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Werner Vogels is coming to Romania
Location not specified yetWerner Vogels is coming to Romania
The AWS User Groups behind AWS Community Day Romania are joining forces for their first meetup together: Bucharest, September 11th, 2026.
We're welcoming Dr. Werner Vogels, VP & CTO of Amazon, on stage for an exclusive talk followed by a fireside chat. It's a rare chance to hear directly from one of the most influential voices in cloud computing and to connect with the wider AWS community from across the region.
Theme: Thoughts about the Future of Engineering
Agenda:- 17:00 — Welcome speech by Alex Dejanu (Community Leader AWS User Group București)
- 17:10 — Keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels
- 17:30 — Break
- 17:45 — When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Priceless by Raul Geană (Community Leader AWS User Group Timișoara)
- 18:15 — Scaling AWS Communities and Businesses in Romania by Cătălin Dumitraș (Community Leader AWS User Group Iași) & Lucian Revnic (Community Leader AWS User Group Cluj-Napoca)
- 18:45 — Break
- 19:00 — Fireside chat with Dr. Werner Vogels, moderated by Lucian Pătian (Community Leader AWS User Group Timișoara)
- 20:00 — Networking
Details:
- Date: September 11, 2026
- Time: 17:00 – 21:00 (EEST)
- Location: Bucharest (exact venue will be announced soon)
- Price: Free
Co-hosting communities:
- AWS User Group Bucharest
- AWS User Group Timișoara
- AWS Transylvania User Group
- AWS User Group Iași
- AWS User Group Chișinău
- AWS Student Builder Group Bucharest
Spots are limited. Register at https://aws-community.ro/werner-vogels-meetup to secure yours.
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AWS Community Day CEE 2026
Kristály Színtér, Margitsziget 23800/7, Budapest, HUSpeakers from 11 countries and 4 continents — and counting. 15+ sessions, 4+ hours of hands-on workshops. Tickets from €25.
AWS Community Day CEE returns to Budapest’s Margaret Island. 🏝️
🎉 Last year’s inaugural edition brought nearly 300 cloud builders to the island. This year we’re going bigger: a main stage, a breakout stage and a full workshop track running in parallel, plus an expo floor with demos and activities — all day, on Thursday, 17 September 2026.
By the community, for the community. 🚀
🌍 Regional roots, international lineup
AWS Community Day CEE unites AWS User Groups of Central and Eastern Europe — Austria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine — and brings speakers to Budapest from far beyond it: 🇺🇸 USA, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇬🇭 Ghana, 🇷🇴 Romania, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇸🇮 Slovenia and 🇭🇺 Hungary.
🎙️ Main stage- The (Hype-Free) AI SDLC, as of September 2026 — Opening Keynote by Liam Greenamyre 🇺🇸, Principal Product Manager @ AWS. He’s the PM behind the AWS Agent Toolkit and AWS’s MCP servers, here to show what AI-assisted software development actually looks like today, minus the buzzwords.
- 5 Steps to IAM Zero — Paul Schwarzenberger 🇬🇧, Cloud Security Engineer @ Celidor
- Hidden trade-offs in distributed architectures — Anahit Pogosova 🇫🇮, Cloud Architecture & Engineering Lead @ F-Secure Corporation
- From Threat to Guardian: Harnessing AI/ML on AWS — Daniel Clement 🇬🇭, Solution Architect
- Lessons Learned After Putting AWS DevOps Agent in our SRE Workflow — Mitja Hofer 🇸🇮, Senior DevOps Engineer @ Celtra
- IAC (Infrastructure as a Context of your AI agent) — Anton Antanovich 🇵🇱, Lead DevOps Engineer @ EPAM
- Responsible AI in Practice: Operationalizing AI Safety with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails — Faye Ellis 🇬🇧, Author Fellow @ Pluralsight
- Serverless vs Kubernetes: the final showdown — Davide de Paolis 🇩🇪, Engineering Manager @ Sevdeks/Shine, and Tiago Bilou 🇩🇪, Staff Software Engineer @ XING
- The Human Latency Problem — Closing Keynote by Meridith Grundei 🇺🇸, Communication Strategist + Experience Director. She created the AWS New Voices Program and coaches the speakers you watch on stage at re:Invent.
🎧 Breakout stage
A second full track of community and partner sessions runs alongside the main stage all day — covering AI, security, FinOps and more. New speakers are announced regularly, so keep an eye out. 👀
🛠️ Workshops — bring a laptop- Create Your Own Role-Playing Game with Agentic AI using Strands Agents — Arnaud Jean 🇫🇷, Senior Developer Advocate @ AWS
- AWS Security Agent: Get started with AI-powered proactive AppSec — Andre Baumeier 🇩🇪, Senior Solutions Architect @ AWS
- Gateway API Isn’t About Ingress Anymore: Building Service Networks on AWS with Amazon VPC Lattice — Claudiu-Cristian Sonel 🇷🇴, Senior DevOps Consultant @ ENDAVA
⏰ Timings, the full lineup and newly announced speakers: awscommunity.eu — the programme is still growing, so check back.
🍲 And when the talks are over…
Gulyás, Beers & Good Cheers — the afterparty runs from 17:30 to 21:30 for VIP ticket holders. Proper Hungarian goulash, cold beer and soft drinks, and the conversations that usually turn out to be the best part of the day. 🍻
👥 Who’s it for?
Developers, cloud architects, DevOps and SRE folks, security engineers, students, career changers and founders — from first-week-on-AWS to fifteen-years-deep. Every session and workshop is in English.
🎫 Tickets — €25 / €45 / €100
A fraction of what a conference of this calibre normally costs, because it’s run by the community, not for profit. The top tier includes the afterparty.
👉 Get your ticket on Eventbrite
⚠️ Tickets live on Eventbrite — registration via the link above is required for entry. A Meetup RSVP alone is not sufficient.
Coming from abroad? Budapest is a short flight or train ride from most of the region, and mid-September on the island is genuinely lovely. Grab a colleague, make a trip of it — we’d love to see you there. 🇦🇹🇭🇷🇬🇷🇭🇺🇲🇩🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇺🇦
See you in Budapest! ☁️4 attendees
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