Agentic AI on AWS

ShellHacks 1st Place Overall Winners Tu Nguyen (SBG Director of Outreach, Bloomberg Intern) & Edwin Luu (SBG Member, Royal Caribbean Intern) join the AWS Student Builder Group and Women in Computer Science (WiCS) for an exclusive technical breakdown and fireside chat. Room INV1 - 314!

Out of 1,400+ hackers and nearly 300 submissions at Florida's largest hackathon, Tu and Edwin took top honors (1st place) by building with autonomous AI agents on AWS. In this session, they will break down their winning project architecture, show you how to orchestrate multi-step agents using Amazon Bedrock, and discuss how earning AWS Certification and their respective internship experiences helped shape their engineering journeys.

What We'll Cover

ShellHacks 1st Place Breakdown: Behind-the-scenes look at the system architecture, model choices, and prompt workflows behind the championship project.
Building with Amazon Bedrock Agents: How to go beyond basic prompt wrappers—connecting Foundation Models (FMs) to APIs, managing agentic state, and building autonomous multi-step actions.
Open Q&A: Certifications, Interviews & Portfolio Gold: Real talk combining AWS certification study strategies, insider tips on what top engineering interviewers evaluate, turning hackathon builds into portfolio gold, and an open floor for your questions!
Community & Refreshments: Food and drinks provided—bring your laptop and questions!