AWS Bulgaria #47 - AWS re:Invent 2023 reCap

AWS re:Invent is one of the best times of the year, isn't it?
We are already excited by the new announcements and eager to see what more is coming!

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Location:
Bosch Digital EOOD | 47B Tsarigradsko Shose, Sofia

Transport:
5-7 min walk from Eagles' Bridge

NOTE: This meeting will be in Bulgarian.

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19:00 - 19:10: Intro
19:10 - 21:00: AWS re:Invent 2023 reCap - Panel Discussion (panel lead: Ivaylo Bratoev; panellists: Dr. Pavlin Dobrev; Aleksey Divarov; Daniel Rankov; TBD)
21:00 - 22:00: Q&A, Networking

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AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services' annual flagship conference. It is held every year in Las Vegas and brings together tens of thousands of attendees, including AWS customers, partners, and AWS itself.
It is the largest cloud computing conference in the world, with over 50,000 attendees in recent years.
The passionate panellists are going to talk about their experience and we are going to review and discuss the new AWS announcements!

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Dr. Pavlin Dobrev
Dr. Pavlin Dobrev is director at Bosch Digital responsible for the quality management within the company as well as for various research and customer projects. Bosch Digital is the digital pioneer at Bosch driving the IT and digital business of the Group. Dr. Dobrev is one of the founders of BASSCOM (Bulgarian Association of Software Companies).
Dr. Dobrev has more than a quarter century of experience in AIoT, including the latest technologies related to cloud applications, IoT with artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, automation of industrial, residential and transportation systems.
Dr. Dobrev holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, with specialization in information retrieval, knowledge representation, and knowledge processing modeling with applications in natural language. His academic and professional activities include numerous scientific and technical publications and participation as a speaker at prestigious international conferences.

Aleksey Divarov
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at SoftwareOne, Aleksey have over 20 years of expertise in IT, with focus on network technologies. Holding key certifications, including 5xAWS, 2xVMware, 4xCisco, and 2xAruba. He’d like to think that by designing intricate architectures, implementing robust security solutions, and optimizing infrastructure he’s moving on-premise closer to the cloud.

Daniel Rankov
Daniel Rankov builds and leads Several Clouds to become a premier Cloud and DevOps consulting company. The company is Cloud-centric, providing services in Cloud Adoption, Cloud Security and Compliance, DevOps and DevSecOps, Cloud-Native Serverless Development, and Data & Analytics.
Daniel is in a player-coach role and has multiple certifications on AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. Daniel is a co-organizer of the AWS Bulgaria User Group. He participates in multiple conferences and leads DevOps training for Telerik Academy and FMI, University of Sofia to share his knowledge and experience. In 2021 he was recognized as the first AWS Hero in Bulgaria - an elite group of less than 250 people worldwide.
This year he organizes AWS Community Day Bulgaria 2023 – a one-day event to become what is probably the biggest cloud conference in Bulgaria.