AWS Meetup

Hello!
Slightly different than the usual tonight.
We have some inspiring students and our hosts CGI with an interesting presentation on resilience.
And then Dan (thats me!) with some pre:Invent announcements.
Along with the usual pizza and refreshments.

AWS City
Student team at Northumbria University
From a 5 Hour Hackathon to a Gamified Way to Learn AWS
As part of AWS North (the best AWS conference in the UK!) a student hackathon was held at Northumbria University. Salman, Muhammed, and Arthur had a great idea and executed superbly on the day. Hear more about what they built and how they did it.

Alex Peebles
Senior Platform Engineer @CGI - Specializing in AWS, Kafka and Event Driven Systems
Disaster Day Planning on Kafka Made Easy
Using AWS Bedrock and Fault Injection Service to help plan and execute disaster recovery exercises for platform teams. This talk will specifically be focused on Kafka running in AWS but with potential wider application across a range of AWS services.

Dan Pudwell
Principal Solution Architect @ Leighton
pre:Invent Announcements
A round up of some notable pre:invent announcements ahead of re:Invent starting the following week.

Date: Tuesday November 24th
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Bank House, 12th floor, Newcastle, NE1 6QF

Many thanks to our sponsor CGI for hosting us on the night.
Hope to see you all there!