February 2026

We're starting 2026 with 2 great sessions.

Agenda
2:00pm - 5:00pm Workshop: Building and Scaling Agentic AI Workflows
6:00pm Welcome and announcements
6:15pm Re:Invent Re:Cap
7:00pm Break - food and networking
7:30pm OpenTelemetry, Kiro, and AWS DevOps Agent for better observability of applications running on AWS
8:15pm Networking
8:30pm Close

You must register for this event on Luma: https://luma.com/qcymu4g7

Catering this month supplied by Little Phat Rolls.

AWS Re:Invent Community Re:Cap
Not everything that happened at Re:Invent will stay in Vegas. Our Community Re:Invent Re:Cap panelists will share their experience at AWS annual conference. Panel Members:

• Dave Hall, AWS Community Builder and User Group Lead
• Dennis Torrealba, AWS Sales Specialist, NetApp
• Katie Spencer, Chief Cloud Architect, Australian Signals Directorate
• Host: Tara Wen, Research Student, University of Canberra

When Your Observability Data Talks Back: Debugging Infrastructure with AWS DevOps Agent, Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb
Your observability dashboard shows the problem; fixing it requires infrastructure changes. This talk demonstrates AI agents from AWS that read OpenTelemetry data via partner MCP servers and generate CloudFormation fixes for human review. Live demo on EKS, showing when this pattern works and how to maintain control whilst accelerating the debug-to-fix cycle.

About Our Speakers
Dave Hall
Dave's works across enterprises and startups where he bridges the gap between technical architecture and business outcomes. His expertise spans cloud platforms, serverless architectures, and AI automation, with a focus on solving the right problem first.
Dennis Torrealba
Dennis has over 25 years in the IT industry working with software and infrastructure organstions such as Tableau, Dell EMC and most recently AWS. Predominately working in the Public Sector but have also worked in both Commercial sector for AWS and previously managing teams out of APAC region.
Katie Spencer
Katie leads cloud adoption across Australia's national security agencies, developing ASD's Cloud Operating Model and the National Intelligence Community Cloud Adoption Strategy from the ground up. Her 25+ years of experience across government, defence, intelligence, and private sectors — including cyber security and cryptographic systems — gives her a uniquely broad perspective on where enterprise and government cloud strategies converge.
Liz Fong-Jones
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over two decades of experience. She is currently a Technical Fellow at honeycomb.io, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly and partners, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
Tara Wen
Tara is currently pursuing a Master of Research at the University of Canberra, with a research focus on AI applications in recommendation systems. With three years of experience as a marketing analyst and a solid foundation in AI theory, she aims to explore ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of online advertising.

Workshop: Building and Scaling Agentic AI Workflows
The AWS Canberra User Group is partnering with Amazon's Training and Certification team to offer a hands on workshop. This will run from 2pm until 5pm on 11 February. You must register separately for the workshop, but you're welcome to attend both events.

Note: In 2026 we will be meeting on the second Wednesday of the month. We hope this avoids clashing with other meetups.