AWS Women’s User Group Berlin Meetup - May Event

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Join us on May 14, 2025, for an evening of insightful discussions on cloud migration, project management, and AI-driven customer experience, hosted by the AWS Women’s User Group Berlin. Gain valuable insights from industry experts, connect with like-minded professionals, and expand your knowledge in a cosy and engaging setting. Please note that only 40 seats are available.

From Legacy to the Future: Lessons Learned from a Large-Scale Migration Project

Migrating systems to the cloud often presents unexpected challenges. Hidden dependencies, unforeseen risks, and resistance from stakeholders can complicate even the most well-planned migration efforts.

Tetiana Senna from Storm Reply DE will share real-world lessons learned from managing large-scale migration projects. She will highlight strategies for success and discuss common pitfalls to avoid.

🔹 Key topics include:

• Planning and risk management in cloud migrations
• Effective communication and stakeholder alignment
• Change management strategies for seamless transitions

📣 Speaker Update
Unfortunately, Shubhangi has had to cancel her appearance.
We're pleased to announce that Linda Mohamed will be stepping in to present her session:

"From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant"

We appreciate your understanding and are looking forward to an inspiring talk from Linda!

From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant
Training an AI-powered Slackbot sounds straightforward - until your model starts ignoring half of the data you feed it. At AWS User Group Vienna, we built OTTO, a Slack-integrated AI assistant, fine-tuned using the open source tool InstructLab and deployed on Amazon Bedrock. But as we scaled up, we ran into real-world bottlenecks: training on MacBooks was slow, retrieval was inconsistent, and debugging was way harder than expected. This talk goes beyond the ‘perfect AI stack’ and into the messy reality of model tuning, infrastructure choices, and the unexpected lessons we learned. If you’re working on AI-powered assistants (or just curious how fast things can go sideways), this talk will provide practical insights into our approach, with focus on cost efficiency, and what we learned on the way.

Regardless of your involvement in cloud migration, project management, or customer experience transformation, this event will offer practical strategies and fresh insights from industry leaders.

Event Details
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
📍 Venue: Reply Office, Lützowstraße 106, 10785 Berlin
⏰ Time: 06:00 PM - 9:00 PM
👥 Capacity: 40 participants
🥂 Food and beverages will be provided.

Event Agenda :

6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
🟢 Doors Open / Arrival & Registration
6:30 PM – 6:40 PM
🎤 Welcome Words
6:40 PM – 7:00 PM
🌟 Keynote – From Legacy to the future
7:00 PM – 7:20 PM
☕ Break / Informal Networking
7:20 PM – 7:50 PM
🌟 Keynote – Linda Mohammed
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
🤝 Community Networking

RSVP & Registration
Advance registration is required. Please submit your name at least 24 hours before the event for check-in at the service desk. ID is optional.

Seats are limited, so RSVP quickly—and if your plans change, please update your RSVP to allow others to attend.

Media Consent
We inform all attendees that photographs and videos will be taken during the meetup and will only be used by the event organizers for documentation and promotional purposes. Please let the organizers know if you do not want to be in the pictures/videos.

Thank you very much for your cooperation!

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The AWS Women’s User Group is the very first official women-centric AWS User Group in DACH and EMEA. This group serves as a secure and supportive platform for women who want to share their AWS knowledge, passion for cloud computing and advance their careers through targeted learning opportunities.

We extend a warm invitation to FLINTA* individuals who are interested in being part of our User Group.

Code of Conduct:
At the AWS Women's User Group in Berlin, we have a strong and unequivocal code of conduct in place to create a safe and empowering environment for all.