20th June 2019 Meetup

We have organised our next meetup! Please note that we have had to change the date from 6th June to 20th June to accommodate speaker and venue availability.

This meetup is kindly sponsored by BJSS, who will be providing the venue and refreshments.

Schedule:
6:30 - 7:15: Doors open - turn up, grab a drink, have a natter
7:15 - 7:25: Group news, updates and announcements
7:25 - 8:05: Talk 1: Ian Massingham from AWS answers our questions
8:05 - 8:20: Break - food and drinks available, meet fellow attendees!
8:20 - 9:00: Talk 2: Doug Winter from Isotoma talks AWS Account Security
9:00 onwards: Meetup ends - join us afterwards in the Editor's Draught pub, which is round the corner on Wellington Street

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Talk 1:
First up, we have Yorkshire native Ian Massingham from AWS, who will host an AMA (Ask Me Anything). This is your opportunity to pose any burning questions to a senior AWS person!

Ian Massingham is the Director of Developer Technology & Evangelism at Amazon Web Services where he is responsible for driving the company’s developer engagement strategy.

Ian draws on over two decades of expertise in Internet technologies, technology operations leadership, architecture, and software engineering to help developers around the world, and in organizations of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises, apply cloud computing technologies, solve business problems, and exploit market opportunities.

With has over 20 years’ experience in the IT services industry Ian has been working with cloud computing technologies since 2008. He began his career in operations at an early pioneer in the internet hosting and access services market in the UK, and has since led substantial teams focusing on managed services, software engineering, technology operations and architecture within national and multi-national telecommunications operators. Prior to joining AWS, some 5 years ago, he led systems engineering for customers in the telecommunications vertical at a large enterprise technology provider.

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Talk 2:
Our second talk of the evening is by Doug Winter, Founder and Director of Isotoma in York, and will cover the topic of AWS Account Security - Practical access control, configuration and audit for your AWS accounts.

Doug has been building web applications in some form or other for over 20 years, as CTO, systems architect and/or leader of development and operations teams. Doug is a director of Isotoma, a Yorkshire-based agency who specialise in cloud development, migration and operations for enterprises and large scale SMEs. Doug is a certified AWS Architect and Kubernetes Certified System Administrator and still codes (when he gets the chance) in Go, Typescript and Python.

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Refreshments

We’ll be providing a range of refreshments at the venue, from BJSS (https://www.bjss.com/), our sponsors for this event.

Code of conduct

Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct (https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Leeds-User-Group/pages/28419639/Code_of_Conduct/), in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS Leeds to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity

The organising team for AWS Leeds are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run and even potentially the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.