AWS Meetup - JUNE 4th - [Serverless, Devops, AI / Voice & Security]

HEAVY ON THE ENGINEERING!

Join us at the Button Factory for AWS Talks, Lightning Talks, Announcements, Networking, Refreshments, Prizes, Music.... and general good vibes!

Our Star Studded lineup tonight includes....

• Keith Lynch, Red Hat
• Chris Beckett, Check Point Software Technologies
• Fustina Donaghy, Liberty IT
• Marcelo Flores Manrique, Verizon Connect
• Andrea Muttoni, Sr. Solutions Architect | Tech Evangelist - Amazon Alexa
• Gert Wolfis, F5 Networks
• Daniel Gunderson, Flexera

04th June, 2019

Event Ends 8.30pm

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TALKS

CHRIS BECKETT, Check Point Software Technologies
> CLOUD SECURITY

"Using Dome9 to enable Security Architecture Reviews with Continuous Compliance Assessments of AWS deployments"

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the largest network cyber security vendor globally, providing industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats.

Chris Beckett is a Cloud Security Architect with Check Point Software Technologies.

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FUSTINA DONAGHY, Liberty IT
> SERVERLESS

"Data Engineering meets Software Engineering the Serverless way"

The creation of a scalable, Data driven, Data Integration platform built entirely using AWS Serverless components. From deployment to compute, from orchestration to persistence the successes and the evolution of the platform.

Fustina is an Architect with Liberty IT. She has spent the majority of her career to date working in the field of Data Engineering and data technologies across many industries. She has been instrumental in the design and development of data solutions to all types of applications from high volume, real time, commercial VOIP systems to data sensitive encrypted data stores.

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MARCELO FLORES MANRIQUE, Verizon Connect
>SERVERLESS, DEVOPS

"AWS Lambda performance and design concerns for high volumes of data"

This talk details how to tune the usage of lambda functions, to have the best benefit in cost vs performance in high volume environments like those at VerizonConnect, where the Devops team have high volumes up to several thousands of calls per second and millions of events per day.

Marcelo is a Senior software Engineer at Verizon Connect, with expertise in Distributed Architecture, microservices, Java, C#, Python, AWS, devops and big data. He has over 13 years of experience working for several companies, from Telemetry to E-Commerce and Oil & Gas

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ANDREA MUTTONI Sr. Solutions Architect, Evangelist, AMAZON ALEXA
>AI / VOICE

Using Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit, AWS Lambda and the NodeJS backend JavaScript framework, Andrea takes us through the key steps of building a standout Alexa Skill and monetizing it.

Andrea will cover the following topics...

• Alexa Presentation Language (APL) build multimodal skills with voice and visual experiences using conditional layouts and data binding.
• Alexa Skills Kit (ASK).
• In-skill purchasing (ISP) - offer subscriptions for sports, news, and music, consumables for game products like characters or levels, and entitlements for premium functionality.
• Amazon Pay - sell real-world goods and services such as digital concert tickets, flowers, and gym memberships.
• Alexa Developer Rewards.

Andrea is a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Alexa. In this role, Andrea travels the world sharing stories, learnings and best practices for building voice-enabled experiences, aka Skills, with Alexa. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @muttonia.

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GERT WOLFIS, F5

"Enhanced ADC functions in AWS

Though a set of application services is available in the AWS cloud stack, we often have the need for more advanced ADC services, including security. During the session we will deep dive into the services available and use cases.

Gert Wolfis is an F5 solution architect specialising in Cloud and Automation.