AWS Brisbane Usergroup - 28th August 2025

SAVE THE DATE - 28th August 2025

🔐 REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL - To speed up the check in process on the night, the venue's (AWS) security team requires attendees name and email address.

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🍽️ Food & Drinks
As always there will be 🍕Pizza, 🍺Beer and plenty of network opportunities with AWS enthusiasts around Brisbane.

📅 Save the Date: 28th August 2025
🕒 Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm (Talks start 6:00pm prompt)
📍 Location: AWS Office Brisbane, L30, 300 George Street, Brisbane
🚀 Agenda:

• What's new on AWS re:? - TBA
  Some of the best and what they mean for you.
• Pizza, Beverages & Networking
• Mai Nishitani - Director Enterprise Services @ NTT Data
  Revolutionising disaster response with drones and Amazon Bedrock
  Following Cyclone Alfred's destructive floods, our team addressed the critical shortage of human inspectors by developing an intelligent system that processes drone-captured imagery of bridge infrastructure.

See an end-to-end solution that automatically identifies structural damage, assesses severity, and generates comprehensive inspection reports.
This solution was built on all AWS native services such as AWS Transfer Family web application for seamless file exchange and Amazon Bedrock's AI capabilities with AWS Lambda for event-based architecture.

Learn how this solution dramatically reduced inspection times from days to hours, enabled rapid prioritisation of critical repairs, and enhanced public safety across affected communities.

• Alan Blockley - Domain Specialist @Thoughtworks
  Streamline Your Serverless Development on AWS
  Are you looking to build and deploy serverless applications on AWS more efficiently? Join us for an insightful presentation on the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)!

In this session, Alan willl provide an overview of SAM - an open-source framework that simplifies infrastructure as code for serverless apps. You'll learn how SAM extends AWS CloudFormation with additional serverless resource types and a simplified syntax.
Whether you're new to serverless or already leveraging it, this presentation will equip you with practical knowledge to accelerate your serverless development on AWS.

🌐 Who Should Attend:

• AWS enthusiasts, beginners, and experts
• Cloud enthusiasts and professionals
• Anyone interested in the latest AWS trends and technologies

This event is proudly sponsored by Thoughtworks and Idea 11 in conjunction with AWS Brisbane.