Agenda:

1630: Doors open, snack and networking
1715: Welcome, latest news, AWS Community Builders program intro
1730: Amazon Bedrock for creative Christmas Elf ideas
1740: Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B or typesafe's Jev
1820: AI took my job as a developer (but I got promoted to architect and project manager)
1830: BREAK
1845: I didn't know AWS Lambda could do that!
1900: Big stack, small cost

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AWS Community Builders program intro + Amazon Bedrock for creative Christmas Elf ideas
Håkon will give a quick introduction to what the AWS Community Builders Program is about, benefits, speaking opportunities and how to apply to become one. He will also share a practical example on how being engaged in this program can result in speaking slots at AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent.
Speaker: Håkon Eriksen Drange (AWS Community Builder and User Group leader, Principal Cloud Architect at Sopra Steria)

Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B or typesafe's Jev
Amazon Web Services released an open source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, a short talk to compare these two models.
Speaker: Meraj Kashi (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Norsk Tipping)

AI took my job as a developer
How building a serverless app on AWS with AI and spec-driven development reignited my passion for building, and gave my home projects a future.
Speaker: Lars Magelssen (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Sopra Steria)

I didn't know AWS Lambda could do that!
Think you know AWS Lambda? A lot has changed since its launch in 2014. Strap in for a quick tour of noteworthy launches, with a closer look at the recently announced AWS Lambda Web Functions and MicroVMs, and when you might want to use them.
Speaker: Erlend Ekern (AWS Community Builder, Cloud Architect at Capra Consulting)

Big stack, small cost.
Running one of Norway's largest (niche) web forums on AWS with a non-profit budget.
Speaker: Thomas van Tran (AWS Community Builder, Senior Cloud Architect at Sopra Steria)

Do you want to propose a future talk, or host an event? If yes then send one of the organizers a message! (via Meetup or LinkedIn)