Agentic AI development with Kiro

Are you ready to build AI-friendly applications faster and smarter? In this session, we explore Kiro — Amazon's developer tool designed to streamline how you build, test, and ship on AWS. Through a live demo, you'll see how Kiro Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Kiro Command Line Interface (CLI) work together to simplify your workflow, integrate seamlessly with AWS Model Context Protocol (MCP), and make your applications agent-ready from day one. Whether you're new to Kiro or curious about AI-assisted development, this session gives you a hands-on look at the future of AWS development.

What You'll Learn
- How Kiro IDE accelerates your development experience
- How Kiro CLI fits into your existing AWS workflow
- How to make your apps agent-friendly using AWS MCP
- Live demo: real-world use cases with Kiro in action

Who Should Attend
This session is designed for anyone curious about how AI is transforming software development — no full-time development background required. Whether you're an infrastructure engineer, cloud architect, DevOps practitioner, or IT professional who occasionally writes scripts and automation, you'll leave with a clear understanding of how Kiro works and why it matters. Anyone with basic IT skills can follow along as we explore how spec-driven development and agentic tooling make it easier for technical professionals of all backgrounds to build and ship software with confidence.

📅 Date & Time: March 12, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
📍 Location: 13455 Noel Road, Suite 1400/ 14th Floor
🚗 Parking: Behind the building.

🔊 Meet Our Speakers:
Sugumar Rajaram is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helps strategic customers run large-scale Generative AI workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). With over 25 years of experience as a developer and architect, he brings deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, containerization, and developer tooling. Sugumar is an active contributor to the Container and NextGen Developer Experience technical field community at AWS. His focus areas include Generative AI solutions, infrastructure optimization, operational excellence, and developer productivity. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and is passionate about technology and empowering people to succeed.

Mohan Krishna is a Principal Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With deep expertise in cloud architecture and operational excellence, Mohan helps enterprise customers design and optimize complex applications on the AWS platform. He is a frequent contributor to the AWS Machine Learning blog, where he shares insights on Generative AI and multi-modal agents for financial services. Mohan holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Q&A and Networking:
Engage in an interactive Q&A session and network with fellow cloud enthusiasts.

🍹 Refreshments:
Beverages and snacks will be provided to keep you fueled throughout the event.

🌐 Event host:
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