Triangle AWS User Group

Agenda:

1. 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm EST - Welcome and Light Refreshments
2. 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm EST - Beyond the Hype: Measuring AI Impact in Developer Workflows
3. 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm EST - Panel Discussion on Healthcare Life Sciences technology trends led by Brian Beach
4. 7:30pm to 8:00 pm EST - Networking

Beyond the Hype: Measuring AI Impact in Developer Workflows
Abstract:
As organizations scale, both developer support and cloud governance become harder to manage - slowing teams down and increasing operational risk. This session explores how AI is helping address these challenges by improving access to information, reducing manual effort, and enabling faster, more confident decision-making.
More importantly, we’ll focus on measured real workplace impact. Through usage data, outcomes, and developer feedback, we'll show how AI-driven support and governance reduce manual effort, shorten resolution times, strengthen security, and improve operational efficiency without sacrificing control.

About the Speakers:
Leonid Gorelik is a Cloud Engineer on the Cloud Guardrails team, focused on building scalable cloud governance platforms, security controls, and access management solutions across multi-cloud environments. His professional interests include AI integration into CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, access and vulnerability management processes. Outside of work, Leonid enjoys rock climbing, hiking, and karate.
Brantley Morgan is a Software Engineer at Align Technology on the Developer Portal (DEPO) Team. He graduated from North Carolina State University where he studied Computer Science and participated in the CSC Ambassador program. Brantley's interest include web app development, cybersecurity, and AI. In his free time, Brantley enjoys basketball, hiking, and movies.
Brian Beach is the Tech Lead for Kiro at AWS and local here in the Triangle area. With over 25 years of experience as a developer and architect, Brian leads the NextGen Developer Experience team at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on leveraging infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and generative AI to boost developer productivity. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from NYU Poly and an MBA from Rutgers Business School, and is the author of "Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services" from Apress.

Who Should Attend: This session is designed for anyone curious about how AI is transforming Healthcare Life Sciences and software development. You don't need to be a full-time developer to get value from it.

Abstract: Fresh off the excitement of re:Invent 2025, where Kiro was featured in every keynote, join us for an in-depth technical session on this agentic IDE that helps developers maintain flow while ensuring enterprise-grade code quality. In this session, you'll learn how Kiro accelerates your journey from idea to production through spec-driven development—a structured approach that transforms rough ideas into clear requirements, thoughtful designs, and actionable implementation plans before a single line of code is written. We'll demonstrate how to delegate and automate development tasks using Kiro's agent hooks, multimodal agent chat, and MCP support, showing you how Kiro's agents challenge you to think beyond the code and work alongside you to solve hard engineering problems with confidence. You'll also get a first look at Kiro's autonomous agent, a frontier agent that works independently on development tasks while maintaining context and learning from every interaction, plus Powers—specialized context and tools that load on-demand so you get exactly what you need without MCP context overload. Whether you're shipping enterprise software or authoring a Terraform template, this session will show you how Kiro is redefining what it means to code with an AI partner.

Who Should Attend: This session is designed for anyone curious about how AI is transforming software development—you don't need to be a full-time developer to get value from it. Whether you're an infrastructure engineer, cloud architect, DevOps practitioner, or IT professional who occasionally writes scripts and automation, you'll walk away with a clear understanding of how Kiro works and why it matters. Anyone with basic IT skills will be able to follow along as we explore how spec-driven development and agentic tooling are making it easier for technical professionals of all backgrounds to build and ship software with confidence.

About the Speaker: Brian Beach is the Tech Lead for Kiro at AWS and happens to be local here in the Triangle area. With over 25 years of experience as a developer and architect, Brian leads the NextGen Developer Experience team at Amazon Web Services, where he focuses on leveraging infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and generative AI to boost developer productivity. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from NYU Poly and an MBA from Rutgers Business School, and is the author of "Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services" from Apress. Brian is a prolific speaker who has presented to over 25,000 attendees worldwide and maintains an impressive 4.75/5.0 average session rating.

Agenda:

1. 11:30 am to 12:00 pm EST - Grab Lunch and settle in
2. 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST - Kiro Presentation by Brian Beach
3. 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST - Attendees Networking