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This is the AWS User Group Dublin. We're a community of engineers, developers and business professionals meeting to share ideas & learn from each other and from leading figures in the AWS technology space. The group is an important resource for technical & business professionals who want to stay up to speed with developments in AWS Cloud and related technologies. Look out for more events and announcements for 2025 / 2026
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AWS Meetup Dublin | 14 January 2026 - with Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist, AWS!
Button Factory, 2 Curved Street, Dublin, IEHi,
AGENDA - [Update: Friday 9th Jan, 2026]
Please attend before 6pm :)
5:30pm – Doors Open!
6:00pm – Ronan Ó Caollaí, Guilfoyle, AWS
Welcome + Quick Roundup
6:15pm – Jeff Barr, VP AWS
Building a GenAI-Driven Developer Organization
6:35pm - Sean Blanchfield, Jentic.com
AWS GAIA and Insights from an AI Startup
6:55pm - Break/Networking/Prize Draw
7:15pm - Aswathy Prasad, AWS
“Build-Deploy-Operate Agents Securely At Scale – using any framework, any model”
Learn how to take AI agents from development to production using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's building blocks. This session demonstrates deploying AI Agents in Runtime, Adding Managed Memory, turn existing AWS Lambda functions into tools and Monitoring your Agents in production.
7.40pm - Patrick Palmer, AWS (Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect)
“Adopting Post-Quantum security in AWS”
This talk explores what PQC is, why it matters, and how AWS simplifies the transition. We'll cover the "harvest now, decrypt later" threat where adversaries collect encrypted data today to decrypt it once quantum computers arrive. You'll learn about NIST's finalized standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) and AWS's phased migration approach.
AWS handles the heavy lifting through its shared responsibility model—deploying PQC across service endpoints, integrating quantum-resistant algorithms into AWS services. You’ll walk away knowing what the technology is, and how you can adopt it, as well as what a larger adoption plan might look like.
8pm - Prize Draw Results / Ends!
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UPDATES >>>
UPDATE: We’re delighted to welcome Sean Blanchfield, CEO of Jentic, to our speaker lineup. Sean’s company was recently inducted into AWS’s Generative AI Accelerator (GAIA) - an exclusive programme that selected 40 top startups worldwide in 2025 and we're looking forward to finding out more about their experience and the latest trends.
With Jeff Barr, AWS Global Chief Evangelist, also joining us at Button Factory, the Evening of January 14th 2026 is shaping up to be a standout night for anyone building, scaling or thinking seriously about AI and cloud technology.
RSVP Now!
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Join us for a rare AWS community event featuring JEFF BARR, Chief Evangelist, Amazon Web Services!!!
Event Title: AWS Meetup Dublin w/Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist, AWS
Date: 14th Jan, 2026
Tickets: FREE...but with Limited Availability....RSVP NOW!
Venue: Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02 RD26
Speakers: Jeff Barr & Community Speakers TBA
More Details: Watch This Space!
OVERVIEW
As global evangelist for AWS, Jeff rarely gets a chance to appear in Ireland, making 14th January 2026 a valuable opportunity to hear his perspective on global technology trends, the direction of cloud and AI - and what all these shifts mean in practical terms for builders, architects and technical leaders working at scale. So let's give Jeff a big welcome!
Alongside Jeff’s keynote, you’ll hear from leading engineers in the Irish AWS community, sharing practical insights, use cases - and what’s actually working in production today.
SPEAKERS
There are speaking slots available for the event and so we are inviting members to submit short, experience-driven talks covering real systems, war stories, lessons learned and emerging use cases. If you’re building something interesting on AWS we’d really love to hear from you....
Tickets are FREE but are Limited, so please RSVP Now.
Interested in Speaking/Supporting?
AWS User Group events offer a great opportunity to align your brand with AWS thought leadership and to reach a highly influential audience of senior engineers, architects, founders and technical decision-makers that traditional channels cannot match. The Dublin AWS User Group is amongst the longest established in the world and has a long reputation for delivering quality content and engagement opportunities. Meetups are run in a city centre live entertainment setting with full A/V capabilities including dedicated lighting and sound engineers and seating for 200.
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* Agenda above may change slightly
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