Name: Summer Social
Start: 2025-07-15T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-15T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Revolucion de Cuba

Hi everyone
July’s meet-up is our Summer Social, so we're taking things up a notch and taking over the first-floor terrace at Revolución de Cuba, for some evening sunshine, ice-cold Mojitos and Cuban-inspired canapés while we talk all things AWS.

**Chidimma Dominic Nweke - Cloud Engineer at Serverless Guru**
***From Prompt to Pipeline: Jump-Starting SageMaker Pipelines with Amazon Q CLI***
Have you ever lost time hunting for the right SageMaker boilerplate, writing YAML pipelines, juggling the AWS console, or second-guessing which notebook instance fits your workload? What if you could skip all that and dive straight into your core workflow? In this session, you’ll learn how to jumpstart your SageMaker ML pipelines from the terminal with Amazon Q. We’ll show you how to scaffold end-to-end pipelines, launch hyperparameter tuning jobs, and even let Q recommend and provision the ideal notebook instance, all in plain English, in minutes so you can focus on the work that really matters.

**Chris Strug - Senior Technical Account Manager – UK Public Sector at AWS**
***Protect and Recover from Ransomware with AWS Backup***
Ransomware is a major topic for every organisation. Join Christopher Strug, Technical Account Manager at AWS to talk about what a ransomware response strategy looks like and how AWS Backup and Logically Air-Gapped Vaults can help organisations to protect against and recover from ransomware events.

**Naveed Ahmed - Senior Database Migration Architect at AWS**
***Database Modernization: Transforming Your Data Infrastructure with AWS***
This session explores how organizations can modernize their database infrastructure using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We'll dive into the changing landscape of data management, discussing the shift towards purpose-built databases and managed services. We'll focus on practical migration strategies, showcasing AWS database migration tools such as the Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). Through real-world use cases, we'll demonstrate how these tools and services can help you optimize performance, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Whether you're considering a lift-and-shift approach or a complete re-architecting of your data layer, this session will equip you with the knowledge to begin your database modernization journey on AWS.

After the talks we'll trade presentations for cocktails for an evening of relaxed networking on the terrace (with an indoor space on standby if the British weather has other ideas).
Grab your space now, before the rum runs out!

Date: Tuesday July 15
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Revolución de Cuba, 1-3 Cloth Market, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EE

Hope to see you all there!

Dan Pudwell

AWS User Group - North East, England

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