Amazon Web Services User Group (Adelaide)

Hi All,

Everyone's talking about AI agents, cloud security, and the shifting shape of software engineering.

But what does that actually look like in practice — on real systems, with real developer and infrastructure workflows?

For June we're trying something different: two shorter technical talks, two presenters, and more room for discussion.

Date: Thursday, 18th June 2026
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: WGA — thanks to WGA for hosting

## Karan Sethi : AWS Security Agent

Karan Sethi, Cloud Engineer II at AWS, will present and demo the recently released AWS Security Agent — a frontier agent for on-demand application security testing, built to discover, verify, and report security risks across the development lifecycle:

1. design security review
2. code security review
3. application-specific penetration testing

Karan's background spans cloud security, networking, solutions architecture, migrations, SRE, AI workloads, infrastructure optimisation, and mentoring - currently working across containers, AI workloads, and security on AWS.

This is a practical walkthrough of what the agent does, where it fits, and how AI-assisted security testing may change the way developers and security teams work.

## Tishampati Dhar : Summit Notes, Cloud Systems, and Applied AI

Tishampati Dhar draws on his recent AWS Summit experience and his broader work across cloud systems, data systems, remote sensing, GIS, mathematical modelling, IoT prototyping, and engineering leadership.

Rather than a general conference recap, this is about the technical ideas worth paying attention to: what looked genuinely useful, what connects to real engineering work, and what may matter for builders working with cloud, data, AI, and infrastructure. If time allows, Tish may also touch on foundation models for geospatial data — and how these approaches are starting to apply to remote sensing, Earth observation, and spatial systems.

## The format this month

1. two short technical talks, ~20 minutes each
2. practical content over polish
3. room for questions and discussion
4. a possible short organiser update or demo if time allows

Who this is for: Developers, architects, cloud, security, data, and platform engineers — and anyone interested in AWS, AI agents, cloud security, and applied AI. No prior AI/ML or security experience required.
Food and drinks provided free of charge thanks to our amazing sponsors :-)

See you there,

Rick, Chris and Nicole

Thanks to our foundation sponsors:
Fivecast, Comunet, Snowflake, Fircy, Fortinet, Megaport, Cloudflare and Infobiz Solutions.

And our ecosystem partners:
CORE Innovation Hub and The Innovation Factory.

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