Building Intelligent Agents at Scale: A Serverless Architecture Approach

For our August meetup, we are delighted to welcome esteemed and highly entertaining AWS Principal Developer Advocate, Eric Johnson as part of the Serverless DevRel Roadshow AN“Zed“

Abstract:
Ready to build AI agents that scale infinitely without managing servers? In this session, I'll build an agentic application using serverless architecture, demonstrating how Lambda functions serve as MCP servers while the broader serverless ecosystem handles multi-model reasoning, persistent memory, and RAG-powered responses. You'll see real-time decision-making as I explain my architectural choices—when to implement RAG vs direct model calls, how to structure MCP servers for different capabilities, and why certain patterns work better in serverless environments.
But here's the meta twist: I'll use cloud-native AI tools and specialized MCP connectors to literally build agents with agents, creating a development feedback loop that accelerates the construction process. Through Infrastructure-as-Code deployment, you'll witness how to prototype complete agentic architectures in minutes while maintaining production-ready serverless patterns.

Drinks and pizza from 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start.
Please bring your photo ID so AWS Security can let you in.

Our sincere thanks to sponsors JourneyOne, Mantel Group, KZN, Akkodis, Versent, and AWS.
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This session is being held on a Tuesday due to esteemed speaker availability.
We have had to do some day-of-the-week shuffling for the remainder of the year, so please take careful note of the dates for all our upcoming events.