#1 AWS UG Porto Meetup (Relaunch Event) | AWS UG Porto 🤝 Cloud Native Porto

🚀 AWS User Group Porto is back! After a long break, we’re thrilled to relaunch the community — and we couldn’t ask for a better way to return than joining forces with the awesome folks at Cloud Native Porto for a special joint meetup! 🙌

This marks a new chapter for the AWS UG Porto — and we’re counting on the amazing local tech community to help us grow stronger than ever.

Big thanks to Cloud Native Porto for the warm welcome and support in co-hosting this edition, and to our sponsors — Cleva, and synvert xgeeks — for helping make it happen.

Expect insightful talks, live demos, and a strong focus on hands-on solutions. Plus, as always: great people, great snacks & pizzas, and great conversations.

📍 Location: Cleva Offices, Porto
📅 Date: May 21, 2025
🕡 Time: 18:30
NOTE: 👉 This event will be in-person only. Let’s reconnect face-to-face and bring the community vibe back!

🗓 Agenda:18:30 – Check-in & Welcome 👋

19:00 – 🎤 "OTel Collector in Practice"
Speaker: Juraci Paixão Kröhling – Co-Founder @ OllyGarden & CNCF Ambassador
📄 Dive into real-world observability pipelines with the OpenTelemetry Collector. Juraci shares practical “recipes” to get the most out of your observability stack.

19:30 – 🎤 "Automated Workload Evaluation with Python and CloudWatch"
Speaker: Gabriel Alves – Senior Cloud Security Engineer @ Scopely
📄 Automate workload evaluations across multiple AWS accounts and regions using Python and CloudWatch. A practical session for improving visibility, operations, and decision-making.

20:00 – 🎤 "Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards With Perses DAC"
Speaker: Nicolas Takashi – Tech Lead, Observability Unit
📄 Learn how to manage dashboards at scale using Perses, Dashboard-as-Code, and tools like percli, Go, and Cue. Includes a live demo.

20:30 – 21:30 – Networking, Food & Drinks 🍕🍻

🎤 Got something cool to share about AWS?
We’re always looking for speakers to showcase their work.
👉 Submit your talk here

💬 Join our AWS Portugal Slack channel to connect and stay in the loop:
👉 AWS Portugal Slack

Let’s (re)build AWS UG Porto — together! See you there!