AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences - Customer Meetups

RSVP on the event page: https://aws-experience.com/amer/smb/e/5156a/hcls-customer-meetup-nyc-nov-2026
Please register on the AWS event page above, not here. This event takes place inside an Amazon office, and building access requires your name on the official registration list. An RSVP on Meetup does not register you. Can't make it to New York? The same page offers a virtual option on Zoom.
The AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences Customer Meetup comes to New York on Thursday, November 12. Join builders, architects, and leaders from across the HCLS community at Amazon JFK27 in Midtown for an afternoon of hands-on building and practical talks from teams running AI on AWS. Lunch and a happy hour are included, and there is no cost to attend.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: Agentic AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences (1:00–3:30 PM)
Build a multi-agent system that addresses a real problem: predicting lung cancer survival outcomes. A supervisor agent coordinates four specialists (a biomarker database analyst, a statistician, a clinical evidence researcher, and a medical imaging expert). You'll wire them together with Strands Agents and deploy on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. This is a build session, not a demo. Bring a charged laptop and you'll leave with your agents running. Led by Nihita Sarma and Kanta Garg, AWS.
CUSTOMER AND PARTNER TALKS (3:40–5:15 PM)
Unifying Trials, Patients, and Brands: Multimodal Intelligence for Life Sciences on AWS — Harini Gopalakrishnan and Zohar Nissare-Houssen, Vespa.ai, with Reveal HealthTech. A live clinical use case that queries across structured text, brain scan images, and unstructured narratives to build a specialized patient cohort.
AI-Powered Digital Pathology: From Foundation Models to Clinical Practice — Dr. David Zhang, Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Novino AI. How vision and language foundation models are moving cancer diagnosis from research into clinical practice, with a focus on prostate pathology grading.
Building the Data Backbone for Enterprise AI: CSL's Journey to a Governed Data & Semantic Layer on AWS — Paul Disney and Noelle Villa, CSL, with Ramesh Krishnasamy, AWS. How CSL stood up enterprise data governance, data products, and a semantic layer so AI initiatives rest on reliable, well-governed data.
Chatbots to Colleagues: Developing Agentic AI in BioTech — Aaron Jeskey, Principal Cloud Architect, Pinnacle Technology Partners (PTP). Practical life sciences use cases and the security, governance, and compliance needed to run agentic AI in regulated environments.
AGENDA (all times Eastern)
11:30 AM · Registration, lunch & networking
12:45 PM · Kickoff
1:00 PM · Hands-on workshop
3:40 PM · Customer and partner talks
5:15 PM · Raffle & wrap-up
6:00 PM · Happy hour at Stout NYC (Bryant Park)
Full session-by-session timing is on the registration page.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Technical leaders and builders at every level: cloud architects, engineers, data and ML practitioners, through Directors and CTOs. Content is level 200–300 and geared to healthcare, life sciences, and health tech teams.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Lunch, sponsored by Pinnacle Technology Partners (PTP) · Happy hour at Stout NYC (Bryant Park), a short walk away, sponsored by PTP · A raffle at wrap-up. There is no cost to attend.
VENUE
Amazon JFK27, 12 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018 (south entrance at 11 W 38th St). Check in with building security in the lobby; AWS staff will escort you down to the event space on floor B1.
QUESTIONS
Message the organizers here, or contact srthumma@amazon.com or amgreco@amazon.com.
RSVP on the event page: https://aws-experience.com/amer/smb/e/5156a/hcls-customer-meetup-nyc-nov-2026