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AWS moves fast, and it’s easy to lose the signal in the noise. This evening is designed to give you a crisp, practical recap of the most impactful AWS updates — with a strong focus on what you can actually apply in 2026.
Expect a session that’s practical, opinionated (in a good way), and interactive, with plenty of time for Q&A and networking.

Kindly hosted by Devoteam who will also be providing pizza and drinks.

### 🎤 Speaker

Ioannis Moustakis — Lead Solutions Architect @ AWS (Brussels)
Ioannis grew up in Greece and is currently based in Brussels, working as a Lead Solutions Architect at AWS. His background includes experience as a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer and Team Lead. He’s a tech enthusiast, a genuine problem-solver, and a seeker of innovation—constantly curious about the world around us.
Across his career, Ioannis has contributed to diverse engineering projects, including:

  • Developing a custom Virtual Reality platform for neuroscience experiments
  • Being involved in the design, implementation, and testing of a Formula-style race car
  • Leveraging DevOps solutions to build software for the financial and telecom sectors

Personal blog: https://medium.com/@moustakisioannis
Technical writing: https://www.inklypos.com/

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## What we’ll cover (with AWS re:Invent 2025 highlights)

We’ll use AWS re:Invent 2025 as a backbone and zoom in on the announcements and themes that are most relevant for builders and architects:

  • Agentic AI & model customization
  • New model families and capabilities (speech / reasoning / multimodal)
  • Automation for UI/workflows and “doing work” (not just chatting)
  • What customization/pretraining means for real enterprises
  • Bedrock + RAG foundations
  • Agent deployment foundations: evaluations, policy controls, guardrails
  • Scalable vector/RAG building blocks and how to design them cleanly
  • AI infrastructure & custom silicon
  • Where training/inference is going (and what changes for cost/perf)
  • Graviton / Trainium direction and what’s practical today
  • Serverless & app workflows
  • More “stateful” serverless patterns (durable, long-running flows)
  • When to choose serverless vs containers vs managed instances
  • Security & trust
  • Moving from alerts → prioritized risk and near real-time detection
  • Identity policy automation and practical governance patterns
  • Operations, governance & modernization
  • Observability/ops improvements and AI help for ops
  • Modernization accelerators and how to use them without chaos
  • Developer productivity
  • Where dev tooling is heading (agents, automation, feedback loops)
  • Tips to keep teams productive while AWS keeps shipping

✅ Takeaways: a curated “what matters” list, practical guidance (when to use what / when not to), and “try this next week” ideas you can bring back to your team.

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## Who should attend

Cloud engineers, architects, DevOps/SRE, platform teams, tech leads — and anyone who wants a clean recap of AWS changes without reading 200 release notes. All levels welcome.

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## Agenda

  • 18:00 — Welcome Doors open + food & drinks 🍕🍻
  • 18:30 — AWS Recap session part 1
  • 19:30 — Break
  • 19:45 — AWS Recap session part 2
  • 20:30 — Networking + drinks

## Practical info

🗓 Date: Tuesday 13/01/2026
🕕 Start: 18:00
📍 Location: Devoteam
Culliganlaan 3, 1831 Machelen
🗣 Language: English

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