AWS User Group Aotearoa (NZ) - Wellington Chapter

🎤 Talk 1: Drive a Sphero RVR with Amazon Nova Sonic and AWS IoT
🗣️ Speaker: Chiwai Chan(LinkedIn)

In this session, Chiwai will demo and talk about the architecture of a voice-controlled Sphero RVR robot — speak commands and watch it drive.

He will cover how Amazon Nova 2 Sonic's tool use turns voice into actions, how commands flow through the cloud to the robot in real-time, and the UART bridge that translates MQTT messages into Sphero's binary protocol — all without a backend server.

🎤 Talk 2: Building a Deep Agents Harness for Kubernetes: Autonomous Troubleshooting at Scale
🗣️ Speaker: Dipin Thomas (LinkedIn)

In this talk, you'll see how a Deep Agents harness — an opinionated framework that comes batteries-included with planning, memory, and multi-agent orchestration — turns Kubernetes troubleshooting from a 25-engineer fire drill into an autonomous on-call engineer that never sleeps.

We'll break down every key primitive like:

• Skills (your runbook as code)
• Memory (it remembers your last incident — your PagerDuty doesn't)
• Subagents (don't send one person, send a team)
• Human-in-the-Loop (it stops, it asks, then it acts)
• MCP (the hands that reach into your cluster).

Live demo. Real architecture. Code you can take home.

A special thank you to Datacom for providing the venue for this event.

Venue details:
Datacom Wellington Office
Address is: 55 Featherston Street, Pipitea, Wellington 6011

Special Note About the Venue Access: Take lifts from the ground floor to Level 12 Reception area.

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Agenda:
4:30 PM - Doors Open, Networking
5:00 PM - Talk starts
6:00 PM - Wrap Up, Networking, Fun, Pizza

Sponsors:

A special thanks to our sponsors - AWS, Datacom, Deloitte, Mantel group, MongoDB and CyberCX for their generous financial contributions, which play a vital role in supporting the monthly expenses of AWS User Groups across Aotearoa (including Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Northland).

Our sponsors are the lifeblood of our community events, and without their support, none of this would be possible. Ngā mihi maioha!
We look forward to seeing you at the meetup! Mā te wa.

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