AWS Sheffield: March 2024

Join us for our March meet up where we'll be kindly hosted by Airwalk (https://airwalkreply.com) @ electric works (https://www.electric-works.net).

We've got 2 fantastic speakers, a great venue, food & drink and the opportunity to meet & network into the evening.

Our first talk of the evening is from Kevin Coyle, former Technical Lead at Pfizer, where he spearheaded the engineering team in developing the Helix Design System. Currently, he collaborates with Big Medium where he plays a pivotal role in aiding numerous Fortune 500 companies to enhance their design systems. In his talk When will AI replace us? Kevin shows you how you and your teammates can use AI—right now, to deliver better, faster front-end work. He'll show you how to sidestep AI's (often hilarious!) shortcomings. And he'll show how we have to adapt our skills, process, and expectations to make room for our new robot colleagues. This future doesn't have to be scary!

Second up we have Chris Ibbitson, Principal Solutions Architect within Global Financial Services at AWS. Chris will be giving the talk Are you well architected? As you build new solutions in the cloud, how do you know if you and your team are following best practices? Do you know what the risks in your architectures might be? In this session, discover how the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive architectural advice and how the AWS Well-Architected Tool allows you to measure and improve your technology portfolio.

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. If you require any accommodations please reach out and we will do what we can.

Rough Schedule
6.00pm - Doors, food, drinks
6.30pm - Welcome
6.40pm - When will AI replace us?
7.10pm - Break
7.20pm - Are you well architected?
7.50pm - Open Mic/Community News
7.55pm - Continue the conversation at the Sheffield Tap (https://sheffieldtap.com/).