Portland AWS User Group

• Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions
• Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: Talk by our very own Emily Soward, Chief AI Officer, CEO, and Founder of Realis Solutions Group.

Talk Abstract
What does it mean for an AI product to be safe AND secure? In this talk we will dive into product safety for AI and agents, what it takes to earn trust by bringing the right products and AI features to market, and how to build AI-focused product security capabilities. This talk opens as we walk through an AI SaaS application hosted on AWS and discuss how to address multi-tenancy, privacy, and identity controls to offer services at scale that offer customers safer ways to use AI. After we finish looking at technology choices, we will discuss product security, risk management, and compliance considerations and how AI Security and AI Red Teaming fit in. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies for architecting safer AI applications for their customers and building AI product security capabilities.

This talk is aimed at business and product leaders, technologists, and risk and security professionals who want to deep-dive on what it takes to move beyond the AI proof-of-concept. Product management, security, operations, or application R&D experience are helpful, but no AI experience is required.

• Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions
• Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: Sam Schonstal, Sr Solutions Architect and GenAI Specialist, will present on 1) Hands-on demonstration of the new Kiro IDE and CLI, practical implementation strategies; Tips for scaling AI-assisted development across teams and an interactive Q&A and best practices discussion.

• Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions
• Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: Talk by Danielle Heberling, Serverless Weather Reporting with AWS Step Functions and CDK.
• Danielle was an early AWS serverless adopter who joined Stackery, a startup building modern cloud development tools. AWS acquired the company, and the work evolved into Infrastructure Composer in the AWS Console. In 2023 she was recognized as an AWS Serverless Hero. She's passionate about making cloud development more accessible. She gives talks, writes about her experiences, mentors engineers, and builds products people can depend on and love to use. Danielle co-organizes Believe in Serverless, a Discord community for engineers to learn about serverless and cloud architecture: https://believeinserverless.com/community