Amazon Web Services Beirut User Group Launching

Join us to launch this community of engineers, developers and business professionals where we get to know each other and launch the official Amazon AWS Beirut User Group on Saturday, October 27th, 2018 4:00 pm at Antwork in Spears.

AGENDA

16:00 - Registration / Networking / Grab a Drink

16:20 - START - AWS | Beirut User Group

Intro to AWS Beirut User Group with Anas Khattar. We'll be making some decisions on the group in what we want to achieve, with a view to arranging our second session for some time in December.

16:40 - Nicolas el Khoury - Designer-24 (https://www.designer-24.com/)

Building a scalable and a highly available microservices architecture on AWS

We're delighted to welcome Nicolas el Khoury, Lead DevOps Engineer at Designer-24. Nicolas will run through building a scalable and a highly available microservices architecture on AWS using Docker and Docker Swarm. This is a must attend presentation for those working and innovating with AWS infrastructure.

Q&A with Nicolas el Khoury

17:10 - Comfort Break

17:30 - Alex Casalboni - Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/)

Artificial Intelligence for Developers

Welcoming Alex Casalboni, AWS Senior Technical Evangelist. Alex will walk us through the AWS offering of machine learning services and tools tailored to meet your needs and level of expertise. Developers can easily add intelligence to any application with a diverse selection of pre-trained services that provide computer vision, speech, language analysis, and chatbot functionality.

Q&A with Alex Casalboni

18:00 - Simon Tadros - RawBot (http://www.rawbot.org/)

Get Started with Blockchain Using the new AWS Blockchain Template for Ethereum

We're happy to welcome Simon Tadros, Lead Developer at RawBot. Simon will present how AWS gives you access to flexible and cost-effective resources to quickly deploy and experiment with blockchain networks in minutes, and pay only for what you use.

Q&A with Simon Tadros

18:30 Networking break - Drinks & Food

NOTE:

This is your opportunity to meet with other members!
Speakers will also be available to answer any queries not covered in their respective Q&A's. Food is also provided courtesy of our sponsors and we may even play some music.

We're on the lookout for new speakers and sponsors, so if you've got recommendations to make on these fronts, please do so during the break.

IMPORTANT:

This is a private venue so it's essential you RSVP in advance

Enjoy!