International Women's Day Special Event - March 2025

Dear AWS Women's User Group Munich Community - It is time for yet another community gathering - for a special event around International Women's Day 2025!

In September 2024, I fixed my mind on the theme for 2025's International Women's Day Event - which is - 'Breaking Bad' and little did I know then that the forces that helps to keep 'our digital spaces' safe from the 'actors who break bad' come together as sponsors. I am super excited that this event-extraordinary will be sponsored by AWS and Palo Alto Networks, at AWS venue. We hope to meet you all in-person there!

Let's come together to share, learn, laugh and inspire each other! Kindly ensure to register with your 'full' first name and last name, to fulfil the requirements for registration process.

AGENDA:
18:30 - Doors open, networking, drinks, food
19:00 - Meyyar Palaniappan (AWS Women's User Group Munich Founder): Welcome and introduction
19:10 - André Reichow-Prehn,VP & Managing Partner Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, EMEA (CEUR/SEUR) and LATAM and Anna-Mariya Mateyna, Consultant Digital Forensics & Incident Response @ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42: Tech talk: 'Fighting the Bad Ones: Navigating the Ransomware Battlefield and the Evolving Threat Landscape' - What happens if your company’s information was held at ransom? Join André and Anna-Mariya from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to gain insights into today’s threat landscape and learn how world-renowned threat intelligence, incident response, cyber risk management, and managed services can effectively combat cyber adversaries and mitigate vulnerabilities by identifying attack vectors.
19:40 - 5 minutes break
19:45 - Desiree Brunner, AWS Security Specialist Solutions Architect: 'Encrypt. Detect. Defend: Cooking Up Ransomware Protection in AWS' - What's your security strategy? AWS has technology that can help customers protect and recover their systems from ransomware attacks, including services and features that provide infrastructure and data backups, the AWS-Well Architected Tool, and strong security controls using AWS security services.
20:15 - 10 minutes Break
20:25 - María Encinar (AWS User Groups Global Program Manager at AWS), Markus Ostertag (Chief AWS Technologist at adesso, AWS Hero, AWS User Group Munich leader) and Meyyar Palaniappan (Sub Product Owner/Cloud Architect BMW Group and AWS Women's User Group Munich leader) - Panel - 'Power of AWS Communities' - a local and global perspective on the power of AWS communities and how it provides a 'safe space' for those who want to explore, upskill and grow.
21:00 - 22:00 - More food, drinks and networking
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If you (or your company) would like to offer your venue (that can seat ~75 people) or want to sponsor drinks/food or would like to present or talk at AWS Women's User Group Munich - please reach out to https://www.linkedin.com/in/meyyarpalaniappan/
Everyone who participates in AWS Women's UG Munich event must adhere to the Code of Conduct!