Meetup #27 : 2026 Kick-Off Party, Community AWS re:Invent re:Cap

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not so with AWS re:Invent 2025!
Get ready for an awesome night with insights and the latest AWS announcements from THE conference of the year. ✨

📞 Please call or text Anda (+41 78 309 54 81) if you are in front of the building, I'll come get you.
✅ Kindly register beforehand as there is only a limited room capacity.

Agenda:
17:30 Doors open & Networking

18:00 Welcome & Introduction AWS Community Geneva & Lausanne

18:05 Welcome & Introduction Sonar

18:10 AWS re:Cap
🎤 Kemal Diri – Practical AI for Data Engineering
A recap of key AWS re:Invent data engineering themes, followed by concrete, real-world examples of how AI and LLMs simplify everyday data engineering workflows.

🎤 Nat Noordanus – Reinventing Lambda: Bringing Servers and State Back to Your Stateless Serverless Functions
This Re:Invent brought some of the biggest changes to AWS lambda ever. In this session we’ll recap some of the exciting new capabilities in AWS lambda functions and explore what they mean in practice.

🎤 Loïc Fournier – FinOps Wizard: AWS re:Invent 2025 Cost Management Innovations
Explore Database Savings Plans, Compute Optimizer automation, and cost
management innovations that this abstract cannot tag due to length efficiency. Get the full Vegas ALL-IN experience and triumph in the final quiz.

19:50 Quiz & Closing

20:00 Networking

🍻 Join us for an aperitif after the conference
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💬 Language - The event will be held in English
📍 Location - Chem. de Blandonnet 10, 1214 Vernier

Do you have an office or co-working space where we can meet? Do you have an idea or story around AWS you would like to share? Get in touch with Anda and we'll discuss to make it happen.

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🙏 We're very happy to be able to meet at Sonar's office this time and thankfully get food and drinks provided.

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