Harness the Generative Power of Amazon Q!

AWS Michigan's February Meetup will take place Thursday, February 22 at Washtenaw Community College featuring Ritesh Shah with his presentation on "Transform your business with Amazon Q."

Location: Washtenaw Community College , RM 105/121 Morris J. Lawrence, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 (First floor, use parking lot 3 as seen on THIS map). Park near 3A and head to the door on the side of the building to the left of the "Morris J Lawrence".

Time: Doors will open at 6:00pm networking and light refreshments. The presentation will begin promptly at 6:30pm.

Transform your business with Amazon Q:
Amazon Q is a new type of generative AI-powered assistant that is specifically for work and can be tailored to your business, with the necessary guardrails (details). It can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. This all happens through its web-based interface, so your employees can work smarter, move faster, and drive more impact.

Join us for an evening discovering how AWS generative AI services like Amazon Q can boost productivity, spark creative ideas, and take your business to new heights!
In this interactive session, you'll:

• Learn more about how Amazon Q can generate content, summarize documents, answer questions and much more based on YOUR data
• See real examples of how enterprises like yours are planning to using Amazon Q to work smarter and move faster
• Build your own AI chatbot in less than 30 minutes with our guided demo - no coding required!

Whether you're an AI pro or a beginner, you'll leave inspired about GenAI capabilities and equipped to apply the power of GenAI services like Amazon Q in your role and company.

About the Speaker:

As an AWS Sr. Customer Solutions Manager, Ritesh specializes in enabling sustainable business outcomes for Financial Services customers through strategic cloud and AI adoption. His mission is to democratize cloud and AI, empowering organizations to transform and sustain. Engaging with both C-suite and builders, he seamlessly links tech to business, unlocking value and removing organizational blockers. He is an Area of Depth (AoD) specialist with AWS’s Technical Field Community for AI/ML, with a specialization in generative AI and low-code/no-code Amazon SageMaker solutions.
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his daughter, cooking, learning something new, and building the AWS Cloud and AI community.

Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Ritesh will be supported virtually by Nicholaus Lawson. Nicholaus is a Solution Architect at AWS and part of the AIML specialty group. He has a background in software engineering and AI research. Outside of work, Nicholaus is often coding, learning something new, or woodworking

Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Livestream:

Ritesh’s presentation will be livestreamed in the Great Lakes Tech Leaders Community Discord server. Remote viewers will have the ability to participate as if they were in-person by hearing in-person members' questions and interacting with them, and most importantly, asking the speaker questions themselves.

To livestream this month's presentation, simply head on over to the GLTL Discord page, join, and the presentation will be streaming live in the GLTL.TV voice channel. Link to join: Great Lakes Tech Leaders Discord

**Please note the livestream begins at 6:30pm**

Ritesh’s presentation will be available on-demand at http://gltl.tv

Great Lakes Tech Leaders (GLTL):

The 300+ member GLTL community serves as a virtual analog to AWS Michigan User Group. Join fellow industry leaders dedicated to developing personal and professional leadership traits by reigniting opportunities for regional collaboration with weekly virtual discussions, in-person networking events, and daily community discussions about all things DevOps, AI, hiring opportunities, SaaS optimization, security, and more!

It's 10000% free to join and offers all of the interactive features Discord is known for and more. We hope to see you there, so here's the link to join one more time: GLTL