AWS AI UG #4 - Online

Hello and welcome to our next AWS AI UG meetup.

This event brings together engineers, builders, data and ML practitioners, architects, and leaders working with AI, ML, and generative AI on AWS.

Our meetups are friendly, welcoming, and community-driven; everyone is welcome, whether you’re experienced or just starting your AWS AI journey. This session will include practitioner talks, demos, Q&A, and time for networking with like-minded peers.

We run bi-monthly in-person meetups in London, bi-monthly online events across the UK, North America and APAC, and one online global AWS AI conference each year. Food and refreshments will be provided for in-person events where a host venue is supporting.

We are delighted to host this event in Online on 19th of Janurary.

Speakers and Sessions:

Speaker: Mahmoud El Zayet, CTO at Bexprt
Session Title: LLMs Behaving Badly: How We Shipped Enterprise GenAI Without Getting Fired
Description: GenAI demos are magic. Production in a Fortune 50? That's where things get real.

This talk shares war stories from deploying an intelligent document processing system in a highly regulated enterprise in under 6 months. We'll cover what actually stood between us and go-live: zero-internet architectures, security teams who'd never said yes to AI, compliance hurdles, LLM timeouts at the worst moments, and the creative ways large language models tried to embarrass us.

No slides full of architecture diagrams. Just honest lessons from the trenches on making GenAI work where failure wasn't an option

Speaker: TBC
Session Title: TBC
Description: TBC

Agenda (GMT / UK):
18:00 — Welcome and Introduction — Ethan Sumner
18:05 — Speaker 1
18:40 — Break
18:50 — Speaker 2
19:30 — Close and networking

We are always keen to hear from:
• Speakers — case studies, engineering deep dives, demos and applied AWS AI stories
• Hosts — organisations able to provide space for future meetups
• Sponsors — support with refreshments, recording, marketing or accessibility

If you would like to speak, sponsor, or host a future event, please get in touch with Ethan Sumner via LinkedIn.

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