AWS Brisbane Usergroup - 22nd January 2026
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SAVE THE DATE - 22nd January 2026
🔐 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.
🍽️ Food & Drinks
As always there will be 🍕Pizza, 🍺Beer and plenty of network opportunities with AWS enthusiasts around Brisbane.
📅 Save the Date: 22nd January 2026
🕒 Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm (Talks start 6:00pm prompt)
📍 Location: AWS Office Brisbane, L30, 300 George Street, Brisbane
🚀 Agenda:
re:Invent re:Cap is a walk-through of the most important announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025, distilled from a massive week of launches, previews, and roadmap signals.
🎤 Presenters
- 🧠 Rian Brooks-Kane – Head of Technology & Solutions, Idea 11
Six announcements, zero fluff: Database Savings Plans, Regional NAT Gateways, QuickSight embedded chat, CodeCommit’s surprise comeback, AWS Security Agent, and the AWS login CLI that should’ve existed years ago. - 🛠️ Clara Villa: Software Engineer. Discussing Serverless and Lambda durable function.
- 🔍 Lucy Webster
- ☁️ Michael Kingston: ML Engineer & PhD student. Discussing a selection of the latest releases for ML & AI
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🧭 Summary
With over 500 updates across AI/ML, compute, storage, databases, networking, and developer experience, this session focuses on what actually matters for builders: where AWS is investing, which services are production-ready, and what trends are shaping how we design and operate systems over the next 12–24 months.
The talk will highlight practical takeaways, spanning agentic AI and Bedrock, next-generation silicon (Graviton, Trainium, NVIDIA Blackwell), data and analytics advances, platform simplification, and security and resilience improvements.
Whether you build cloud-native applications, operate production workloads, or are exploring what’s next in AI and infrastructure, this session provides a clear, practitioner-oriented recap without the Vegas overload
🌐 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.
