Bedrock Basics & AI Engineering for Humans

We’re excited to host Bedrock Basics & AI Engineering for Humans
Stop fine-tuning models. Start engineering the context around them.

Everyone's first instinct with enterprise AI is to fine-tune. It's almost always the wrong move: slow, expensive, and stale the moment your codebase changes.

This talk walks through the alternative that actually ships, context engineering, and shows you how to build a real RAG system on AWS Bedrock without a research team or a GPU budget.

We go from the ground up (what an embedding actually is, how retrieval really works) to a running streaming chatbot end to end. Along the way: the two patterns for feeding AI your organizational knowledge (ADRs and Skills in the repo, and RAG on Bedrock), Bedrock in plain terms, choosing the right model instead of the biggest one, Knowledge Bases vs. rolling your own, and S3 Vectors as a cheaper replacement for Pinecone or pgvector.

A live Spring Pet Clinic case study shows the difference between AI with zero ADRs and AI with three. You leave with the architecture, the real costs, and actual Terraform and Python, not a vision slide.

Speaker: Brian Carpio, Founder of OutcomeOps LLC and former AWS ProServe.

🗓️ When: Saturday, July 18, in partnership with Tech Alley 🙌
🕚 Time: Join us at 1:15 PM for a practical session
📍 Where: Third Street Theater 814 S 3rd St, Las Vegas, NV 89101 (Free parking in the garage behind the theater).

This event is part of a full day of meetups hosted in a convention-style format, with different tracks running throughout the day. There will be networking, coffee, food, and refreshments starting at 10:00 AM, so feel free to come early and hang out—we’ll be there!

👉 Please RSVP so we know to expect you.

Looking forward to seeing you there!