A 400+ Level Meetup - Advanced AWS AI & Security Use Cases

This meetup is an advanced one! We will be presenting all sorts of complicated networking, identity, AI and platform engineering solutions established on AWS infrastructure!

What To Expect?

• Pizza and beer!
• Cool Swag
• Awesome Speakers

Agenda:
18:00-18:30 - Networking, beers and pizza
18:30-19:00 - Talk 1: AI didn’t Wait for Security - Now What?
Speaker: Ran Isenberg , AWS Hero & Principal Architect @Palo Alto Networks & Stav Ochakovski ,AWS Hero & Senior DevOps Engineer, Eon.

AI didn't wait for your security review. Developers are already using agentic AI, coding assistants, agentic skills, and MCP servers to write, review, and ship code, often without shared security standards or governance. In large orgs, this becomes chaotic tool sprawl: multiple IDEs, many agents, inconsistent rules, and rising risk. The instinctive reaction is to block AI tools entirely. That approach fails fast: developers work around it, security loses visibility, delivery slows, and risk grows.

This talk offers a better path: treat AI as a first-class platform citizen. Drawing on platform engineering principles, you'll learn how to build centralized MCP guardrails, a curated agentic skills catalog, and reusable agentic blueprints, backed by AI SDLC frameworks that govern AI usage while accelerating delivery of AI-powered services.

19:00-19:30 - Talk 2: No Secrets Attached: AWS as Your OIDC Provider
Speaker: Omer Cohen,Head of Security, Descope

Stop putting secrets in Lambda. This talk shows how to use AWS IAM outbound identity federation so a Lambda function can mint a short-lived JWT with sts:GetWebIdentityToken, verify and inspect it, and use it to authenticate to Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, and a cross-account API Gateway.
You will leave with a practical architecture, working code, and a clear understanding of where this pattern shines and where the integration edges still are.

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