Women & Non-Binary Focused Intro to AWS

Happy Galentine's Day! If you never watched Parks and Recreation, Galentine’s Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galentine) is celebrated as a day for “ladies celebrating ladies.” We're expanding it to all women, non-binary, and trans friends in Chicago using AWS.

Get started with AWS in a hands-on, judgement free zone. We will hear from wonderful folks who use AWS. Follow along with your AWS-based projects or start your very first one. After the event, stay connected in our AWS Chicago slack (get an invite: slack.chicagoaws.com (http://slack.chicagoaws.com/)) and the chitechdiversity Slack (http://chitechdiversity.slack.com/).

Talk 1: "data something something" - Sunah Suh, Data Engineer at Mozilla Firefox // @sunahsuh (https://twitter.com/sunahsuh)

Talk 2: "how to develop for aws on your local machine using localstack / moto" - MJ Berends, Data Apps Team Lead at Jellyvision // @apprxlinear (https://twitter.com/apprxlinear)

Talk 3: "Transitioning to AWS in a Hurry Without Getting Owned" - Devina Dhawan, Security Engineer at Etsy // @TheUlzo (https://www.twitter.com/theulzo)

Talk 4: "A tale of 3 AWS Migrations" - Allie Richards, Senior DevOps Engineer at Centro // @hpuxgirl (https://www.twitter.com/hpuxgirl)

Agenda:

5:45pm Welcome & pizza - your AWS organizers
5:55pm 5 min host talk - Avant
6:00pm Talk 1
6:30pm Talk 2
7:00pm Talk 3
7:30pm Talk 4

Sponsor & Host: Avant

Note: your full (legal) name must be on the RSVP to get in building security This is not a public event. You must be on the list to attend. RSVPs do not open until 2 weeks before

While this event is not exclusive for women, non-binary, and trans folks we do ask that you be considerate when you RSVP. Please send an email or meetup message if you have questions!