AWS AI UG x Azure AI UG - Battle of the Clouds

Hello and welcome to a special joint meetup between Azure AI UG and AWS AI UG — our first crossover event bringing both communities together for an evening of real-world AI engineering, platform perspectives, and a friendly “battle of the clouds”.

This event brings together engineers, data & ML practitioners, architects, platform teams, and leaders building AI and generative AI systems across both Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Our meetups are friendly, welcoming, and practitioner-led. Everyone is welcome, whether you’re deeply invested in one cloud, multi-cloud, or just curious about how teams are delivering production AI workloads in different environments.

This session will include:
• real-world case studies from both platforms
• engineering deep dives & demos
• honest lessons learned (including what went wrong)
• Q&A and cross-cloud discussion
• time for networking with both communities

We run bi-monthly in-person meetups in London, bi-monthly online global events, and chapters across the UK, North America and APAC. Food and refreshments will be provided where a host venue is supporting.
We are delighted to host this event in London on the 14th of April in partnership with TBC

Speakers and Sessions:

Representing Azure AI
Speaker: TBC
Session Title: TBC
Description: TBC

Representing AWS AI
Speaker: TBC
Session Title: TBC
Description: TBC

Special Session:
Panel: Battle of the Clouds — AI in Production
A cross-cloud discussion covering architecture trade-offs, MLOps / LLMOps approaches, governance, cost & reliability, platform constraints, and the reality of running AI systems at scale.

Agenda (GMT / UK)
18:00 — Arrival, welcome & refreshments
18:30 — Introduction — Ethan Sumner
18:35 — Azure AI Talk
19:05 — AWS AI Talk
19:35 — Break
19:50 — Cross-Cloud Panel: Battle of the Clouds
20:20 — Networking & close

We’re always keen to hear from:
• Speakers — case studies, deep dives, demos & platform war stories
• Hosts — organisations able to provide space for future meetups
• Sponsors — support with refreshments, recording, marketing or accessibility

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

You can find our YouTube channels via our community pages, where we publish selected talks and highlights.

Both communities form part of the Community Stack ecosystem and follow the Community Stack Code of Conduct, ensuring a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all attendees.